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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
It's no longer Obama-land in the Hamptons — Barack Obama has lost the Hamptons. — That sentence is a fat target for ridicule, I know, since the Hamptons are often reviled as the playground of the ridiculously rich and the promiscuously silly — hardly the working-class Democratic base.
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Maggie's Notebook and ThinkProgress
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Carney blames low poll numbers on frustration toward Washington — White House officials said Tuesday that President Obama's approval ratings are dropping because Americans are furious with Washington in general. — But even as White House press secretary Jay Carney blasted political obstruction …
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The Politico, Scared Monkeys, Weasel Zippers, iOwnTheWorld.com and This ain't Hell …
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Obama to propose $300 billion to jump-start jobs — WASHINGTON (AP) — The economy weak and the public seething, President Barack Obama is expected to propose $300 billion in tax cuts and federal spending Thursday night to get Americans working again. Republicans offered Tuesday to compromise …
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The Politico, The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
Wall Street Journal:
The President's Speech Impediment
The President's Speech Impediment
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Pajamas Media, Hot Air and The Politico
Michelle Malkin:
Flashback: Obama vowed to end federal probe of Teamsters corruption
Flashback: Obama vowed to end federal probe of Teamsters corruption
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Weasel Zippers, CNN and The Gateway Pundit
Stephen Gutowski / MRCTV:
Video Game Allows Players to Slaughter “Tea Party Zombies” Like Sarah Palin and Bill O'Reilly — Have you ever fantasized about beating Bill O'Reilly to death with a crowbar or shooting up the offices of Americans for Prosperity with an Uzi? Well, the folks at StarvingEyes Advergaming apparently …
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Tea Party Zombies Must Die — Hey kids, hear about the latest rage? It's “Tea Party Zombies Must Die” an exciting new first-person shooter “Advergame.” Here's how it's described: … Don't believe the hype? I took the game for a whirl and managed to snag some choice screenshots.
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Big Journalism, Pajamas Media, Somewhat Reasonable and Big Hollywood
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Tea Party's ridiculous hissy fit over Jimmy Hoffa — As you may have heard, Tea Party conservatives and right-wing bloggers are having a grand old time faking outrage over James Hoffa's Labor Day speech, in which he said of Tea Partyers: “Let's take these son of bitches out.”
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Michelle Malkin, Mediaite, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Monthly, Crooks and Liars and Big Government
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
New online game: “Tea Party Zombies Must Die”
New online game: “Tea Party Zombies Must Die”
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The Jawa Report and Pajamas Media
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Scarborough: ‘No Way’ Perry Can Beat Obama — Looks like Joe Scarborough aims to single-handedly winnow the Republican presidential field. A few weeks ago, the Morning Joe host dismissed Michele Bachmann as “a joke.” Today, Scarborough proclaimed that there is “no way” Rick Perry could beat Barack Obama.
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The Right Scoop and HotAirPundit
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Rick Perry moves ahead of Mitt Romney in race for GOP nomination in new poll
Rick Perry moves ahead of Mitt Romney in race for GOP nomination in new poll
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Bloomberg, Mediaite, M.JOSEPH SHEPPARD'S …, Liberal Values, The Atlantic Online, CNN and Trail Blazers Blog
Alex Sundby / CBS News:
Perry mum on GOP debate as Texas wildfires rage
Perry mum on GOP debate as Texas wildfires rage
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The Huffington Post, Ballot Box, Raw Replay and ThinkProgress
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Rick Perry: The reluctant debater
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Ben Smith's Blog, msnbc.com and TPMDC
Catalina Camia / USA Today:
Spokesman: Perry plans to attend GOP debate
Spokesman: Perry plans to attend GOP debate
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Nation Now, CBS News, The Hill, Hot Air, Truthdig and Washington Examiner
Michael Isikoff / msnbc.com:
Super PAC backing Rick Perry to spend $55 million to beat rivals, documents reveal
Super PAC backing Rick Perry to spend $55 million to beat rivals, documents reveal
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The Caucus, Business Insider, The Raw Story, Boston Globe and GOP 12
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More Republicans skipping Obama's jobs speech — When President Obama delivers his address on a new job-creation plan to a joint session of Congress on Thursday, he won't be speaking to a sold-out crowd. Several lawmakers are still determining whether it is worth their time to stay …
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And So it Goes in Shreveport, AMERICAblog News and Booman Tribune
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Detroit Free Press:
Transcript: Teamsters Jim Hoffa's speech on Labor Day
Transcript: Teamsters Jim Hoffa's speech on Labor Day
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Bluestem Prairie and Angry Black Lady Chronicles
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Teamsters chief says unions didn't start ‘war’ with Tea Party, battles with conservative media
Teamsters chief says unions didn't start ‘war’ with Tea Party, battles with conservative media
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Weasel Zippers and JammieWearingFool
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Exclusive Audio: Inside the Koch Brothers' Secret Seminar — Check back tomorrow for Part 2 of this report, on the GOP superstar who rocked the Koch seminar crowd. — “We have Saddam Hussein,” declared billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, apparently referring to President Barack Obama …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Koch, Hussein, Obama
Koch, Hussein, Obama
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ThinkProgress, Balloon Juice, The Washington Independent and Daily Kos
Gavin Aronsen / Mother Jones:
Exclusive: The Koch Brothers' Million-Dollar Donor Club
Exclusive: The Koch Brothers' Million-Dollar Donor Club
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Salon, The Politico, Crooks and Liars, The BRAD BLOG and ThinkProgress
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Janet Napolitano: Shoes-on flight in sight — Air travelers will eventually be able to keep their shoes on to pass through security, but the restrictions on carrying liquids on board are likely to remain in place for some time, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a POLITICO Playbook breakfast Tuesday.
