The Note’s Must-Reads for Friday, November 27, 2009
EmailThe Note’s Must-Reads are a round-up of today’s political headlines and stories from ABC News and the top U.S. newspapers. Posted Monday through Friday right here at www.abcnews.com
Compiled by ABC News Desk Assistants KRISTEN RED-HORSE, PETER MARTINEZ, JAYCE HENDERSON, CARRIE HALPERIN and CLAUDIA MORALES
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AFGHANISTAN:
The Wall Street Journal’s Yaroslav Trofimov: “Soviets’ Afghan Ordeal Vexed Gates on Troop-Surge Plan” LINK
The Washington Times’ Stephen Dinan: “Obama to unveil Afghan plans at West Point” LINK
Time’s Aryn Baker: “When Thanksgiving Comes to Afghanistan” LINK
The Hill’s Roxana Tiron: “Delegation visits troops as decision on Afghanistan looms” LINK
Politico’s Josh Gerstein: “Barack Obama must sell base on unpopular war in Afghanistan” LINK
HEALTH CARE:
ABC News’ Rachel Martin: “Oprah, Health Care Lobbyists, Among Recent Visitors to White House” LINK
The New York Times’ David Kirkpatrick: “Abortion in Health Plan Tests a Pennsylvania Senator” LINK
The Wall Street Journal’s Barbara Martinez: “Insurer Aims to Alter Health-Care Fee Model” LINK
The Wall Street Journal’s Janet Adamy: “Bill Complicates Drive to Add Primary-Care Doctors” LINK
USA Today’s Kathy Kiely: “Blitz of health care ads a windfall for TV” LINK
USA Today On Politics: “White House saw lobbyists often during health care debate” LINK
ECONOMY/JOBS/STIMULUS:
The Washington Times’ Patrice Hill: “Health, climate bills seen to stifle hiring” LINK
The Wall Street Journal’s Kris Maher and Timothy Aeppel: “Overtime Creeps Back Before Jobs” LINK
The Los Angeles Times’ Peter Nicholas: “Democrats work on multibillion-dollar jobs package” LINK
The Boston Globe’s Political Notebook: “Obama, GOP spokesman differ on stimulus results” LINK
ABC News’ Z. Byron Wolf: “Obama, GOP Air Differences Over Jobs, Economy In Thanksgiving Addresses” LINK
CARBON EMISSIONS/ENVIRONMENT:
The New York Times’ Edward Wong and Keith Bradsher: “China Joins U.S. in Pledge of Hard Targets on Emissions” LINK
The New York Times’ Matthew Wald: “U.S. Is Unlikely to use All the Ethanol congress” LINK
The Washington Post’s Juliet Eilperin: “China sets target for emission cuts” LINK
The Wall Street Journal’s Jeffrey Ball and Shai Oster: “China, U.S. Square Off on Climate Proposals” LINK
Bloomberg’s Alex Morales: “China, U.S. Greenhouse Gas Pledges May Drive UN Deal” LINK
The Los Angeles Times’ David Pierson and Jim Tankersley: “China vows to cut greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2020″ LINK
The Associated Press’ Seth Borenstein: “New climate targets may not change daily life much” LINK
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S STATE DINNER FOR INDIA:
ABC News’ Yunji De Nies, Z. Byron Wolf and Devin Dwyer: “LINK
The New York Times’ Helene Cooper and Brian Stelter: “Obamas’ Uninvited Guests Prompt an Inquiry” LINK
The Washington Post’s Amy Argetsinger and Rozanne Roberts: “Who are these people? The climbers at the gate” LINK
The Associated Press’ Larry Margasak: “Was president in danger from dinner crashers?” LINK
Politico’s Josh Gerstein: “Party crashers recorded by Bravo crew at White House state dinner” LINK
PRESIDENT OBAMA AND HIS ADMINISTRATION:
ABC News’ Jake Tapper: “White House Thanksgiving Traditions: Broken and Observed” LINK
The Washington Post’s Dan Eggen: “Lobbyists pushed off advisory panels” LINK
FOREIGN AFFAIRS:
USA Today’s Aamer Madhani: “Troops celebrate what could be last Thanksgiving in Iraq” LINK
CONGRESS:
The New York Times’ Abby Goodnough: “4 Vie for Kennedy’s Seat, but Only 3 Seek His Mantle” LINK
Boston Globe’s Michael Kranish: “Tax break on profits again in jeopardy” LINK
DEMOCRATS/REPUBLICANS:
USA Today’s Fredreka Schouten: “Dem committees outraise GOP in October” LINK
OTHER MUST-READS:
The Washington Post’s Ashley Surdin: “Benefits for same-sex partners are expanding” LINK
USA Today’s Jessica Leving: “Salvation Army kettles can now accept credit cards” LINK
ABC NEWS VIDEO:
“President Obama Releases PSA on Obesity” LINK
Gulf of Mexico to Become Gulf of America? 
Can Mitt Romney Win Conservatives Back?
Can some responsible reporter ask
Obama his opinion on climategate?
Posted by: wis134 | November 27, 2009, 7:51 am 7:51 am
It is interesting to see how the lame-stream media refuses to report on the FACT that “manmade climate warming” has been fully unmasked as a HOAX!
Reporters today don’t report. They just recite the Gospel according to Gore! I guess we can call them “Climategate Deniers”! PATHETIC!
Posted by: Ricardo | November 27, 2009, 10:41 am 10:41 am
AGW remains a hoax; ABC remains silent. I understand, why stick your neck out and risk the WH not inviting you to the let get-together?
Posted by: Mike M | November 27, 2009, 12:37 pm 12:37 pm
If it’s a hoax, why is Antarctica melting?
Time- “While the earth has been warming overall, the giant East Antarctic ice sheet – which holds about five times as much ice as West Antarctica and Greenland combined – has actually been growing in size. That’s because East Antarctica is far too cold, even in summer, for any appreciable melting to happen. And since a warmer world means more precipitation, any extra snow that falls on East Antarctica stays there indefinitely.
Or at least, that’s how things have gone until recently. But a new study in the journal Nature Geoscience suggests that this growth spurt may have come to an end. Starting in about 2006, says lead author Jianli Chen of the Center for Space Research at the University of Texas at Austin, East Antarctica started declining, just like the world’s other great ice sheets. “The amount [of decline] right now isn’t very big, but the trend is alarming,” he says.
It’s alarming because the behavior of ice sheets is the biggest variable in estimates of how sea levels will rise over the next century – the faster ice sheets melt, the more sea levels will rise. As recently as 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) admitted in its fourth major climate-assessment report that there simply wasn’t enough data to make a useful projection. But since then, satellite observations have shown that the ice in both Greenland and West Antarctica is sliding into the sea faster than anyone expected.
And now it’s happening in East Antarctica as well. The new evidence comes from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, or GRACE. It’s a pair of satellites that circle the planet in tandem, moving slightly closer together or farther apart as they fly over regions of higher or lower local gravity – higher over a mountain range, for example, lower over a crater.”
Posted by: gary | November 27, 2009, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm
If the prediction of the environmental alarmist is correct, the following will occur by the middle of this century. California will no longer have agriculture ( predicted by energy secretary) , Las Vegas will be a deserted city and New York city will suffer epidemic , starvation and flooding ( shown in an ABC drama).
Posted by: austin | November 27, 2009, 4:58 pm 4:58 pm
In reading Lipmans apraisal it would seem he is describing someone who is clinically insane.
Posted by: earl | November 28, 2009, 7:56 am 7:56 am