links for 2010-02-12 Ezra Klein: Blame Rahm? Alexander Bolton: Reid overrules Baucus, narrows jobs bill focus John Cole: This Is What Obstructionism + Nihilism + the Wurlitzer Looks Like DeLong: The State of Modern Cutting Edge Macro: Narayana Kocherlakota Leaves Me Puzzled Jim Henley: Art is (Too) Long Martin Wolf: Europe’s stragglers need German consumers Viper - The Free Plagiarism Checker & Scanner Software Online Henry Aaron: Forging Ahead — Embracing the “Reconciliation” Option for Reform DeLong: Review of The System: The Death of Health Care Reform in 1993-1994 mcjoan: Two-Thirds of Voters Say Pass Comprehensive Reform Steven Pearlstein: Snow-blind: What Washington's winter storm says about broken politics Steven Spear on Toyota’s troubles Matthew Yglesias: Charts and Graphs That Will Finally Make It Clear Matthew Yglesias: What Is The Problem That Obama’s Bad Advisors Are Responsible For? 2010 Economic Report of the President Ed Hugh: atvia’s Economy Contracts Almost 18 Percent in Q4 2009 Mark Weisbrot and Rebecca Ray: Latvia’s Recession: The Cost of Adjustment With An “Internal Devaluation” Matthew Yglesia: The Dubai Bubble Heads E.D. Kain: The politics of pettiness Howard Gleckman: Hints of a Bipartisan Jobs Bill, But Will It Create Jobs? Kara Swisher: Coming: Microsoft's New Mobile Phone Software Jeffrey Goldberg: How the Likud's Agenda Alienates Americans Blake Hounshell: Andrew Sullivan vs. TNR: Please shoot me now Don Peck: How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America Derek Thompson: Bipartisan Jobs Bill Receives Bipartisan Boos Andrew Sullivan: Waterboarding And The Inquisition Andrew Sullivan: Stress Positions And The Inquisition Andrew Sullivan: Total Sensory Deprivation, Confined Spaces, And The Inquisition - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan Ta-Nehisi Coates on James Longstreet Henry Banta: Republicans are locked in a passionate embrace with a corpse and won't let go Conor Friedersdorf : On False Charges of Anti-Semitism