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Roger Simon / The Politico:
W.H. furious over speech delay — It seemed like a trivial matter: On Wednesday, House Republicans forced the president to delay his speech to a joint session of Congress by one day. — Who cares? The White House cares. Very much. — “It is a big deal that the House said ‘no’ to the president …
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Speaker John Boehner Should Resign For His Unprecedented Insult To The President — The mainstream media, and even some in the liberal opinion media, have completely missed the point of President Obama's dust-up with Speaker John Boehner over the date for Obama's address before a joint session of Congress.
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Patterico's Pontifications, JammieWearingFool, Pajamas Media, Verum Serum and Fox News
George Stephanopoulos / Politics:
James Carville: White House ‘Out of Bounds’ Over Speech Flap — Democratic strategist James Carville told me that the White House was in the wrong when it requested that the President address Congress on the same night and time as a Republican presidential debate.
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Hot Air, Big Government, Don Surber, Washington Post, Taylor Marsh, ABCNEWS, The Hill, The Politico, Moe Lane, CNN, Outside the Beltway and Right Wing Nut House
Ezra Klein / Bloomberg:
About Ezra Klein — Ezra Klein is a columnist and blogger at The Washington Post and a policy analyst for MSNBC. His work focuses on domestic and economic policy-making, as well as the political system that's constantly screwing it up. — Expect Obama Speech to Yield Lots of Talk, No Action: Ezra Klein
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The New Republic and Washington Monthly
Cenk Uygur / The Huffington Post:
Is Obama Playing Rope-a-Dope? — Here was the headline on Yahoo from Wednesday night: Obama bows to Boehner on jobs speech. — I can tell you what any progressive who has been paying attention thought, “Oh boy, here we go again.” — President Obama has now changed the day of his address to Congress to accommodate the Republicans.
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Swampland, RedState, Don Surber, National Review and The TrogloPundit
Matt Negrin / The Politico:
White House: Send us your petitions
White House: Send us your petitions
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Wonkette, Booman Tribune, Associated Press and Economist's View
James Downie / Washington Post:
Obama-Boehner speech spat should worry Democrats
Obama-Boehner speech spat should worry Democrats
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Firedoglake, Mediaite, Althouse, Outside the Beltway, The Hill, Mad Kane's Political Madness and New York Times
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Perry Overtakes Romney as Top GOP 2012 Pick; Most Say Palin Should Stay Out of Race — Even as Texas Gov. Rick Perry moves into the lead as Republican voters' preferred presidential candidate, a Fox News poll released Thursday shows that voters are more likely to view him as …
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Little Green Footballs, Weasel Zippers, TPMDC, Outside the Beltway, Chron.com and Ben Smith's Blog
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Joe Klein / Swampland:
Romney=Kerry; Perry=Dean? — In my print column this week, hidden behind the magic wonderwall, I indulge in a little presidential campaign history: Four years ago, in September 2007, John McCain-the eventual Republican nominee-was dead in the water, having raised and wasted a ton of money and fired most of his staff.
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Liberal Values
Washington Examiner:
York: Left paints the campaign as a religious war
York: Left paints the campaign as a religious war
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Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
Quinnipiac University:
Obama Approval Hits All-Time Low, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Economy Is Getting Worse, More Voters Say
Obama Approval Hits All-Time Low, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Economy Is Getting Worse, More Voters Say
Joshua Green / Associated Press:
Perry can't exploit key weakness for Romney
Perry can't exploit key weakness for Romney
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No More Mister Nice Blog and GOP 12
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Tucson Republican Leader Slams County GOP For Giffords Gun Raffle — Eyebrows shot up all over the country Thursday following news that that the Republican Party in Pima County, AZ — home to Tucson and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' (D) district — is raffling off a Glock similar to the one used to shoot Giffords in the head in January.
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The Huffington Post:
Pima County Repubs Raffle Glock As Fundraiser; Same Gun Type Used in Tucson Shooting … Talk about a killer gimmick. — An Arizona Republican fundraiser is offering as a prize the same type of gun used in the attempted assassination of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
Fawn Johnson / The Atlantic Online:
Obama Rolls Out a Jobs Plan That Doesn't Need Congress — The president has asked federal agencies to find solutions on their own. His message to lawmakers: We can do this without you. — President Obama is either fed up with Congress or he's testing his own administration's mettle. Or both.
Eli Clifton / ThinkProgress:
Top Ten Right-Wing Responses To CAP's Islamophobia Report: ‘Cowards,’ ‘Straight Out of Mein Kampf,’ ‘A Pile Of Dung’ — The Center for American Progress's new report, “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America” is receiving a positive welcome from neutral observers …
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Family Security Matters, Jihad Watch, Atlas Shrugs and Global Public Square
Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
Florida Republicans Fight To Keep ‘Cohabitation’ Of Unmarried Couples Illegal — Thousands of unmarried couples who are living together in Florida may be surprised to learn that they are actually breaking the law. Under outdated and rarely enforced state laws that have been on the books since …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Sun-Sentinel and Wonkette
Mike Rosenberg / Mercury News:
Dude! Free weed lying on San Jose street snatched up by bystanders — It was a pot head's dream: Free marijuana lying on the street for the taking, without a cop in sight. — San Jose police say a truck illegally carrying marijuana crashed and ended up on its side near Oakridge Mall early Wednesday …
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Associated Press, Pajamas Media and L.A. NOW
Mary Lu Carnevale / Washington Wire:
Grassley, Issa Expand ‘Fast and Furious’ Investigation — That didn't take long. — Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) said they were expanding their probe into a troubled anti-gun-trafficking program, two days after the Justice Department announced a shake-up of officials who oversaw the program.
