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9:45 AM ET, September 7, 2011

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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Old Tax Relief Seen as Anchor in Obama Plan  —  WASHINGTON — The centerpiece of the job creation package that President Obama plans to announce on Thursday — payroll tax relief for workers and perhaps their employers — is neither his first policy choice nor that of many economists.
Discussion: Sky Dancing
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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 …
Discussion: Don Surber
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats fear it's too late  —  President Obama's new effort to revive the ailing economy may be too little, too late, according to Democrats and liberal policy experts.  —  They contend that Obama missed his chance to turn the economy around by November 2012, but still want him to call …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
David Espo / Associated Press:
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 …
Tim Mak / The Politico:
Obama plan: 100s of billions for jobs  —  With the economy struggling and his re-election campaign gearing up, President Barack Obama plans to propose a jobs package worth several hundred billion dollars, mostly in tax cuts, infrastructure spending, and direct aid to state and local governments, according to reports on Wednesday.
Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
Obama Said to Seek $300 Billion Jobs Package  —  President Barack Obama plans to propose sparking job growth by injecting more than $300 billion into the economy next year, mostly through tax cuts, infrastructure spending and direct aid to state and local governments.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Business Insider
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
For Obama, a Familiar Labor Day Theme
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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Daniel Foster / National Review:
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.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
New online game: “Tea Party Zombies Must Die”
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Pajamas Media
Tom Perry / Reuters:
Palestinians deploy Obama speech in U.N. campaign  —  (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is an unlikely participant in a Palestinian campaign to drum up support for a bid to win U.N. recognition of their statehood — a diplomatic move opposed by both his administration and Israel.
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Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
Obama ‘star’ of Palestinian ad  —  President Barack Obama is the unlikely star of a new Palestinian media campaign.  —  Part of a speech Obama gave in 2010 to the United Nations General Assembly is featured in an ad aimed to rally support for the Palestinians upcoming bid for statehood …
Discussion: Pirate's Cove
Emily Ramshaw / The Texas Tribune:
Perry Heads Into Debate as Front-runner, Target … Keywords: - Texas Governor Rick Perry, - 2012 Presidential Race, - Rick Perry Issues, - Rick Perry Politics  —  Gov. Rick Perry heads into tonight's nationally televised Republican debate — his first on the presidential campaign circuit — as the front-runner.
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Rachel Gordon / SFGate:
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.
David White / International Brotherhood of Teamsters:
HOFFA: CORPORATE-FUNDED CONSERVATIVE POLITICIANS OUT TO DESTROY MIDDLE CLASS  —  'This Fight Is About The Economy, It's About Jobs And It's About Rebuilding America'  —  Press Contact  —  dwhite@teamster.org  —  202-624-6911  —  (WASHINGTON) - Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa today …
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Penny Nance / National Review:
The End of Civility?
Discussion: Joe. My. God.
Paul Krugman:
Treasuries, TIPS, and Gold (Wonkish)  —  (Yes, it's 4:30 AM where I am.  I found myself wide awake, thinking about gold prices.  You got a problem with that?)  —  In assessing economic prospects since the financial crisis of 2008, there have been two kinds of people: inflationistas and deflationistas.
Discussion: EconLog and Marginal Revolution
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.
Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:
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 …
Jeffrey H. Anderson / Investor's Business Daily:
Obama's Recovery A Flop Of Historical Proportions  —  As President Obama prepares to deliver yet another speech about stimulating the economy — this one to a joint-session of Congress (with or without the NFL game on the monitors) — it's worth reviewing the results of his efforts to date.
New York Times:
Panetta Said to Back Troops in Iraq Past Withdrawal Deadline  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is supporting a plan that would keep 3,000 to 4,000 American troops in Iraq after a deadline for their withdrawal at year's end, but only to continue training security forces there, a senior military official said on Tuesday.
Discussion: The Politico and Campaign 2012
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Fox News:
Sources: Obama Administration to Drop Troop Levels in Iraq to 3,000
Wall Street Journal:
Mitt Romney's 59 Economic Flavors  —  A jobs plan that shrinks from some of the biggest issues.  —  Mitt Romney rolled out a major chunk of his economic agenda yesterday, and we'll say this for it: His ideas are better than President Obama's.  Yet the 160 pages and 59 proposals also strike us …
The Right Scoop:
Ann Coulter to Sarah Palin: Fish or cut bait  —  Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter took this segment to basically dismiss Sarah Palin as a serious potential candidate, suggesting that she really hasn't dug deep into policy because she really isn't that interested in it.
Discussion: Hot Air, Mediaite and RedState
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Janet Napolitano: Drudge is ‘just wrong’ on privacy  —  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is calling out web news aggregator Matt Drudge for suggesting that she's an ogre eager to invade the privacy of Americans and in particular those who travel by air.
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Brad Friedman / MoJo Articles:
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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New York Times:
In Euro Zone, Banking Fear Feeds on Itself  —  Remember the collapse of Lehman Brothers?  Europeans certainly do.  —  As Europe struggles to contain its government debt crisis, the greatest fear is that one of the Continent's major banks may fail, setting off a financial panic like the one sparked …
 
 
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Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Super Committee Democrats Want More Deficit Reduction
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Prop. 8 backers seem likely to win right to appeal its rejection
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Jake Tapper / Politics:
Infrastructure Spending, Public Disapproval of the President, and the New “Hoffa Standard” …
Paul Osterman / New York Times:
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