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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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Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
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 …
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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.
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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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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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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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Bush supporters slam Perry comment — Rick Perry's attack on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke - calling the country's central banker “almost treasonous” for adopting quantitative easing policy - has drawn a sharp round of rebukes from former Bush administration officials, starting with known Perry skeptic Karl Rove.
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Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Rove slams Perry's comments about Bernanke — This morning, Karl Rove called Rick Perry's comments on Ben Bernanke “deeply unfortunate.” … Here's the key, politically. … Yesterday, Perry ripped Bernanke , calling a potential move by the fed chairman “almost treasonous” …
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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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The Note:
Does President Obama Love America? Rick Perry: ‘You Need To Ask Him’
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John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
Rick Perry's Serious Unforced Error
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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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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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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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Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
Romney vs. Perry: How the Numbers (and the Calendar) Stack Up
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Steven Rattner / New York Times:
Republican Extremism, Bad Economics
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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 — It will cost $15 to ask Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) a question in person during the August congressional recess. — The House Budget Committee chairman isn't holding any face-to-face open-to-the-public town hall meetings during the recess …
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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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Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:
Here is the fiery exchange the President found himself in!
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Jonathan Bernstein / Washington Post:
Note to pundits: The problem isn't the GOP field. It's the GOP. — Here's what you need to know about the Republican candidate field: this is it. No one starts running for president in August, less than six months before the voters start getting involved in Iowa and New Hampshire, and has any chance at all.
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Max Pizarro / Politicker NJ:
Sources: NJ GOP establishment worried about general election if Perry beats Romney
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Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
On mortgage rates, Obama wants proposal for how government can keep big role — PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES - The Freddie Mac office in McLean, Va. — President Obama has directed a small team of advisers to develop a proposal that would keep the government playing a major role …
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David Saleh Rauf / The Politico:
Obama checks in on Foursquare
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CNN:
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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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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Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
GOP Super Committee Member Pledges Not To ‘Chop’ Entitlement Benefits Or Raise The Retirement Age — Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) surprised many when he appointed a Republican widely perceived as a moderate, Rep. Fred Upton (MI), to serve as one of six GOP members on the congressional …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Today in Mitt Romney awkwardness — Maggie Haberman picks up on this Globe report: — As Romney began to leave the company after his hourlong visit, he looked at the owner's girlfriend, Ellen Boss. “Nice,” Romney said as she blushed. “Nice choice. Just like me.”
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Santorum: ‘Our Freedom’ Is Less ‘Whole Than It Was At The Time Of Our Founders’ — At a campaign stop in Iowa this weekend, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) doled out a frothy mixture of revisionist history about what it was like to be alive in the late 1700s: … Watch it:
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