memeorandum: Face time: Tea Party protesters greet Lujan (Chuck Slothower/Farmington Daily Times)

11:30 PM ET, August 24, 2011

Top Items:

Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:

Perry Zooms to Front of Pack for 2012 GOP Nomination — Leads Romney by 29% to 17% — PRINCETON, NJ — Shortly after announcing his official candidacy, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has emerged as rank-and-file Republicans' current favorite for their party's 2012 presidential nomination.

Maggie Haberman / The Politico:

Rick Perry/Barack Obama comparison in Twitter picture — David Limbaugh, the conservative author and brother of Rush, tweets an image you're likely to see again. — A spokesman for Rick Perry didn't respond to a request for comment on the photo, the origin of which is unknown.

Discussion: Hullabaloo and National Review

Mark Benjamin / Swampland:

Perry Compared Homosexuality to Alcoholism in 2008 Book — The origin of homosexuality has become something of a political litmus test for presidential candidates, almost akin to their stance on abortion. Candidates are now expected to explain whether or not they believe homosexuality is a hard-wired predisposition.

Discussion: Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Wonkette, ThinkProgress, Opinion L.A., Juanita Jean's, New York Magazine and Towleroad News #gay

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

Perry Surges in Polls, Testing Romney's Strategy — Primary polls can be erratic, so the rule is not to get too worked up about any one set of numbers. But now there have been five surveys conducted since Rick Perry announced his presidential campaign — one each from Gallup …

Discussion: The Politico, Washington Post, Rasmussen Reports and Balloon Juice

Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:

Perry leads nationally — In PPP's first national poll since Rick Perry's official entry into the Presidential race he's jumped out to a double digit advantage. Perry's at 33% to 20% for Mitt Romney, 16% for Michele Bachmann, 8% for Newt Gingrich, 6% for Herman Cain and Ron Paul, 4% for Rick Santorum, and 3% for Jon Huntsman.

Discussion: GOP 12, Outside the Beltway and The New Republic

Todd J. Gillman / Trail Blazers Blog:
Obama team scouts for anti-Perry Texans

Discussion: Hot Air and Campaign 2012

Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Perry bids for front-runner title

Discussion: CNN

Walter Shapiro / The New Republic:
Rick Perry: The God-Fearing, Know-Nothing, Pistol-Packing Embodiment of Liberals' Worst Nightmares

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Taylor Marsh, Liberal Values, The Note, Wake up America, Betsy's Page and Weekly Standard

Josh Gerstein / The Politico:

Norman Rockwell painting sends rare White House message on race — President Barack Obama has taken a decidedly low-key approach to racial issues since he became America's first black president two years ago. But in a hallway outside the Oval Office he has placed a head-turning painting depicting …

Discussion: CNN, The Greenroom, Hullabaloo, The Lonely Conservative, Weasel Zippers, Associated Press, Salon, Gallup, Booman Tribune and The Daily Caller

Tamara Abraham / Daily Mail:

Expensive massages, top shelf vodka and five-star hotels: First Lady accused of spending $10m in public money on her vacations — The Obamas' summer break in Martha's Vineyard has already been branded a PR disaster after the couple arrived four hours apart on separate government jets.

Discussion: Proof Positive, The Gateway Pundit, Pajamas Media, Weasel Zippers, The Lonely Conservative, Power Line and UrbanGrounds

Speaker:
Obama White House Must Back Its Backpedaling With Action on “One-Child” Policy

Discussion: Washington Times, National Review, The Daily Caller and Pundit & Pundette

Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
Obama Hobnobs With Friends on Vineyard Family Vacation

Discussion: The Note

Poornima Gupta / Reuters:

Steve Jobs resigns from Apple, Cook becomes CEO — (Reuters) - Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs on Wednesday resigned as chief executive of Apple Inc in a stunning move that ended his 14-year reign at the technology giant he co-founded in a garage. — Apple shares dived as much as 7 percent …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Apple and Moe Lane, more at Techmeme »

Business Wire:

Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple — Tim Cook Named CEO and Jobs Elected Chairman of the Board — CUPERTINO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Apple's Board of Directors today announced that Steve Jobs has resigned as Chief Executive Officer, and the Board has named Tim Cook …

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Wire, Outside the Beltway, DealBook, The Raw Story, Scared Monkeys and Clusterstock, more at Techmeme »

msnbc.com:

Apple's Jobs, beset by health issues, resigns — Below: — Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave for an undisclosed condition since Jan. 17, resigned as chief executive of Apple Wednesday, saying he could “no longer meet” the duties and expectations of the job.

Discussion: Brilliant at Breakfast and Reuters

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Steve Jobs Resigns As CEO Of Apple

Discussion: News Desk and Ricochet Conversation Feed, more at Techmeme »

Shira Ovide / Deal Journal:
Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO

Discussion: Opinion L.A. and Boing Boing, more at Techmeme »

Nick Bilton / Bits:
Jobs Steps Down From Chief Executive Post at Apple

Discussion: ThinkProgress, New York Magazine and Man Are We Screwed

Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:

Tea Partier Tells Rep. Lujan, Life-Long American, To ‘Get Out Of Politics And Make Room For An American’ — The Tea Party continues to claim that racism, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia are not driving forces in its movement, but the actions of its members continues to belie those claims.

