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2:00 PM ET, November 28, 2012

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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Boehner shoots down proposal to agree to Obama tax demand  —  Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other top Republicans on Wednesday shot down a proposal by a senior GOP lawmaker that the House agree to President Obama's demand to extend current tax rates for the middle class.
Discussion: Connecting.the.Dots
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Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Cole: Join with Obama on quick deal  —  Republican Rep. Tom Cole urged colleagues in a private session Tuesday to vote to extend the Bush tax rates for all but the highest earners before the end of the year — and to battle over the rest later.  —  The Oklahoma Republican said in an interview …
Tom Cohen / CNN:
Obama on fiscal cliff: Congress, I warned you
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Jake Sherman / Reuters:
John Boehner to GOP: Stick together on taxes
Discussion: Daily Kos
The Fix:
Taxing the rich remains popular
Patrick J. Buchanan / Human Events:
WHO'S AFRAID OF THE FISCAL CLIFF?
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Make Up Turned Break Up  —  Are the Republican senators unreasonable?  Or is the secretary of state-manqué undiplomatic?  Did the senators sandbag Susan Rice?  Or did Rice further inflame a tense situation?  Is it a case of shooting the messenger and playing politics?
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Melinda Henneberger / She The People:
Tom Ricks to MSNBC: You're just like Fox, only not as good at it … Most of those chortling over Tom Ricks's highly unusual ninety seconds on Fox News this week were wowed by the way he spoke liberal truth to conservative power, informing his astonished interviewer, Jon Scott …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Sen. Isakson on Rice: 'You don't want to shoot the messenger'
Discussion: CNN and ABCNEWS
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
The Five Different Reasons Why Susan Rice's Benghazi Talking Points Were Edited
Discussion: Foreign Policy and Weasel Zippers
Stuart Stevens / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney: A good man.  The right fight.  —  Over the years, one of the more troubling characteristics of the Democratic Party and the left in general has been a shortage of loyalty and an abundance of self-loathing.  It would be a shame if we Republicans took a narrow presidential loss …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Hill
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CNN:
Obama to meet with Romney Thursday
Discussion: Politico
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:   Romney To Meet With Obama Thursday
Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge:
When Work Is Punished: The Tragedy Of America's Welfare State  —  Exactly two years ago, some of the more politically biased progressive media outlets (who are quite adept at creating and taking down their own strawmen arguments, if not quite as adept at using an abacus, let alone a calculator) …
Tiffany Gabbay / TheBlaze.com:
YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT GLENN BECK DID TO AN OBAMA BOBBLEHEAD DURING HIS SHOW ON TUESDAY  —  UPDATE: Ebay, the online marketplace where Glenn Beck put his Obama creation up for auction for charity, has now pulled the ad.  At it's last bidding around 11:00 a.m. ET, the bid for the Obama doll in the jar was up to $11,300.
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
In U.S., Majority Now Against Gov't Healthcare Guarantee  —  Views of healthcare system overall more positive in some respects  —  PRINCETON, NJ — For the first time in Gallup trends since 2000, a majority of Americans say it is not the federal government's responsibility to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage.
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Wall Street Journal:
Hope and Exchange  —  The feds blame the states for refusing …
Discussion: Hot Air
James Richardson / Georgia Tipsheet:
Erickson considering challenge to Chambliss  —  Popular conservative blogger and radio personality Erick Erickson said Tuesday he was considering a primary challenge to Sen. Saxby Chambliss after a host of political bigs had approached him about staging a bid of his own in the days since …
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama On Filibuster Reform: White House Embraces Harry Reid's Rule Changes … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Harry Reid , Barack Obama , White House, Congress, Barack Obama , Video, Obama Harry Reid, White House Filibuster Reform, Filibuster, Filibuster Reform, Harry Reid Filibuster Reform …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
My Secretary of State  —  President Obama is assembling his new national security team, with Senator John Kerry possibly heading for the Pentagon and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice the perceived front-runner to become secretary of state.  Kerry is an excellent choice for defense.
Nathan Harden / The College Fix:
How much would you pay for 1 hour with Sandra Fluke?  —  EXCLUSIVE: Sandra Fluke, noted advocate for government-subsidized birth control, is auctioning off one hour of her time for an online “strategy session” at the site BiddingForGood.com.  —  According to the auction page …
Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
CEOs Looking To ‘Fix The Debt’ By Cutting Social Security Sit On Huge Retirement Accounts  —  Several CEOs — under the guise of a campaign known as “Fix the Debt” — have recently called for cuts to Social Security and other entitlements.  Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, for instance …
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Robert Winnett / Telegraph:
Two-thirds of millionaires left Britain to avoid 50p tax rate  —  Almost two-thirds of the country's million-pound earners disappeared from Britain after the introduction of the 50p top rate of tax, figures have disclosed.  —  George Osborne, the Chancellor, announced in the Budget earlier …
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Rick Warren: Being Gay Is Like ‘Punching A Guy In The Nose’ Or Consuming Arsenic  —  Megachurch pastor Rick Warren remains as ill-informed on gay identity as ever.  Unfazed by the notion that there may be a biological cause for homosexuality, Warren told Piers Morgan on CNN this week that acting …
Bloomberg:
Vague Plans to Limit Tax Breaks Will Soon Die  —  As negotiations over the U.S. fiscal cliff get down to details, they will become more arduous — something that financial markets seem to be ignoring.  The superficial appeal of proposals to limit tax expenditures, for example, will fade as the details become clearer.
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
House GOP Committee Chairs Will All Be White Men In Next Congress … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Elections 2012, Republican Party, Video, House Committee Chairs, House Committee Chairmen, Republican Party Minorities, Republicans Minorities, Boehner Committee Chairs, House Committees, Minorities …
 
 
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Runway Cleared For Ken Cuccinelli's VA-GOV Takeoff
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Chris Moody / Associated Press:
RG3 on playing football in a political town, his dream pick-up game with Obama and more: The Yahoo News interview
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Power of One  —  Labor unions face challenges from their own members.
 Earlier Items: 
David Weigel / Slate:
Romney at 47 Percent  —  It seemed only fair to Mitt Romney to wait on this one.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Charlie Sykes / Sykes Writes:
Bob Wirch's Payoff
Discussion: Althouse
Martyn Williams / Computerworld:
Exclusive: Nokia seeks to block sale of some RIM products
Discussion: BBC, TechCrunch, GigaOM and Business Insider
Josh Mitchell / Wall Street Journal:
Federal Student Lending Swells
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Spotify is paying hundreds of millions for audiobooks annually; US audiobook users average five more hours on the app in the 60 days after starting a book

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Five ex-Pitchfork journalists launch online music outlet Hearing Things, aiming to capture Pitchfork's independent spirit; subscriptions start at $70 per year

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Internal memo: the BBC plans to cut 155 BBC News jobs, including closing Asian Network News and the HARDtalk program, to save £24M, or 4% of BBC News' budget

 
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