Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
4:00 PM ET, December 17, 2010

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Dana Bash / CNN:
Aides: GOP senators may let 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal go forward  —  Washington (CNN) — Four key GOP senators who have announced their support of a “don't ask, don't tell” repeal are prepared to join Democrats in voting to let the bill proceed, as long as Congress first deals with a measure …
RELATED:
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Dems are earmark junkies but GOP goes straight  —  Press coverage of the budget frenzy on Capitol Hill has suggested that pork-barrel earmark spending is still a bipartisan problem, that after months of self-righteous rhetoric about fiscal discipline, Republicans and Democrats remain equal-opportunity earmarkers.
John Stanton / Roll Call:
Reid Gives Up on Omnibus Spending Bill
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Swampland
David Rogers / The Politico:
Democrats concede budget fight to Republicans
Jason Millman / The Hill:
Food safety bill looks dead, though Democrats say they haven't given up
Discussion: National Review
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
A Primer On The Fallout Of OmnibusFAIL
Discussion: NPR, Open Congress and Eschaton
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Parties no longer equal on pork
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The new comeback kid  —  If Barack Obama wins reelection in 2012, as is now more likely than not, historians will mark his comeback as beginning on Dec. 6, the day of the Great Tax Cut Deal of 2010.  —  Obama had a bad November.  Self-confessedly shellacked in the midterm election …
RELATED:
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Congress Sends $801 Billion Tax Cut Bill to Obama  —  WASHINGTON — Congress at midnight Thursday approved an $801 billion package of tax cuts and $57 billion for extended unemployment insurance.  The vote sealed the first major deal between President Obama and Congressional Republicans …
PolitiFact:
PolitiFact's Lie of the Year: ‘A government takeover of health care’  —  In the spring of 2009, a Republican strategist settled on a brilliant and powerful attack line for President Barack Obama's ambitious plan to overhaul America's health insurance system.
Kevin Sack / New York Times:
Judge Hints He May Rule Against Health Law  —  PENSACOLA, Fla. — A federal judge asserted on Thursday that it would be “a giant leap” for the Supreme Court to accept the Obama administration's defense of a central provision of the new health care law, suggesting he may become the second judge to strike it down as unconstitutional.
RELATED:
Fay Schlesinger / Daily Mail:
Snub for Obamas as Royal sources reveal they will not be invited to Prince William's wedding  —  President Obama and his wife Michelle will not be invited to Prince William's wedding next year.  —  Because Prince William is not yet heir to the throne, his wedding to Kate Middleton is not classed …
Discussion: Fox Nation, Gothamist and Gawker
RELATED:
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Royal snub for the Obamas: No wedding invite from Prince William and Kate Middleton
Discussion: BLACKFIVE and Sky Dancing
David Frum / FrumForum:
How Would President Romney Govern?  —  “Sincerity is everything - once you can fake that, you've got it made.”  —  There's Mitt Romney's problem in 1 sentence.  He cannot fake sincerity.  His insincerity is blatant, inescapable, clumsy and off-putting.  Ross Douthat phrased the indictment …
RELATED:
Myglesias / Yglesias:   Mitt Romney and Olive Garden
Ezra Klein:
Can you count on Mitt Romney's never-ending pasta bowl?
Discussion: The New Republic
Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Sarah Palin on 2012 Plans, Double Standards for Women  —  Palin Says Thinking About Presidential Run Is a ‘Prayerful Consideration’  —  Sarah Palin is surveying the lay of the land to consider whether to make a presidential run in 2012, she told “Good Morning America” …
RELATED:
ABCNEWS:
ABC News Poll: Palin for President? No Way
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
CNN and Tea Party Express to host 2012 debate  —  CNN said Friday that it is joining forces with the Tea Party Express — a political action committee that played a key role in the 2010 midterm elections — to co-host a Republican presidential debate.  —  The debate is scheduled for Labor …
RELATED:
Fhardingj / CNN:
CNN and Tea Party Express to host first-of-its-kind Tea Party …
Jillian Rayfield / TPM LiveWire:
Breaking?  Study Finds Fox News Viewers Are The Most Misinformed  —  To perhaps nobody's surprise, a study released this week finds that Fox News viewers are the most misinformed of any news consumers.  —  The University of Maryland study, called “Misinformation and the 2010 Election,” …
David Weigel / Weigel:
How They Learned to Start Worrying and Stop Appropriating  —  The omnibus spending bill died in the Senate last night, and the death was a long time coming.  It started to bleed in 2006, when a series of rule changes and the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act were passed …
RELATED:
The Huffington Post:
Tea Party Era Begins With Refusal To Debate ‘Omnibus’ Spending Bill
Discussion: TalkLeft and Hullabaloo
Peggy O'Hare / Houston Chronicle:
HPD knows names of 2 slain robbers  —  In the back room of a humble jewelry store and pawn shop in Houston's East End Thursday afternoon, a gunman tied Eva Castillo's wrists tightly — too tightly.  She complained of the pain, so he loosened the bindings.  Then Castillo's husband was ordered …
Duluth News Tribune:
Our view: Pawlenty wishes he'd have run again; will he pursue the presidency?  —  Outgoing Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty didn't even hesitate.  “Yes,” he answered when asked by the News Tribune editorial board this week whether, after the Republicans took control of the Minnesota Legislature …
KOCO Oklahoma City's Channel 5:
Feds Force Okla. Bank To Remove Crosses, Bible Verse  —  Federal Examiners Say Religious Decoration Inappropriate  —  PERKINS, Okla. — A small-town bank in Oklahoma said the Federal Reserve won't let it keep religious signs and symbols on display.  —  Federal Reserve examiners come every four years …
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
The Limits of the Taxing Power  —  An interesting question emerges from one of my comment threads on whether or not congress should be able to use the taxing power to get over limits on its enumerated powers.  —  1) Can Congress enact a $50,000 tax on second term abortions?
