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10:20 AM ET, January 3, 2009

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Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Senate recount proceeds as high court seeks more ballot information  —  A statewide review that is adding wrongly rejected absentee ballots to the Senate recount moved toward a conclusion today.  Meanwhile, all were waiting for a decision by the state Supreme Court on a Coleman motion to modify the review procedure
Discussion: TalkLeft and On Deadline
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Chris Steller / Minnesota Independent:   Supreme Court asks to hear from Franken, counties before ruling on Coleman's suit
Chicago Sun Times:
Reid pressured Blagojevich not to appoint Jackson Jr. to Obama's U.S. Senate seat  —  Days before Gov. Blagojevich was charged with trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat to the highest bidder, top Senate Democrat Harry Reid made it clear who he didn't want in the post …
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Associated Press:   Blagojevich pick to be given few privileges
Associated Press:
Obama: Country needs economic stimulus plan  —  Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition  —  CHICAGO - President-elect Barack Obama urged congressional leaders Saturday to move quickly on an economic recovery plan, even as some Republicans are saying they want more time to review the details.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Back at Work, Obama Pitches His Stimulus Plan  —  CHICAGO — Fresh off his Hawaiian vacation, President-elect Barack Obama is pressing his case for a massive economic stimulus plan, saying Saturday morning that a recovery program to create three million new jobs would “serve as a down payment on our long-term economic future.”
Andy Barr / The Politico:
States want $1 trillion to ‘keep afloat’  —  A group of Democratic governors warned Friday that without as much as $1 trillion in federal assistance, many states will not be able to pay their bills in the next year.  —  “There are states that are talking as California has of not being able …
Discussion: Donklephant
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Jon Hurdle / Reuters:
U.S. governors seek $1 trillion federal assistance
Discussion: TigerHawk and Fausta's Blog
Julian Sanchez / Law & Disorder:
Reinventing conservatism, one tweet at a time  —  Since the humbling results of the November election came in, the conservative movement has been scrambling to assess what happened—and to figure out how to prevent it from happening again.  Much of this effort, in light of the Obama campaign's …
Discussion: AmSpecBlog and The Next Right
David Kocieniewski / New York Times:
Rangel Pushed for a Donation; Insurer Pushed for a Tax Cut  —  On April 21, 2008, Representative Charles B. Rangel met with officials of the American International Group, the now-troubled insurance giant, to ask for a donation to a school of public service that City College of New York was building in his honor.
Frank Main / Chicago Sun Times:
Blagojevich stripped of access to classified federal security information  —  Gov. Blagojevich's access to classified federal security information was revoked by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security after he was charged last month with trying to sell a Senate seat to the highest bidder, officials confirmed Friday.
Discussion: TIME.com
John Cole / Balloon Juice:
Umm, Actually  —  So Greg Sargent is leaving TPM and starting up a new blog venture at the Washington Post.  This has the usual suspects up in arms at Red State: … Actually...  I wonder where the Washington Post hired him from?  Had to be some pinko commie left-wing rag …
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Louis Uchitelle / New York Times:
Some Forecasters See a Fast Economic Recovery  —  Economics as the dismal science?  Not in some quarters.  —  In the midst of the deepest recession in the experience of most Americans, many professional forecasters are optimistically heading into the new year declaring that the worst may soon be over.
Justin Lahart / Real Time Economics:
Ignoring the Oracles: You Are With the Free Markets, or Against Them  —  It's hard to tell what's more striking about Raghuram Rajan's 2005 presentation at the Kansas City Fed's Jackson Hole symposium — the way many of the dangers he laid out came to pass, or the way he was attacked, and then discounted.
Bill Ayers / The Huffington Post:
Obama and Education Reform  —  Of course I would have loved to have seen Linda Darling-Hammond become Secretary of Education in an Obama administration.  She's smart, honest, compassionate and courageous, and perhaps most striking, she actually knows schools and classrooms, curriculum and teaching, kids and child development.
Discussion: Townhall.com and American Power
Amie Parnes / The Politico:
Coloradans react to Bennet pick  —  Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition  —  Coloradans responded to the news Friday that Gov. Bill Ritter (D) had appointed Denver Public Schools Superintendent Michael Bennet as their new senator with a collective “huh?”
Discussion: New York Times and Reuters
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Michael Bennet  —  The Rocky Mountain News is reporting …
Discussion: TIME.com, Eduwonk and Washington Post
 
 
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Laurence H. Tribe / Forbes:
Blagojevich And The Constitution  —  The Senate doesn't have to seat Burris.
Discussion: Balkinization
The Raw Story:
CNN: US weapons ‘killing innocent civilians’ in Gaza
Discussion: Mondoweiss and Guardian
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats Debate Methods to End Stem Cell Ban
Discussion: The Raw Story
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Palin is odds-on favorite to win 2012 GOP nomination
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Martin / New York Times:
As Recession Deepens, So Does Milk Surplus
Associated Press:
AirTran apologizes for removing Muslim passengers
Discussion: CNN
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Sidney Awards  —  Everything becomes a shorter version of itself.
Discussion: The New Republic and Kevin Drum
Jeff D. Opdyke / Wall Street Journal:
The Doomsayers Who Got It Right
David Scheer / Bloomberg:
SEC Said to Examine More Ponzi Schemes After Madoff
Discussion: Emptywheel and TPMMuckraker