memeorandum: Obama slams GOP ‘Pledge’ as giveaway to millionaires, Wall Street (Mike Lillis/The Hill)

10:45 AM ET, September 25, 2010

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Patrick Gavin / The Politico:

COLBERT ‘MADE MOCKERY’ OF CONGRESS — Despite the fact that countless Washington reporters couldn't help but watch Stephen Colbert's Capitol Hill testimony Friday, not all were enthralled by the Comedy Central star's performance, as they expressed on Twitter. — “REALLY not sure this is funny,” wrote ABC News' Rick Klein.

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Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
Colbert knocks Dems off message

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Aaron Blake / The Fix:
Daily Fix Poll: What did you think of Stephen Colbert's testimony?

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Melissa Bell / BlogPost:
Stephen Colbert's testimony before Congress (Text)

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Ashley Parker / The Caucus:
The Whole Truthiness and Nothing But

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Byron York / Beltway Confidential:
Colbert embarrasses Dems; Conyers asks comedian to leave

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Mike Lillis / The Hill:

Obama slams GOP ‘Pledge’ as giveaway to millionaires, Wall Street — With five weeks remaining before November's midterms, President Obama is slamming the Republicans' legislative agenda as a gift to the wealthy at the expense of the middle class. — The GOP's “Pledge to America,” …

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Jon Ward / The Daily Caller:
Conservatives Denounce GOP ‘Pledge’ As Sellout, Inside Job

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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Pelosi meets GOP foe at D.C. watering hole

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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
From ‘party of no’ to ‘party of stop’?

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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:

Dakota Dreaming — The presidential hopes of John Thune. — John Thune leaned forward, peered out of the small window in the 9-seat King Air 200, extended his index finger, and smiled. — “That's the Murdo airport right there.” — We'd been flying over the plains of the senator's home state …

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Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:

Bill Maher's New Clip Of O'Donnell: 'Why Aren't Monkeys Still Evolving Into Humans?' — For the second week in a row, HBO's Real Time host Bill Maher revealed a previously-unaired clip of Christine O'Donnell on Politically Incorrect. Recall, last week Maher showed a clip of O'Donnell professing …

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Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:

Dick Morris returns in new role — Dick Morris, the former Bill Clinton consultant-and-confidant-turned- conservative-commentator, is trying on a new hat: Republican campaign surrogate. — Over the long arc of a career that has twice landed him on the cover of Time magazine …

Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:

VIDEO of Christine O'Donnell: I'm going to stop the whole country from having sex — A Democratic source unearths video of Christine O'Donnell in 2003, answering clearly and unequivocally in the affirmative when asked: “You're going to stop the whole country from having sex?”

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Minneapolis Star Tribune:

FBI raids homes of several Twin Cities war protesters — Search warrants were executed on six addresses in Minneapolis and at two addresses in Chicago. — The homes of five Twin Cities activists, including three prominent leaders of the Twin Cities antiwar movement, were raided Friday …

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Steve Karnowski / Associated Press:
FBI serves terror warrants in Minn., Ill.

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Economist:

The perils of constitution-worship — One of the guiding principles of the tea-party movement is based on a myth — WOULDN'T it be splendid if the solutions to America's problems could be written down in a slim book no bigger than a passport that you could slip into your breast pocket?

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Ron Chernow / New York Times:
The Founding Fathers Versus the Tea Party

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Paul Krugman:

Structural Failure — An important new report from EPI on why you shouldn't believe the hype about structural unemployment. — Why is this so important? Claims that there has been a huge jump in structural unemployment — that is, unemployment that can't be cured by increasing aggregate demand …

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Wall Street Journal:

U.S. Bails Out Major Credit Unions — Two years after the peak of the financial crisis, the federal government swooped in to stabilize a crucial part of the credit-union sector battered by losses on subprime mortgages. — Regulators announced Friday a rescue of the nation's wholesale credit unions …

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nber.org:

The End of the Great Depression 1939-41: Policy Contributions and Fiscal Multipliers — NBER Working Paper No. 16380 … You may purchase this paper on-line in .pdf format from SSRN.com ($5) for electronic delivery. — Information about Free Papers — You should expect a free download …

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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:

Dole for O'Donnell — An endorsement from a symbol of bygone centrist Republicanism, Bob Dole: — Christine O'Donnell's message resonated with the voters, and to the surprise of many she defeated Congressman Mike Castle, who many of us thought would win.

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Los Angeles Times:

Snuff out pot measure — Proposition 19 is poorly thought out, badly crafted and replete with loopholes and contradictions. — Marijuana is the most popular illegal drug in the United States. Seventy years of criminal prohibition, “Just Say No” sloganeering and a federal drug war …

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Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:

Which Malik Shabazz Visited White House in July 2009, Mr. President? — In May 2009, the Obama/Holder Justice Department dropped charges in a voter intimidation case against Malik Shabazz, a leader of the New Black Panther Party, despite having already won a summary judgment against him …