As we get over the shock of Lou Dobbs taking his ball and going home, here are the links:

• John Kerry vowed to have a climate “outline” by the US before the climate talks in Copenhagen, but he did not promise any finished bill from the Senate. This despite a lobby session from UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon. And not that anyone thinks it will be easy, but Republicans daring to work on a compromise solution on climate change, like Lindsey Graham, are getting censured by their own local GOP organizations.

• It’s disappointing that experienced journalists don’t seem to understand the implications of the Stupak amendment. It wouldn’t just affect the exchange, but practically all policies that get any amount of money from the feds, including policies that benefit from wellness grants, risk adjustment, early retiree reinsurance, or even small business tax credits to buy insurance for their employees. They are flat wrong, and so is PolitiFact.

• Mike Stark catches Blanche Lincoln being extremely noncommital about whether or not she’d join a Republican-led filibuster of health care reform. Could have been worse, actually.

• I’m far more worried about continued rumblings from the White House pushing triggers, again.

• Robert Benmosche, the new head of AIG, has threatened to quit because of all the meddling from the federal government. I don’t think there’s one American who would miss him if he quit. Love it or leave it, baby.

• Jeffrey Sachs has a somewhat compelling op-ed piece claiming that the Obama Administration is missing the boat on jobs. I don’t agree with Sachs that Keynesian economics is “outmoded,” but he’s right that investment in job-creating sectors could expand. When even Southern Republicans support public investment in jobs and giving aid to states, you know that there’s a pretty heavy consensus on this. Obama can easily do the right thing here if he has the political will.

• Business groups are not only working to loosen offshore tax rules, but apparently they’re trying to relax bans on child and slave labor. On the former, the Obama Administration may be helping them.

• Did Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fire their own Inspector General?

• Looks like the New York State Senate will vote on marriage equality after all.

• Charlie Brown, the former Air Force Lt. Col. who ran twice and just missed winning a deep red seat for the Democrats, just got a job with the Department of Homeland Security. I have met Charlie many times and am excited to see him get such an opportunity.

• Not every ad or fundraising campaign from political groups on the left are attacking Congressmembers who voted against health care reform. Some are praising those in tough districts who voted for it. One has raised over $20,000.

• Goldman Sachs seems vaguely upset by McClatchy’s recent four-part series on the financial firm.

• The fight over the financing of health care is certainly not dead. Dick Durbin is hedging on the tax on “Cadillac” plans today.

• Jim Cooper thinks you’re stupid.

• From the “What’s the AMA smoking?” file, the doctor’s group, in addition to endorsing repeal of DADT and announcing that gay marriage has disparities on health care, called on the government to reclassify marijuana as a drug with some medicinal use. This is the group which hired RONALD REAGAN to kill Medicare in the 1960s.

• And in a bit of good news on this Veteran’s Day, Tom Coburn has agreed to lift his hold on a veteran’s health care bill that would expand and improve service.