memeorandum: The White House's case for the tax-cut deal in one graph (Ezra Klein)

9:35 PM ET, December 10, 2010

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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:

‘Filibernie’: Sanders rips tax deal for more than eight hours — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is railing against President Obama's tax-cut package in a lengthy floor speech. — Sanders, one of the Senate's leading liberals, is protesting Obama's deal with Republicans …

Discussion: The Politico, The Note, The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers, The Confluence, Sky Dancing and Liberal Values

Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:

Bernie Sanders filibuster stalls Senate — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders launched a lonely but passionate seven-hour filibuster on the Senate floor Friday afternoon to protest a tax deal that liberals hate yet seems headed toward passage in the Senate. — An outspoken opponent …

Discussion: The Nation, NewsBusters.org blogs, Newshoggers.com and The Note

David Dayen / Firedoglake:

Sanders' Long Senate Floor Speech Brings Attention to Details of Tax Cut Deal — Se. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) (photo: origamidon) — Bernie Sanders has been speaking for almost four hours on the Senate floor, in what some are describing as a filibuster. — It's not a filibuster.

Discussion: USA Today, NPR, Crooks and Liars, Colorlines and Sky Dancing

Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Sanders Ends Daylong Filibuster Of Tax Cut Compromise

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Harry's Place

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Bernie Sanders going to talk until this country turns socialist, damn it

Discussion: The Fix, The Other McCain, National Review and RealClearPolitics Video Log

David M. Herszenhorn / The Caucus:
Sanders Rails Against Tax Bill — For Hours and Hours

Discussion: Media Decoder

Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:

Swindle of the year — Barack Obama won the great tax-cut showdown of 2010 - and House Democrats don't have a clue that he did. In the deal struck this week, the president negotiated the biggest stimulus in American history, larger than his $814 billion 2009 stimulus package.

Erick Erickson / RedState:

The Tax Compromise Must Now Die — House Democrats have rejected the Senate's negotiated tax compromise. In a rowdy meeting in which one Democratic Congressman said loudly “F— the President,” the House Democrats turned Nancy Reagan and just said no. — Barney Frank still thinks it would pass, most likely with House Republicans.

Discussion: The Hill and msnbc.com

Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
Bill Clinton Stumps for President Obama-GOP Tax Cut Deal

Discussion: The Politico and The Note

The Politico:
The dirtiest word in politics: Has Barack Obama been caught triangulating?

Discussion: The Hill, Hot Air, Pundit & Pundette, Salon, Left Coast Rebel, Politics Daily and Washington Wire

Associated Press:
Add-ons turn tax cut bill into ‘Christmas tree’

Discussion: Power Line

Glenn Thrush / The Politico:

Chuck Schumer vs. President Obama — It wasn't on the White House's official schedule, but on Nov. 22 Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) quietly slipped into the Oval Office on a self-appointed mission to steel Barack Obama for the tax cut fight. — Schumer, the newly anointed message guru …

Discussion: Ezra Klein, Firedoglake, Don Surber, Los Angeles Times, Ben Smith's Blog, The New Republic, The Huffington Post, Taylor Marsh, RedState and The Foundry

CNN:
Mr. Sanders goes to Washington

Discussion: South Capitol Street

Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Will Obama really end tax cuts for rich in 2012?

Discussion: Ezra Klein, Mother Jones, Daily Kos and New York Times

Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
How the White House will sell angry House Dems on tax cut deal

Discussion: Firedoglake, TPMDC, Iowa Independent, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Reid Report

ABCNEWS:

Assange Lawyers Prepare for U.S. Spying Indictment — Attorney Says American Indictment Related to Espionage Act Imminent for Wikileaks Founder — Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the man behind the publication of more than a 250,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Guardian, The Nation, Foreign Policy, TPM LiveWire, The Enterprise Blog, Clusterstock, Mediaite, TalkLeft, Raw Story, Boing Boing, News: News blog and The Agonist, more at Techmeme »

Nyheter - DN.se:
“A new WikiLeaks” revolts against Assange

Discussion: The Firewall, Mashable!, PC Magazine, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Clusterstock, This Just In and Newshoggers.com, more at Techmeme »

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The media's authoritarianism and WikiLeaks

Discussion: techPresident, Lawfare, Hullabaloo, Cato @ Liberty, Gawker, Close Read, Emptywheel and Open Left, more at Mediagazer »

National Review:

Levi's Story — A study on “When Marriage Disappears: The Retreat from Marriage in Middle America” was published Monday by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values.

Discussion: Booman Tribune and The Daily Dish

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog: Levi Johnston and the marriage decline

Ezra Klein:

The White House's case for the tax-cut deal in one graph — They're circulating this around the Hill: — It's also worth nothing that those numbers could end up looking a lot better — say, if the payroll-tax cut gets extended next year, which many think likely - or …

Discussion: The Baseline Scenario, Rortybomb and Washington Monthly

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
QUOTE OF THE DAY.... I'm trying to decide which congressional observation …

Discussion: Political Correction RSS, Wonk Room and Daily Kos

Cubachi:

Richard Wolffe mocks Palin and C.S. Lewis as just “a children's author” — I don't know if I should expect any better from ignoramuses from MSNBC, but this is supposedly a “respectable news organization” with shallow and arrogant individuals who only live to ridicule and belittle without thinking.

