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8:30 PM ET, September 7, 2011

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Al Gore / Al's Journal:
Confronting Disappointment  —  On Friday afternoon, as brave and committed activists continued their non-violent civil disobedience outside the White House in protest of the tar sands pipeline that would lead to a massive increase in global warming pollution, President Obama ordered the EPA …
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Obama's whopper of a claim on tax cuts  —  “We said working folks deserved a break , so within one month of me taking office, we signed into law the biggest middle-class tax cut in history, putting more money into your pockets.”  —  The president's Labor Day speech in Detroit featured …
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
A Campaign Challenge: Defining Obama  —  LOS ANGELES — President Obama may have escaped the burden of a Democratic primary challenger.  Yet the battle to define him is rapidly escalating — not only by Republicans competing to run against him, but also within his own team inside the White House.
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
The White House's two priorities  —  (ANDREW HARRER/BLOOMBERG) The White House believes two things about the next 14 months in American politics: With more than a year to go before the election, they can't simply stop governing and start campaigning.  That means that whatever they propose needs to attract bipartisan support.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Firedoglake
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Gore rebukes Obama
Discussion: Guardian
Dan Berman / The Politico:
Al Gore: Obama bows to polluters
Discussion: Pajamas Media and Weasel Zippers
John Matthews / 630 WMAL:
WMAL EXCLUSIVE: LISTEN - Obama's New Rule For Political Civility
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
The Hill:
White House could take bigger role in vetting costly regulations ahead of 2012
Discussion: The Politico
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Perry begins to show his hand on Social Security  —  As I reported earlier today, Karl Rove's remarks are the first explicit challenge to Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) on Social Security.  The issue is an important one, and not just for the general election; South Carolina and Florida have loads …
Discussion: Hot Air
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Karl Rove: Rick Perry's Extreme Views On Social Security Are ‘Toxic’  —  This morning on ABC, Karl Rove said Rick Perry's extreme views on Social Security — detailed in his book “Fed Up!”  — are “toxic” both in the Republican primary and the general election.  Rove also dismissed Perry's response thus far as “inadequate.”
Healthwatch:
OVERNIGHT HEALTH: Republican presidential debate promises healthcare fireworks
Discussion: CNN
Jonathan Karl / Politics:
Dick Cheney Tells Republican Presidential Candidates To Watch Their Mouths
Fox News:
Pelosi Peeved Republicans Opt Out of Rebuttal to Obama Speech  —  Republicans have decided they're not going to give a rebuttal to President Obama's jobs speech later this week, a decision House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi took as a high affront to the White House.
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Conn Carroll / Campaign 2012:
NBC picks Packers over Obama in Milwaukee  —  He probably didn't know it at the time, but when President Obama greeted Green Bay Packers quarterback (and California Golden Bears alum) Aaron Rodgers at the White House this August, he was shaking hand with the competition.  And not because Obama is a Chicago Bears fan.
JSOnline:   Channel 4 picks Packers over Obama
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The secret to the right wing noise machine's success  —  It's simple: Keep making noise, regardless of the facts, and hopefully with a big assist from the major news orgs, until the other side caves from sheer exhaustion, in order to make the noise go away.  —  Conservatives and Tea Partyers …
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Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
Enough  —  “[A]t some point, Sarah Palin has to take some responsibility for her supporters as Ron Paul must for his.  Palin's dragging out the tease on her decision has compounded the problem and we've reached a breaking point.”  —  On Fox News, Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham had the best discussion on Sarah Palin I have seen.
John Cole / Balloon Juice:
Dickensian  —  I have to laugh at the Mistermix that the media might notice the Republicans are crazy and a pile-on might begin.  It just cracks me up.  Look where we are now- Paul Ryan, the GOP poster boy who offered up the blueprint for the biggest piece of class warfare ever offered …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Liberals Finally See the Obama We've Seen All Along  —  Hey, remember when it was an unhinged, unfair, right-wing smear to charge that Obama was obliviously and aloofly golfing his way through a four-year national recession?  —  Yeah, check out the cartoon of Tom Toles …
