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Timothy R. Homan / Bloomberg:
Rich Americans Save Tax Cuts Instead of Spending, Moody's Says — Hand the wealthiest Americans a tax cut and history suggests they will save the money rather than spend it. — Tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 under President George W. Bush were followed by increases in the saving rate among the rich …
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Christina Bellantoni / TPMDC:
House Dems Will Not Force Vote On Middle Class Tax Cuts
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Boehner concedes only three percent of small businesses affected …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Cantor, Ryan distance themselves from Boehner on middle class tax cuts
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
MCCONNELL BREAKS WITH BOEHNER, WILL FIGHT MIDDLE-CLASS TAX BREAKS. …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
“The Obama tax cuts for the middle class”
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Associated Press:
GOP spokesman: Senate GOP to oppose Obama tax plan
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Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
Mitch McConnell Stands Firm: No Partial Bush Tax Cut Extension
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The Huffington Post:
Tom Ross, Delaware GOP Chair, Threatened With ‘Bullet In The Head’ — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — The chairman of the Delaware Republican Party received a death threat last week over his support for Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del) over Tea Party challenger Christine O'Donnell in the state's upcoming Senate primary …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
2 Insurgents Could Hurt G.O.P. Chances for Senate Takeover — Tomorrow's primaries in New York and six other states - the last of the 2010 cycle, save for Saturday's primary in Hawaii and a runoff in Louisiana on Oct. 2 — originally looked as though they'd have little impact on the electoral landscape.
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Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
Conservative group didn't think O'Donnell could win in Del.
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ABCNEWS:
Delaware Senate Race: A Kamikaze Republican and the Tea Party
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Christina Bellantoni / TPMDC:
Christine O'Donnell Targeting ‘Hillary Democrats’ …
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David Frum / FrumForum:
Gingrich: Obama Wants Whitey's Money — Newt Gingrich upped the rhetoric against the president on Friday night. Interviewed by National Review's Robert Costa, Gingrich cited Dinesh D'Souza's cover story in Forbes. … With the Forbes story and now the Gingrich endorsement …
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
Forbes Embraces Birtherism Lite. — Sometimes it's best to think of racism as intellectual laziness. That is, it reflects a failure to evaluate people for who they actually are, because its easier to slip them into a familiar, predetermined category that doesn't upset other related conclusions a person might have come to as a result.
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Andy Card: Newt Gingrich is not ‘helpful’
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Timothy P. Carney / Beltway Confidential:
Pelosi has pocketed nearly twice as much lobbyist cash as Boehner — If you read this weekend's New York Times' hit job on would-be Speaker John Boehner and his “lobbyist friends,” you might think, as the reporter clearly thinks, that John Boehner is cozier with lobbyists than most powerful politicians are.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Elevating John Boehner (and will it work)
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Cheyenne Hopkins / American Banker:
White House Considers Naming Warren ‘Interim’ CFPB Head
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Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
Reid to schedule 'Don't Ask' vote next week — The Washington Blade has learned that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) intends to schedule a vote next week on major defense budget legislation that contains “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” repeal language, regardless of any objection from members of the U.S. Senate.
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Alexander Nicholson / Congress Blog:
Reid my lips: no forgiveness if no NDAA in September — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a stark choice to make. He can schedule the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for floor time and a vote during this Senate work period or he can take sole personal responsibility for continuing …
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Michelle Malkin:
Document drop: Breaking: DOJ Inspector General will investigate Obama voting rights record — Just obtained this letter from Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine to members of Congress informing them that he will open up a review of the Obama administration's selective enforcement …
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Sherry Devlin / Missoula Editor:
We didn't “sneak in” to Sarah Palin's speech — First: This blogpost is not about politics. — Second: Contrary to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's warning to the standing-room-only crowd at this afternoon's Teen Challenge fundraiser in Missoula, the media did not “sneak in” to her speech.
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Alex Seitz-Wald / Think Progress:
Paranoid Palin Hunts For Media ‘Moles’ At Montana Speech
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Mark Halperin / The Page:
Halperin's Take: Brown Escalates War of Words With Bill Clinton — HALPERIN'S TAKE: The Whitman ad is probably the best TV spot by any campaign all cycle. Clinton and Brown have always had a rough relationship, which probably hit rock bottom... ... in 1992, when, in the same debate …
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Michael Scherer / Swampland:
Jerry Brown: “I Did Not Have Taxes With This State” UPDATED
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Michelle Malkin:
What will — and won't — get you banned from the U.S. — President Obama's Department of Homeland Security and State Department are hard at work making sure that no drunk foreign teens who call the commander-in-chief names ever set foot in our country. — Feel safer?
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Virginia Wheeler / myfoxdc WTTG FOX 5:
UK Teenager Banned From America For Life Over Obscene Obama Email
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J. Taylor Rushing / Ballot Box:
Tepid GOP support for write-in Murkowski bid — The prospect of an independent reelection bid by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) was met with uncertainty Monday by several Senate Republicans, who said they were reluctant to back their longtime colleague. — Murkowski, who lost Alaska's GOP …
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Darren Samuelsohn / The Politico:
EPA regulations face markup showdown
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Martin Peretz / The New Republic:
An Apology — Nicholas Kristof and I do not see the world—and America's role in it—in the same way. I have sometimes expressed my disagreements with his opinions vociferously (vociferousness is my business). But in yesterday's The New York Times, he quotes two sentences that I recently wrote …
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Michiko Kakutani / New York Times:
Digging for the Roots of Conservative Rage — In his new book, “The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama,” the progressive journalist Will Bunch serves up his own anatomy of the Tea Party movement, that loose agglomeration of right-wing insurgents …
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Generic Ballot Splits 48% for GOP, 43% for Dems — Republicans close to unanimous in supporting GOP candidates — PRINCETON, NJ — Forty-eight percent of registered voters favor Republican congressional candidates and 43% favor Democratic candidates in Gallup's national generic ballot for the week of Sept. 6-12.
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Leon H. Wolf / The New Ledger:
Meghan McCain's Dirty, Sexy Politics — On June 20, 2002, the United States Supreme Court decreed, in the case of Atkins v. Virginia, that the mildly mentally retarded were categorically exempt from capital punishment, reasoning that fully functional adults of diminished mental capacity …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
63% say trade out Snowe — Last November, right after she supported the health care bill in committee, we found that 59% of Maine Republicans wanted to replace Olympia Snowe with someone more conservative while only 31% said they would support her again in 2012.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Liberal despair: Age of irrationality — A couple of influential writers broadly in sympathy with Obama today float the same notion: That we're living in a fundamentally unreasonable age, that voters basically can't be trusted, and that democracy is just barely muddling through.
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WIS-TV:
Obit: In lieu of flowers, donate to anybody running against Obama in 2012 … ROME, GA (NBC) - About 50 people attended the funeral for Don Unsworth, a northwest Georgia businessman, father, grandfather and husband. — Described by family as lively, humorous and politically conservative …
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