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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Bachmann skipped family reunion she cited — On her victory lap of Iowa yesterday, Straw Poll winner Rep. Michele Bachmann paid repeated tribute to her local roots, and repeatedly mentioned her family reunion that day, citing it as an excuse for her late arrival at a local party event in Waterloo.
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Roger Simon / The Politico:
Ron Paul remains media poison — I admit I do not fully understand Ron Paul and his beliefs. But I do understand when a guy gets shafted, and Ron Paul just got shafted. — On Saturday, the Ames Straw Poll was conducted in Iowa amid huge media interest and scrutiny.
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Booman Tribune, The Note, Mediaite, CNN, The Raw Story, Truthdig, Swampland, Washington Monthly, Outside the Beltway and New York Times
Michelle Goldberg / The Daily Beast:
A Christian Plot for Domination? — Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry aren't just devout—both have deep ties to a fringe fundamentalist movement known as Dominionism, which says Christians should rule the world. — With Tim Pawlenty out of the presidential race, it is now fairly clear …
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Will no one rid the GOP of this troublesome congressman? — With Tim Pawlenty out of the race, only two active Presidential candidates scored more than 10 percent in Saturday's Iowa straw poll. Following the media coverage Sunday, you would never guess Congressman Ron Paul was one of them.
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Campaign 2012, Outside the Beltway, Eunomia, National Review, LewRockwell.com Blog and AmSpecBlog
Byron York / Campaign 2012:
Behind the Michele Bachmann ‘submissive’ question
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Salon, CNN, The Daily Caller, Outside the Beltway, Right Wing Watch and CBS News
Ken Shepherd / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Daily Beast/Newsweek: Michele Bachmann Has ‘Christian Plot’ for ‘Domination’
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
The Ten Weirdest Ideas In Rick Perry's Fed Up — Rick Perry's November 2010 book Fed Up!: Our Fight to Save America from Washington is not a typical “campaign book” from a political candidate. For starters, its forward is written by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, nominally one of Perry's rivals for the nomination.
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Conservatives Whine About Unfairness Of Quoting Rick Perry Accurately — Rick Perry holds a lot of extreme views about American public policy and constitutional law. I know that because I've read Rick Perry's book, Fed Up, which about his extreme views about American public policy and constitutional law.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Fact checking Rick Perry's announcement speech
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Indecision Forever, Daily Kos, Campaign 2012, The Nation, Erica Grieder and Swampland
Clifford Krauss / New York Times:
In Texas Jobs Boom, Crediting a Leader, or Luck
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Azi Paybarah / PolitickerNY:
Bill Clinton: Rick Perry is a ‘Good-Looking Rascal,’ But His Platform ‘Is Crazy’ — Bill Clinton at the IAFF conference in Manahttan on August 15, 2011. (photo credit: azi paybarah / observer) — Bill Clinton said newly announced presidential candidate, Republican Governor Rick of Texas was a …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Was Perry packing? — Texas Gov. Rick Perry is a leading advocate of gun rights who likes to boast of having dispatched a coyote on a recent jog, so I asked him during today's walking press conference at the Iowa State Fair whether he was armed. — “I never comment on whether I'm carrying a handgun or not,” he said.
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Washington Monthly, Gawker, The Note, New York Magazine and Althouse
Neil King Jr / Washington Wire:
Perry and Romney Trade Swipes Over ‘Real Economy’
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The Caucus, Public Policy Polling and Hot Air
Byron York / Campaign 2012:
Obama: I reversed recession until ‘bad luck’ hit — At a town hall meeting on his campaign-style tour of the Midwest, President Obama claimed that his economic program “reversed the recession” until recovery was frustrated by events overseas. And then, Obama said, with the economy …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Obama: I'm Just Like Lincoln! — Byron York is chronicling the outrages committed by President Obama on his taxpayer-funded campaign swing through Iowa and the Midwest. I was in the midst of a post on Obama's whine that he is the victim of “bad luck,” as reported by Byron …
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Warren E. Buffett / New York Times:
Stop Coddling the Super-Rich — OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched. — While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Obama: Warren Buffett is right on the money
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Weasel Zippers, CNN and JammieWearingFool
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
How Much Tax Should The Rich Pay?
