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9:05 AM ET, December 2, 2010

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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Dickishness Of The GOP  —  What we've observed these past two years is a political party that knows nothing but scorched earth tactics, cannot begin to see any merits in the other party's arguments, refuses to compromise one inch on anything, and has sought from the very beginning to do nothing but destroy the Obama presidency.
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Wall Street Journal:
Tax Cuts Likely to Be Extended Temporarily  —  Republicans and Democrats Wednesday sat down to negotiate a compromise on extending Bush-era income tax cuts—an effort that could be the first step toward a deal this month that many strategists in both parties believe will temporarily extend current tax rates for all income levels.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Parties dare each other as tax debate heats up  —  House Democrats will forge ahead with a highly partisan tax vote Thursday — just two days after President Obama called for a bipartisan deal on the issue.  —  The vote comes as administration officials and congressional representatives …
Discussion: Guardian, The Politico and RedState
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Senate Republicans Threaten Tax Dispute Blockade  —  WASHINGTON — Not even 24 hours after President Obama met with senior Republican Congressional leaders and expressed hopes for a “new dialogue,” renewed partisan fury engulfed the Senate on Wednesday, as Republicans threatened to block …
Washington Post:
'Don't ask, don't tell' repeal efforts stalled by GOP plan
Discussion: AMERICAblog Gay
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
ALL 42 SENATE REPUBLICANS ANNOUNCE HOSTAGE PLAN. …
Tony Pugh / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Fed wants to strip a key protection for homeowners  —  WASHINGTON — As Americans continue to lose their homes in record numbers, the Federal Reserve is considering making it much harder for homeowners to stop foreclosures and escape predatory home loans with onerous terms.
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Jean Eaglesham / Wall Street Journal:
Banks in Talks to End Bond Probe
Discussion: The Agonist
Richard E. Cohen / The Politico:
GOP to upend spending process  —  House Republicans seem intent on blowing up the staid appropriations process when they take power in January — potentially upending the old bulls in both parties who have spent decades building their power over the federal budget.
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Jim Snyder / Bloomberg:
Pelosi Climate Panel Dies in Republican Sweep of House
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Boehner to create women's restroom adjacent to House floor  —  Speaker-designate John Boehner (R-Ohio) intends to commandeer a swanky office space adjacent to the House floor and build a women's restroom for female lawmakers.  —  For years, men have had the luxury of using facilities located adjacent …
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
It took a guy to do this?  House Speaker-elect John Boehner orders a change to benefit just 71 members  —  For some reason it took a male Speaker of the House to accomplish this:  —  The nearly six dozen female members of the incoming House of Representatives will have a new restroom …
Discussion: Hot Air
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Pentagon: We could have shut down Wikileaks but chose not to  —  I hope he's telling the truth.  Because if our cyberwar unit is so weak that they can't hit a few servers in Sweden, then I, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords.  The key question: Was this decision driven chiefly by military or political concerns?
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Rachel Slajda / TPMMuckraker:
How Lieberman Got Amazon To Drop Wikileaks
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Diplomats Noted Canadian Mistrust Toward U.S.  —  WASHINGTON — In early 2008, American diplomats stationed in Ottawa turned on their television sets and were aghast: there was an “onslaught” of Canadian shows depicting “nefarious American officials carrying out equally nefarious deeds in Canada …
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Luke Harding / Guardian:
Cables condemn Russia as ‘mafia state’
C. J. Chivers / New York Times:
Below Surface, U.S. Has Dim View of Putin and Russia
Discussion: Guardian, msnbc.com and Hot Air
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Obama and GOPers Worked Together to Kill Bush Torture Probe  —  A WikiLeaks cable shows that when Spain considered a criminal case against ex-Bush officials, the Obama White House and Republicans got really bipartisan.  —  Post Comment  —  In its first months in office …
Discussion: Philly.com and Raw Story
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Scott Horton / Harper's:
The Madrid Cables  —  In Spain, the WikiLeaks disclosures have dominated the news for three days now.  The reporting has been led by the level-headed El País, with its nationwide competitor, Público, lagging only a bit behind.  Attention has focused on three separate matters …
Ed Rollins / CNN:
Palin, I knew Reagan.  You're no Reagan.  —  Editor's note: Ed Rollins, a senior political contributor for CNN, is senior presidential fellow at the Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency at Hofstra University.  He is a principal with the Dilenschneider Group, a global public relations firm.
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
County Recorder in Massachusetts Goes After MERS  —  This is one of those mind-blowing days, one I don't feel like I have much of a grip on.  But with all the despair with the federal government, the power structure that protects the banks at all costs, etc., it's worth looking at some potential good news for a change.
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John Carney / CNBC:   The MERS Wars Heat Up in Massachusetts
Michel Rose / Reuters:
Wikileaks' Assange in UK, police know where: report  —  (Reuters) - Wikileaks website founder Julian Assange is in Britain and police know his whereabouts but have refrained so far from acting on an international warrant for his arrest, a British newspaper said on Thursday.
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Ross Douthat:
The Ambitions of Julian Assange
The Huffington Post:
Ted Strickland: Democrats Suffering From ‘Intellectual Elitism’  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … WASHINGTON — Fresh off a narrow loss in his gubernatorial re-election campaign, Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland on Wednesday offered some somber and sober-minded criticism for his own party and president.
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Cuba travel ban won't be lifted this year  —  Legislation eliminating a longstanding travel ban to Cuba is dead in this Congress, several senior Democrats said this week.  —  Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.), a strong backer of lifting the ban, called it “absurd” that Congress would maintain restrictions …
Discussion: Babalú Blog
Steve Randy Waldman / interfluidity:
Hangover theory and morality plays  —  My recent fit over the technocratic style in American economics was the excrescence of a long-standing complaint.  The very first time I made that complaint was in a piece arguing that Paul Krugman's dismissal of Austrian-ish “hangover theory” was overhasty.
 
 
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Catch and release in Afghanistan
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Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
Ellison, Grijalva to lead progressives
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Radley Balko / Hit & Run:
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
RNC official admits to a “cashflow challenge”