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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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Dave Levinthal / The Politico:
Stephen Colbert loses treasurer to Rick Perry — No joke: Presidential candidate Rick Perry and comedian Stephen Colbert, who last week barraged Iowa voters with advertisements urging voters to support “Rick Parry,” shared the same political committee treasurer - until they didn't.
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Mediaite, Reuters, New York Magazine, Gawker and The Raw Story
NationalJournal.com:
White House Warns Perry Should Watch What He Says — White House press secretary Jay Carney chastised Texas Gov. Rick Perry for suggesting on the campaign trail that some economic policy decisions the Federal Reserve is considering border on “treasonous.” — Speaking at a campaign stop …
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Connecting.the.Dots and Michelle Malkin
Sam Youngman / Ballot Box:
Obama 2012: Return of the road warrior — Yes, President Obama is on a taxpayer-funded campaign swing. No, he's not rolling out specific economic proposals yet. — But for a wounded president, it sure is some darn good politics. — As Obama tore through the Midwest and his Republican opponents …
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JammieWearingFool
New York Times:
Obama Presses His Case in Crucial Iowa, but Perry Is Close on His Heels — PEOSTA, Iowa — President Obama pulled up to a bucolic community college here in his $1.1 million black armored bus on Tuesday and spent much of the day closeted in a conference with farmers and small-business owners …
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The Caucus, Balloon Juice and Hot Air
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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CNN, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, The Note, Political Punch, Taylor Marsh, Booman Tribune and The POH Diaries
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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SFGate, The Politico, TPMDC, Mother Jones and Iowa Caucuses
The Atlantic Online:
Fighting Perception of Weakness, Obama Puts Onus on Lawmakers
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Pajamas Media
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Rick Perry, the ‘no apologies’ candidate
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Yahoo! News, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and Reuters
Political Punch:
White House on Gov. Perry's Bernanke Comments: ‘Threatening the Fed Chairman is Probably Not a Good Idea’
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post, TPMDC, Prairie Weather, The Note and blogs.abcnews.com
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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The Huffington Post, Booman Tribune, Talking Points Memo and The Note
Neil Irwin / Washington Post:
Analysis: Perry's criticism of money-printing may portend more political pressure for Fed
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TheGazette, The Huffington Post, msnbc.com, ThinkProgress, Balloon Juice and Mario Piperni dot Com
Democracy in America:
Interrogating the “Texas Miracle”
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The Huffington Post, theGrio, TheMoneyIllusion, The Daily Dish and Erica Grieder
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Karl Rove Piles On Rick Perry: Bernanke Line ‘Not A Presidential Statement’
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 …
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Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
NBC News' Ed Schultz Admits Selective Edit Deception; Not False Racism Charge
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NewsBusters.org blogs and RedState
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
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Firedoglake and GOP 12
Rich Lowry / National Review:
Let the Perry Hatred Begin
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Hot Air, Sister Toldjah, No More Mister Nice Blog and Daily Kos
Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
Romney vs. Perry: How the Numbers (and the Calendar) Stack Up
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Race 4 2012
JSOnline:
Wirch, Holperin win Senate recalls; GOP retains 17-16 majority — By Tom Tolan, Patrick Marley and Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel — The six-month saga that was Wisconsin's state Senate recall movement ended Tuesday with Democrats retaining two seats - and Republicans still in possession …
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The Moderate Voice and The Nation
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Sentiment moving against Walker recall — Public sentiment in Wisconsin is moving against a recall of Scott Walker. Walker though remains very unpopular and if Russ Feingold chose to run against him in a recall election he would find himself in deep trouble.
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TPMDC, Hot Air, Campaign 2012, The Political Carnival, Firedoglake, The Raw Story, Daily Kos and Taegan Goddard's …
Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:
Blue Partisans Shorten The Lines — Press reaction to events in Wisconsin remains educational. The introduction of legislation curtailing union rights and activities for most public employees in Wisconsin was first billed as a victory in disguise: a triggering event that launched the flight …
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National Review
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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Gawker, Wonkette, Donklephant, Dean's World, The Reaction, LewRockwell.com Blog, Roger Ailes, Althouse and Balloon Juice
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Herman Cain: Impeaching Obama would be ‘a great thing’ — Asked on a conference call with bloggers this evening why Republicans can't just impeach Barack Obama, Herman Cain answers that it's mostly a matter of legislative politics, POLITICO's Elizabeth Titus reports:
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Outside the Beltway and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Wisconsin Recall Results // Update - Dems hold both seats — Post-mortem - No excuses or hand holding. Bad News: Dems held both their seats, and Republicans hold the Senate by only one seat. Good News: Republicans hold the Governorship, Senate and Assembly, and the big things have been done …
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Moe_Lane's blog
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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
The Civil War Isn't Tragic Cont. — Anyone who's going to deal in Civil War studies really needs to take a moment to grapple with James McPherson's This Mighty Scourge. I doubt that this was McPherson's intent, but the first essay in the book is really what set me on the path of questioning the …
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Crooked Timber
Aaron Carroll / The Incidental Economist:
Malpractice Reform in Texas: a Review — This is mostly from an old post (at my old blog), but with the entry of Gov. Perry into the race, it seems like time to wheel it out. — Over a year ago, a reader emailed me the following: … On Sunday, Gov. Perry said: … Where to start?
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Mother Jones and ThinkProgress
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Sarah Kliff / Washington Post:
Why Texas has the highest percentage of uninsured people in the U.S.
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ThinkProgress and Prairie Weather
Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
Loose Money Will Keep Economy From Sliding Away: Ramesh Ponnuru — The Federal Reserve is now the subject of more political controversy than at any point since the beginning of the 1980s. — The debate centers on what the Washington Post calls its “ultra-easy” monetary policy: Is it hurting or helping the economy?
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Macro and Other Market Musings, Slate, National Review, Washington Post, Campaign 2012 and AmSpecBlog
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Bruce Bartlett / Economix:
It's the Aggregate Demand, Stupid
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Felix Salmon, Mother Jones, The Atlantic Online and The Mahablog
Wall Street Journal:
Fresh Plan for Europe Crisis — Merkel, Sarkozy Push for Euro Chief, Tighter Budget Controls as Growth Sputters — Germany and France presented a broad plan to better coordinate economic policy across the 17-nation euro zone, amid growing fears that a slowdown in the region could accelerate …
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americanthinker.com and Financial Times
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Nicola Clark / New York Times:
Sarkozy and Merkel Vow Fiscal Unity for Euro Nations
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