By: David Dayen Tuesday, December 15, 2009 5:08 pm

• The Connecticut Post wanted an explanation from Lieberman on why he told them he supported the Medicare buy-in concept...
• The latest Republican stall is to ask for an entirely new CBO score of health care bill.
• Global warming is a threat to national security, according to the Pentagon.
• A potential special election in Hawaii could get dicey
• Democrats secured a bunch of commitments, trying to stop a mini-wave of retirements.HCAN has very quietly offered support to cloture on the Senate health care bill.
• Evan Bayh, who voted to eliminate the estate tax at a cost of $750 billion dollars, wants Obama to veto the omnibus spending bill because it has $3 billion in earmarks (!)
• Obsolete weapons systems President Obama said he would cancel? weren’t all cancelled.
• More...