Facebook Playbook! Good Tuesday morning. Hanukkah begins at sunset. 70 years ago today, World War II’s Battle of the Bulge began. bit.ly/1zkEnwA SCOOP: Six days after Howard Dean endorsed Hillary Clinton in Politico Magazine, another prominent liberal – Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) – will back her for president at 3 p.m. today, in an interview taped with Ari Melber for MSNBC’s “The Cycle.” Franken: “I think that Hillary would make a great President. ... I think that I’m ready for Hillary. ... People have asked me about Elizabeth Warren. She is great but she’s not running.” DAVID BROOKS, Elizabeth “Warren Can Win: Evaluating the populist pugilist” nyti.ms/1BPor4X --WashPost, top of Metro section, “O’Malley likely to put off announcement on White House bid” till April wapo.st/1qV9pcT TEA PARTY WANTS REVENGE -- “Cruz reignites GOP civil war,” by Manu Raju and Burgess Everett: “In an interview Monday, Cruz ... [said] he would battle his party’s leadership in February if it does not take a firmer line when Homeland Security ... funding lapses.” politi.co/1qVnZkq ASK AL HUNT if it’s possible to wear your microphone from your “Morning Joe” hit at NBC’s D.C. bureau, all the way back to Bloomberg – without noticing. SOCIAL SHAME --“Outrage As Bystanders Take Selfies At Sydney Siege,” by BuzzFeed’s Alan White and Mark Di Stefano bzfd.it/1syQGok LIST OF THE DAY -- “Americas 20 Craziest Politicians,” by Stephen Sherrill in GQ’s January issue gqm.ag/1wBwORh GOOGLE TRENDS 2014: U.S. charts bit.ly/1wBeoA5 ... Global charts bit.ly/1wcjL8V BIRTHDAYS: Jenni LeCompte (hat tip: Theo, Teddy, Aunt Jen) ... Rebecca Collegio ... Kelsey Steinhardt, communications director for Rep. Mike Rogers (h/t Olivia Petersen) ... Lesley Stahl is 73 ... Politico’s Jake Sherman and Kendall Breitman ... former EPA administrator Carol Browner (h/t DJW) ... Amy Siskind ... Mark Sump ... Bill Schulz ... Susan Liss (h/ts Jon Haber) ... Jano Cabrera ... John Bailey ... Andrea Taylor Recher ... Whitney Kuhn ... AP’s Joan Lowy ... Craig Veith ... DLCC’s Jody Murphy (h/t Ajashu Thomas) ... Scooter Slade ... Mohammad Reza Noroozpour ... Christina Mulvihill ... Rebecca Grammer Collegio ... Adam Bromberg ... Tom Kise ... civil rights attorney Morris Dees is 78 ... TV producer Steven Bochco is 71 ... former Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons is 70 ... actress Anna Popplewell is 26 (h/ts AP) Playbook Classic: politico/playbook Have a great day, Mike and Daniel
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:03:40 +0000