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• GOP takes charge: New Speaker Boehner leads House (AP)
• Gibbs stepping down as White House press secretary (The Ticket)
• Alexander, Republican senators rally behind traditional filibuster rules (Daily Caller)
• ABC News: Bachmann considering presidential bid (The Ticket)
• States grapple with health care (Politico)
• Analysis: The Tea Party's blind spot (The Daily Beast)
• Fake White House holiday e-mail is cyber attack (AP)
• Daniels says his family is scared ‘to death’ of 2012 scrutiny (The Ticket)
• Admin reorganizes health bureaucracy (Politico)
• Dem leaders face 2012's long shadow (Politico)
• Panel: Massive oil spill could happen again (AP)
• UK paper accused of phone hacking suspends worker (AP)
• Obama spokesman Gibbs to step down (AFP)
• Alec Baldwin Wants to Run for Office (The Atlantic Wire)
• Government shutdown in 1995 detrimental to GOP ‘a myth,’ says Red State’s Erickson (Daily Caller)
• Boehner ascends to speaker of the House with pledge to ‘end business as usual’ (Daily Caller)
• Gates aims to shift Pentagon spending, avoid cuts (AP)
• O'Donnell lawyer: Campaign reviews spending (AP)

GOP takes charge: New Speaker Boehner leads House (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 03:00 PM PST AP - Claiming power beneath the Capitol dome, resurgent Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives on Wednesday as the 112th Congress convened in an era of economic uncertainty. Dozens of tea party-backed lawmakers took office in both houses, eager to cut spending and reduce government's reach.

Gibbs stepping down as White House press secretary (The Ticket) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 07:11 AM PST The Ticket - It's official: Robert Gibbs is leaving his post as White House press secretary. One of President Obama's most seasoned and trusted advisers, Gibbs tells the New York Times' Jeff Zeleny that he will leave the podium in early February to lend outside assistance to the president's re-election campaign. He broke the news to this staff [...]

Alexander, Republican senators rally behind traditional filibuster rules (Daily Caller) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 01:06 AM PST Daily Caller - Top Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, spoke out Tuesday against what Alexander called the “brazenness" of proposed changes by Democrats to the filibuster.

ABC News: Bachmann considering presidential bid (The Ticket) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 06:40 AM PST The Ticket - Sources tell ABC News that tea party star Michele Bachmann is weighing a presidential bid and is traveling to Iowa this month for advice about the state's 2012 presidential caucus. Bachmann, a third-term congresswoman from Minnesota, came into to national fame this year via her fierce advocacy of the tea party movement and had been [...]

States grapple with health care (Politico) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 05:31 PM PST Politico - As House Republicans revive debates of the past with the planned repeal vote on health care reform, their state-level counterparts are quietly pushing into health reform's future.

Analysis: The Tea Party's blind spot (The Daily Beast) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 03:30 AM PST The Daily Beast - The upstarts of the new Republican Congress have a risky foreign policy platform—no plan at all. Peter Beinart on how Tea Party outrage over government spending ignores the fact that deficits are often caused by wars.

Fake White House holiday e-mail is cyber attack (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 09:49 AM PST AP - A malware-laden e-mail masquerading as a White House Christmas card was a sinister move by hackers to steal sensitive documents from U.S. law enforcement and military officials, according to cybersecurity analysts.

Daniels says his family is scared ‘to death’ of 2012 scrutiny (The Ticket) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 10:38 AM PST The Ticket - Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has made no secret of the fact he's considering a run for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012. But he admits that his wife and four daughters are wary of the media scrutiny that a White House run would bring to their family. "It scares them to death, and it should," [...]

Admin reorganizes health bureaucracy (Politico) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 11:30 AM PST Politico - A new division on insurance and oversight moves from HHS to CMS.

Dem leaders face 2012's long shadow (Politico) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 12:47 AM PST Politico - Harry Reid's job just got a lot tougher.

Panel: Massive oil spill could happen again (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 03:13 PM PST AP - Decisions intended to save time and money created an unreasonable amount of risk that triggered the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, a disaster that could happen again without significant reforms by industry and government, the presidential panel investigating the BP blowout concluded Wednesday.

UK paper accused of phone hacking suspends worker (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 10:07 AM PST AP - The British tabloid at the center of a phone-hacking scandal says it has suspended an employee after an allegation of misconduct.

Obama spokesman Gibbs to step down (AFP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 02:53 PM PST AFP - President Barack Obama's press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday he would resign, to fight his boss's corner from outside the White House "bubble" in a "major retooling" of the administration.

Alec Baldwin Wants to Run for Office (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 02:41 PM PST The Atlantic Wire - Alec Baldwin, the actor, activist and part-time Huffington Post Cheney-basher will appear on CNN's Parker Spitzer tonight. In a teaser of the broadcast, the baritone-voiced 30 Rock star hints at a future career in politics. "It's something that I'm very, very interested in," Baldwin told co-host Eliot Spitzer. "I do believe that people want to believe that someone who deeply cares about the middle class--for whatever reason--whatever your heritage and your background and so forth--would like to seek public office."Going further, Baldwin said American politics has become overly inhabited by elite, Ivy League types. "We've had men who are Ivy League-groomed running this country since 1988. We’ve had 22 years of Yale and Harvard and the problems aren't getting solved.""You almost sound like Sarah Palin," Spitzer observes. "What's missing is we need people ... who have not lost sight of what the middle class needs," Baldwin replies. "Whatever I've accrued in my career doing that, it hasn't changed me as a person." The Internet reacts:

Government shutdown in 1995 detrimental to GOP ‘a myth,’ says Red State’s Erickson (Daily Caller) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 01:36 PM PST Daily Caller - Fact or fiction: The 1990s government shutdown caused the Republican nominee Bob Dole to lose the election against President Bill Clinton?

Boehner ascends to speaker of the House with pledge to ‘end business as usual’ (Daily Caller) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 11:58 AM PST Daily Caller - John Boehner of Ohio took the gavel from Nancy Pelosi after being voted as the new speaker of the House, and waited for the applause reverberating around the chamber to die down.

Gates aims to shift Pentagon spending, avoid cuts (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 02:45 PM PST AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates is taking bold steps to try to spare the Pentagon from painful budget cuts, as newly elected tea party activists storm Capitol Hill pledging that no government program — even those for the troops — should be considered sacrosanct.

O'Donnell lawyer: Campaign reviews spending (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 02:19 PM PST AP - An attorney for former Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell has told federal regulators the campaign could not afford finance professionals to oversee its early spending and is now trying to reconcile bank records with its federal spending reports.

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