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7:00 PM ET, January 7, 2010

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Susan Page / USA Today:
National security adviser: Airline bomber report to ‘shock’  —  WASHINGTON — White House national security adviser James Jones says Americans will feel “a certain shock” when they read an account being released Thursday of the missed clues that could have prevented the alleged Christmas Day bomber from ever boarding the plane.
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James Gordon Meek / NY Daily News:
NCTC director Michael Leiter remained on ski slopes after Christmas Day airline bombing attempt  —  WASHINGTON - The top official in charge of analyzing terror threats did not cut short his ski vacation after the underwear bomber nearly blew up an airliner on Christmas Day, the Daily News has learned.
Jesse Lee / White House.gov Blog Feed:
Release of the Security Review Conducted After the Failed Christmas Terrorist Attack  —  Join Denis McDonough, Deputy Assistant to the President and National Security Council Chief of Staff, for a live video chat through Facebook at 6:00 PM EST.  —  The review of our security …
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Obama: ‘My responsibility’  —  President Barack Obama on Thursday accepted responsibility for intelligence shortcomings that led to a failed Christmas Day bombing plot on a Detroit-bound airliner, saying, “Ultimately, the buck stops with me.  —  “As president, I have a solemn responsibility …
The White House:
Remarks by the President on Strengthening Intelligence and Aviation …
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
The Leiter They Are, The Quicker They Fall?
Discussion: JammieWearingFool and FrumForum
The Note:
Steele Lashes Out: Critics Should ‘Get a Life,’ ‘Shut Up,’ ‘Fire Me ... or Get out of the Way’  —  ABC News' Aaron Katersky and Rick Klein report: RNC Chairman Michael Steele is lashing out his critics, with a series of blunt messages for prominent Republicans who have blasted him over his leadership for the Republican Party.
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Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call:
GOP Furious At Steele; RNC Admits Little Control  —  House and Senate leadership aides are furious with RNC chair Michael Steele and have angrily confronted the RNC's press shop over their inability to keep the chair on message.  —  In the course of a regular daily conference call between …
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Steele's side pursuits drive away big donors  —  Book tour, speeches seen as distractions  —  Some wealthy contributors are shunning the Republican National Committee and donating instead to the other GOP campaign committees or directly to candidates - in many cases because of discontent …
Associated Press:
Ex-Speaker Newt Gingrich offers praise for GOP Chairman Michael Steele …
Discussion: Riehl World View
The Star-Ledger Continuous / New Jersey Online:
N.J. Senate rejects bill legalizing gay marriage … TRENTON — The state Senate rejected a same-sex marriage bill today, a major victory for opponents who contend the measure would infringe on religious freedom and is not needed because the state already permits civil unions.
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NJN:
New Jersey Senate To Vote On Gay Marriage Bill  —  Live Streaming at 2:00 pm  —  New Jersey takes center stage in the debate over same-sex marriage as the state senate prepares to vote on a bill legalizing Gay Marriage in New Jersey.  —  The bill, entitled “The Freedom of Religion …
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Conservatives Finish 2009 as No. 1 Ideological Group  —  Uptick owing largely to more independents calling themselves conservative  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The increased conservatism that Gallup first identified among Americans last June persisted throughout the year, so that the final year-end …
Hotline On Call:
GOP Insiders Sour On Palin  —  A poll of GOP insiders suggests that ex-AK Gov. Sarah Palin (R) has little support among the party's professional class — and maybe that's just how she wants it.  —  In a survey of 109 party leaders, political professionals and pundits, Palin finished 5th …
Discussion: GOP 12
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Poll: McCain is leader of GOP
Gregg Levine / Firedoglake:
Cadillac Flip Flop: Obama Was Against Health Plan Tax Before He Was For It  —  In a video that rings so true it hurts, Lee Stranahan-a former Obama supporter-gives us the aspiring president's own speech.  Only a month before the 2008 election, Obama makes it plain just how bad an idea the …
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Hugh Son / Bloomberg:
Geithner's New York Fed Told AIG to Limit Swaps Disclosure  —  Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, then led by Timothy Geithner, told American International Group Inc. to withhold details from the public about the bailed-out insurer's payments to banks during the depths …
Greenwich Time:
Former White House lawyer charged with attempting to kill wife in New Canaan  —  NEW CANAAN — A prominent attorney and former White House lawyer was charged with attempting to kill his wife Wednesday night.  —  John Michael Farren, 57, of New Canaan, was charged with attempted murder …
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David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Carlson Launches Right's Answer to HuffPost  —  The offices of The Daily Caller evoke a long-ago era of journalism, circa 2005 or 2006, before the Los Angeles Times closed its big-city bureaus, The Washington Times fired 60 percent of its staff, and magazines from Gourmet to Portfolio shuttered for lack of revenue.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Lieberman tanks  —  Want to know how far Joe Lieberman has fallen in the wake of the health care vote last month?  Barack Obama's approval rating with Connecticut Republicans is higher than Lieberman's with the state's Democrats.  —  81% of Democrats now disapprove of Lieberman's job performance …
Discussion: The Hill and Daily Kos
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The Huffington Post:
Lieberman's Approval Ratings Tank In Connecticut
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Nelson in “serious discussions” to extend deal  —  Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has begun negotiations with Senate Democratic leaders to expand his special Medicaid funding deal to all states or to allow states to opt out of the Medicaid expansion in 2017, his spokesman told POLITICO Thursday.