Lynn Sweet / Politics Daily:
Michelle Obama, Sasha, Malia, Bo to Hawaii; Not Taking the Jumbo Jet … First Lady Michelle Obama, daughters Sasha and Malia and family dog Bo will fly to Hawaii on Saturday for a winter vacation, Politics Daily has learned, while President Obama remains in Washington to deal with Congress.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
The Cook Political Report:
Reapportionment Preview: Mapping Out States “On the Bubble”  —  House Editor David Wasserman kicks off the Cook Political Report's in-depth coverage of Redistricting 2012, which you can also follow via Twitter handle @Redistrict as the remap gets underway.  Over the next year …
Discussion: The Fix and Derek Wallbank
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Wall Street Whitewash  —  When the financial crisis struck, many people — myself included — considered it a teachable moment.  Above all, we expected the crisis to remind everyone why banks need to be effectively regulated.  —  How naïve we were.  We should have realized …
Sam Graham-Felsen / Washington Post:
Why is Obama leaving the grass roots on the sidelines?  —  In the wake of President Obama's deal to extend the Bush tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans, pundits have focused on how Obama has alienated the left.  But the issue isn't the left - it's the list.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / New York Post:
Columbia U. vs. the little guy  —  Tweet  —  We often hear politicians and pundits denounce property rights.  Property rights, we're told, protect the fat cats against the needs of the public.  They're a tool for keeping the little guy down.  —  Like a lot of what we hear from politicians and pundits …
Ezra Klein:
An incoherent Congress  —  The tax deal passed last night, and without changes.  Liberals don't really like it.  Conservatives don't really like it.  Even people who supported the deal — myself included — don't really like it.  It's tempting to say that this broad spectrum …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Ezra Klein:
Obama brand remains surprisingly strong  —  Some interesting — and unexpected — results in The Washington Post's big post-election poll.  First, Obama's position against the Republicans in Congress is much stronger than that of his predecessors.  The following polls were all taken …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 4:00 PM ET, December 17, 2010.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Could Lame Duck Be a Big Win for Obama Agenda?
Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
A California Bankruptcy, Dictatorship, and the Guarantee Clause
Andrew Brown / Guardian:
WikiLeaks and Israel Shamir | Andrew Brown
Discussion: CNN and Little Green Footballs
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Obama makes the sale
Discussion: Hot Air, Pajamas Media and FrumForum
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
The 9th Annual Right Wing News Conservative Blog Awards
Discussion: YID With LID and Althouse
Sarah Palin / National Review:
Senate Republicans: Vote No on New START
Discussion: The Page
 Earlier Items: 
Myglesias / Yglesias:
The Latvian Catastrophe  —  Klaus Regling, chief executive …
Discussion: Financial Times
Yves Smith / naked capitalism:
Banana Republic Watch: New York City More Unequal Than Chile
Larry Flynt / The Huffington Post:
Why I Am Donating $50,000 to WikiLeaks' Defense Fund
Discussion: Sister Toldjah and Mediaite
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Tax and Spend  —  I'm a tax enthusiast, in part thanks to the work of Lane Kenworthy.
Jack Healy / New York Times:
In Seconds Before Blast, the Making of a Hero
Discussion: FrumForum
Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
Flirty Models Were Hired in Bid to Find Bone Marrow
Discussion: AOL News, Raw Story and Gawker
Tom Shales / Washington Post:
With a star-studded guest list, ‘Larry King Live’ signs off for the last time
Discussion: American Power and The Page