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5:20 PM ET, December 19, 2011

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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Paul leads in Iowa  —  Newt Gingrich's campaign is rapidly imploding, and Ron Paul has now taken the lead in Iowa.  He's at 23% to 20% for Mitt Romney, 14% for Gingrich, 10% each for Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Perry, 4% for Jon Huntsman, and 2% for Gary Johnson.
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Jeb Bush / Wall Street Journal:
Capitalism and the Right to Rise  —  In freedom lies the risk of failure.  But in statism lies the certainty of stagnation.  —  Congressman Paul Ryan recently coined a smart phrase to describe the core concept of economic freedom: “The right to rise.”  —  Think about it.
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
CNN Poll: Gingrich lead gone, dead even with Romney  —  Washington (CNN) - Newt Gingrich's lead in the race for the GOP presidential nomination has evaporated, according to a new national survey.  —  A CNN/ORC International Poll released Monday indicates that 28% of Republicans and independents …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Paul Moves Into Lead in Iowa Forecast  —  Our Iowa forecasts, which are designed to be quite aggressive, have had a big reaction to the new Public Policy Polling survey published late Sunday evening.  The poll showed Newt Gingrich's support slipping badly in Iowa and Ron Paul moving into the lead.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney dominating New Hampshire
Elise Foley / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney Super PAC Ad Attacking Gingrich Sticks In The Minds Of Iowa Voters
Discussion: Washington Post and Taylor Marsh
Washington Examiner:
GOP will take off the gloves if Ron Paul wins Iowa
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Two-Month Payroll Tax Holiday Passed By Senate, Pushed By President, Cannot Be Implemented Properly, Experts Say  —  Officials from the policy-neutral National Payroll Reporting Consortium, Inc. have expressed concern to members of Congress that the two-month payroll tax holiday passed …
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Scott Wong / The Politico:
Brown blasts GOP on payroll tax cut  —  Fighting for reelection in deep-blue Massachusetts, GOP Sen. Scott Brown ripped into House Republicans on Tuesday after Speaker John Boehner vowed that his caucus would reject the short-term payroll tax cut extension that nearly 90 percent of senators voted for over the weekend.
msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Here we go again  —  Here we go again: Boehner and House Republicans walk away from payroll tax cut compromise... Boehner's move either represents a miscommunication with McConnell and Senate GOP leaders, or a reversal... Two weeks to go until Iowa, and the race looks like it did on Friday …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Tea Party lawmaker: Payroll-tax-cut fight our ‘Braveheart moment’
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Reid, for now, won't play Boehner's game
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
NY lawmaker: GOP taking ‘principled’ stance on payroll tax bill
Brian Beutler / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC  —  Standoff: A Guide To The Ongoing Fight Over The Payroll Tax Cut
Brad Plumer / Washington Post:
Kim Jong Il's economic legacy, in one chart  —  One easy way to evaluate the legacies of North Korean dictators Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il is to compare their country's economic performance with South Korea's over the past four decades.  The difference is stunning.
Discussion: Business Insider and Hit & Run
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New York Times:
Kim Jong-il, North Korean Dictator, Dies Suddenly
Ginger Gibson / The Politico:
Kim Jong Il death: 2012ers cautiously triumphant
Discussion: CNN
New York Times:
Retirement Deal Keeps Bain Money Flowing to Romney  —  Almost 13 years ago, Mitt Romney left Bain Capital, the successful private equity firm he had helped start, and moved to Utah to rescue the Salt Lake City Olympic Games and begin a second career in public life.
Leslie H. Gelb / The Daily Beast:
Joe Biden On Iraq, Iran, China and the Taliban  —  The United States won't spend a dime to bail out Europe.  The Taliban is not our enemy.  And nobody's easing up on Iran's nukes.  The vice president lets fly.  —  On Thursday, Dec. 15, Vice President Joe Biden sat down in his sunlit White …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
14-Year-Old Challenges Perry's Anti-Gay Views  —  A 14-year-old bisexual high school student challenged Rick Perry on his support for reinstating Don't Ask, Don't Tell during an event in Decorah, Iowa, asking the Texas governor why he is “so opposed to gays serving openly in the military …
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Towleroad News #gay
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Pro-Adultery Website Endorses Gingrich  —  A website that promotes adultery has endorsed Newt Gingrich for president, and even erected a giant billboard in Pennsylvania to announce it.  Next to a picture of Gingrich making a “shh” gesture, the billboard reads: “Faithful Republican, Unfaithful Husband.”
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Colby Itkowitz / Pennsylvania Ave.:
Adultery club “endorses” Gingrich
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Katha Pollitt / thenation.com/blogs/164:
Regarding Christopher  —  Christopher Hitchens, my colleague for twenty years, was clever, hilarious, generous to his friends, combative, prodigiously energetic and fantastically productive.  He could write with equal ease about Philip Larkin, capital punishment, Henry Kissinger and having his balls waxed.
New York Post:
Professor claims NYU fired him after he gave James Franco a ‘D’  —  James Franco's tired James Dean act got an NYU professor booted from the school last year — after the teacher dared to give the overhyped Hollywood hunk a “D” for blowing off class, a lawsuit charges.
Paul Singer / Roll Call:
Pelosi's Expert Was Also Business Partner  —  Former Speaker Brought Family Friend to the Hill  —  In May 2010, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi took to a podium in the Capitol to introduce a half-dozen economic experts she had convened for a meeting on how to jump-start the economy.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Affordable Care Act, still working  —  A small business owner in Michigan wrote an interesting piece for his local newspaper the other day, noting how tax credits from the Affordable Care Act are making a real difference, and even helping create jobs.  That's good to hear.
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
In 2010, Romney Said He Wouldn't Repeal The Individual Health Mandate In Obamacare
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
For Election Year, MTV Drops ‘Choose or Lose’ Slogan  —  After nearly 20 years of “Choose or Lose,” MTV is changing the name of its election season campaign.  —  The youth cable channel's coverage will be labeled “Power of 12,” a nod to both the election year and the notion that 18 …
George Russell / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: EPA Ponders Expanded Regulatory Power In Name of ‘Sustainable Development’  —  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to change how it analyzes problems and makes decisions, in a way that will give it vastly expanded power to regulate businesses, communities and ecosystems in the name of …
Robert Cruickshank:
Occupy the Progressive Movement  —  It was during the fifth or sixth major argument within the netroots in 2011 about the Obama Administration that the first protestors attempted to Occupy Wall Street in mid-September.  Within days the talk of primary challenges, donor strikes …
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
Bye-bye, Keynes?  —  “Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”  —  The eclipse of Keynesian economics proceeds.  When Keynes wrote “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money” …
 
 
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
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