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10:05 AM ET, December 17, 2010

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David Rogers / The Politico:
Democrats concede budget fight to Republicans  —  Senate Democrats abruptly abandoned an omnibus budget bill for the coming year, pushing major spending decisions into the next Congress and giving Republicans immense new leverage to confront President Barack Obama priorities.
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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 …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
$1.1 trillion spending bill collapses as GOP senators yank support  —  Senate Democrats have given up on their plan to pass a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill in the face of unified Republican opposition.  —  The bill's collapse will take with it more than 6,000 earmarks …
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Bid to Repeal 'Don't Ask' Law Draws Support in Senate  —  WASHINGTON — Embattled and left for near dead last week, the effort to allow gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military gained significant momentum on Thursday with three more Republican Senators agreeing to vote to end the “don't ask, don't tell” policy.
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.
Washington Post:
Congress passes extension of Bush-era tax cuts
Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
Democrats abruptly drop spending fight
Discussion: Left in the West
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Tax cut plan clears House, goes to Barack Obama
Discussion: FrumForum
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
The GOP's Secret Senate Plan
Discussion: Balkinization
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
DADT Moves In The Senate: Reid To File Cloture Tonight, Vote On Saturday
The Hill:
Sen. Wyden to have surgery for prostate cancer, will miss votes
Manu Raju / The Politico:   Senators might make it home for holidays
Andrew Stiles / National Review:
BREAKING: Reid Caves on Omnibus
Bloomberg:
Congress Passes $858 Billion Tax-Cut Extension, Sends to Obama for Signing
Discussion: Shot in the Dark
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Reid pulls back from yearlong omnibus, aims for short-term funding resolution
Discussion: The Foundry, Right Turn and Poliglot
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog Gay:
Reid files for cloture on DADT tonight (wonky but important)
Discussion: Good As You and Pam's House Blend
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” …
Discussion: Politics Daily and CNN
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Washington Post:
Post-ABC poll: Sarah Palin lags Obama in theoretical 2012 presidential election  —  Sarah Palin has played a prominent role in defining Republican Party politics this year but still faces sizable obstacles if she decides to run for president in 2012, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
Sarah Palin: Tax Cut Deal is ‘Lousy,’ New Congress Should Take up Issue  —  In Exclusive Interview With ABC's Robin Roberts, Palin Discusses Economy, New Book  —  In an exclusive interview with “Good Morning America” co-anchor Robin Roberts, Sarah Palin said she doesn't support the “lousy” …
Discussion: CNN and The Page
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.
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Government Arguing That Health Insurance Premiums Are Really Taxes?
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 …
Kimberly Schwandt / Fox News:
Hollywood's Growing Chorus of Obama Criticism  —  Hollywood's adoration for President Obama has never really been all that shocking, but what may be surprising is how famous singers and actors are increasingly saying they aren't so happy with the commander-in-chief.
Aljean Harmetz / New York Times:
Blake Edwards, Prolific Comedy Director, Dies at 88  —  Blake Edwards, a writer and director who became a Hollywood master of screwball farces and rude comedies like “Victor/Victoria” and the “Pink Panther” movies, died Wednesday night in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 88.  —  Enlarge This Image
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BBC:
Blake Edwards: Hollywood film director dies aged 88
Discussion: Off the Kuff and alicublog
Linda Greenhouse / Opinionator:
The Revolution Next Time?  —  It has been 15 years since the Rehnquist court began applying the constitutional brakes to assertions of federal power that had seemed unassailable since the New Deal.  Its first target was modest, a five-year-old federal statute called the Gun-Free School Zones Act …
Discussion: Hit & Run and The American Scene
Bloomberg:
Visa, MasterCard Plunge as Fed Issues Rules to Cut Debit Fees  —  Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. plunged more than 10 percent in New York trading after the Federal Reserve Board proposed rules that could slash debit-card interchange fees by 90 percent.  —  The new rules, posted today by the Fed …
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Olbermann Refuses To Correct Treatment Of Assange Rape Allegations On Twitter - Update  —  Update: Keith Olbermann has announced that he is suspending his Twitter account “until this frenzy is stopped.”  —  Update 2: This is serious.  He has even taken down his profile picture.
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 …
Discussion: Paul Krugman
Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
Flirty Models Were Hired in Bid to Find Bone Marrow  —  BOSTON — On its face, it seemed reasonable enough: a bone marrow registry sending recruiters to malls, ballparks and other busy sites to enlist potential donors.  —  But the recruiters were actually flirtatious models in heels …
Discussion: Raw Story
Tom Shales / Washington Post:
With a star-studded guest list, ‘Larry King Live’ signs off for the last time  —  Lurching awkwardly between classy gestures and underwhelming torpor, “Larry King Live” breathed its last on CNN Thursday night, even if its star and founding father kept reminding viewers that though his program was ending …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and The Page
 
 
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
House GOP considers constitutional test for all new legislation
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
David Brooks / New York Times:
Bigger Is Easier  —  President Obama faces an enormously …
Discussion: Hit & Run and Modeled Behavior
Ben Steverman / Business Week:
It's a Great Time to Be Rich
Discussion: The Awl and The Atlantic Online
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Barack Obama makes the sale
Discussion: Hot Air and Reuters
Fran Spielman / Chicago Sun Times:
The two mayors Daley: Son about to pass father for time in office
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New York Times:
In France, Civil Unions Gain Favor Over Marriage
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Tea Party organization outlines strategy for healthcare repeal
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