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3:40 PM ET, September 4, 2011

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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
One and Done?  —  ONE day during the 2008 campaign, as Barack Obama read the foreboding news of the mounting economic and military catastrophes that W. was bequeathing his successor, he dryly remarked to aides: “Maybe I should throw the game.”  —  On the razor's edge of another recession …
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blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
American Way: Barack Obama, 2008 man of hope and change, becomes 2012 candidate of fear and status quo  —  So how much trouble is Barack Obama in?  Well, it doesn't get much worse.  —  His approval rating is hovering just above 40 per cent.  Unemployment is stuck at 9.1 per cent …
Washington Examiner:
Barone: Speech fiasco an ‘audacity of weakness’  —  I can't remember a more stunning rebuke of a president by a congressional leader than Speaker John Boehner's refusal to agree to Barack Obama's demand — er, request — that he summon a joint session of Congress to hear the president's latest speech …
Ben Geman / The Hill:
President Obama's smog policy gamble holds uncertain political payoff
Discussion: Hot Air
Mike Lofgren / truth-out.org:
Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult  —  Barbara Stanwyck: “We're both rotten!”  —  Fred MacMurray: “Yeah - only you're a little more rotten.”  -"Double Indemnity" (1944)  —  Those lines of dialogue from a classic film noir sum up the state of the two political parties in contemporary America.
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Perry tells NH ‘no’ to border fence
A.Killough / CNN:
Perry focuses on Obama
Discussion: The Politico
Robert B. Reich / New York Times:
The Limping Middle Class  —  Robert B. Reich is the former secretary of labor, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of “Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future.”  —  THE 5 percent of Americans with the highest incomes now account for 37 percent …
Brian Joseph / Orange County Register:
FBI arrests prominent Democratic campaign treasurer  —  SACRAMENTO - A prominent Democratic campaign treasurer who works for federal, state and O.C. lawmakers including U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.  Rep. Loretta Sanchez and state Assemblymen Lou Correa and Jose Solorio has been arrested …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
The media sure does love Mr. One Percent  —  CBS's “Face the Nation” has two presidential contenders on this morning.  One of them is even competitive. … Seeing Huntsman's name on the schedule got me thinking: haven't we seen quite a bit of him lately?  —  On Friday, Huntsman was on CNBC's “The Kudlow Report.”
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Huntsman: Next president will be a ‘former governor’  —  Republican presidential candidate and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman predicted Sunday that the next president would be a 'former governor.  “I do believe the next president of the United States in 2012 will be a former governor,” …
Discussion: Associated Press
Washington Post:
We read so you don't have to: Michael Moore's ‘Here Comes Trouble’  —  Reliable liberal gadfly Michael Moore has denounced the Iraq war in an Oscar speech, campaigned for Ralph Nader, and ambushed General Motors chief executive Roger Smith and President George W. Bushon camera.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and NewsBusters.org
SarahPAC:
Governor Palin's Speech at the “Restoring America” Tea Party of America Rally in Indianola, Iowa (Video and Transcript)  —  The following is the video and text of Governor Palin's speech at the “Restoring America” Tea Party of America Rally in Indianola, Iowa, on September 3, 2011.  —  Thank you, Iowa.
 
 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
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