POLITICO Daily Digest for Friday December 21, 2012

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Obama's dilemma

By: Carrie Budoff Brown

President Barack Obama dispatched Mitt Romney a little more than a month ago but now faces an unpredictable new threat: a deeply divided House GOP that doesn’t even seem capable of bargaining with him.

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Behind the scenes of a GOP meltdown

By: Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan

It was supposed to be a moment of strength, a way to drag Obama and the Democrats toward them.

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McConnell polls on Judd's politics

By: Manu Raju

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is already playing hardball with Ashley Judd.

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Sequestration: Where will the cuts hit?

By: Darren Samuelsohn

Searching anxiously for answers are defense contractors, teachers and health care workers.

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Appeals upholds EPA authority

By: Erica Martinson

The court denied a request from industry groups to rehear a case about EPA's climate change regulations.

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Tax contortions leave GOP in a bind

By: Steven Sloan

Plenty saw "Plan B" as a historic shift for the GOP.

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