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Jon Walker / Firedoglake:
New Arkansas Poll Results Beg Question: Why Did Senate Democrats …
Discussion: TalkLeft, Politics Daily and AmSpecBlog
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Colorado Governor  —  With Ritter Stepping Down, Democratic Prospects Improve in Colorado  —  Now that Colorado Governor Bill Ritter has said he will step down rather than run for reelection, Democrats may be more competitive in this year's gubernatorial race.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Tumultuous Tuesday: Winners and Losers
Discussion: Iowa Independent
Daniel Trotta / Reuters:
Goodbye kiss provoked Newark airport scare: report  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The security scare that shut Newark airport for hours and delayed thousands of passengers was caused by a man who slipped into a secure area to give a woman one last goodbye kiss, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
Joe Klein / Swampland:
Zeitgeist Patrol  —  Alone in our nation's capital last night, I decided to keep in touch with the culture by going to see Avatar in 3D.  I hadn't read much of the commentary about the movie, but the word of mouth was that it was visually spectacular—and yes, spectacular it was, especially in 3D …
Discussion: JustOneMinute and NewsBusters.org
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Is Palin Getting $100,000 to Speak at the Tea Party National Convention?  —  This morning, I asked whether Sarah Palin's decision to speak at the Tea Party National Convention — while (so far) eschewing the much higher-profile Conservative Political Action Conference — had anything to with money.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
A defense of Obama  —  I get a lot of unsolicited e-mail and should probably publish more of it; this defense of Obama, sent in by someone named Ellie Light, seemed to crystallize a point his supporters have been trying to make for a while:  —  A year ago, if we had read in the paper …
Discussion: The New Republic
Karen Schuberg / CNSNews:
Brit Hume: ‘Jesus Christ’ the ‘Most Controversial Two Words You Can Ever Utter in the Public Square’ Today  —  (CNSNews.com) - Brit Hume said he was “not surprised” by the media backlash over his remarks to Tiger Woods on “Fox News Sunday” this week.  There is a “double-standard” …
Bob Barr / The Barr Code:
Critics of Obama way off base on this one  —  Yes — the not-so-bright, would-be terrorist from Nigeria got though international and domestic security mechanisms supposed to have stopped him long before the jerk lit his underwear afire before landing in Detroit.
Discussion: VetVoice
Charles Lane / PostPartisan:
Dick Morris sees two parties.  I see four.  —  I can't remember a more breathtaking 48 hours in politics since Barack Obama's election in November 2008.  Byron Dorgan is out; Chris Dodd is out; Bill Ritter is out.  Who would have thought that just one year into Obama's promising presidency …
Ezra Klein:
Supermajority retention  —  Nate Silver thinks Democrats will probably lose some Senate seats in 2010.  But maybe they'll pick up a couple!  Or lose a bunch!  Hard to say.  I'll just note that Democrats will definitely lose their supermajority sooner than later.  If not, something is going seriously wrong in the system.
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Attention Conspiracy Theorists: Read This Post  —  I tend to be skeptical of those who believe that the Federal Reserve is engaged in a massive conspiracy, for reasons known and unknown, to protect its turf and turn us all into serfs, but then I'll read a quotation like this, and I'll scratch my head.
 
 
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Michael Crowley / The New Republic:
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