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3:30 PM ET, January 4, 2013

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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Club for Growth will punish members voting for Sandy flood aid  —  The conservative Club for Growth said Friday that it will punish House members who voted for a flood insurance measure aimed at helping pay for Hurricane Sandy's damage.  —  The Club will “key-vote” the measure, using it to compile an annual rating for each lawmaker.
Discussion: ABCNEWS
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Gingrich warns Boehner could have ‘disaster on his hands’  —  Newt Gingrich warned Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) that he risks losing control of his conference without a more coherant strategy.  —  “He can't keep thinking the way he's thought the last few months without having a disaster on his hands …
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House approves $9.7 billion in Sandy relief
Wall Street Journal:
Boehner's Second Chance
Discussion: The Plum Line and Daily Kos
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
David Axelrod: Boehner's ‘unruly children’
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner to GOP: Public is behind us on spending, debt limit fight
Discussion: The Hill and Booman Tribune
Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
Too much leadership at the cliff
Discussion: Hit & Run and Politico
Kevin Robillard / Reuters:
Barney Frank: I want to be senator  —  Barney Frank, one day out of Congress, said on Friday that he has asked Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to send him back as an interim senator when Sen. John Kerry becomes secretary of state.  —  “A month ago, or a few weeks ago, I said I wasn't interested,” Frank said on MSNBC's “Morning Joe.”
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Former Rep. Barney Frank wants interim appointment to replace Kerry in Senate
Discussion: Michelle Malkin, CNN and Twitchy
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Barney Frank Would Welcome Interim Appointment To Fill Kerry's Senate Seat (VIDEO)
Discussion: Balloon Juice and The Raw Story
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Barney Frank Asks For Senate Appointment
Discussion: Advocate
Cliff Owen / Boston Globe:
Barney Frank says he would like to be interim senator to conclude ‘fiscal cliff’ fights
Discussion: Poliglot
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
No, a $1 Trillion Platinum Coin is Not Legal  —  For some reason, the possibility of evading the debt ceiling by minting a $1 trillion platinum coin is getting some blogospheric love again.  This is based on a 2000 revision to the U.S. statute on money and finance that reads:
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Gore Went to Bat for Al Jazeera, and Himself  —  Al Gore at the Current TV studios in San Francisco in 2005.  He said Al Jazeera's coverage was “thorough, fair and informative.”  —  Al Gore's Current TV was never popular with viewers, but it was a hit where it counted: with cable and satellite providers.
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
House rules aim to block controversial healthcare board's Medicare cuts  —  House Republicans signaled Thursday they will not follow rules in President Obama's healthcare law that were designed to speed Medicare cuts through Congress.  —  The House is set to vote Thursday afternoon on rules for the 113th Congress.
Jenn Taylor / Twitchy:
Hope and less change: Americans cringe at first paychecks of 2013; Stunned lib asks, ‘What happened?’  —  Happy New Year and happy payday!  Thank goodness our “lord and savior” Obama signed the fiscal cliff bill into law after proudly proclaiming, “Under this law, more than 98 percent …
Discussion: National Review
Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress:
How To Change Pop Culture's Reliance On Violence  —  When the Motion Picture Association of America on December 20 came out in support of President Obama's efforts on gun control in the wake of the Newtown, the organization simultaneously aligned itself with the productive side …
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
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Stephen L. Carter / Bloomberg:
Angry at the NRA? That Won't Reduce Gun Violence
Torie Bosch / Slate:
Leading Environmental Activist's Blunt Confession: I Was Completely Wrong To Oppose GMOs  —  Anti-Monsanto activists in Germany in 2009  —  If you fear genetically modified food, you may have Mark Lynas to thank.  By his own reckoning, British environmentalist helped spur the anti-GMO movement …
Discussion: Hit & Run
Associated Press:
Nancy Pelosi defends photoshopped picture of congresswomen  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — House minority leader Nancy Pelosi on Friday defended an altered picture of Democratic congresswomen that was posted on her Flickr photo-sharing site.  —  The photo showed four members who were not in the original picture …
Discussion: CNN
David Weigel / Slate:
Eighty-Six Minutes of Joe Biden Being Incredible  —  I only spent a little time today watching Vice President Biden conduct ceremonial (read: photo-op) swearings-in for the 34 senators taking office today.  My mistake: As the viral video wizards quickly proved, it was a movie-length event …
Discussion: The Week and The Fix
Hayley Peterson / Daily Mail:
Workers making $30,000 will take a bigger hit on their pay than those earning $500,000 under new fiscal deal  —  Middle-class workers will take a bigger hit to their income proportionately than those earning between $200,000 and $500,000 under the new fiscal cliff deal, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
Greg Giroux / Bloomberg:
Final Tally Shows Obama First Since '56 to Win 51% Twice  —  Eight weeks after the Nov. 6 presidential election, a revised vote count in New York shows that Barack Obama is the first president in more than five decades to win at least 51 percent of the vote twice.
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
New Jersey's Cory Booker Problem  —  The Newark Mayor's decision to run for Senate has offended Lautenberg, and frustrated the state's Democratic party.  “I'm not angry, I'm disappointed.”  —  Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker  —  Image by Max Morse / Getty Images
Hollywood Reporter:
Post-Newtown, 70 Percent Say Hollywood Shows Too Much Violence (Poll)  —  The Hollywood Reporter and pollster Penn Schoen Berland asked consumers of movies and television how their views on depictions of violence were affected by the Dec. 14 shooting in Connecticut.
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Return of the real Obama  —  The rout was complete, the retreat disorderly.  President Obama got his tax hikes — naked of spending cuts — passed by the ostensibly Republican House of Representatives.  After which, you might expect him to pivot to his self-proclaimed “principle” of fiscal …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
U.S. Continues to Add Jobs at Slow Pace, Report Shows  —  Despite their concerns about looming tax increases and government spending cuts, American employers added 155,000 jobs in December, about apace with job growth over the last year, the Labor Department reported on Friday.
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Associated Press:
US economy adds 155K jobs, rate stays at 7.8 pct.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
 
 
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Warner Todd Huston / BREITBART.COM:
NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATOR: WE NEED TO ‘RESTRICT FREEDOMS’ OF CONSERVATIVES
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John Ingold / Denver Post:
Do alcohol and marijuana mix? Colorado is about to find out
Jonathan Alter / Bloomberg:
Liberals Nip Obama as He Battles Republicans
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Hullabaloo
IMF:
Growth Forecast Errors and Fiscal Multipliers
Discussion: The Big Picture and Wonkblog
Jon Lender / Hartford Courant:
Debate Begins Early Over Bill To Disclose State Handgun Owners' Names, Addresses
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and The Week
Steve Horwitz / Bleeding Heart Libertarians:
No Girls Allowed!  —  This morning Julie Borowski …
Discussion: EconLog and Consulting by RPM
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Cornyn: ‘It may be necessary to partially shut down the government’
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
GOP scrambles to fix its primary problem
 Earlier Items: 
Mary Pat Flaherty / Washington Post:
Sen. Michael Crapo sentenced on DWI charge, apologizes
ThinkProgress:
The Worst Moments Of The 112th Congress
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
HHS approves healthcare exchanges in 8 states
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / The Caucus:
Chief Justice Roberts to Preside at Obama Swearing-In
Discussion: CNN, The Hill and Connecting.the.Dots
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
First Day of 113th Congress Brings More Women to Capitol