The Morning Briefing

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  Obama hopes to seal the climate deal - 1 hour ago

  President Obama joined world leaders for the final day of an international climate conference,...

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  Obama faces high-risk climate talks - 1 hour ago

  With global climate change talks at a critical juncture, President Obama dashed to to join world...

• Obama, Medvedev to meet on nuclear weapons - 5 hours ago

  Negotiations with Russia to replace an expired Cold War-era arms control treaty have bogged down and...

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  Holdout senator rejects abortion compromise - 13 hours ago

  Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson — the moderate Democrat whose opposition is holding up the Senate's health...

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  'Proud of being an ex-con,' Traficant mulls race - 15 hours ago

  Former Rep. James Traficant, who was recently released from prison after serving seven years for...

• Inexplicable White House Strategy Will Cost Us Seats - 9 hours ago

  The White House game plan on getting this awful health care bill passed and signed involves...

• Zzz-Paw - 10 hours ago

  Was there a Republican (likely) presidential candidate in New Hampshire yesterday? Anyone?...

• Howard Dean, Joe Lieberman and Paul Hodes - 16 hours ago

  Today, I received a fundraising request from Rep. Paul Hodes of New Hampshire talking about health...

• Open Thread: Across the Universe Edition - 23 hours ago

  Did you see this photo taken in October by the Hubble Space Telescope? The festive...

• Ovide: "The Only True Conservative" in Senate Race - yesterday

  The national right-wing radioheads (you know, the real GOP bosses) are finally figuring out what's...

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• The Higher Nagging sinks to new lows. - 18 hours ago

  I am, most likely, the only person on earth currently taking a break from the serious work of...

• Throw grandma down the well - 22 hours ago

  So your taxes can be free.The current estate tax mess is a story of almost mind-numbing greed and...

• The Mustache of Understanding - yesterday

  Wow. Just, wow. Whatever our disagreements about Taibbi's polemical style, I think we can all...

• The Devil and Rand Paul - yesterday

  Just when you begin to think that it's literally impossible for Rand Paul's Senatorial campaign to...

• Abortion Access in Uniform - yesterday

  Bad:For military women, who lack all rights to medical privacy, facing an unplanned pregnancy is a...

• Run, Gary, Run - 1 hour ago

  It may seem peculiar for a left-wing progressive blogger such as myself to advocate for a Republican...

• Axelrod Responds to Atrios - 10 hours ago

  Over at Eschaton, Duncan posted the following this afternoon: Is Ben Nelson Insane? Perhaps...

• Bill Clinton Backs Healthcare Reform - 12 hours ago

  Via email: "America stands at a historic crossroads. At last, we are close to making real health...

• MO-Sen: Carnahan Holding on to Lead - 16 hours ago

  Chris Cillizza says that Missouri isn't one of the Democrats' two best pickup opportunities in the...

• Jobs bill (barely) passes House - 17 hours ago

  The House of Representatives approved the Jobs for Main Street Act yesterday by a vote of 217 to 212...

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• SSP Daily Digest: 12/17 - 15 hours ago

  ? AR-Sen: Blanche Lincoln seems like she'll take a lifeline from anyone who'll throw her one these...

• MO-Sen: Carnahan Continues to Eke Out Lead Over Blunt - 17 hours ago

  Rasmussen (12/15, likely voters, 9/21 in parentheses): Robin Carnahan (D): 46 (46) Roy Blunt...

• The Great SSP Redistricting Contest (Round 1) - yesterday

  Now that we've finally been able to name a winner in our 2009 predictions contest, we're ready to...

• SSP Daily Digest: 12/16 - yesterday

  ? AR-Sen: State Sen. Kim Hendren got some early attention as the first entrant in the GOP field to...

• NC-Sen: Two Polls Show Burr in the Doldrums - yesterday

  PPP (pdf) (12/11-13, likely voters, 11/9-11 in parentheses): Elaine Marshall (D): 37 (34) ...

• Get Your Nominations in Now! - 7 hours ago

  Don't forget: tomorrow is the deadline for submitting nominations for the 3rd annual Golden Duke...

• Small World - 8 hours ago

  Al Franken's office has been reaching out to a lot of folks this evening making the point that Sen....

• Classic McCain - 9 hours ago

  Everyone's having a lot of fun with this snippet of video in which Sen. Franken refuses to allow Sen...

• Our Health Care Conversation - 12 hours ago

  As I mentioned earlier, at TPMCafe we're hosting a online conversation about the details of the...

• Catnip - 12 hours ago

  VIDEO: Special Franken-Lieberman senate smackdown moment.

• British bankers lobby to avoid 50% tax - 7 hours ago

  My first reaction was that it's all a bit too late. Why did they have to wait so long to come to...

• In other words, they'll respect you when they fear you - 10 hours ago

  What I've been arguing all along.

• GOP actually trying to cut off funds to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan - 12 hours ago

  That's just suicidal.

• Katrina Vanden Heuvel: Dem base is "angry, infuriated, heartbroken - this is not the 'change' we voted for." - 13 hours ago

  Crooks and Liars has the transcript.

• Franken basically tells Lieberman to STFU - 13 hours ago

  You have to understand a bit of US Senate procedure to fully appreciate this. No one, ever, objects...

• Break's Over - 1 year ago

  I return to the blogosphere after a while away. Why?I can no longer be silent about the crap that is...

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