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6:05 PM ET, December 3, 2010

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Freezing Out Hope  —  After the Democratic “shellacking” in the midterm elections, everyone wondered how President Obama would respond.  Would he show what he was made of?  Would he stand firm for the values he believes in, even in the face of political adversity?
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The Huffington Post:
Harkin: If Obama Caves On Taxes, He Better Pray For Palin In 2012  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … WASHINGTON — The sense of frustration among Senate Democrats over the White House's handling of the tax cut debate has grown throughout the week, culminating in a series of articles …
The Note:
Dem Senator: Negotiating with Republicans “Almost” like Negotiating with “Terrorists”  —  ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports: Did Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) just compare Republicans to terrorists?  —  Well, not really.  But he did compare negotiating with Republicans to negotiating with terrorists.
Washington Post:
Obama, GOP in quiet talks to extend tax cuts  —  The White House and congressional Republicans have begun working behind the scenes toward a broad deal that would prevent taxes from going up for virtually every U.S. family and authorize billions of dollars in fresh spending to bolster the economy.
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Menendez: Dealing with GOP like negotiating with ‘terrorists’  —  Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez on Friday compared talks with the GOP on extending tax cuts to negotiating with terrorists.  —  During a press conference on Capitol Hill, Menendez (N.J.) took aim at Republicans for opposing …
Brad Reed / Crooks and Liars:
Dear Democrats, please, please, please don't eff this up
Discussion: Washington Post and Squawk Box
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Frank: White House ‘gravely mistaken’ in tax cut strategy
John Stanton / Roll Call:
Menendez Likens Tax Fight to Negotiating With Terrorists
Discussion: National Review
Adam Sorensen / The Page:
Donkey Doozy  —  The Democratic Party spirals unidirectionally.
Discussion: Don Surber, Hot Air and Commentary
Faiz Shakir / ThinkProgress:
CBS Poll Finds Only 46 Percent Of Republicans Support GOP's Stand …
Discussion: CBS News, Boston Globe and The Gavel
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Scott Brown comes out in favor of DADT repeal  —  This is potentially important.  The statement just out from Senator Scott Brown's office: … A few quick points on this.  First, it shows beyond doubt — as I thought would happen — that Robert Gates's handling of this whole affair …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Sen. Brown offers key support for 'Don't ask, don't tell' repeal  —  Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) said Friday he would support doing away with the military's “Don't ask, don't tell” policy.  —  Brown broke with most Republicans to say he endorsed the findings of a Department of Defense report …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Can we please have some nuance?  —  It's being widely reported right …
Chusa / ConservativeHome's Survey blog:
The top ten pundits among Republican activists  —  1,152 Republican activists, as identified by YouGov America and polled by ConservativeHome.com, have chosen their favorite pundits.  —  These pundits, more than any other, will be the talking heads who will influence the choice of the GOP's nominee for 2012.
Jeff Dunetz / YID With LID:
Helen Thomas is At it Again-Says Those Rich Jews Control America  —  Proving once again that you can't teach an old dog new tricks, former White House Correspondent Helen Thomas told an anti-Arab-Bias workshop in Dearborn Michigan that she absolutely stands by her ugly comments about Jews …
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Detroit News:
Helen Thomas stands by anti-Israel remarks
Patrick Gavin / The Politico:
WHITE HOUSE SPEECHWRITER WINS COMEDY PRIZE
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Niraj Warikoo / Detroit Free Press:
Defiant Helen Thomas defends remarks that led to exit
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Disappointing Job Growth in U.S. as Jobless Rate Hits 9.8%  —  In a significant setback to the recovery and market expectations, the United States economy added just 39,000 jobs in November, and the unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent, according to the Department of Labor.
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Wall Street Journal:
Economy Added Fewer Jobs Than Expected in November
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Ron Paul stands up for Julian Assange  —  Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) is taking a stand as one of Julian Assange's few defenders in Washington, arguing that the WikiLeaks founder should get the same protections as the media.  —  Attorney General Eric Holder said this week that the Justice Department …
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ABCNEWS:
President Obama Makes Surprise Trip to Afghanistan, Sources Tell ABC News  —  Visit Comes Amid Backdrop of Wikileaks Report Highlighting Afghan Corruption  —  President Obama is in Afghanistan on a surprise visit, sources told ABC News' Martha Raddatz.  —  Obama's surprise trip comes …
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama to troops in Afghanistan: ‘You will succeed in your mission’
Discussion: FrumForum
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Montana Republican Numbers  —  On the Montana poll that we released a couple weeks ago we also had some numbers on who Republicans in the state wanted as their candidates for President and Senate in 2012 and we just never got around to releasing them.  So here goes:
Discussion: GOP 12 and Conservatives4Palin.com
Marc Lacey / New York Times:
Arizona Cuts Financing for Transplant Patients  —  PHOENIX — Even physicians with decades of experience telling patients that their lives are nearing an end are having difficulty discussing a potentially fatal condition that has arisen in Arizona: Death by budget cut.