Discussion: The Reaction

Chuck Slothower / Farmington Daily Times:
Face time: Tea Party protesters greet Lujan

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Scott Stump / msnbc.com:

Cheney: My book will have ‘heads exploding’ in D.C. — Revelations include resignation letter kept locked in a safe in case of heart attack or stroke — Below: — updated 2011-08-24T19:33:23 — When former Vice President Dick Cheney releases his memoir early next week …

Discussion: Man Are We Screwed, emptywheel, Washington Post and Juanita Jean's

Tim Mak / The Politico:

Cheney kept secret resignation letter — Dick Cheney kept a secret resignation letter locked away in a safe in case he were ever to be incapacitated, the former vice president reveals in his new book. — The letter, which Cheney signed in March of 2001, was written because of the vice president's health.

Discussion: Media Decoder, News Desk, Mediaite and The Note

CBO's Latest 10 Documents:

BUDGET AND ECONOMIC OUTLOOK: AN UPDATE — Text-only. — The United States is facing profound budgetary and economic challenges. At 8.5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), the $1.3 trillion budget deficit that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects for 2011 …

Discussion: Power Line, Washington Post, New York Times, Real Time Economics, Firedoglake, Politics, SFGate, Hot Air, The Heritage Foundation, Viking Pundit, AmSpecBlog, Campaign 2012, National Review and The Glittering Eye

Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Worse Than It Looks: CBO Says Economic Outlook More Dire Than Reported

Discussion: Daily Kos

Douglas Elmendorf / Director's Blog:
CBO Releases Its Annual Summer Update of the Budget and Economic Outlook

Discussion: Don Surber and Hit & Run

Seung Min Kim / Reuters:
CBO warns of ‘profound’ challenges

Discussion: USA Today and Speaker

Matt Lewis / The Daily Caller:

Despite my hopes, Sen. Marco Rubio will not run for president in 2012. But that doesn't mean he won't soon be within a heartbeat of the presidency. As the New Yorker's Ryan Liza asked on Twitter: “Is it time to rename GOP primaries 'the contest to become Marco Rubio's running mate'?”

Discussion: Fox News and RedState

Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Marco Rubio: Medicare, Social Security ‘Weakened Us As People’, Made Us Lazy

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Atlantic Online, No More Mister Nice Blog, TPMDC and Daily Kos

Damien Gayle / Daily Mail:
Fears for Nancy Reagan, 90, as she slips and falls on way in to watch speech by Tea Party favourite Marco Rubio

Discussion: Sister Toldjah, Top of the Ticket, Don Surber, NewsBusters.org blogs and The Lonely Conservative

Kate O'Hare / Top of the Ticket:
Marco Rubio to the rescue! Freshman senator saves a falling Nancy Reagan

Discussion: Orlando and Central …, Hot Air, Washington Post, The Caucus, Politics and Rumproast

nationalzoo.si.edu:

National Zoo Animals React to the Earthquake … Great Apes — The earthquake hit the Great Ape House and Think Tank Exhibit during afternoon feeding time. — About five to ten seconds before the quake, many of the apes, including Kyle (an orangutan) and Kojo (a Western lowland gorilla) …

Discussion: News Desk and New York Magazine

Matt Cover / CNSNews:

Flashback: Obama in 2008: Adding $4 Trillion to National Debt ‘Unpatriotic’ — (CNSNews.com) - Although the national debt under President Barack Obama has increased $4 trillion since he took office in 2009, as a presidential candidate in 2008 Obama criticized then-President George W. Bush …

Discussion: Sister Toldjah and Pajamas Media

Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:

Terry Jeffrey: Biden's Obsequious Bow to Beijing — Vice President Joe Biden's talent for using many words to say little or nothing — or worse — was never more conspicuously displayed than during his trip to China. — At Sichuan University on Sunday, after Biden delivered a 4,600-word speech …

Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Washington Times

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
So much for “pro-choice” — Gaffe (n): The accidental telling …

Discussion: The Other McCain, Pundit & Pundette, Flopping Aces and Townhall.com

Adam Goldman / Associated Press:

With CIA help, NYPD moves covertly in Muslim areas — NEW YORK (AP) — In New Brunswick, N.J., a building superintendent opened the door to apartment No. 1076 one balmy Tuesday and discovered an alarming scene: terrorist literature strewn about the table and computer and surveillance equipment set up in the next room.

Discussion: Daily Kos, Weasel Zippers, Outside the Beltway, emptywheel, TalkLeft, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Booman Tribune, New York Magazine and Gothamist

Robert J. Barro / Wall Street Journal:

Keynesian Economics vs. Regular Economics — Food stamps and other transfers aren't necessarily bad ideas, but there's no evidence they spur growth. — Keynesian economics—the go-to theory for those who like government at the controls of the economy—is in the forefront of the ongoing debate on fiscal-stimulus packages.

Discussion: Washington Post, JustOneMinute and Ricochet Conversation Feed

Campaign Fix:

Paul Krugman's Google+ Account is Fake, I Know because I Created It — Approximately a month ago, having been laid off and having too much time on my hands, I finally decided to create my own personal account on Google+. I found it to be extremely boring, mostly because no one I knew …

Paul Krugman:
Identity Theft

Discussion: Big Government, NewsBusters.org blogs, Pajamas Media, Michelle Malkin, Campaign 2012, Paul Krugman, americanthinker.com, Outside the Beltway, Hit & Run, National Review and Ricochet Conversation Feed

Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:

If you're a famous guy with a head full of deep thoughts and nobody to tell you when it might be in your own best interest not to express them, Twitter is the best thing ever. As long as you've got your iPhone in hand, you can give the whole world instant, unfiltered access to your keenest insights …

Discussion: Hot Air, Pajamas Media, The Other McCain, New York Magazine, Ben Smith's Blog and nation.foxnews.com