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11:15 PM ET, January 5, 2011

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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Gibbs to Leave as White House Press Secretary  —  Updated Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary and close confidante to President Obama, said Wednesday that he will step down and become an outside political adviser to the president and his re-election campaign.
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Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
Gibbs: Senator Obama Only Voted Against Raising Debt Ceiling in 2006 Because He Knew It Would Pass Anyway  —  On Sunday, President Obama's top economic adviser, Council of Economic Advisers chair Austan Goolsbee, cautioned members of Congress not to “play chicken” by voting against raising …
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Howard Dean endorses Daley for chief of staff, rips White House
The Huffington Post:   Dean Endorses Bill Daley, Rips Outgoing Obama Aides For ‘Contempt’
Elizabeth Williamson / Washington Wire:
Obama to Visit Chamber on Feb. 7
Discussion: Politics Daily, The Caucus and TPMDC
James Hamilton / Econbrowser:
Debt ceiling politics
Ezra Klein:
A very smart speech by Speaker Boehner  —  If you spent the afternoon watching C-SPAN, as I did, you heard applause.  A lot of it.  Over and over again.  And when John Boehner took the podium to be sworn in as Speaker of the House of Representatives, it swelled back up, and stayed there.
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Juli Weiner / Vanity Fair:
Republicans to Spend $1.1 Million Reciting Constitution on House Floor  —  As we reported this morning, House Republicans will kick-start the 112th Congress tomorrow with a spirited recitation of the Constitution, a document whose recent relevance is due largely to the ideological and sartorial interests of the Tea Party.
Discussion: Raw Story and AMERICAblog News
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New York Times:
Pomp, and Little Circumstance
Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
Tea Party Billionaire David Koch Entertains Newly Elected Republicans …
Discussion: The Reid Report
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Wily old Dems take on whippersnapper Republicans
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Sean Higgins / Investor's Business Daily:
Hoyer: Tea Party People Come From Unhappy Families  —  On the eve of his demotion by voters from House Majority Leader to House Minority Whip, Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., Hoyer offered this insight into the psychology of the Tea Party movement: … So, there you have it.
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Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Howard Dean on Tea Party: ‘Last Gasp of the 55-Year-Old Generation’  —  Speaking to reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast this morning, former Vermont governor and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate Dr. Howard Dean shared his thoughts on the Tea Party.
John R. Parkinson / ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: President Michele Bachmann?  —  Sources: Tea Party Favorite Is Mulling a Presidential Bid in 2012  —  Forget the fervent chatter speculating that Tea Party favorite Rep. Michele Bachmann is considering launching a campaign to challenge Sen. Amy Klobuchar for the Minnesota U.S. Senate seat …
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Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Bachmann considering White House bid, aides say
Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Michele Bachmann for President?
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Robert Pear / New York Times:
U.S. Alters Rule on Paying for End-of-Life Planning  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, reversing course, will revise a Medicare regulation to delete references to end-of-life planning as part of the annual physical examinations covered under the new health care law, administration officials said Tuesday.
