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11:00 AM ET, December 16, 2009

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Michael Grunwald / Time:
Person of the Year 2009  —  The story of the year was a weak economy that could have been much, much weaker.  Thank the man who runs the Federal Reserve, our mild-mannered economic overlord  —  Ben Bernanke  —  A bald man with a gray beard and tired eyes is sitting in his oversize Washington office, talking about the economy.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Bernanke: Time Person of the Year
Discussion: The Swamp and NPR Blogs
Scarecrow / Firedoglake:
WH Press Sec. Gibbs: Obama Asked Lieberman to Make Concessions, Too  —  Sam Stein reports that White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs suggested that the President has been as insistent that Joe Lieberman make concessions for the team as he's been with liberals. … Oh.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Lieberman expresses regret to colleagues over healthcare tension
Discussion: The Plum Line
Ben Evans / Associated Press:   Unwitting tourists attend White House breakfast
Anne Schroeder Mullins / The Politico:
SHENANIGANS: SCHUMER HAS A FLIGHT TO FORGET  —  Schumer has a flight to forget  —  Sen. Chuck Schumer loves the sound of his own voice, but it carried a bit farther than he might have liked on the US Airways shuttle from New York to Washington on Sunday.  —  According to a House Republican aide …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Howard Dean: “Kill The Senate Bill”  —  In a blow to the bill grinding through the Senate, Howard Dean bluntly called for the bill to be killed in a pre-recorded interview set to air later this afternoon, denouncing it as “the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate,” the reporter who conducted the interview tells me.
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Jon Walker / Firedoglake:
President Obama Lies About Health Care Reform Cost Control
Discussion: Emptywheel and Open Congress
Binyamin Appelbaum / Washington Post:
U.S. gave up billions in tax money in deal for Citigroup's bailout repayment  —  Deal made to recover bailout Firms exempted from rule when U.S. sells its stake  —  The federal government quietly agreed to forgo billions of dollars in potential tax payments from Citigroup as part …
Booman Tribune:
Spiteful Joe  —  I don't think it is betraying any confidences to divulge that I received an email from Atrios about ten days ago or so where he suggested that we really ought not to show any enthusiasm for the Medicare Buy-In plan lest Joe Lieberman decide that he's against it.
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Lieberman spoke, acknowledged Dem anger
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Majority of Americans Still Not Backing Healthcare Bill  —  Forty-six percent would advise their member to vote for it, or lean in that direction  —  PRINCETON, NJ — As the U.S. Senate continues working to craft a filibuster-proof healthcare reform bill, a new USA Today/Gallup poll finds public support …
Discussion: Politics Daily
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Nelson: 'I'm not on the bill'  —  The White House meeting Tuesday between President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats has raised expectations that they have nailed down 60 votes for the health care bill.  —  But as he prepared to leave for the White House with other senators, Sen. Ben Nelson …
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Obama wrote a personal letter to North Korea's Kim Jong Il  —  President Obama has written a personal letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il that was delivered by the administration's special envoy for North Korea during a visit to Pyongyang last week.  —  The existence of the letter …
Discussion: Politics Daily and Commentary
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
AP source: Obama writes letter to NKorean leader
Discussion: msnbc.com and Townhall.com
Times of London:
Mystery as Lockerbie bomber goes missing from home and hospital  —  Mystery surrounded the Lockerbie bomber last night after he could not be reached at his home or in hospital.  —  Libyan officials could say nothing about the whereabouts of Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, and his Scottish monitors could not contact him by telephone.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
WaPo/ABC poll: Obama hits new lows on health care, overall approval rating  —  His numbers are down across the board since last month, so technically there's a trend here.  But not really.  The problem with WaPo's polls is that they've been using samples that skew overwhelmingly Democratic …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
President Obama writes a new health reform prescription  —  On the campaign trail, Barack Obama vowed to take on the drug industry by allowing Americans to import cheaper prescription medicine.  “We'll tell the pharmaceutical companies ‘thanks, but no, thanks’ for the overpriced drugs …
Ezra Klein:
A bailout for insurers?  —  There's an argument on the left that the health-care bill represents a “bailout” to the insurance companies.  Matt Yglesias puts this in the proper context: … To put this a bit more sharply, if I could construct a system in which insurers spent 90 percent …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Matthew Yglesias
Jerry Seper / Washington Times:
Justice Department restrains lawyers in Panther probe  —  Rights panel subpoenas blocked  —  The Justice Department has told the federal attorneys who filed a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party for disrupting a Philadelphia polling place last year not to cooperate …
Discussion: Commentary
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
www.jihad.com  —  Let's not fool ourselves.  Whatever threat the real Afghanistan poses to U.S. national security, the “Virtual Afghanistan” now poses just as big a threat.  The Virtual Afghanistan is the network of hundreds of jihadist Web sites that inspire, train, educate and recruit young Muslims …
Akiva Eldar / Haaretz:
U.S. planning to restart Israel-PA talks based on '67 borders  —  The United States and Egypt, along with France, are planning a joint move to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks on the basis of the June 4, 1967, borders, territorial exchanges and a complete freeze of construction beyond the Green Line, including East Jerusalem.
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Israel Matzav
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Hillary Clinton Admits Obama's Iranian Policy Is Also a Failure (Video)  —  What a complete and utter shock.  —  Who would have guessed this?  —  Hillary Clinton admitted today that Barack Obama's Iranian policy of extending a hand to the evil Iranian regime has produced nothing- Nada- Zilch.
Allison J. Waldman / TVWeek.com:
President to Appear on WWE Special  —  President Barack Obama has agreed to deliver a taped holiday message to the troops on NBC's “WWE Tribute to the Troops” special.  —  The special chronicles the three days that the WWE Superstars and Divas spent visiting military bases and features …
Verena Burns / Daily Mail:
NHS maternity services in meltdown: A former midwife reveals how understaffed wards are sinking into chaos  —  Clutching her husband's hand and with agony and exhaustion etched on her face, a young woman struggled into a room in the maternity unit where I worked.
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
Congress Travels More, Public Pays
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Norwegian Socialists  —  Dave Weigel thought I would like this sign …
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Tennessee: 2010 election crucible
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Chaos at climate conference
Discussion: Townhall.com
Alan S. Blinder / Wall Street Journal:
The Case for Optimism on the Economy
Discussion: EconLog and Clive Crook
Brian Micklethwait / Samizdata.net:
Climategate - the reversing of the burden of proof
Discussion: Mirror.co.uk and QandO
Ben Pershing / Capitol Briefing:
House Democrats push new comprehensive immigration bill
Discussion: TalkLeft and ImmigrationProf Blog
Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
Europe Drops Microsoft Antitrust Case Over Browsers
Discussion: Law Blog, The BLT and Mashable!
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James Wolcott / Vanity Fair:
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats Put Off Some Difficult Issues Until 2010
Discussion: The Politico
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
It's Official!  Media Matters Morphs Into One-Stop Fisting …
Lance Mannion:
Time for another blogger bailout