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Obama plan: Destroy Romney — Barack Obama's aides and advisers are preparing to center the president's re-election campaign on a ferocious personal assault on Mitt Romney's character and business background, a strategy grounded in the early stage expectation that the former Massachusetts governor is the likely GOP nominee.
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Obama's 2008 Hope Morphs Into 2012 Slash-and-Burn
Obama's 2008 Hope Morphs Into 2012 Slash-and-Burn
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A.Killough / CNN:
CNN Poll: Time to clean house in Congress? — Washington (CNN) - Need more evidence that Americans are extremely angry at Congress? — Well, here you go: According to a new national survey, for the first time ever most Americans don't believe their own member of Congress deserves re-election.
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The Note:
On the Defense Over the Debt Deal, McConnell Says He's ‘Very Close’ to Super Committee Picks
On the Defense Over the Debt Deal, McConnell Says He's ‘Very Close’ to Super Committee Picks
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Hill and Washington Monthly
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Cantor pushes intransigence, hopes to prove S&P right
Cantor pushes intransigence, hopes to prove S&P right
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Washington Post, Daily Kos and The Hill
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Impeach Obama, says Michael Burgess — Burgess, center, wants to impeach Barack Obama to stop him from ‘pushing his agenda.’ — Impeaching President Barack Obama “needs to happen,” Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) told a local tea party group, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Tuesday.
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Burgess meets with unhappy Tea Party group — KELLER — Hours after the Dow Jones industrial average closed down more than 600 points Monday, U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville, heard from local conservatives who were unhappy that he supported legislation that many believed led to the calamitous day on Wall Street.
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As Rioting Widens, Cameron Deploys 10,000 More Police — By ALAN COWELL, RAVI SOMAIYA and JOHN F. BURNS — LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron pledged on Tuesday to flood the streets of London with 10,000 extra police officers and said Parliament would be recalled in emergency session …
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About that plane over S&P — Who sent an aerial message to Wall Street? — Courtesy of NY Observer — Earlier today, a plane flew over S&P headquarters trailing a banner that read: … Fortune has learned that the person who paid to fly the banner is a Midwestern broker …
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Single Mother from St. Louis Flying Banner Over Lower Manhattan: 'Thanks For The Downgrade. You Should All Be Fired.' (UPDATED) — YOU SHOULD ALL BE FIRED." Pictures and more sightings are beginning to emerge. Full image below: — The S&P offices are in the McGraw Hill building at 96 Water Street …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The most powerful man on Earth? — A familiar air of indecision preceded President Obama's pep talk to the nation. — The first draft of his schedule for Monday contained no plans to comment on the downgrading of the U.S. credit rating by Standard & Poor's.
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A Downgrade Awakening — Amid the market wreckage, signs of a political turn.
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Obama's job approval — President Obama's job approval rating is 50% or higher in 16 states and D.C. Roll over each state to see how each rated Obama. The darker the shade of the state, the higher his overall approval rating. — Source: Gallup — WASHINGTON — Another “wave” …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney, Hoekstra up in Michigan — Mitt Romney continues to be the favored Presidential candidate of Republican voters in Michigan, although maybe not to the extent you would expect given his long standing family ties to the state. He's at 24%, followed by Michele Bachmann at 18% …
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Record-Low 21% Say Most in Congress Deserve Re-Election
Record-Low 21% Say Most in Congress Deserve Re-Election
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
For immediate release — Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in June indicates that economic growth so far this year has been considerably slower than the Committee had expected. Indicators suggest a deterioration in overall labor market conditions in recent months, and the unemployment rate has moved up.
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Is Obama Smart? — A case study in stupid is as stupid does. — The aircraft was large, modern and considered among the world's safest. But that night it was flying straight into a huge thunderstorm. Turbulence was extreme, and airspeed indicators may not have been functioning properly.
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Abe Sauer / The Atlantic Online:
The Day of Reckoning in Wisconsin Recall Fight — Outside groups, finger-pointing and acrimony have nearly eclipsed the original reason six state senators face voters today — Wisconsin is tired of standing. — First the state was told to “Stand with Walker.” — Ever since then, it's been “Stand with Rob Cowles.”
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The Wisconsin recall vacuum
The Wisconsin recall vacuum
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Andy Kroll / Mother Jones:
Inside the Wisconsin Recall's Massive Get-Out-the-Vote Machine
Inside the Wisconsin Recall's Massive Get-Out-the-Vote Machine
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JSOnline, Wonkette, ThinkProgress and Mother Jones
Kenneth Rogoff / Financial Times:
The bullets yet to be fired to stop the crisis — Four years into the financial crisis, it is becoming increasingly clear that the biggest deficit is not in credit, but credibility. Markets can adjust to a downgrade of global growth, but they cannot cope with a spiralling loss of confidence …
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Francesco Guerrera / Wall Street Journal:
Why This Crisis Differs From the 2008 Version
Why This Crisis Differs From the 2008 Version
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U.S. hits Israel on settlements — The State Department said Tuesday that the U.S. is “deeply concerned” by Israel's authorization of housing construction in the disputed area of East Jerusalem. — In a statement, the department said the U.S. has raised the issue with Israel and noted such …
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Bachmann's ‘Must-Read’ List Included A Book That Claims Blacks Were ‘Better Off In Nearly Every Way’ Under Slavery — Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) has already made one slavery-related gaffe during her presidential campaign, signing a pledge produced by the Iowa FAMiLY LEADER …
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Dave Boyer / Washington Times:
Philadelphia mayor talks tough to black teenagers after ‘flash mobs’ — ** FILE ** In this March 20, 2010, photo, young people run down South Street during a flash mob incident that involved thousands and closed the street to traffic from Front Street to Broad in Philadelphia.
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Mr. Cool turns cold — In her autobiography, Helen Gahagan Douglas recalled telling President Franklin D. Roosevelt about her visits to the camps of migrant workers. She was especially poignant about the children and their lack of Christmas toys when the president tried to stop her.
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London riots: Theresa May rejects calls for water cannon — Theresa May this morning rejected growing pressure to deploy water cannon against London's rioters, insisting that “the way we police is by consent.” — The Home Secretary appeared to rule out sending water cannon or the Army onto …
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Obama's penchant for speeches now sounding hollower by the word — This is the 931st day of the Barack Obama presidency. — Yesterday Obama gave a strange statement to the media. He'd been away on another mini-vacation at Camp David. So, it was left to aides and Treasury Secy.
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S.F. gay married couple loses immigration battle — Washington — Citing the Defense of Marriage Act, the Obama administration denied immigration benefits to a married gay couple from San Francisco and ordered the expulsion of a man who is the primary caregiver to his AIDS-afflicted spouse.
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