Lunchtime Links « The Washington Independent

Marc Ambinder assesses the implications of this morning’s cloture vote.

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

Huckabee compares Ben Nelson to Judas for 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 House for not leading on health care.

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

Those bank execs probably stood Obama up intentionally.

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

After one conservative calls “Avatar” a “simplistic, revisionist revenge fantasy,” another labels it an “apologia for pantheism.”