- The Myth of the Obama Cave-In--"With the 'fiscal cliff' looming, the conventional wisdom is that the president capitulated during the last tax cut fight. Here's what really happened."
- Lindsey Graham's reasonableness comes with fine print--"Democrats, after a very successful election cycle, are being asked to accept a deal in which Dems concede on tax rates, concede on entitlements, and accept the reward of Romney's revenue plan? This is what passes for bipartisan compromise in late 2012?"
- Public To GOP: Stop Saying 'No' And Start Compromising--A few people were a bit more graphic in their protest.
- Reid: Debt Limit Must Rise In Budget Deal
- No, Speaker Boehner. Some things have no pricetag--He rejected a call to pass tax cuts for those making less than $250,000.
- Leading House GOP figure's compromise plan gets shot down
- Bernie Sanders Blows the Lid Off the 'Bipartisan' Plan To Cut Taxes for Corporations and the Wealthy
- White House: Tax Rates On The Rich Will Go Up--Obama is turning to those who voted him back in for support (NYT).
- Ronald Reagan, the original class warrior?--"We're going to close the unproductive tax loopholes that have allowed some of the truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share." These loopholes "sometimes made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing, while a bus driver was paying 10 percent of his salary, and that's crazy. It's time we stopped."
- Warren Buffett: A Minimum Tax for the Wealthy--They've been avoiding paying their fair share for far too long. NYT
- Kristof: A Failed Experiment--"[T]he top 1 percent of Americans now have greater collective net worth than the entire bottom 90 percent." NYT
- Kristol: "Republicans Are Going Into Contortions" Defending Millionaires
- Joe Scarborough: "There Is Something Immoral" About The Wealthiest Americans Paying A 15 Percent Tax Rate
- 'Romney is Wall Street's worst bet since the bet on subprime'
- Morgan Stanley CEO Pushes 'Fiscal Cliff' Bipartisanship As Bank Lobbies For Tax Breaks
- Goldman's multi-billion dollar bailout queen CEO insists on Social Security, Medicare cuts--These guys can't manage their own companies' petirement plans.
- What the CEOs in Washington Today Are Really After--"The sacrifice preached by these CEOs in the fiscal cliff debate is most certainly one-sided."
- Grover Norquist's rear-guard action on taxes
- Chambliss fires off on Norquist's anti-tax pledge--And a couple more join the list but some would rather compromise.
- Norquist says he'll go after pledge-breakers--Why does he still matter?
- Cenk Ugyur: Legal Issues, Remedies & Strategies To Get the Money Out of Politics
- Trump Calls On GOP To Be More Appealing To Minorities--
- Former Florida GOP leaders say voter suppression was reason they pushed new election law--"Former GOP chair, governor - both on outs with party - say voter fraud wasn't a concern, but reducing Democratic votes was."
- FiveThirtyEight: In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Campaigns NYT
- Chart of the Day: The GOP's Generation Gap Problem
- Revenge of the Reality-Based Community--"My life on the Republican right—and how I saw it all go wrong."
- Gun Sales Surge After Obama’s Re-Election
- RINO Hunters Fire Warning Shots At Republican Senate Candidates
- Republican Congressional candidate who campaigned on 'family values' arrested for slapping wife weeks after losing election
- Kids hate-tweet Obama, echoing what they hear at home
- Teacher reprimanded for writing "You can't be a Democrat & go to heaven"--"A complaint was filed against a Kentucky teacher for writing the message on her class whiteboard." Salon
- Documentary maker Ken Burns: Secession petitions spurred by racism
- Wal-Mart's strategy of deniability for workers' safety
- WalMart earns record profits while supporting Republicans who want to slash their employees' food stamps
- The Daily Show: The Employees Strike Back
- Fox and Unfriends--"Roger Ailes has helped kill conservatism in America, by never allowing it to criticize itself. When journalism puts power above truth it isn't, to coin a phrase, 'actual journalism'. It's propaganda."
- Is Fox Even Helping the Republicans Anymore?
- Here Are The Tricks That Fox News Uses To Manipulate Statistics On Its Graphics
- Fox News: Tom Ricks Apologized For Benghazi Criticism; Ricks: No, I Didn't--Calls the apology "horseshit."
- Fox News Host Stuart Verney stunned by millionare who wants his taxes raised.
- Leveson report proposes tougher press self-regulation--"A tougher form of self-regulation backed by legislation should be introduced to uphold press standards, the Leveson report has recommended."
- News Corp exposed to growing legal threat following charges for tabloid duo--"Charges for Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson raise prospect that News Corp could be prosecuted under US anti-bribery laws...."
- Hacking victim: Stress led to marriage breakdown
