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9:50 PM ET, December 11, 2012

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Tom Cohen / CNN:
Angry with Obama, GOP threatens political war next year  —  Washington (CNN) — They are losing the battle over higher taxes on the wealthy, so now Republicans are threatening a political war next year when it comes time to raise the nation's debt ceiling.  —  With cracks appearing …
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Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Obama Expects GOP Tax Cave  —  As the clock ticks toward a tax hike on all Americans in 20 days, President Obama predicted Republicans would join Democrats to extend current rates for 98 percent of earners before the end of the year.  —  “I'm pretty confident that Republicans …
Politico:
Fiscal cliff: GOP makes another counteroffer  —  House Republicans say they have sent President Barack Obama a fresh proposal that would “achieve tax and entitlement reform to solve our looming debt crisis and create more American jobs.”  —  “As the speaker said today …
Discussion: Hot Air and Daily Kos
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Remembering Who You Are Dealing With  —  At TNR, Noam Scheiber objects to the widespread assumption that allowing a plunge over the “fiscal cliff” would be a tactical victory but a strategic defeat for Barack Obama.  Yes, he concedes, there is some risk of economic repercussions …
Discussion: Mother Jones and The New Republic
Dan Pfeiffer / Talking Points Memo:
Boehner To Obama: You Name Spending Cuts First
Discussion: The Plum Line
Sam Baker / The Hill:
White House drops support for major Medicaid cut
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
John Boehner Gives Fiscal Cliff Counteroffer To White House
Discussion: Daily Kos
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
The GOP's dangerous debt-ceiling gamble
Ashley Killough / CNN:
TRENDING: Hoffa predicts ‘civil war’ in Michigan  —  (CNN) - Jimmy Hoffa, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, said Tuesday he expects Michigan unions and lawmakers to break out into “civil war” after the state legislature passed right-to-work bills that would weaken unions' power.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The Morning Plum: A way out for labor in Michigan?  —  Today, Governor Rick Snyder is expected to sign “right to work” legislation in Michigan.  Obviously, this will constitute a hard blow to organized labor, for a host of reasons, symbolic and practical alike.
Bernie Woodall / Reuters:
New laws will make Michigan 24th “right-to-work” state
Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
White House declines to condemn union violence in Michigan
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
THINGS IN POLITICO THAT MAKE ME WANT TO GUZZLE ANTIFREEZE, POINT OF NO RETURN EDITION  —  One of my primary criticisms of Tiger Beat On The Potomac has been that the entire enterprise has been dedicated totally to gossip, triviality, and Drudge-baiting to the exclusion of what's actually …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Politico Accidentally Exposes Beltway Elite
Discussion: Paul Krugman and American Prospect
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Justice Scalia Defends Comparing Homosexuality To Murder … In a Princeton University speech Monday, Justice Antonin Scalia defended his opposition to LGBT equality and his previous comments equating homosexuality with murder and bestiality.  —  When asked by openly gay Princeton freshman Duncan Hosie …
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
First on CNN: Haley finalizes short list for DeMint seat  —  Washington (CNN) - South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has whittled down the list of people she is considering for Jim DeMint's soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat to five people, a Republican close to the governor told CNN on Tuesday.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Haley trails Sheheen, Graham getting stronger
Aaron Blake / The Fix:
Nikki Haley's short list includes Tim Scott, Jenny Sanford
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Why Hillary Clinton Would Be Strong in 2016 (It's Not Her Favorability Ratings)  —  Let's start by stating the obvious: Hillary Rodham Clinton would be a formidable presidential candidate in 2016.  —  Mrs. Clinton's credentials as secretary of state, as a United States senator …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
McConnell highly unpopular  —  Mitch McConnell is the most unpopular Senator in the country.  Only 37% of Kentucky voters approve of him to 55% disapprove.  Both in terms of raw disapproval (55%) and net approval (-18) McConnell has the worst numbers of any of his peers, taking that mantle from Nebraska's Ben Nelson.
Wall Street Journal:
End of a Bailout: U.S. Sells Last AIG Shares  —  WASHINGTON—The Treasury Department said it would generate $7.6 billion in proceeds from its sale of American International Group Inc.shares, as it sells nearly all its remaining holdings in the insurer it helped rescue at the height of the financial crisis.
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Reuters:
U.S. Treasury exits AIG as markets await rebound
Discussion: msnbc.com and Hot Air
emptywheel:
Breitbart Folks Appear to Fake Violence in Lansing  —  When I saw this video-claiming that a “violent mob” destroyed the tent the Koch brothers had paid for in front of the Michigan Capitol-I knew right away it was likely a false flag.  After all, Stranahan, James O'Keefe's buddy, first posted it.
John Stephens / The Huffington Post:
Scott Tranter, Republican Consultant: Voter ID And Long Lines Help Our Side … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Republican Party, Elections 2012, Republicans, Video, HuffPost Live, Voting Laws, Voting Rights, Florida Voter Purge, Pennsylvania Voter Id, Republican-Voter-Id, Scott Tranter, Voter ID …
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
There's Not A Single Spending Cut That Republican Voters Support  —  The “compromise” in the fiscal cliff deal from Democrats is supposed to come in the form of spending cuts.  But a new Marist-McClatchy poll shows that voters — including Republicans — oppose any and every specific spending cut proposed to them.
Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Rick Perry: Outlawing All Access To Abortion Is ‘My Goal’  —  At a press conference on Tuesday organized by the anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) reaffirmed that his ultimate legislative objective is to restrict all women's access to abortion services.
 
 
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Robert Costa / National Review:
Kochs Postpone Post-Election Meeting
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Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Former president Jimmy Carter OK with legalizing marijuana
Discussion: CNN
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Bachmann: Obama wants to ‘Lift up the Islamists’ and Impose Sharia Law
Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
Obama Recognizes Syrian Opposition Group
Dylan Byers / Politico:
William McGurn named New York Post editorial page editor
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Mark Schauer pepper-sprayed outside Capitol
Discussion: The Hill and The Raw Story
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Jon Stewart almost quit Daily Show over “a**hole” coworkers
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Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Government Shutdown Watch
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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In ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ she's the hero; in real life, CIA agent's career is more complicated
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Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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