DAILY READS

• Dodd’s Financial Rules Package Would Result in More Fed Muscle
• Credit Agency Warns U.S. and Others of Risk to Top Rating
• Wired Magazine, Conde Nast Scoop Breitbart, the ‘Bigs’ — HUD next O’Keefe Video Sting Target
• China Threatens Google
• JP Morgan & Citigroup Complicit in Death of Lehman
• Pelosi Goes Over Bill With Caucus, Plans Vote Next Week
• Obama Delays Asia Trip to Hammer Through Health Care Bill
• What Biden Told Netanyahu Behind Closed Doors
• Dems Consider Drastic Moves to Pass Health Bill
• New York Assemblyman Wants to Ban Use of Salt in Restaurants

MARKETS & POLICY

• Justice and the Prosecution of Lehman Execs
• Coffee and Markets: Financial Regulation and Obamacare
• Healthcare Reform: the Arithmetic Doesn’t Work
• Watch for an upside surprise on Treasury notes today (Updated)
• Destroy the City to Save It
• How Much Credit Should We Have in the World?
• Bart Stupak and Russian Opera
• Finance Wasn’t Designed for the Modern World
• The Unemployment Numbers and America’s Jobs Problem
• The End of Easy Fixes

The WHIP

• Endgame: Pelosi’s Health Care Gamble
• David Brooks Applies For a Job
• Obamacare’s Two Americas
• How Do You Whip Nonexistent Legislation?
• Cheney in Exile
• How Mitt Romney Blew It (Again)
• Another Democrat Goes Down: Massa to Retire
• Obama’s Four GOP Ideas Myth
• Is Sue Lowden the Next John Thune?
• Ezra Klein and the Underpants Gnomes

HEGEMON

• Biden in Israel
• Love and Respect
• Putinjugend Website Publishes North Korean Anti-American Propaganda Paintings
• Three Reasonable Questions on Climate Change
• Fisking Foreign Policy’s Guide to Climate Skeptics
• Brennan gets it wrong at NYU
• Iran’s Big Punch – A Nuclear Test?
• The moral bankruptcy of Amnesty International
• The Scottish Islamist and British ‘racism’
• The Future Is Today: China Gets A Preview of Girl-lessness in Guangdong

CHEQUER BOARD

• “Joey, Do You Like Movies About Gladiators?”
• Appreciating The Neoconservatives
• Unlikely Voter
• The Health Care Reform Christmas Tree
• My Thought For The Day
• And Speaking Of Paul Krugman . . .
• Joy!
• Quoi?
• Sean Penn Would Approve
• “. . . he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed . . .”