memeorandum: ‘This Week’ Transcript: Sen. Jim DeMint (ABCNEWS)

8:25 AM ET, September 5, 2011

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Vicki Needham / The Hill:

Sen. DeMint: Obama speech to Congress ‘going to be hard for me to watch’ — Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) expressed doubt on Sunday that President Obam can provide any viable economic policies to create jobs and gain bipartisan support. — “Frankly I am so tired of his speeches …

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CNN:

STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY — Interview With Jim DeMint; Interview With Jim Hoffa; Interview With Sen. Lieberman, Rep. Rogers — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — CANDY CROWLEY, HOST: A jobless Labor …

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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:

Academics dub tea partyers devout, racist — Two years after it burst onto the political scene, the tea party is getting a critical eye from political science academics who say the movement generally is populated by knowledgeable and religiously devout voters, but they are hypocritical …

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Josh Hafner / Iowa Caucuses:

Sarah Palin runs unannounced in Iowa half-marathon — Sarah Palin's short-lived and unannounced run began and ended today in Storm Lake, Iowa. — The morning after Palin's speech at a tea party rally in Indianola, Greta Van Susteren of Fox News posted a photo she said was snapped of Palin during the …

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Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:

Above is a picture of Governor Sarah Palin this morning....in Iowa with a crowd. — She is running and the pic was taken in Storm Lake, Iowa in a 1/2 marathon. — By the way, I understand she had a very good running time...I am trying to get that for you.

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SarahPAC:
Governor Palin's Speech at the “Restoring America” Tea Party of America Rally in Indianola, Iowa (Video and Transcript)

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Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:

Postal Service Is Nearing Default as Losses Mount — The United States Postal Service has long lived on the financial edge, but it has never been as close to the precipice as it is today: the agency is so low on cash that it will not be able to make a $5.5 billion payment due this month …

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ABCNEWS:

‘This Week’ Transcript: Sen. Jim DeMint — AMANPOUR (voice-over): This week, start your engines. Campaign 2012 shifts into overdrive as Mitt Romney ramps up... ROMNEY: Career politicians got us into this mess, and they simply don't know how to get us out. — AMANPOUR: ... Rick Perry cleans up...

Matt Stoller / Salon:

What Democrats can do about Obama — From the debt ceiling fiasco to the recent rescheduling of a jobs speech at the behest of Speaker Boehner, it has not been a good summer for President Obama. Like Chinese water torture, Gallup's daily tracking poll has shown a steady and unrelenting drip of bad news.

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:

The Fatal Distraction — Friday brought two numbers that should have everyone in Washington saying, “My God, what have we done?” — One of these numbers was zero — the number of jobs created in August. The other was two — the interest rate on 10-year U.S. bonds, almost as low as this rate has ever gone.

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ForexCrunch / Business Insider:

Senior IMF Economist Expects Hard Default For Greece. Soon. — According to a senior IMF economist who wasn't identified, Greece will likely face a “hard default” well before March 2012. — It could happen during 2011, and perhaps after the current round of negotiations.

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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 …

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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

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Blue Texan / Firedoglake:

Wrong, Jonathan Chait: Not “Everybody” Thought the Stimulus Was “Mind-Bogglingly Large” — Pictured: a nobody, according to Jon Chait. (photo: Taekwonweirdo) — I naively thought Obama's offering to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid would put an end to the “liberals are being unfair to Obama” …

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