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Cubachi:
Palin effective again: Death panels removed from medicare regulation
Discussion: Doug Ross and Liberty Pundits Blog
Ezra Klein:
Repealing health-care reform would cost hundreds of billions of dollars — and Eric Cantor knows it  —  House Republicans are in a pickle: One of their new rules says that new legislation must be paid for.  But the health-care bill reduces the federal deficit by more than $100 billion over the next 10 years.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
New team, same rules
Jon Ward / The Daily Caller:   Democratic staff passed out a press release to reporters …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Here it is: The filibuster reform package!  —  Here's a copy of the filibuster reform resolution that Senate Democrats will introduce later today, sent over by an aide to Tom Udall, one of the key Senators driving this campaign.  —  While the broad outlines of the proposal were already public …
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Myglesias / Yglesias:
Biting the Bullet on Majority Rule
Discussion: Washington Post and Right Turn
Henri Paget / ninemsn:
KFC employee screams insults at customer  —  A worker at a KFC restaurant in Sydney has been suspended after he was filmed screaming vicious insults and threatening to attack a customer.  —  The violent outburst happened at a Halal-friendly KFC in Punchbowl on December 26 …
CNN:
Retracted autism study an ‘elaborate fraud,’ British journal finds  —  Editor's note: Watch Anderson Cooper's interview with the author of the discredited study, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, on “AC360°” at 10 p.m. ET tonight.  —  (CNN) — A now-retracted British study that linked autism …
Discussion: Hit & Run and AOL News
Philly.com:
Man found in landfill tied to arson attempt  —  Source: John P. Wheeler 3d planted incendiary devices at a neighbor's home in Del. days before his disappearance.  —  Police in Delaware have discovered evidence that a former Pentagon aide may have been involved in an attempted arson days before his murder …
Tim Kane / The Atlantic Online:
Why Our Best Officers Are Leaving  —  Why are so many of the most talented officers now abandoning military life for the private sector?  An exclusive survey of West Point graduates shows that it's not just money.  Increasingly, the military is creating a command structure that rewards conformism and ignores merit.
Christian Science Monitor:
Could you pass a US citizenship test?  —  In order to become a US citizen, immigrants must pass the Naturalization Test.  American citizenship bestows the right to vote, improves the likelihood of family members living in other countries to come and live in the US, gives eligibility for federal jobs …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Post-Midterm Approval Ratings Don't Predict Re-Election Chances  —  Barack Obama got some good news to start his new year: his Gallup approval rating ticked up to 50 percent yesterday, against 42 percent disapproval.  That's the first time it has been at the 50 percent threshold since early June.
Naomi Wolf / Guardian:
Julian Assange's sex-crime accusers deserve to be named  —  The shielding of sex-crime accusers is a Victorian relic.  Women are moral adults and should be treated as such  —  As Swedish prosecutors' sex-crime allegations against Julian Assange play out, one aspect of the case merits serious scrutiny.
Simmi Aujla / The Politico:
Steve King unveils birthright bill  —  Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) isn't wasting any time with his immigration agenda, dropping a bill on the first day of Congress that goes after birthright citizenship.  —  King's measure would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act, ending automatic citizenship for anyone born in the country.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Aftenposten:
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Michael Klein / Philly.com:
Trial set for firing over use of ‘n’ word  —  A federal jury will be asked to decide whether it is acceptable for an African American person, but not a white person, to use the “n” word in a workplace.  —  U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick has ruled that former Fox29 reporter-anchor …
Discussion: Vox Popoli and protein wisdom
 
 
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Bob Sullivan / The Red Tape Chronicles:
Court: No warrant needed to search cell phone
John Derbyshire / National Review:
December Diary  —  Derb-Wehner punch-up My month started off …
Nick Rowe / Worthwhile Canadian Initiative:
Robots, slaves, horses, and Malthus
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
Christopher Drew / New York Times:
Pentagon Is Poised to Cancel Marine Landing Craft
Discussion: Danger Room and SWJ Blog
Jonathon M. Seidl / The Blaze:
JOY BEHAR WONDERS IF ‘CONSTITUTION-LOVING IS GETTING OUT OF HAND’
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Louise Radnofsky / Washington Wire:
O'Donnell's Lawyer Says Campaign Records to Be Amended
Discussion: Wonkette and Politics Daily
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Democratic Party ID Drops in 2010, Tying 22-Year Low
Discussion: Politics Daily and Right Turn
New York Post:
‘Nuclear’ games
Discussion: AmSpecBlog, Betsy's Page and The Hill
 Earlier Items: 
Jason Horowitz / Washington Post:
Reading between Constitution's lines
Chicago Tribune:
Don't repeal health care law
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WikiLeaks: ‘Voluptuous’ nurse cable costs diplomat his job