Today’s edition of quick hits:
* There’s no shortage of twists and turns in the sex scandal surrounding former CIA Director David Petraeus.
* New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is looking for $30 billion in federal disaster aid in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
* Yesterday, President Obama honored Veterans’ Day at Arlington National Cemetery, arguing among other things that the nation “must do more” to support veterans when the return home from war.
* Middle East: “Syria pulled both Turkey and Israel closer to military entanglements in its civil war on Monday, bombing a rebel-held Syrian village a few yards from the Turkish border in a deadly aerial assault and provoking Israeli tank commanders in the disputed Golan Heights into blasting mobile Syrian artillery units across their own armistice line.”
* It took a little longer than it should have, but we learned over the weekend that President Obama really did win Florida, upping his overall total to 332 electoral votes for the year.
* The BBC’s director general has resigned in the wake of the network’s child sex-abuse scandal, which “began with allegations against a single former BBC employee, has since engulfed hospitals, children’s homes, even the police.” * Frank Luntz is chastising Republican pollsters who got 2012 so very wrong, but he appears to be throwing stones from a glass house. * And former Bush adviser Karen Hughes reflects on her party’s missteps: “If another Republican man says anything about rape other than it is a horrific, violent crime, I want to personally cut out his tongue. The college-age daughters of many of my friends voted for Obama because they were completely turned off by Neanderthal comments like the suggestion of ‘legitimate rape.’” Anything to add? Consider this an open thread.
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