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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Janet Napolitano: Drudge is ‘just wrong’ on privacy
Janet Napolitano: Drudge is ‘just wrong’ on privacy
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Mediaite, TheBlaze.com and Raw Replay
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi drops the word ‘stimulus’ — Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Democrats have dropped the word stimulus from their vocabulary. — Though the House minority leader and her caucus are still pushing an economic stimulus agenda to save the economy, they've radically changed …
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Message to nudists: At least be sanitary — The naked truth, it seems, is that San Francisco is once again going to emerge as a city ripe for ridicule — or a beacon of free expression — depending on your point of view. The latest issue? Public nudity.
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Weasel Zippers, The Lonely Conservative and JammieWearingFool
Fox News:
Sources: Obama Administration to Drop Troop Levels in Iraq to 3,000 — The Obama administration has decided to drop the number of U.S. troops in Iraq at the end of the year down to 3,000, marking a major downgrade in force strength, multiple sources familiar with the inner workings and decisions …
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Firedoglake, Washington Post, RedState, ThinkProgress, Mediaite, TPMDC, Gothamist, The Western Experience, Maggie's Notebook, Business Insider, Antiwar.com and Raw Replay
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Jake Tapper / Politics:
Infrastructure Spending, Public Disapproval of the President, and the New “Hoffa Standard”: Today's Q's for O's WH - 9/6/20112 — TAPPER: The president's talked about — I know there's a lot in the speech that we don't know about, but it does seem like infrastructure spending's going to be part of it.
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The Lonely Conservative, The Daily Caller and Pirate's Cove
Larry J. Sabato / Wall Street Journal:
The 2012 Election Will Come Down to Seven States — National polls are nice, but Electoral College math is what matters. — Straw polls, real polls, debates, caucuses, primaries—that's the public side of presidential campaigns 14 months before Election Day.
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Grenades Case Hits Justice — Blunders After U.S. Arrest of Suspected Supplier Had a Part in High-Level Ousters — Federal authorities are probing why the U.S. in 2010 let go an Arizona man accused of supplying grenades to a Mexican drug cartel, a case that played a role in the ouster …
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Super Committee Democrats Want More Deficit Reduction — The key dilemma facing President Obama and Congressional Democrats is that Republicans are wholly unwilling to support any new job-creating spending projects — even projects with bipartisan support — unless they're offset with spending cuts or savings elsewhere in the budget.
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Magellan Strategies:
New York 9th Congressional District Special Election Survey (9/6/11) — Baton Rouge, LA - Magellan Strategies BR today released the survey results of an automated survey of 2,055 likely voters in New York's 9th Congressional District. The survey was conducted September 1st, 2011 and has a margin of error of 2.16%.
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Campaign 2012, National Review, TPMDC, The Politico and JammieWearingFool
David Brooks / New York Times:
Where the Jobs Aren't — With the economy stagnating and unemployment high, where are the jobs of the future going to come from? A few years ago, it seemed as though the Green Economy could be a big part of the answer. — New clean-energy sources could address environmental, economic and national security problems all at once.
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Grist, The Enterprise Blog, ThinkProgress, Washington Post and Pirate's Cove
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Exclusive: Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Tim Morse Named Interim CEO — According to sources at the company, Yahoo's Carol Bartz is no longer CEO of Yahoo. CFO Tim Morse has been named interim CEO. — The situation around what is clearly an ouster is uncertain, but Bartz has had a very rocky tenure in her 32 months at the company.
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Prop. 8 backers seem likely to win right to appeal its rejection — The California Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to rule the backers of Proposition 8 and other ballot measures have the right to defend them in court. — During an hour of arguments, several justices …
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Towleroad News #gay, Tiger Beatdown and Prop 8 Trial Tracker
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Quinn to Lay off Thousands — A decision made by Gov. Pat Quinn may leave thousands of state workers without a job by the end of the week. — The cuts are coming in the face of a budget deficit that doesn't leave enough money to pay the workers, the governor says.
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theblogprof, UrbanGrounds, Doug Ross and JammieWearingFool
Paul Osterman / New York Times:
Yes, We Need Jobs. But What Kind? — ON Thursday, President Obama will deliver a major speech on America's employment crisis. But too often, what is lost in the call for job creation is a clear idea of what jobs we want to create. — I recently led a research team to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas …
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Cafe Hayek, Jared Bernstein, The Democratic Daily, LewRockwell.com Blog and Daily Kos