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Hit & Run, National Review and Modeled Behavior
Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Rove warns GOP about electability — First, the Wall Street Journal was spooked about the Michele Bachmann/Rick Perry surge, and just now, Karl Rove issued a similar warning. … Earlier today, the WSJ wrote an op-ed that seemed to suggest that neither Michele Bachmann nor Rick Perry were particularly electable.
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The Mahablog, Gawker, Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Taylor Marsh, Daily Kos and No More Mister Nice Blog
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Wall Street Journal:
Bachmann-Perry Overdrive — GOP voters are still searching for a unifying candidate. — The fight for the Republican Presidential nomination is finally getting underway in earnest, with Texas Governor Rick Perry bull-riding his way into the race and Michele Bachmann winning Saturday's straw poll in Iowa.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Chris Christie's Cue
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msnbc.com, Eunomia, The Political Carnival and The New Republic
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
What a president ‘looks like’ — In advance of the 2008 presidential campaign, many high-profile figures in the media described Mitt Romney as someone who “looks like a president.” It was as if news outlets were thinking of central casting, and imagining who looked the part.
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Washington Post, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Atlantic Online and Paul Krugman
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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
President Obama blasts Republican presidential field
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The Note, Weasel Zippers, CNN and And So it Goes in Shreveport
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Obama to automakers: 'You can't just make money on SUVs and trucks' — The country's automakers should ditch their focus on SUVs and trucks in favor of smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles, President Obama said Monday. — “You can't just make money on SUVs and trucks,” …
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The Sundries Shack, Weasel Zippers, Pajamas Media and The Lonely Conservative
Nouriel Roubini / Project Syndicate:
ROUBINI: Is Capitalism Doomed? Karl Marx was right, it seems, in arguing that globalization, financial intermediation run amok, and redistribution of income and wealth from labor to capital could lead capitalism to self-destruct. So what can be done to prevent that outcome?
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American Power and Truthdig
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Perry on Bernanke: 'I dunno what y'all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas' — Texas Governor Rick Perry, who entered the presidential campaign on Saturday, appeared to suggest a violent response would be warranted should Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke …
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Clusterstock and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
A Businessman in Congress Helps His District and Himself — VISTA, Calif. — Here on the third floor of a gleaming office building overlooking a golf course in the rugged foothills north of San Diego, Darrell Issa, the entrepreneur, oversees the hub of a growing financial empire worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
Ed Rendell: Hillary Clinton can't resist White House run — Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said on Monday he doesn't believe Hillary Clinton is ready to retire from public life and the possibility of someday becoming the first female president “would probably be too much for her to resist.”
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New York Post, Taylor Marsh, Weasel Zippers, The Raw Story and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Mark Knoller / CBS News:
U.S. Secret Service gets 2 new buses ahead of Obama tour — The U.S. Secret Service has two new buses in its fleet for President Obama to use on his three-day, three-state Midwestern bus trip that kicked off Monday. — CBS News has learned the buses were purchased in recent months at a cost …
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FishbowlDC, Weasel Zippers and White House Dossier
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
‘Iron my shirt’ — When Texas Gov. Rick Perry took his jacket off for a question-and-answer session in Waterloo last night, he joked about his attire. — “This shirt has a few wrinkles in it; it's not my wife's fault,” he said. — The line seemed very Texas, and a bit less directed …
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Julie Mack / MLive.com:
Live coverage: Congressman Fred Upton speaks to standing-room-only audience in Kalamazoo — U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, is making his first public appearance today since last week's announcement that Upton will be part of the 12-member “super committee” that will craft a plan this fall on reducing the federal deficit.
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Firedoglake and The Hill
Kieran Crowley / New York Post:
Wall Street big lavished gifts on mistresses in three countries: wife — He's an aging Wall Street fat cat who could put even the most lusty young lothario to shame. — John Duffy, 62, the married CEO of the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods investment bank, has lavished millions of dollars' worth of homes …
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The Other McCain, Gothamist, Dealbreaker and New York Magazine
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