(White House/Chuck Kennedy)
–From the archives: What you didn’t know about the turkey pardon and what happens to the not-so-lucky ones.
–Obama pledges solidarity with South Korea, dispatches warship for exercises.
–Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and David Brock talk about the new Dem Super PAC.
–Re disclosure, Brock’s …
(White House/Pete Souza)
–As Obama and Biden head to Kokomo, Indiana for an auto bailout victory lap out, the AP tells the back story.
–The White House “strongly condemns” North Korea for exchange of artillery fire with the South. Things are escalating.
–The administration is willing to go to bat for TSA screening …
(White House Photo by Pete Souza)
–Mike Huckabee tells the Iowa Family Policy Center the state supreme court ousters “may have been singularly the most important election that happened in America.” Back story here.
—New York Magazine‘s Jason Zengerle details how Chris Christie
–Despite remaining schisms over the preferred end game, Democrats are ready to hold votes on extending only the Bush tax cuts for those making $250k or less.
–Still searching for a brave soul to take over the DSCC, Harry Reid and White House court Patty Murray.
–Overtures ongoing, Jon Kyl still sees “no chance” of lame duck …
John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and Dick Lugar hold a media availability to discuss the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. (Douglas Graham/Roll Call)
–President Obama is running the full court press for lame duck ratification of START.
–The national security right jumps all over the Ghailani verdict. Sentencing still to …
The Associated Press just called the last outstanding Senate race for GOP incumbent Lisa Murkowski. Murkowski, who lost her primary to Tea Party favorite Joe Miller, ran an historic write in campaign — the first successful one since Strom Thurmond in 1954.
As I’ve written before, Murkowski benefited from a sense of panic in the …
(Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
–House Democrats vent on Nancy Pelosi as they nonetheless prepare to elect her minority leader today.
—Minor rescheduling causes hand-wringing over Obama’s ballyhooed bipartisan merlot/slurpee supersummit.
–John Sides thinks the White House need not be too
Remember last summer when Republicans were warning about the scary lame duck? The ruling Democrats, warned GOP candidates and incumbents alike, are going to try and sneak through all manner of controversial bills against the will of the American people. House Republicans even introduced not one but two resolutions calling on Dems to not …
Following up on Massimo’s story, Senator Kyl’s office sent around this statement today:
“When Majority Leader Harry Reid asked me if I thought the treaty could be considered in the lame duck session, I replied I did not think so given the combination of other work Congress must do and the complex and unresolved issues related to START
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(White House/Pete Souza)
–Jim DeMint wins the earmarks game; Minority Leader McConnell and President Obama embrace the porkatorium.
–Nate Silver thinks Tim Pawlenty is too forgettable to be the GOP’s next presidential nominee.
–Jonathan Bernstein thinks Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin are overrated.
–Newt Gingrich sticks …
The Senate Republican conference’s looming vote has been portrayed as the first test of Minority Leader Mitch McConnell versus Tea Party leader Jim DeMint. House GOP leadership last week announced an agreement to ban earmarks for at least two years. But McConnell held out in the Senate while DeMint pressed for a conference vote on the …
President Obama talks to Istiqlal Mosque’s Grand Imam Ali Mustafa Yaqub during a visit to the mosque in Jakarta November 10, 2010. (Reuters)
–Chris Cillizza surveys the field of candidates to take over the DSCC for what looks like a challenging 2012 cycle for Senate Dems.
–Jon Ralston says Senator Ensign is “a walking …
That picture (Reuters/Jason Reed) is from the incident Scherer described.
–The Des Moines Register weighs how the conservative mojo this cycle may translate to the Iowa caucuses.
–The Boston Herald really thinks it’s Scott Brown’s time.
–Politico likes Marco Rubio for veep.
–Tim Pawlenty wants to make things all …
