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7:35 PM ET, December 10, 2010

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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.
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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 …
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
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 …
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.
Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
Bill Clinton Stumps for President Obama-GOP Tax Cut Deal  —  In a Surprise Move, Obama Brings Out Former President to Tout His Plan  —  President Obama today brought out former president and Democratic heavyweight Bill Clinton for an impromptu press conference to tout his tax cut deal …
Discussion: The Politico and The Note
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Sanders Launches Actual Filibuster Of Tax Cut Compromise
msnbc.com:
At Obama's side, Clinton backs tax deal
Discussion: Daily Kos
Cubachi:
Senator Jim DeMint on why he opposes the tax compromise
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Will Obama really end tax cuts for rich in 2012?
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 …
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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.
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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: The Daily Dish
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Levi Johnston and the marriage decline  —  National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez has a long interview today on a new report headed, “The Retreat from Marriage in Middle America.”  —  The author, W. Bradford Wilcox, found a growing gap between the marriages of the affluent and well-educated …
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 …
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CNN:
Mr. Sanders goes to Washington
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Politico
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.
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The Daily Caller:
MSNBC commentator Richard Wolffe made fun of former Alaska …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Dismantling The safety Net, One Program At A Time
Discussion: New York Times and Eschaton
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
Sen. Joseph Lieberman / GovTrack.us:
A bill to provide for the repeal of the Department of Defense policy concerning homosexuality in...  Overview … The text of this legislation is not yet available on GovTrack.  It may not have been made available by the Government Printing Office yet.  —  Introduced  —  Referred to Committee
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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 …
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: Firedoglake
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John / Power Line:   Man In the Middle?  —  I think President Obama will benefit politically …
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 …
St. Petersburg Times:
Gov.-elect Rick Scott hints at school vouchers for all at St. Petersburg rally  —  ST. PETERSBURG — Florida Gov.-elect Rick Scott on Thursday blew the door wide open to the idea of a voucherlike program for all students, saying he's working with lawmakers to allow state education dollars …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
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Ron Matus / St. Petersburg Times:
Public school advocates fear Scott's voucher-like proposal
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Jay Bookman
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
 
 
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