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Rick Perry to make 2012 intentions clear Saturday — Rick Perry intends to use a speech in South Carolina Saturday to make clear that he's running for president, POLITICO has learned. — According to two sources familiar with the plan, the Texas governor will remove any doubt …
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
LEAP OF FAITH … - POLITICS - PROFILES - THE TALK OF THE TOWN - COMMENT - THIS WEEK'S ISSUE - THE FINANCIAL PAGE - NEWS DESK - THE POLITICAL SCENE
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First Read / msnbc.com:
Bachmann attends church service denouncing homosexuality — WAUKEE, IA — Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann yesterday attended a church here in Iowa, where the pastor called homosexuality “immoral” and “unnatural,” and later showed a testimonial video from a man who claimed …
The Daily Beast:
Bachmann: Tea Party Queen
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John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Republicans Who Want to Replace Obama Will Focus Attacks in Iowa This Week
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Perry to visit NH and SC while presidential candidates gather in Iowa
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Economics of Contempt:
On S&P, Downgrades, and Idiots — This is not going to be one of those posts that laments S&P's decision to downgrade the US, but then says that S&P was probably right about our oh-so-dysfunctional political system. — No, S&P was flat-out wrong — no caveats.
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
DNC chairwoman blames Tea Party ‘tyrants’ for US credit-rating downgrade
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
S&P's History of Relentless Political Advocacy
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David Jackson / USA Today:
Obama: Downgrade should create ‘renewed sense of urgency’
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Allen West Claims S&P Downgrade ‘Has Nothing To Do With Increasing Revenues’ — S&P Disagrees
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama Job Approval 50% or Higher in 16 States and D.C. — Idaho residents least approving, at 27% — PRINCETON, NJ — Residents of 16 states and the District of Columbia gave President Obama approval ratings of 50% or higher during the first half of 2011, led by the District of Columbia, Connecticut, Maryland, and Delaware.
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A.Killough / CNN:
CNN Poll: Obama approval rating remains steady in mid 40s
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Barack Obama on credit rating downgrade: U.S. ‘always will be a triple-A country’
Brianna Keilar / CNN:
Obama says U.S. has ‘always been and always will be a triple-A country’
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Paul Krugman:
Aaauuuggghhh! Market Commentary Edition — Carnage in stock markets as I write — and all of the headlines I see attribute it to S&P's downgrade. — They really are trying to make my head explode, aren't they? — Once again: S&P declared that US debt is no longer a safe investment …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Disconnect — This piece on CNN Money says that “market observers tried to say the downgrade by itself shouldn't matter — that it was expected and that the United States still has a strong credit rating ... But the market wasn't buying it.” And then it goes on to note that investors are rushing to buy up US Treasuries.
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Michelle Malkin:
The Conservative Crazy Eyes Cliche & Other Stupid MSM Photo Tricks — Sigh. Seriously, Tina Brown? — Yes, I'm talking about you, Oxford University-educated Newsweek/Daily Beast editor Tina Brown. — You've resorted to recycling bottom-of-the-barrel moonbat photo cliches …
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Does The Michele Bachmann Newsweek Cover Make Her ‘Look Crazy’? — Conservative media watchdog Newsbusters is helpfully defending GOP presidential hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) honor against those serial cover photo offenders at Newsweek, excoriating the magazine for using …
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Drew Westen's Nonsense — There are some strong criticisms to be made of the Obama administration from the left, especially concerning Obama's passive response to the debt ceiling hostage crisis, and his frightening willingness to give away the store to John Boehner. I've made many of these criticisms myself.
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Waiting For A Landslide — In 1955, a political scientist named V. O. Key published an essay entitled “A Theory of Critical Elections.” He argued that realignments in American politics are usually punctuated by transformative elections, in which the old order suddenly gives way and a new majority emerges in its place.
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Shira Ovide / Deal Journal:
Berkshire, Other Insurers Get ‘Negative’ Tag from S&P … Cue the music from “Jaws.” — After Standard & Poor's bit an appendage from the U.S.'s credit rating, the credit-rating firm is smelling blood in the water at Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. — S&P today is marking down ratings …
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JeeYeon Park / CNBC:
Stocks Off Lows, Dow Above 11,000; Vix Soars
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Paul Krugman:
It's a Growth Scare — FTalphaville has been saying this all day, and it's right. The action in the markets looks nothing like worries about US solvency; it looks exactly like what you expect to see when markets suddenly realize that the economy's growth prospects look terrible.
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Grasping Reality …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Obama's horrifyingly bad speech — He was a half hour late. His head turned from side to side as if he were attending a tennis match. He practically never looked in the camera, as if he were averting our gaze. And those were the strong parts of President Obama's disastrous speech.
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Poor People Own Appliances Because They're Cheap — My colleagues Melissa Boteach and Donna Cooper have a great piece on the Heritage Foundation's “poor people aren't actually poor because they own cheap electronics” theory of poverty. This infographic nicely highlights the silliness …
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Eschaton
John R. Bolton / Human Events:
On Deck: Why I May Run for President — Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations that “the first duty of the sovereign, that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies, can be performed only by means of a military force.”
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
House leaders end page program — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced they were ending the House page program. — As of Aug. 31, the program — which employs nearly 70 high school students to serve as messengers and couriers …
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