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6:35 PM ET, December 2, 2010

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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Boehner Blasts Dems' ‘Chickencrap’ Tax Cut Vote Gambit (VIDEO)  —  This afternoon, House Democrats will hold an up or down vote on vote on President Obama's plan to extend tax cuts to income below $250,000, and they've figured out a way to prevent the Republicans from pulling procedural tricks …
Discussion: Mediaite, Fox Nation and Hullabaloo
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
House Dems Pass Only Middle Class Tax Cut Bill  —  Using a wily procedural maneuver to tie Republican hands, House Democrats managed to pass, by a vote of 234-188, legislation that will allow the Bush tax cuts benefiting only the wealthiest Americans to expire.  —  Democrats were not united on the issue.
Ezra Klein:
‘Chicken crap’ by the numbers  —  Soon-to-be-House Speaker John Boehner is not happy to see the House Democrats pushing a bill that includes only the tax cuts for income under $250,000.  “I'm trying to catch my breath so I don't refer to this maneuver going on today as chicken crap, all right?”
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.
EconomistMom.com:
Can We Do the Non-Crazy Thing with the Bush Tax Cuts?  —  I am no longer going to “let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”  I am no longer going to try to talk people into seeing that the “right” thing to do with the Bush tax cuts would be to let them all expire.
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Boehner rips House Democrats tax vote as ‘chicken crap’  —  Washington (CNN) - House GOP Leader John Boehner ripped House Democrats for moving ahead with a vote Thursday just on extending tax cuts for those making $250,000 or less, calling the move “chicken crap.”
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Over 30 Democrats defect as test vote on tax cuts passes  —  Thirty-three House Democrats broke with their party Thursday on a key test vote on a bill that would extend only some of the expiring Bush era tax cuts.  —  The House narrowly passed debate rules on the proposal 213-203.
Discussion: CNN, Firedoglake and Washington Post
Ezra Klein:
Why did the Democrats falter on the tax cuts?  —  This post by Greg Sargent contains some wise words on the psychology of the Democrats: … It's very important to realize how strong of a hand Democrats had — and to some degree, have — on the Bush tax cuts.
E.J. Dionne / The Moderate Voice:
Where Is Obama Going?  —  WASHINGTON — As I was passing through security at Boston's Logan Airport on Tuesday night, a TSA worker discovered a penny in one of the bins that had just gone through the screener.  —  He picked up the coin, turned to a colleague and said with a grim smile: “This is your Obama bonus.”
Discussion: Connecting.the.Dots
Patricia Murphy / Politics Daily:
John Boehner Calls Vote on Middle-Class-Only Tax Cut ‘Chicken Crap’
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Tax deal getting close, Democrats worried Obama may cave
Kathleen Hunter / Roll Call:
House Passes Democratic Tax Bill
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Boehner: Dem tax bill ‘chicken crap’
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
NASA Finds New Life (Updated)  —  NASA has discovered a new life form—called GFAJ-1—that doesn't share the biological building blocks of anything currently living in planet Earth.  It's capable of using arsenic to build its DNA, RNA, proteins, and cell membranes.  This changes everything.
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Gizmodo / Wired Science:
NASA Finds New Life Form  —  By Jesus Diaz, Gizmodo  —  Hours before its special news conference today, the cat is out of the bag: NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn't share the biological building blocks of anything currently living on planet Earth.  This changes everything.
Dennis Overbye / New York Times:
Subsisting on Arsenic, Microbe May Redefine Life  —  Scientists said Thursday that they had trained a bacterium to eat and grow on a diet of arsenic, in place of phosphorus — one of six elements considered essential for life — opening up the possibility that organisms could exist elsewhere …
Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call:
Tea Party Caucus Takes $1 Billion In Earmarks  —  Members of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus may tout their commitment to cutting government spending now, but they used the 111th Congress to request hundreds of earmarks that, taken cumulatively, added more than $1 billion to the federal budget.
