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2:25 PM ET, January 15, 2009

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Roger Simon / The Politico:
What if I didn't pay taxes?  —  Would it be OK if I stopped paying my taxes until Barack Obama names me to be his secretary of the treasury?  —  That is a deal I would like to get.  That is the deal financial wizard Timothy Geithner got.  —  He didn't pay all of his federal taxes for years.
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Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Confirm Geithner; Approve The TARP Funds, and Get The Stimulus Right
Marist Poll:
Filling Her Senate Seat: New Yorkers Favor Cuomo to Replace Clinton  —  This Marist Poll reports:  —  · New Yorkers Clamor for Cuomo...Kennedy Stagnates in Pool of Public Opinion: The tides of support have changed in the contest over who voters think should fill Hillary Clinton's vacant U.S. Senate seat.
Discussion: Spin Cycle and The Daily Politics
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Paterson Nears A Pick  —  New York Gov. David Paterson is nearing an announcement on his pick to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Senate, according to multiple sources, although the identity of the next Senator from New York remains shrouded in mystery.
Amie Parnes / The Politico:
Clinton bids colleagues farewell
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Hillary Clinton in, Condoleezza Rice out
Discussion: TIME.com
Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
10 Take Aways From the Bush Years  —  There's actually a lot that President-elect Barack Obama can learn from the troubled presidency of George W. Bush.  Over the past eight years, I have interviewed President Bush for nearly 11 hours, spent hundreds of hours with his administration's key players …
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Wall Street Journal:
Bush and the Libby Pardon
Discussion: protein wisdom
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Obama Charms Even a Night's Grand Ol' Party  —  At one point during the party, CNBC's Larry Kudlow asked Barack Obama why he had hired several of the liberal guests who appeared on his program but left him Robert Reich.  —  “So someone will stick up for me on your show,” the president-elect replied.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Playing to the Pundits
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Intelligence Court Rules Wiretapping Power Legal  —  WASHINGTON — A federal intelligence court, in a rare public opinion, is expected to issue a major ruling validating the power of the president and Congress to wiretap international phone calls and intercept e-mail messages without a court order …
Associated Press:
Holder to Senate: ‘Waterboarding is torture’  —  Obama's nominee for attorney general vows break with controversial tactic  —  Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder and Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., shake hands just prior to Holder's confirmation hearing on Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Commitee.
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Rick Santorum / Philly.com:
The Elephant in the Room: McCain may be Obama's secret weapon  —  A desire by both men to secure their places in history might forge an unlikely pairing.  —  I have been to New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Washington in recent weeks.  In those cities, at least, you cannot watch the news …
Thomas Nagorski / The World Newser:
West Wing ‘Ghost Town’  —  From long-time ABC News White House correspondent Ann Compton:  —  President and Mrs. Bush fly to Camp David Friday afternoon for a final weekend in the rustic seclusion of “the Camp.”  Over the next 36 hours, White House staffers will go through the behind …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Biden Outlines Plans to Do More With Less Power  —  WASHINGTON — He was in the Senate for 36 years and visited the White House under seven presidents.  But Joseph R. Biden Jr. has never seen the inside of the vice president's office in the West Wing.  “I never thought a lot about the vice presidency …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Of Judges, By Judges, For Judges  —  In November, 13,402,566 California voters expressed themselves for or against Proposition 8, which said that their state's Constitution should be amended to define marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman.  The voters, confident that they had a right …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Marriage, Democracy And California
Discussion: The Opinionator
Richard L. Connor / CQ Politics:
History May See Lincoln-Like Greatness in George W. Bush  —  It's easy to make comparisons between President-elect Barack Obama and former President Abraham Lincoln.  We have the Illinois connections and then the hovering, dark clouds of war, a nation divided and in crisis, and other similarities that provide a historic link.
Eli Lake / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Panetta faces rendition queries  —  Panel eyes CIA pick's role in shaping policy during the Clinton era  —  President-elect Barack Obama's choice for CIA director, Leon Panetta, served as White House chief of staff during the time the Clinton administration accelerated a practice …
Isabel Kershner / New York Times:
War on Hamas Saps Palestinian Leaders  —  JERUSALEM — Israel hoped that the war in Gaza would not only cripple Hamas, but eventually strengthen its secular rival, the Palestinian Authority, and even allow it to claw its way back into Gaza.  —  But with each day, the authority, its leader …
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
O'Reilly Freaks Out Over the Thought of Holding Bush Admin Torturers Culpable  —  Bill O'Reilly came briefly unhinged last night, but managed to keep himself from having one of his infamous all-out temper tantrums.  I thought for sure he was about to start shouting, “Do it live!  F—k it!
Ta-Nehisi Coates:
A Diplomat's View  —  I spoke yesterday to Aaron David Miller, author of The Much Too Promised Land and a former adviser to six different Secretaries of State, about the fallout from the war in Gaza and what, if anything, Barack Obama can do to revive the hopes for peace.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and marbury
Room for Debate:
Torture's Blowback  —  Susan Crawford, the senior Pentagon official who dismissed charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani, a Guantánamo detainee, said in a published report on Wednesday that she had concluded that he had been tortured by interrogators.  “His treatment met the legal definition of torture.
 
 
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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blogs:
Bill's charity work helped Vitter's state
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Anthony Faiola / Washington Post:
Obama Adviser Presents Plan to Alter Global Financial System
New York Post:
MOORE MISUSES WAR PICTURE
Byron York / The Corner:
Vince Foster, Fifteen Years Later
Discussion: Washington Monthly and alicublog
Frosty the Know Man / The Chilling Effect:
IFL: Inauguration Will Produce 575 MILLION Pounds of CO2!
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Where Sweatshops Are a Dream
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog
The Huffington Post:
Stimulus Bill Draft Circulated By Dems: Full Text
 Earlier Items: 
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / New York Post:
WHEN COPS ‘FORGET’  —  SUPREMES BUY LAME EXCUSE
Discussion: TalkLeft
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Audacity Without Ideology
Discussion: PoliGazette, marbury and The Corner
John Hollenhorst / KSL-TV:
Group in town to stage protest against Robert Redford
Discussion: Hot Air, QandO and RedState
Del Quentin Wilber / Washington Post:
Citing Weak Evidence, Judge Orders Guantanamo Detainee Freed
Discussion: TPMMuckraker and At-Largely