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11:25 AM ET, December 8, 2012

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Paul Krugman:
I Hope This Isn't True  —  Ezra Klein says that the shape of a fiscal cliff deal is clear: only a 37 percent rate on top incomes, and a rise in the Medicare eligibility age.  —  I'm going to cross my fingers and hope that this is just a case of creeping Broderism, that it's a VSP fantasy …
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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
The fiscal cliff deal comes clearer: a 37% top tax rate and a higher Medicare eligibility age  —  Something hilarious happened in the Senate on Thursday.  —  The White House has been pushing a plan to transfer authority for the debt ceiling to the executive.
Gregory Wallace / CNN:
Obama, Rubio offer different prescriptions for middle class  —  (CNN) - President Barack Obama and Sen. Marco Rubio addressed the importance of the middle class during their weekly addresses Saturday, but each offered different prescriptions for prosperity.  —  Obama urged Congress to pass …
Discussion: Politico and Crooks and Liars
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Biden Says Obama Could Deal On Tax Rates
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Adam C. Smith / Tampa Bay Times:
Charlie Crist signs papers to become a Democrat  —  It was just a matter of time.  Charlie Crist is becoming a Democrat.  —  Crist — Florida's former Republican governor who relished the tough-on-crime nickname “Chain Gang Charlie” and used to describe himself variously as a …
Rolling Stone:
Psy Apologizes for Anti-American Performances  —  ‘I will forever be sorry for any pain I have caused anyone by those words,’ says South Korean singer  —  “Gangnam Style” singer Psy issued an apology Friday in reponse to widespread reports about his participation in two anti-American concerts a decade ago in his native South Korea.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
PSY apologizes ahead of D.C. show  —  Two days before he is scheduled to perform for the first family at the “Christmas in Washington” concert, South Korean rapper PSY issued a statement apologizing for spouting anti-American lyrics eight years ago.  —  “I will forever be sorry for any pain …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court to Take Up Gay Marriage  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would enter the national debate over same-sex marriage, agreeing to hear a pair of cases challenging state and federal laws that define marriage to include only unions of a man and a woman.
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Supreme Court Takes Up Landmark Gay Marriage Case
Discussion: Mock, Paper, Scissors
Terry Baynes / Reuters:
Supreme Court takes up same-sex marriage for first time
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Press fear Obama private swearing in  —  The White House Correspondents Association is strongly urging the Obama administration to allow press access to the president's official swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 20, following indications from inauguration committee officials that the event could potentially be closed to the press.
John Shiffman / Reuters:
Special Report: From abuse to a chat room, a martyr is made - Jane's Jihad  —  (Reuters) - “Kill him.”  —  The American who called herself Jihad Jane read the words on her computer screen.  Colleen LaRose was fiddling on the Internet, passing time in her duplex near Philadelphia …
Discussion: Guardian
Telegraph:
Catcher in the Rye dropped from US school curriculum  —  Schools in America are to drop classic books such as Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye from their curriculum in favour of ‘informational texts’.  —  JD Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye …
Emily Anne Epstein / The New York Observer:
New Anti-Islam Ads to Debut This Month, Now With 25% More MTA Disclaimer  —  Pamela Geller is at it again.  —  The outspoken blogger and Executive Director of the American Freedom Defense Initiative has just purchased a slew of advertising space in several subway stations …
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Obama committee to accept corporate cash for January inauguration in Washington  —  President Obama's inaugural committee will accept corporate donations this time around, reversing a policy from four years ago banning such contributions, a spokeswoman said Friday.
Discussion: The Raw Story
Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Maher: Send Koch bros a ‘f—k you’  —  Bill Maher blogged on Friday that President Barack Obama should use a fiscal cliff deal as a “personal f—k you” to the Koch brothers by doing something about global warming.  —  In a post Friday, Maher wrote: “Since we're looking for new revenue streams …
Discussion: HBO, Weasel Zippers and The Raw Story
Rebecca Berg / BuzzFeed:
Legislators Hope To Slip Farm Subsidies And Food Stamps Into Fiscal Cliff Deal  —  Agriculture Committee chairs from both chambers work out their differences in private.  Easy spending cuts and deep ideological differences in Farm Bill talks.  —  Image by Iowa Farm Bureau, Gary Fandel / AP
John Nichols / thenation.com/blogs/117:
GOP, Koch Brothers Sneak Attack Guts Labor Rights in Michigan  —  In the state where workers sat down in Flint General Motors plants seventy-five years ago and emboldened the industrial labor movement that would give birth to the American middle class, Republican legislators on Thursday voted to gut basic labor rights.
 
 
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Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge:
146,000 Jobs Added In November, Beat Expectation Of 85,000, Unemployment Rate Lower At 7.7%
Emily Ramshaw / New York Times:
Likely Increase in Births Has Some Lawmakers Revisiting Cuts
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Raw Story
Sarah Kliff / Washington Post:
Medicaid expansion scorecard: 17 states say yes, 9 say no
New York Times:
Obama Proposes $60.4 Billion Storm-Recovery Bill
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The Caucus:
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Unemployment Extension Demanded By Democrats
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
‘Welfare Spending Equates to $168 Per Day for Every Household in Poverty’
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Emanuel Cleaver backs Medicare means test
Discussion: Daily Kos
Nick Baumann / Mother Jones:
GOP Resurrects Plan to Rig Electoral College
Discussion: Firedoglake
Laura L. Myers / Reuters:
Man pleads guilty in plot to attack Seattle military site
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs and Jihad Watch