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Marc Ambinder assesses the implicationsof this morning’s cloture vote.

The rhetoric on the Senate floor took a nasty turnin the late hours of debate.

Huckabee compares Ben Nelson to Judasfor supporting his party’s health reform.

Could the White House have helped sell the public option, as Feingold claims? Probably not.

Webb also blames the White Housefor not leading on health care.

There’s still a chanceto get Olympia Snowe on board for the conference bill — but Nelson reserves the rightto bail.

Those bank execs probably stood Obama upintentionally.

Making sense of Copenhagen: Obama saved the day, but things still unraveled.

After one conservativecalls “Avatar” a “simplistic, revisionist revenge fantasy,” anotherlabels it an “apologia for pantheism.”

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