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1:50 PM ET, December 16, 2009

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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
White House as helpless victim on health care  —  Of all the posts I wrote this year, the one that produced the most vociferious email backlash — easily — was this one from August, which examined substantial evidence showing that, contrary to Obama's occasional public statements in support …
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The Huffington Post:
Labor Holds Emergency Meetings To Discuss Senate Bill, May Formally Oppose  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Two of the country's largest labor groups, the SEIU and the AFL-CIO, are each holding emergency executive meetings today to discuss whether they should support the latest round of health care compromises made by Senate Democrats.
Michael D. Tanner / Cato Institute:
Five Health Reform Whoppers  —  This article appeared on Sphere.com (AOL) on December 14, 2009. … When it comes to health care reform, the White House and its allies on Capitol Hill seem to live in an alternate universe.  —  The White House Council of Economic Advisers just released …
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.
New York Times:
The Million-Dollar Man  —  First, Senator Joseph Lieberman — the former Democrat, current independent from Connecticut — rejected the so-called public health care option.  Then he threatened to torpedo the entire health care reform bill if it allowed people over 55 to buy Medicare plans.
The Huffington Post:
Gibbs: Obama Demanded As Much From Lieberman As Progressives
Discussion: DISSENTING JUSTICE
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 …
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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Tony Romm / The Hill:
Republican sens. slow health debate; Sanders's amendment read aloud  —  Senate Republicans fulfilled a threat on Wednesday to require chamber staffers to read Democrats' healthcare amendments aloud on the floor of the Senate.  —  When Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) took the floor to begin debate …
Discussion: The Note and Washington Monthly
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Philip Klein / AmSpecBlog:
Coburn Forces Reading of 767-Page Single Payer Amendment  —  Sen. Tom Coburn has just demanded that the Senate clerk read the single-payer amendment offered by Sen. Bernie Sanders — and it's 767 pages.  —  Typically, Senators offering amendments will ask for unanimous consent to avoid reading …
Chris Hayes / nccivitas.org:
Civitas Poll: Burr Leads Marshall by 8  —  Raleigh, N.C. - Incumbent US Senator Richard Burr leads potential Democratic challenger NC Secretary of State Elaine Marshall by eight percentage points according to a new poll released today by the Civitas Institute.
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Economy threatens Democratic control
Discussion: The Politico
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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
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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Chaos at climate conference  —  COPENHAGEN — The Copenhagen climate change conference appeared to be imploding from within and exploding from without on Wednesday.  —  Police fired tear gas, brandished batons and detained more than 200 protesters who tried to push through the security cordon around …
Discussion: QandO 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.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Dean group attacks mandate  —  Democracy for America, the successor to the Dean campaign, which is now run by his brother, is out today with an email attacking health care legislation on a vulnerable point: The individual mandate.  That's the feature candidate Obama used against Hillary Clinton …
Discussion: msnbc.com and Swampland
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE SOURCE OF THE DEFICIT MESS.... Republican lawmakers and far-right activists have suddenly discovered, after eight years of dramatic fiscal irresponsibility, that they care deeply about deficit reduction again.  Worse, they're absolutely convinced that President Obama and those free-spending Democrats …
Discussion: cbpp.org
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.
Jared Allen / The Hill:
Speaker Pelosi to shield vulnerable members from controversial votes  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has privately told her politically vulnerable Democratic members that they will not vote on controversial bills in 2010 unless the Senate acts first.  —  After a year of bruising legislative …
Facebook:
Greener Than Thou?  —  Why is Governor Schwarzenegger pushing for the same sorts of policies in Copenhagen that have helped drive his state into record deficits and unemployment?  Perhaps he will recall that I live in our nation's only Arctic state and that I was among the first governors …
Michael F. Cannon / Cato @ Liberty:
Bland CBO Memo, or Smoking Gun?  —  This weekend, the Congressional Budget Office released “a very strange memo” titled, “Budgetary Treatment of Proposals to Regulate Medical Loss Ratios.”  You wouldn't know it from the title, but that little memo is the smoking gun that shows …
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Never Listen to Céline?  Radio Meter Begs to Differ  —  American men have a naughty little secret.  Sometimes, they like to relax with a little Céline Dion.  Professed classical music fans have one, too: as it turns out, they don't tune into classical radio nearly as much as they claim.
 
 
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