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Igor Volsky / Wonk Room:
The DADT Hearings In Six Minutes: GOP Talking Points Debunked  —  This morning, during a hearing about the impact of repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The military leadership's challenge to GOP Senators
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
McCain Questions Pentagon on Repeal of Gay Ban
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
U.S. Weighs Prosecution of WikiLeaks Founder, but Legal Scholars Warn of Steep Hurdles  —  WASHINGTON — Calls to prosecute the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, mounted this week as his organization began releasing documents from a cache of 250,000 State Department cables …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
A strange way to honor the founding fathers  —  Republicans gained control of the House last month on a promise to “restore the Constitution.”  So it is no small irony that one of their first orders of business is an attempt to rewrite the Constitution.  —  On Tuesday, Rep. Rob Bishop …
Sam Roberts / City Room:
A Month After Elections, 200,000 Votes Found  —  The city's Board of Elections routinely reminds New Yorkers that the election night vote count is unofficial and preliminary.  —  Still, the difference in the results from Nov. 2 and in the returns formally certified by the board on Wednesday seems striking …
Allan Hall / Daily Mail:
Muslim imam who lectures on non-violence in Germany is arrested for beating up his wife  —  A Muslim imam who lectures on non-violence and advises the German government on interfaith issues has been arrested in Germany for beating up his wife.  —  Sheikh Abu Adam, 40, is now on remand …
Amiram Cohen / Haaretz:
Disaster in the North: 40 dead as fire rages across Carmel Mountains  —  Firefighters: We lost complete control of the fire; mass evacuation from northern towns begins; bus evacuating some 50 prison guards gets caught in the flames, killing 40.  —  40 people died on Thursday as a huge brushfire …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
JUAN WILLIAMS ON UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE  —  If we want people to work and keep up their work ethic, why are we keeping them on unemployment insurance to not work?  —  That seems to be Juan Williams take on the current situation.  In this clip from Fox News today Juan Williams explains …
Discussion: TPMDC and Hullabaloo
Kevin O'Rourke / Eurointelligence:
LETTER FROM DUBLIN  —  It is one thing to know that someone you love is terminally ill; their death still comes as a shock.  —  I certainly don't want to compare the arrival of the EU-IMF team in Dublin last week to a bereavement.  But I was surprised at how upsetting I found it, given that it came as no surprise.
The Note:
Michelle Rhee's Next Move: Florida Governor-Elect Rick Scott's Transition Team  —  ABC News' Michael Falcone reports:  —  An interesting move for former Washington, DC schools chief Michelle Rhee.  She's joining Florida Republican Governor-elect Rick Scott's education transition team.
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Jeremy P. Jacobs / Hotline On Call:
DeMint Sets Sights On Four Dems  —  South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint (R) is turning his attention to 2012 and using the vote this week on an earmark moratorium to pick his Democratic targets.  —  DeMint sent an email to the supporters of his Senate Conservatives Fund early Wednesday highlighting four Democrats …
Lbentzterp / CNN:
TRENDING: An Unscripted Moment on Palin's book tour  —  Spirit Lake, Iowa (CNN) - It was an unscripted moment on Sarah Palin's tour to promote her new book, “America by Heart.”  As hundreds of Palin's fans filed inside a cordoned off area of a northern Iowa Walmart today …
Washington Post:
Presenting plan to cut deficit, commission members offer surprising compromises  —  Members of President Obama's bipartisan deficit commission expressed a surprising willingness Wednesday to compromise on issues that have long divided Republicans and Democrats, including raising taxes and cutting Social Security.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Graham: Feingold ‘may run against Obama in 2012’  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Thursday he thinks outgoing Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) could challenge President Obama in the 2012 primaries.  —  Graham said Feingold, a reliably liberal senator who lost his bid for reelection this fall …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
Unemployed, and Likely to Stay That Way  —  The longer people stay out of work, the more trouble they have finding new work.  —  That is a fact of life that much of Europe, with its underclass of permanently idle workers, knows all too well.  But it is a lesson that the United States seems to be just learning.
 
 
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The Huffington Post:
Unions Slam Deficit Panel Proposal As Gateway To Outsourcing
Discussion: Pundits Blog and AFL-CIO NOW BLOG
Sudeep Reddy / Wall Street Journal:
Fed Officials Push Fiscal Stimulus
Discussion: Firedoglake and Slate
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Deficit commission: What ObamaCare needs is ... death panels
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Bush cabinet raises for ‘vindicated’ Gonzalez
Discussion: Law Blog and Gawker
Becky Bohrer / Associated Press:
Judge sets expedited schedule for Senate vote-count lawsuit
Discussion: CNN, TPMDC and Ballot Box
Lbentzterp / CNN:
Gingrich calls for shake-up at the RNC
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Brown in good position  —  As Scott Brown's first year …
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Hedge Funds Tapped Rescue Program
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