Discussion: American Power, The Other McCain, Liberty Pundits Blog and iOwnTheWorld.com

The Daily Caller:
MSNBC commentator Richard Wolffe made fun of former Alaska …

Discussion: NO QUARTER, Michelle Malkin, iOwnTheWorld.com and Dennis the Peasant

Harold Pollack / The Reality-Based Community:

Wow I am disgusted by Peter Orszag's move to Citigroup — This morning's New York Times includes a nice column by Peter Orszag about disability. It begins with the words “I will begin a new job for Citigroup in January, so this is my last article.” Page 6 of the business section provides …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, AMERICAblog News, Sunlight Foundation and DealBook

Digby / Hullabaloo:
Dismantling The safety Net, One Program At A Time

Discussion: New York Times and Eschaton

Byron York / Washington Examiner:

BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — Obama honors Nobel winner with statement about himself — There was an extraordinary scene at the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo Friday morning. The prize went to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was barred by the Chinese government from attending the ceremony.

Discussion: New York Times, Hot Air, The White House, The Note, Patterico's Pontifications, The Jawa Report, South Capitol Street, Fausta's Blog, The Lede, Shot in the Dark, Politics Daily, Commentary and JammieWearingFool

CBS News:

John Not a Speaker at Elizabeth Edwards Funeral — Her Estranged Husband Missing from List of Those Slated to Give Eulogies — (CBS) Plans are set for Elizabeth Edwards' funeral Saturday. — Mourners will hear tributes from her daughter and two close friends - but not her estranged husband …

Wall Street Journal:

From Audacity to Animosity — No president has alienated his base the way Obama has. — We have not in our lifetimes seen a president in this position. He spent his first year losing the center, which elected him, and his second losing his base, which is supposed to provide his troops.

Discussion: Pajamas Media and Firedoglake

John / Power Line: Man In the Middle? — I think President Obama will benefit politically …

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:

SOCIAL SECURITY'S HUMBLE ORIGINS.... When President Obama was doing his best to defend his tax deal with congressional Republicans to the left the other day, he emphasized to his allies that “in order to get stuff done, we're going to compromise.” — To bolster his case, the president noted …

Discussion: Paul Krugman, Sky Dancing, Online NewsHour, Ezra Klein and Open Left

Jim Newton / New Yorker:

IKE'S SPEECH — Afew months ago, Grant Moos was closing his boathouse, near Hackensack, Minnesota, as he does every summer, tying up loose ends, sweeping up debris. This year, though, his sister Kathy insisted that it was finally time to do something about six cardboard boxes that for decades …

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:

Introducing “The Cannabis Closet” — Longtime Dishheads will remember that rather extraordinary reader email thread that had to do with secret middle-class, mainstream marijuana use - for medical and non-medical reasons. The thread “The Cannabis Closet” began with one reader email in March 2009 …

Discussion: Dennis the Peasant and South Capitol Street

Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:

The Strategic Mistake of a Decade. — Now that the Senate has killed DADT repeal, I wonder if anyone remembers this? … Democrats and moderate Republicans responded with a “Gang of 12” that would preserve the judicial filibuster while allowing some of Bush's nominees to go through.

Discussion: Yglesias

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:

DADT Repeal: Heads They Win; Tails We Lose — If it fails in the Senate - despite solid public support, endorsement from the Joint Chiefs, backing from the Defense Secretary, a big majority in the House and a 57 - 40 vote in the Senate - what does this say about gays having a fair chance in the legislative process?

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog

David Brooks / New York Times:

Obama's Very Good Week — Over the past week we've seen the big differences between cluster liberals and network liberals. Cluster liberals (like cluster conservatives) view politics as a battle between implacable opponents. As a result, they believe victory is achieved through maximum unity.

Discussion: Hot Air, Eunomia, Pajamas Media, Commentary, Open Left, Booman Tribune and Sister Toldjah

Michael O'Brien / The Hill:

House and Senate budget chiefs: Prepare for cuts — Americans should prepare themselves for spending cuts by Congress next year, the chairmen of the House and Senate's budget committees said Friday. — Both Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee …

Discussion: The Politico

Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:

Palin-Hating Columbia Professor, Huffington Post Blogger, Busted for Incest — Let's begin with a flashback, shall we? In July 2009, when Sarah Palin resigned as governor of Alaska, Columbia University professor David Epstein wrote at his Huffington Post blog: … Got that?

Discussion: NewsBusters.org blogs, The Huffington Post, NewsReal Blog, Above the Law and American Power

Susan Crabtree / The Hill:

Dems show signs of abandoning Obama elsewhere after frustration with tax deal — Incensed over President Obama's tax compromise, House Democratic leaders are showing signs of abandoning the administration and going their own way on critical issues such as national security.

Discussion: Daily Kos, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit, TPMDC and Wake up America