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Examiner, Hot Air, The Lonely Conservative, Doug Ross, Sipsey Street Irregulars and The Daily Caller
Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
U.S. Is Set to Sue a Dozen Big Banks Over Mortgages — The federal agency that oversees the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is set to file suits against more than a dozen big banks, accusing them of misrepresenting the quality of mortgage securities they assembled and sold …
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Mish's Global Economic … and Politics
CNN:
New Hampshire GOP chair resigns — Concord, New Hampshire (CNN) - Embattled New Hampshire GOP Chair Jack Kimball resigned his post Thursday, forestalling a planned vote by the party's executive committee that could have ended in his removal. — In an emotional speech …
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Associated Press
Colleen Barry / Associated Press:
Clooney: Obama ‘having an almost impossible time governing’ — Cynicism rises to surface in director's ‘The Ides of March’ — “The Ides of March” director, writer and actor George Clooney (second from left) arrives in Venice on Tuesday with co-writer Grant Heslov (left).
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Big Hollywood and Pajamas Media
Sheila Marikar / Politics:
Sarah Palin's Saturday Speech Will Be a ‘Full Throated Defense of the Tea Party’ — ABC's Shushannah Walshe and Sheila Marikar report: — Two days before Sarah Palin's much anticipated, on, off, and on again Iowa speech, details are emerging about what the former Alaska governor will say.
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Iowa Caucuses, Hot Air, Conservatives4Palin, ABCNEWS and National Review
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Is The Great Recession Forcing Graduates Of Elite Colleges Into A Desperate Life Of Rockstardom? — As we saw yesterday, the recession's bite has been broad, including on the earnings of recent college graduates. But this seems to be going a bit far:
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New York Times and epi.org
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
White House downgrades 2012 jobs, economic forecasts; cites ‘turbulence’ — The Obama administration downgraded its forecast for economic growth Thursday, predicting turmoil in the economy will likely keep unemployment above 9 percent through next year's election.
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RealClearPolitics Video Log, Hot Air, The Lonely Conservative, Pajamas Media and The Hill
John Hooper / Guardian:
Berlusconi vows to leave ‘s**tty’ Italy in conversation recorded by police — Transcripts from blackmail investigation reveal the Italian prime minister's frustration with his country — In a sign of his frustration at the investigations into his alleged crimes and misdemeanours …
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AmSpecBlog, Mish's Global Economic … and TPMDC
Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
Five GOP Presidential Candidates Have Proposed Eliminating Capital Gains Tax, A $1 Trillion Giveaway To The Rich — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and former Gov. Jon Huntsman (R-UT) — Yesterday, 2012 GOP presidential long-shot Jon Huntsman unveiled an economic plan that …
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Concord Monitor, Bloomberg, The Political Carnival and Outside the Beltway
LawProf / Inside the Law School Scam:
Indignation — I don't want to make this blog a narcissistic exercise (what the world world needs now is another law professor's self-absorbed musings like I need a hole in my head), but I want to preface this post with a couple of personal observations. Writing this blog has been very gratifying …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, ThinkProgress and The Other McCain
NationalJournal.com:
Democrats Distancing Themselves From Obama — Rep. Pete DeFazio, D-Ore., introduced then-presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama at a campaign event in Oregon in 2008. Now he seems to be recalculating how close is too close to be to an unpopular President Obama.
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The Hill
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Lieberman: Obama's concern with offending Muslims hurts war effort — The Obama administration's fear of offending Muslims will hurt the U.S. war against terrorism, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Thursday in a speech blasting the president's new counterterrorism strategy.
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Washington Monthly
Kimi Yoshino / L.A. NOW:
Jury unable to reach verdict in killing of gay student Larry King — A jury has been unable to reach a verdict in the murder trial of Brandon McInerney, the 17-year-old accused of shooting a gay classmate to death in 2008. — The jury began deliberating Friday, weighing eight weeks …
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Firedoglake and ThinkProgress
Shelby Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and the Burden of Exceptionalism — Post-'60s liberals, with the president as their standard bearer, seek to make a virtue of decline. — If I've heard it once, I've heard it a hundred times: President Obama is destroying the country. Some say this destructiveness is intended …
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Crooks and Liars and The New Republic
George Bennett / Palm Beach Post:
FEMA'S use of term ‘federal family’ for government expands under Obama — Posted: 6:17 p.m. Wednesday, Augt. 31, 2011 — Don't think of it as the federal government but as your “federal family.” — In a Category 4 torrent of official communications during the approach and aftermath …