memeorandum: McConnell says he'll back Tea Party candidate if she wins Delaware primary (Michael O'Brien/The Hill)

6:15 PM ET, September 14, 2010

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‘Now is the Time For the Idiots Who Supported My Opponent to Unite Behind Me...’ — This evening, in the state of Delaware somebody will win the GOP primary, and declare something like, “And now, I ask for all Republicans to unite behind my candidacy.” At that moment, across the state …

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David Catanese / The Politico:

Ex-aide: O'Donnell a ‘complete fraud’ — WILMINGTON, Del. — Christine O'Donnell's former campaign manager has recorded an Election Day robocall for the Delaware Republican Party meant to shred the tea party-backed candidate's conservative credentials as voters head to the polls.

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CNN:

Bill Kristol on Christine O'Donnell: No Sarah Palin — (CNN) - Guess who's getting slimed now in the increasingly nasty Senate race in Delaware: Republican stalwarts Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes. — The charge: both men, editors of the conservative magazine the Weekly Standard …

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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:

G.O.P. Braces for More Discontent in Primaries — As the long and turbulent primary season of the midterm election campaign drew to a close on Monday, the Republican establishment was placing its confidence on hold and bracing for the prospect that voters in yet another state would send …

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Chris Good / The Atlantic Online:
Castle Seeing ‘Good Turnout’

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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
McConnell says he'll back Tea Party candidate if she wins Delaware primary

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The Note:

Senate Democrats Overcome GOP Filibuster of Small Business Bill — ABC News' Matthew Jaffe reports: — Senate Democrats today overcame a summer-long Republican filibuster of a bill to jumpstart job growth by providing small businesses with a $30 billion lending fund and around $12 billion in tax relief.

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Wall Street Journal:

The 1099 Insurrection — The White House fights an effort to ease a burden on small business. — You might not have seen it reported, but the Senate will vote this morning on whether to repeal part of ObamaCare that it passed only months ago. The White House is opposed …

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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Rush Limbaugh backs John Boehner

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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate defeats plan to strip filing requirement from health law

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New York Times:
Bill to Aid Small Businesses Advances in Senate

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The Huffington Post:

Dodd: Congress Could Defund Consumer Bureau Over Warren Interim Appointment — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Outgoing Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) warned Tuesday that an interim appointment of Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau “jeopardizes the existence” of the nascent agency.

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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:

False Alarm — Reports coming in that President Obama will name Elizabeth Warren as interim director of the consumer protection bureau created by the new financial regulatory law. — Late Update: Maybe not so fast. Fox was one of the outlets originally reporting this and has now retracted that report …

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The Huffington Post:
Obama Renominates Five Stalled Judicial Appointees

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Bloomberg:
Obama May Name Warren as Interim Consumer Agency Head

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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Dodd Unaware Of Interim Appointment Power For Warren?

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Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:

Fox News Polls Track Midterm Election Races in 5 Key States — Florida GOP Senate nominee Marco Rubio has jumped to a 16-point lead over independent Charlie Crist, according to the latest Fox News poll, as Republicans make gains across the country on dissatisfaction with President Obama's agenda.

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Peter Henderson / Reuters:

Nevada eyes big political gamble — (Reuters) - Like many Nevadans, hairdresser Helen Elgas is trying to decide between the devil she knows and the devil she doesn't, and the future of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, hangs in the balance. — Sitting in the shade of a strip mall …

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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire: New Polls Show Mostly Republican Leads

Benjamin Sarlin / The Daily Beast:

How Republicans Could Lose the Tea Party — If the GOP retakes Congress and doesn't immediately take on the Tea Partiers' top issue, the national debt, they face a backlash that could cost them the support of the movement—whose expectations are sky high. — For Tea Partiers …

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George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:
Bill O'Reilly on Tax Cut Debate: Boehner ‘Was Caught In A Tanning Bed’

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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
RAND PAUL'S LIMITED UNDERSTANDING OF THE BUDGET....

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Quinnipiac University:

Blumenthal Up Just 6 Points In Connecticut Senate Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Much McMahon Support Is Anti-Blumenthal — Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, the Democrat, leads Republican former wrestling executive Linda McMahon 51 - 45 percent among likely voters …

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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Polls Have Tightened? Not So Fast

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Roger Simon / Reuters:

‘2010 is gone for Democrats’ — “He cannot save 2010,” the big-time Democrat is saying of Barack Obama. “It is gone. He must now concentrate on saving 2012. But the biggest fear of some of those close to him is that he might not really want to go on in 2012, that he might not really care.”

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Keith Koffler / The Politico:
President Obama's peril in assailing Rep. John Boehner

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Ezra Klein:

Democrats turn to meaningless word games — Greg Sargent reports that House Democrats want to rebrand the extension of Bush's middle-class tax cuts as “the Obama tax cuts for the middle class.” — Sigh. Whether you think this is a good idea, a bad idea or a totally meaningless waste of time …

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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Snowe suggests she's open to deal on tax cut extension

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Josh Barro / RealClearMarkets:
Orszag Is Half Right On the Fiscal Gap

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Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:

Tea Party Float Depicts Obama Whipping A White ‘Future Tax Payer’ Pulling A Wagon — At the annual Sportsman's Day parade last weekend in Naches, WA (a small town southeast of Seattle), a tea party group called “Remember Us We The People” — which is affiliated with the Tea Party Patriots …

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David Weigel / Weigel:

A Prediction About ACORN — Public Policy Polling finds that 20 percent of Americans think that ACORN “will steal the election to keep Democrats in control of Congress.” Let's avoid the easy joke about ACORN is ceasing to exist, because its component organizations will, by and large, survive.

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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
ACORN may not exist anymore but 20% of Americans still think …

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David Brooks / New York Times:

The Day After Tomorrow — Every political movement has a story. The surging Republican Party has a story, too. It is a story of virtue betrayed and innocence threatened. — Through most of its history, the narrative begins, the United States was a limited government nation …

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John Schwartz / New York Times:

Confessing to Crime, but Innocent — KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Eddie Lowery lost 10 years of his life for a crime he did not commit. There was no physical evidence at his trial for rape, but one overwhelming factor put him away: he confessed. — At trial, the jury heard details that prosecutors insisted …

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David Weigel / Slate:

Why is Gingrich pushing Dinesh D'Souza's crazy theory about Obama's “Kenyan anti-colonialism”? — The release of a new book by Dinesh D'Souza prompts a perennial question: Why do people keep publishing books by Dinesh D'Souza? — There's a simple answer.

Discussion: Ezra Klein, Matthew Yglesias and The Impolitic

Congress Blog:

Defense Authorization bill will address the DREAM Act and discrimination in the military (Sen. Harry Reid) — This work period, the Senate will consider the Defense Authorization bill. Along with critical support for our national security forces around the world, this legislation will address …

Discussion: Hot Air

Brady Dennis / Washington Post:

More banks missing TARP dividend payments — Big Wall Street firms have the most bruised public reputations, but it's a collection of smaller banks that continues to plague the Treasury Department's bank bailout program. — The latest report from the agency shows that more than 120 institutions …

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Aharding / CNN:

CNN Poll: Only quarter of public trusts government — Washington (CNN) - A new poll indicates that only one in four Americans say they trust the government to do what is right always or most of the time, one explanation for the anti-incumbent sentiment in the country today.

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