Doug Powers / Michelle Malkin:
UN Climate Summit Leader Prays to Mayan Moon Goddess  —  Watch out, Al Gore, your moonbat congregation is starting to direct their prayers elsewhere: … It just makes sense: When you're pushing a myth, there's no more appropriate entity to pray to than a mythical goddess.  Why be inconsistent?
Discussion: Oliver Willis
Mark Joyella / Mediaite:
Karl Rove Slams Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee Over Bush-Bashing Comments  —  On Laura Ingraham's radio show, Karl Rove defended the Bushes against a series of comments, including Sarah Palin's reference to the Bushes as “blue-bloods” and Mike Huckabee saying the Bushes “weren't for me.”
Discussion: Hot Air and GOP 12
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans' Credit Cards in Real Time  —  Federal law enforcement agencies have been tracking Americans in real-time using credit cards, loyalty cards and travel reservations without getting a court order, a new document released under a government sunshine request shows.
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Deficit panel's plan goes down to defeat  —  In an 11-7 vote, President Obama's fiscal commission on Friday failed to adopt a sweeping plan for reining in the federal budget deficit.  —  The panel had been working since February on a plan that would cut almost $4 trillion in deficit spending …
Myglesias / Yglesias:
For the Record...  I really wonder what's happening, subjectively, inside the heads of people who oppose repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell.  Do any of them think they're on the right side of history here?  That people are going to look back from 2040 and say “if only we'd listened to John McCain thirty years ago?”
Discussion: The Plum Line
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Hillary Clinton: State is ‘last’ public post  —  Hillary Clinton says, ‘I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.’  —  Secretary of state will be Hillary Clinton's “last public position,” she said Friday, yet again tamping down speculation that she's plotting …
Discussion: The Note and CNN
Dan Horn / Cincinnati.com:
Driehaus sues anti-abortion group  —  U.S. Rep. Steve Driehaus sued an anti-abortion group Friday for making statements that he says misled voters about his stance on abortion.  —  Driehaus said the Susan B. Anthony List lied about him in public statements and then sued him for trying to stop …
Discussion: Ballot Box
Enid Nemy / New York Times:
Elaine Kaufman, Who Fed the Famous, Dies at 81  —  Elaine Kaufman, who became something of a symbol of New York as the salty den mother of Elaine's, one of Manhattan's best-known restaurants and a second home for almost half a century to a bevy of writers, actors, athletes and other celebrities, died Friday at Lenox Hill Hospital.
Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:
What's So Hard About Hardball?  —  Kevin Drum on the Democratic Party's congenital inability to play hardball politics: … The bigger issue, I think, is that Republicans have an astounding level of ideological unity and a keen understanding of the political dynamics at work.
Discussion: The New Republic
Terry / CNSNews:
Michele Bachmann: Jesus Had a Right to Life from the Moment of Conception  —  In response to a question from CNSNews.com, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R.-Minn.) said this week that Jesus Christ had a right to life from the moment of conception and that all human beings deserve legal protection from the moment of conception.
Discussion: Breitbart.tv and GOP 12
 
 
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J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Durbin: DREAM Act will come to the Senate floor next week
Discussion: Hot Air
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
CBO: Dream Act would cut 1.4 billion dollars off the federal deficit.
Mitt Romney / Boston Globe:
Stop START  —  Nuclear treaty limits America's options for missile defense
Ian Traynor / Guardian:
WikiLeaks cables claim first scalp as German minister's aide is sacked
Peter Wehner / Commentary:
A Response to John Derbyshire
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Why You Can't Negotiate With Paul Ryan
John Fund / Wall Street Journal:
Government By Executive Order
Discussion: AmSpecBlog and Pajamas Media
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Mental Prisoner of the Congress
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Tamara Lush / Associated Press:
Disney town sees death for 2nd time in a week
Discussion: msnbc.com
Erika Lovley / The Politico:
Women's bathroom in House: $200K
Roger Highfield / Telegraph:
Are we freezing because of global warming?
Discussion: YID With LID and Right Wing News
Andy Kessler / Wall Street Journal:
Time to Shut Down the FCC  —  More transistors exist today …