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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/opinion/dowd-the-man-who-said-nay.html?hp&_r=0&pagewanted=printTuesday, January 01, 2013
The Man Who Said ‘Nay’ - NYTimes.com - Maureen Dowd - Michael Bennet was supposed to be going off a cliff in Vail. But instead of his usual New Year’s trip to a ski lodge with his wife and three daughters, the junior senator from Colorado found himself in a strange, unfamiliar place in the middle of the night: breaking with the president and his party to become one of only three Democratic senators and eight senators total to vote against President Obama’s fiscal deal.
Crisis averted: Fiscal cliff bill clears Congress - Jake Sherman and Carrie Budoff Brown - POLITICO.com - Washington just barely avoided plummeting off the fiscal cliff. With a rare late-night vote on New Year’s Day, the House passed a bipartisan compromise to extend the majority of Bush-era tax cuts, delay automatic spending reductions and fix a number of expiring tax and spending provisions. The final vote was 257-167, passing with the help of an overwhelming majority of Democrats and only 85 Republicans.
Political commentator Sean Hannity was one of the big losers in the 2012 election - NY Daily News - Don Kaplan - The right-wing Fox News host lost half his audience in the weeks after Obama's win -- But as Conor Friedersdorf wrote in The Atlantic just after the election, “Outside the conservative media, the narrative was completely different.” Because in reality, statistics proved the presidential race was in fact never even close — despite the lopsided picture delivered to faithful viewers by Hannity and those who shared his opinions.
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