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• Senate ratifies nuke pact, delivering win to Obama (AP)
• Fight looms after Texas gets 4 new US House seats (AP)
• Obama vs. The 'Tear Down Congress' (Huffington Post)
• Obama’s poll numbers improve among moderate Republicans (The Ticket)
• The Daily Beast 2010 Political Awards (The Daily Beast)
• Stopgap spending bill clears Congress. What happens next? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• RNC candidates make social pledges (Politico)
• Halliburton will pay in Cheney case (Politico)
• Obama hails bipartisanship after arms pact passes (AP)
• Obama sets news conference before leaving town (AP)
• Israel complains to UN over Gaza rockets (AFP)
• Executive order for detainee reviews being drafted (AP)
• What the Census Says About Our Economic Future (The Atlantic Wire)
• New GOP Constitution rule: will it work? (Daily Caller)
• ABC staffers supposedly produce attack video on boss Ben Sherwood (Daily Caller)
• Poll: Northerners and Midwesterners no fans of tea party (The Ticket)
• A year of iPads, Betty, 'Glee' and multiple Palins (AP)

Senate ratifies nuke pact, delivering win to Obama (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 02:52 PM PST AP - The Senate on Wednesday ratified an arms control treaty with Russia that reins in the nuclear weapons that could plunge the world into doomsday, giving President Barack Obama a major foreign policy win in Congress' waning hours.

Fight looms after Texas gets 4 new US House seats (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 04:05 AM PST AP - A surge of Hispanic residents and other population gains have Texas poised to add more congressional clout than any other state, but a partisan fight now looms over exactly where the new seats should go.

Obama vs. The 'Tear Down Congress' (Huffington Post) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 02:08 PM PST Huffington Post - WASHINGTON — As Congress and the president prepare to leave town for Christmas, comparisons to LBJ and FDR are in the air — or at least in the press releases of the Democratic Party.

Obama’s poll numbers improve among moderate Republicans (The Ticket) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 10:20 AM PST The Ticket - President Obama remains hugely unpopular with Republicans, but a new Gallup Poll finds that he's gained a little ground among moderate members of the GOP. According to Gallup, Obama's approval rating among moderate Republicans jumped 9 percentage points in the last two weeks, to 29 percent. That's still a dismal number, but as Gallup notes, [...]

The Daily Beast 2010 Political Awards (The Daily Beast) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 07:45 PM PST The Daily Beast - From the tears of John Boehner and the resurrection of Harry Reid; Virginia Thomas’ voicemail and Eric Massa’s tickling, 2010 was a long, strange trip.

Stopgap spending bill clears Congress. What happens next? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 06:44 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - In an 11th hour compromise, Congress passed a $250 billion measure Tuesday that extends government funding until March 4, averting a government shutdown at midnight. It now heads to the president's desk for his signature.

RNC candidates make social pledges (Politico) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 01:20 PM PST Politico - The RNC race isn't all about fundraising.

Halliburton will pay in Cheney case (Politico) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 11:35 AM PST Politico - Halliburton has agreed to pay $35 million to the Nigerian government.

Obama hails bipartisanship after arms pact passes (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 03:11 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama celebrated a bipartisan "season of progress" on Wednesday at a year-end news conference marking an up-and-down second year in office that blended a thrashing at the polls, slow progress on the economy and late victories in Congress.

Obama sets news conference before leaving town (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 12:18 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama has scheduled a year-end press conference for Wednesday afternoon.

Israel complains to UN over Gaza rockets (AFP) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 11:58 AM PST AFP - Israel and Hamas looked to the United Nations on Wednesday as tensions rose along the volatile Gaza border after a series of Israeli air strikes in response to rocket fire from the strip.

Executive order for detainee reviews being drafted (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 02:58 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama said Wednesday his administration is trying to figure out what to do with detainees at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who can't be prosecuted but are too dangerous to be released.

What the Census Says About Our Economic Future (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 02:24 PM PST The Atlantic Wire - The first installment of 2010 U.S. Census data--released on Tuesday--contained better news for Republicans than Democrats, with population changes translating into more House seats for red states like Texas and fewer seats for blue states like Massachusetts. But what do the numbers tell us about the state and direction of our economy?

New GOP Constitution rule: will it work? (Daily Caller) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 12:33 PM PST Daily Caller - A key issue animating Tea Party energy among conservative activists who helped propel Republicans into control of the House on Election Day is that much of the congressional agenda over the last two years is unconstitutional.

ABC staffers supposedly produce attack video on boss Ben Sherwood (Daily Caller) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 11:23 AM PST Daily Caller - Ben Sherwood may have only been president of ABC News for a couple of weeks, but he's already epically unpopular among his staff, at least according to a new attack video on Sherwood that was allegedly produced by ABC staffers.

Poll: Northerners and Midwesterners no fans of tea party (The Ticket) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 01:04 PM PST The Ticket - A new poll from CNN suggests that if tea partiers want to be among folks sympathetic to their movement, they should move to the West or the South. A survey of Americans before and after the November midterm election found that Northeasterners' unfavorable opinion of the tea party rose from 39 to 57 percent since [...]

A year of iPads, Betty, 'Glee' and multiple Palins (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 12:08 PM PST AP - Politics and pop culture. Remember when they used to be, well, separate? In recent years these two worlds have seemed to inch ever closer, or maybe to overlap, but in 2010, nobody traveled between them more successfully than Sarah Palin.

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