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Rick Perry And Texas Job Numbers — Full disclosure: I don't like Rick Perry for our next president. I have my reasons that aren't worth going into here. However, when I was watching the GOP debate and pro-Perry people started bringing up Rick Perry's job numbers as a cudgel against other candidates …
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Karl Rove Piles On Rick Perry: Bernanke Line ‘Not A Presidential Statement’ — It's no secret that Team George W. Bush and Team Rick Perry are not exactly close. And with Perry flailing after he accused Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke of “almost treasonous” behavior …
Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog:
Rick Perry will self-destruct within 30 days — Rick Perry talks treason about the Federal Reserve Board. Treason is a capital offense. Is Perry suggesting the death penalty for Federal Reserve Board members? — Rick Perry says Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke will have a tough time if he goes to Texas.
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
Perry Points to ‘Idiotic’ U.S. Rule That Doesn't Exist — For a small-government conservative on the presidential campaign stump like Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a new federal regulation forcing farmers to get commercial drivers licenses would make a perfect example of Barack Obama's Washington run amok.
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Peter Wehner / Commentary Magazine:
Re: Rick Perry's Serious Unforced Error — I agree with John's post about Rick Perry's statement about Ben Bernanke about entirely. People shouldn't throw around the words “almost treasonous” loosely; and certainly a person running for president shouldn't do such a thing.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Rick Perry campaign not disavowing implied threat to Bernanke — I asked Rick Perry's spokesman if the campaign is offering clarification of his widely discussed suggestion yesterday that Texas would offer some “real ugly” frontier justice to Fed chairman Ben Bernanke if he were to print money between now and election day.
Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Rove slams Perry's comments about Bernanke
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Bush supporters slam Perry comment
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The Note:
Does President Obama Love America? Rick Perry: ‘You Need To Ask Him’
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Rick Perry Thinks ‘Printing More Money’ Is ‘Almost Treason’ Because It Would Help The Economy And Thus Obama
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Rick Perry suggests predator drones for border patrol
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Neil Irwin / Washington Post:
Analysis: Perry's criticism of money-printing may portend more political pressure for Fed
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Democracy in America:
Interrogating the “Texas Miracle”
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Rick Perry, the ‘no apologies’ candidate
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Rasmussen Reports:
GOP Primary: Perry 29%, Romney 18%, Bachmann 13% — Texas Governor Rick Perry, the new face in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has jumped to a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann with the other announced candidates trailing even further behind.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama, GOP candidates all unpopular — Ohio's a pretty good microcosm for an unhappy nation right now. — Barack Obama's approval rating in the state right now is 44%, with 52% of voters disapproving of him. His numbers with independents are horrid at 34/59.
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Rich Lowry / National Review:
Let the Perry Hatred Begin — Texas governor Rick Perry is about to stride purposefully through every cultural tripwire in the country. — He may not become as despised as Sarah Palin, but that's because he'll never be a pro-life woman — the accelerant for the conflagration of Palin-hatred.
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Max Pizarro / Politicker NJ:
Sources: NJ GOP establishment worried about general election if Perry beats Romney
Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
Romney vs. Perry: How the Numbers (and the Calendar) Stack Up
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Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
NBC News Caught Red Handed ‘Selectively Editing’ & ‘ Doctoring’ Video to Smear Gov Perry as Racist — Ed Schultz used a deceptive edit to misinform his audience about the content of Gov. Rick Perry's speech in Iowa yesterday. Schultz claimed that Gov. Perry was calling President Obama a …
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Ryan for President? — Paul Ryan is in the final stages of deciding on a presidential run. — Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan is strongly considering a run for president. Ryan, who has been quietly meeting with political strategists to discuss a bid over the past three months …
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Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
Talk to Ryan? It'll cost you
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Liz Goodwin / Yahoo! News:
Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands — Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of the billionaire in Details magazine.
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David Jackson / USA Today:
Obama clashes with Tea Party member — President Obama came face-to-face with the Tea Party last night in Iowa, clashing with members during and after a town hall last night. — Ryan Rhodes, a group leader in the Hawkeye State, stood up and shouted a question during a town hall asking …
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Chris Good / The Atlantic Online:
Video of the Day: Obama Confronted by Tea Partiers in Iowa
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Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:
Here is the fiery exchange the President found himself in!
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New York Times:
Top Tabloid Editors Endorsed Hacking, Letter Says — LONDON — A high-profile parliamentary panel investigating phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's now defunct News of the World tabloid released new allegations Tuesday suggesting that, despite assertions to the contrary by the newspaper's owners and editors …
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Nick Davies / Guardian:
NoW reporter's letter reveals phone-hacking cover-up
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CNN:
TRENDING: All shook up: Bachmann flubs Elvis birthday — (CNN)-Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann stepped all over Elvis Presley's blue suede shoes while stumping Tuesday, when she mistakenly wished “The King” a “Happy Birthday.” — August 16 actually marks the 34th anniversary of Presley's death.
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Sarah Kliff / Washington Post:
Why Texas has the highest percentage of uninsured people in the U.S. — As Brad wrote earlier today, there are a lot of Texas statistics that we'll hear about this campaign season. You can expect Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), for example, to bring up how his state has generated 37 percent of the country's new jobs since 2009.
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Aaron Carroll / The Incidental Economist:
Malpractice Reform in Texas: a Review
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Bess Levin / Dealbreaker:
Everyone At Citi Is Okay! Out Of Breath And Doubled Over But Okay! — If you walked by 388 Greenwich Street earlier, saw scores of Citigroup employees standing around and panicked that everyone had gotten laid off and/or they decided to just shut down the whole operation, do not worry.
CNN:
Paul zings rivals in new ad — (CNN) - Just three days after nearly winning a crucial Republican presidential straw poll in Ames, Iowa, Texas Rep. Ron Paul is going up with a television commercial in Iowa and New Hampshire that targets three of his rivals for the GOP nomination.
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James Hohmann / The Politico:
Exclusive new Ron Paul ad-Bachmann skipped family reunion-Perry hosts California fundraising call …
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Leslie Rosenberg / Media Matters for America:
The Rush Limbaugh School Of Economics: Sean Hannity Further Improves Unemployment Rate Inherited From Bush — Is Sean Hannity a Dittohead? — Last week, Rush Limbaugh fabricated unemployment data to attack Obama, claiming that the president “ inherited ... an unemployment rate of 5.7 percent.”
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