Top Items:
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 …
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, Washington Wire, Hot Air, Firedoglake, The Other McCain, Politics, Guardian, ThinkProgress, Pajamas Media, TPMDC and AMERICAblog News
RELATED:
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 …
Dan Berman / The Politico:
Al Gore: Obama bows to polluters
Al Gore: Obama bows to polluters
Discussion:
RedState, Weasel Zippers and Pajamas Media
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Gore rebukes Obama
CNN:
Reid pushes emergency FEMA funding while Cantor denies holding disaster aid ‘hostage’ — Washington (CNN) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said Wednesday he would ask the Senate to approve quickly a $6 billion emergency spending bill to replenish the Federal Emergency Management …
Discussion:
The Politico
RELATED:
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Reid Seeks To Call GOP Bluff By Pushing Clean Emergency Disaster Relief Bill
Reid Seeks To Call GOP Bluff By Pushing Clean Emergency Disaster Relief Bill
Discussion:
Washington Monthly
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats fear it's too late
Democrats fear it's too late
Discussion:
CNN, The Politico, Pat Dollard, Washington Post, Big Government, The Moderate Voice and Outside the Beltway
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Old Tax Relief Seen as Anchor in Obama Plan
Old Tax Relief Seen as Anchor in Obama Plan
Discussion:
PERRspectives, Daily Kos, Sky Dancing, Speaker, The Maddow Blog and Ricochet Conversation Feed
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, TPMDC, Firedoglake and Hullabaloo
RELATED:
Darren Goode / The Politico:
Barbara Boxer: I hope greens sue President Obama
Barbara Boxer: I hope greens sue President Obama
Discussion:
The Hill, ThinkProgress, Pajamas Media, Weasel Zippers, Cagle Post, National Review and The Hill
John Matthews / 630 WMAL:
WMAL EXCLUSIVE: LISTEN - Obama's New Rule For Political Civility
WMAL EXCLUSIVE: LISTEN - Obama's New Rule For Political Civility
Discussion:
The Gateway Pundit
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.
Discussion:
Wizbang, Hot Air, Power Line, iOwnTheWorld.com, The Page, Pajamas Media, Michelle Malkin, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The TrogloPundit and The Hill
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
Don Surber, Hot Air, Fox News, The Gateway Pundit, The Lonely Conservative and The Daily Caller
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
RELATED:
Jonathan Karl / Politics:
Dick Cheney Tells Republican Presidential Candidates To Watch Their Mouths
Dick Cheney Tells Republican Presidential Candidates To Watch Their Mouths
Discussion:
Business Insider, PoliTex and New York Magazine
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Karl Rove: Rick Perry's Extreme Views On Social Security Are ‘Toxic’
Karl Rove: Rick Perry's Extreme Views On Social Security Are ‘Toxic’
Discussion:
Riehl World View, Ben Smith's Blog, Mediaite and Daily Pundit
George Stephanopoulos / Politics:
Karl Rove: Rick Perry's Social Security Views ‘Toxic’
Karl Rove: Rick Perry's Social Security Views ‘Toxic’
Discussion:
Opinion L.A., Outside the Beltway, RedState, The Gateway Pundit, GOP 12, Campaign 2012 and TPMDC
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 …
Discussion:
The Democratic Daily, National Review, Mediaite, Teamster Nation and Michelle Malkin
RELATED:
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Fireworks between Perry and Romney erupt early in debate — Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) began sparring over their respective jobs records after no less than 10 minutes into Wednesday's Republican presidential debate.
Discussion:
ThinkProgress and Ben Smith's Blog
RELATED:
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Republican Debate: Five Things to Watch
Republican Debate: Five Things to Watch
Discussion:
New York Times, The Other McCain, Hot Air, Washington Post, The New Republic, The Daily Caller, Saint Petersblog and The Daily Beast
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
In advance of the Reagan revelry
In advance of the Reagan revelry
Discussion:
Los Angeles Times and A plain blog about politics
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 …
Discussion:
WILLisms.com, Moe Lane and Big Government
RELATED:
Audrey Hudson / Human Events:
Contract Dispute Grounds Firefighting Planes — Nearly half of the federal government's firefighting air tankers are siting idle at a California airport, grounded by the Obama administration in a contract dispute just weeks before wildfires swept through Texas killing a mother and her child, and destroying 100,000 acres.
Discussion:
The Lonely Conservative, JammieWearingFool and Maggie's Notebook
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.
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.
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, The Moderate Voice, American Power, Sister Toldjah, sisu, Guardian, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Other McCain, Rumproast, Taylor Marsh, GOP 12, The Right Scoop, Gawker, Pajamas Media, Conservatives4Palin, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers, Riehl World View, Hot Air, Pirate's Cove, Balloon Juice, INSTAPUTZ, Patterico's Pontifications, The Lonely Conservative and Roger Ailes
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 …
Discussion:
No More Mister Nice Blog
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 …
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers, Campaign 2012 and Naked Politics
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
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
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 …
Discussion:
ThinkProgress, The Raw Story, The Maddow Blog, Washington Monthly and JSOnline