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Rasmussen Reports:
84% of Illinois Voters Say Blagojevich Should Resign  —  Eighty-four percent (84%) of Illinois voters say indicted Governor Rod Blagojevich should resign, according to a Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state Wednesday night.  Just nine percent (9%) disagree.
New York Times:
Scandal Is an Early Test for Obama Team  —  WASHINGTON — When Representative Jan Schakowsky, an Illinois Democrat, began exploring whether she might fill Barack Obama's seat in the United States Senate, she called Rahm Emanuel.  They served in the House together and, more important …
Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blogs:   Blagojevich's approval rating at 7 percent
Time:
Lt. Gov. Quinn May Appoint Obama Successor
Discussion: USA Today
Associated Press:
White House: Illinois governor case ‘astounding’
Discussion: First Draft and Reuters
John Fritze / USA Today:
North Dakota tops analysis of corruption
David Rogers / The Politico:
McConnell deals major blow to bailout  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell broke with the White House Thursday over a proposed $14 billion loan package for ailing automakers, all but assuring its defeat this week and forcing the administration to consider other emergency steps …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell opposes auto bailout  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced Thursday morning he would oppose a $15 billion bailout of the U.S. auto industry, dealing the package a substantial blow.  —  McConnell argued on the Senate floor that the package …
New York Times:
Auto Bailout Appears Dead in Senate as G.O.P. Resists  —  WASHINGTON — The prospects of a $14 billion government rescue of the American auto industry seemed to vaporize Thursday morning as the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, spoke out forcefully against the bill …
Discussion: Balkinization and TIME.com
Robert Block / The Write Stuff:
NASA has become a transition problem for Obama  —  CAPE CANAVERAL - NASA administrator Mike Griffin is not cooperating with President-elect Barack Obama's transition team, is obstructing its efforts to get information and has told its leader that she is “not qualified” to judge his rocket program, the Orlando Sentinel has learned.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:   TRANSITION TROUBLE AT NASA.... Almost immediately after the elections …
Marc Morano / U.S. Senate Committee …:
UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims  —  Study: Half of warming due to Sun!  -Sea Levels Fail to Rise?  - Warming Fears in ‘Dustbin of History’  —  POZNAN, Poland - The UN global warming conference currently underway in Poland …
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: NO ORDINARY HONEYMOON  —  From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Carrie Dann  —  *** No ordinary honeymoon: While the political world continues to focus on the Blagojevich scandal, which at this point has been only a headache for the incoming Obama administration …
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
How the GOP Should Prepare for a Comeback  —  Organization and ideas are what matters.  —  What a difference a month makes.  Since November's election, the GOP is three wins, no losses.  —  The first win came in Georgia, where Sen. Saxby Chambliss crushed his Democratic opponent by 15 points in a run-off election on Dec. 2.
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Daschle Will Lead Health Care Overhaul  —  WASHINGTON — Calling an overhaul of the health care system a basic element of his administration's economic recovery programs, President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday presented former Senator Tom Daschle as his choice to become secretary of health …
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Promises Health Care Reform “This Year”
Discussion: MyDD, The Politico and Booman Tribune
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
A VERY RAW DEAL  —  It's looking increasingly like Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., was truly uninvolved in Rod Blagojevich's alleged Senate-seat-for-sale scheme, other than expressing the usual interest in getting the appointment.  Most telling was the report from Jackson's lawyer today …
Discussion: The Anonymous Liberal
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Aluf Benn / Haaretz:
Obama's atomic umbrella: U.S. nuclear strike if Iran nukes Israel  —  U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's administration will offer Israel a “nuclear umbrella” against the threat of a nuclear attack by Iran, a well-placed American source said earlier this week.
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
A Spy CEO for Obama  —  What should President-elect Barack Obama do about the intelligence community?  He has appointed the other top members of his national security team, but intrigue still surrounds his choices for director of national intelligence and director of the CIA.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and ATTACKERMAN
Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
CAROLINE ‘EQUALS J.LO’: DEM  —  REP. TAKES SWIPE AT CAMELOT CELEB POWER  —  ALBANY - A prominent New York Democratic congressman publicly questioned Caroline Kennedy's credentials to replace Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, saying she's no more qualified to hold office than Jennifer Lopez.
The Daily Beast:
Could Detroit Trigger a New Global Meltdown?  —  Washington's Infamous Sex Blogger Gets Hitched by Jessica Cutler  —  Blogs and Stories  —  If history is any indication, bankruptcy filings by American automakers could have aftershocks around the world.  —  Would the auto industry …
Discussion: Firedoglake
 
 
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Discussion: TIME.com
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Appointed Senators Rarely Win Re-Election
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
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A Massacre in Congo, Despite Nearby Support
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Jim Williams / WBBM-TV:
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