December 10, 2009 4:12PM 

# Thursday Links 

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- You call this a “moderate compromise?”: The public option’s [rotten replacement](http://bit.ly/6ZVRFz).

- [Should consumers fear the Comcast-NBC merger?](http://bit.ly/8nTpEC)

- Why [Copenhagen is all pain and no gain](http://bit.ly/79v7uW). Meanwhile, Brookings [finds](http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2009/07_cap_and_trade.aspx) that “meeting the Waxman-Markey emissions targets would result in a loss of personal consumption from $1 trillion to $2 trillion; GDP would be lower by 2.5 percent by 2050; and there would be 1.7 million fewer jobs.”

- Dear U.S. government: [This is how you create a job](http://bit.ly/4ZZ6iI).

- Podcast: “[Recounting the cost of ObamaCare.](http://bit.ly/4zLSsN)”

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