Roland Burris will be on ABC's This Week today. Harry Reid will be on Meet the Press. It should be interesting.

On Meet the Press, Harry Reid called Blagojevich a liar regarding the allegations from his camp that Reid opposed the appointment of Jackson, Jr., Danny Davis or Emil Jones. There are tapes of course and they will come out. But Reid didn't flinch. For the record, preferring a different appointment on electability grounds seems a reasonable thing for Reid to have done. He is denying that he even did that.

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Evening, everyone.

5 days till this year's Game of the Century. Go Gators!

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Good morning.

A question for our readers, what is the most important story we have not blogged about here at TalkLeft?

I think it is the college football national championship game between Florida and Oklahoma (to be played January 8), which I will begin to cover comprehensively on Monday. What say you?

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Resolved, the Big Ten stinks.

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Happy New Year everyone.

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Hillary and Bill Clinton were the perfect choice to start the ball drop in Times Square tonight. They looked radiant and it was great to watch them dancing afterwards.

More photos below.

Are you going out or staying in tonight?

I'm doing both, out to an early party then back home in plenty of time to watch the ball bounce.

From all of us at TalkLeft, we wish you a Merry New Year's Eve, and if you are online, thanks for spending some of it with us. This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

I am tying up loose ends this morning. J and TChris seem to be busy as well.

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So many end-of-year details to take care of. And the TL kid is on his way over for dinner. What's on your agenda the next few days?

In the news, Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette has withdrawn her name from consideration as a possible replacement for Sen. Ken Salazar. Gov. Ritter's decision is due any day.

And Denver Broncos coach Mike Shanahan was fired today, after 21 years with the team. The local news is obsessed with the story.

The Boulder District Attorney's office is seeking to prevent bloggers from live-blogging a locally high-profile criminal trial in which a father is charged with abusing and neglecting his child, resulting in the child's death. The trial will be in Denver.

Nationally, Obama and his bubble is filling air time, and the Israel-Gaza conflict continues, but doesn't seem to be dominating the news.

Hillary and Bill will be in Times Square New Years Eve to drop the ball.

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I am traveling this evening so I won't be posting today. As you can see, TChris is around and Jeralyn as well I think. In the meantime, here are some excellent posts from our diarists:

Scribe on Bush's unpardon:

Edger reports on the petition for a special prosecutor:

lilburro offers two diaries on the torture issue - Stephen Kappes on the rendition of Abu Omar and The broader CIA Critique.

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