Discussion: Pundit & Pundette
Anne Jolis / Wall Street Journal:
The Other Climate Theory  —  Al Gore won't hear it, but heavenly bodies might be driving long-term weather trends.  —  In April 1990, Al Gore published an open letter in the New York Times “To Skeptics on Global Warming” in which he compared them to medieval flat-Earthers.
Discussion: Power Line
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Obama Approval Sinks to New Lows Among Whites, Hispanics  —  Blacks' support remains high, but at 84% ties record for monthly low  —  PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama earned the lowest monthly job approval rating of his presidency to date in August, with 41% of U.S. adults approving …
Tim Graham / NewsBusters.org:
Actress Mila Kunis: ‘I Love Barack Obama,’ Adds Young Republicans Are ‘Ill-Informed’  —  Actress Mila Kunis granted an interview (and cover photo) to Stylist magazine and proclaimed “I love Barack Obama” and that young Republicans are “ill-informed” in Middle America and can't tell you why they oppose Obama.
Dave Mundy / The Gonzales Cannon:
Feds to assume control of Bastrop Co. fire; volunteer firemen turned away  —  BASTROP — Firefighting-trained volunteers from around the state converged on Bastrop and Smithville Tuesday to lend a hand to the beleaguered local firefighters battling the Bastrop County Complex Fire …
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
The Greater Recession: The Real Reason Americans Feel So Squeezed  —  The collapse of the middle class is greater than the Great Recession.  But what's really behind our 30-year crash?  One statistic, often ignored, begins to provide a clearer picture.  It's the productivity, stupid.  —  REUTERS
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Jenna Sachs / WITI:
Protesters arrested after disrupting luncheon featuring Cong. Paul Ryan  —  Equal number of protesters, supporters were at event  —  More than 40 police officers came to control the crowds at Whitnall Park Rotary Club Tuesday afternoon where Congressman Paul Ryan was invited to speak.
CNN:
EXCLUSIVE: Libyan missiles looted  —  CNN's Ben Wedeman and Ingrid Formanek reporting from Tripoli, Libya -  —  TRIPOLI, Libya (CNN) - A potent stash of Russian-made surface-to-air missiles is missing from a huge Tripoli weapons warehouse amid reports of weapons looting across war-torn Libya.
host.madison.com:
Top DOT official tells staff not to mention free voter ID cards to the public — unless they ask  —  An internal memo from a top Department of Transportation official instructs workers at Division of Motor Vehicles service centers not to tell members of the public that they can obtain voter …
Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Many in U.S. slip from middle class, study finds  —  Nearly one in three Americans who grew up middle-class has slipped down the income ladder as an adult, according to a new report by the Pew Charitable Trusts.  —  Downward mobility is most common among middle-class people who are divorced …
 
 
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Aaron Blake / Bloomberg:
Obama's base grows disenchanted
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner, McConnell huddle with GOP members of supercommittee
Discussion: The Politico
Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey News Release
Discussion: Economix and The Atlantic Online
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Reid Seeks To Call GOP Bluff By Pushing Clean Emergency Disaster Relief Bill
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
The Whole Truth and Nothing But
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Supporters Of NC Anti-Gay Amendment Insert Key Into Lock To Demonstrate How To Consummate A Marriage
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
NC opposes marriage amendment
Andrew C. McCarthy / The New Criterion:
The ruler of law
Discussion: National Review and The Daily Dish
 Earlier Items: 
Anthony Man / Broward Politics:
Congressman Allen West says 9/11 lessons unlearned, sees threat from radical Islam
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Obama's Biggest Challenge Thursday, One Of His Own Making
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Race to Replace Weiner Down to the Wire
New York Times:
In the Land of Denial  —  The Republican presidential contenders …
Discussion: Democratic Strategist
Peter Berkowitz / Wall Street Journal:
The Myth of Conservative Purity
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Brown: ‘Uncle Omar’ should be deported
Discussion: The Politico and Weasel Zippers
 

 
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Financial Times:
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