memeorandum: Mitt Romney's 59 Economic Flavors (Wall Street Journal)

12:55 PM ET, September 7, 2011

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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: Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, The Anchoress, Don Surber and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog

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.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Politico, The Huffington Post, Washington Post, emptywheel, RealClearPolitics Video Log, Politics, The Hankster and Corrente

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.

Discussion: Hot Air, AMERICAblog News, Pirate's Cove, Speaker, Washington Post, The Lonely Conservative and americanthinker.com

Darren Goode / The Politico:

Barbara Boxer: I hope greens sue President Obama — Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer said she hopes green groups sue President Barack Obama over his decision to punt a regulation curbing smog-creating emissions until at least 2013.

Discussion: The Hill, ThinkProgress, Pajamas Media, Weasel Zippers, Cagle Post, Scared Monkeys and The Hill

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

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: Firedoglake, MarketBeat, RedState, Daily Kos, Business Insider and Althouse

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats fear it's too late

Discussion: The Politico and Outside the Beltway

David Espo / Associated Press:
Obama to propose $300 billion to jump-start jobs

Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Huffington Post, Yahoo! News, Los Angeles Times, The Gateway Pundit, Sky Dancing, The Politico, Hullabaloo and Weasel Zippers

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: Taylor Marsh, Gawker, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Daily Caller, The Lonely Conservative and Roger Ailes

The Right Scoop:
Ann Coulter to Sarah Palin: Fish or cut bait

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Coulter on Palin: Let's face it, she's probably not electable

Discussion: Mediaite

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:

Rove: ‘Fed Up!’ Perry's ‘greatest challenge’ — It's hard to overstate what a liability “Fed Up!” — published just last year — is for a guy who is otherwise an extremely strong candidate. You have to take him at his word that he would never have written it if he'd planned to run …

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.”

Discussion: Riehl World View, Politics, Campaign 2012, Mediaite and Daily Pundit

Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Republican Debate: Five Things to Watch

Discussion: The Daily Beast, The New Republic, The Texas Tribune, New York Times, Saint Petersblog and Connecting.the.Dots

Rolling Stone:

Obama and Jobs: Why I Don't Believe Him Anymore — I was in an airport in Florida yesterday and was forced into a terrible, Sophie's Choice-type choice. — I was hours early for a flight and stuck in a relatively small terminal crammed with people. Only one area in the whole wing had empty seats …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Don Surber and UrbanGrounds

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.

Discussion: Power Line, The Reaction, GayPatriot, Questions and Observations, americanthinker.com, ThinkProgress, Ricochet Conversation Feed, Outside the Beltway, Pundit & Pundette, Maggie's Notebook, The Lonely Conservative and Don Surber

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 …

Discussion: The Raw Story, Power Line, The Gateway Pundit, No More Mister Nice Blog, Big Hollywood, Confederate Yankee, Patterico's Pontifications, Verum Serum, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Proof Positive, The Right Scoop, Somewhat Reasonable, Pajamas Media and The Lonely Conservative

Daniel Foster / National Review:
Tea Party Zombies Must Die

Discussion: Big Hollywood, Wizbang, The Other McCain, Big Journalism, Pajamas Media, Right Wing News, Scared Monkeys and The Jawa Report

Ali Gharib / ThinkProgress:
Poll: Two-Thirds Of Republicans, Tea Partiers And Fox News Viewers Think Islam Is Incompatible With American Values

Discussion: Mediaite, Osborne Ink, Wonkette, Swampland and Brookings Institute

Aurelius / Pundit Press:
Liberals Create Video Game in Which Tea Partiers are Murdered

Discussion: Moonbattery

Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:

Like Fox News, Washington Post, USA Today And CNN All Run Hoffa Comments Out Of Context — This is what happens when the mainstream press chases manufactured, right-wing media controversies: The alleged stories are built upon lies and when trying to detail the faux controversies …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Media Matters for America and Daily Kos

Matt Cover / CNSNews:
Teamsters' Hoffa Made $300,000 in 2010

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Ed Schultz Asks Hoffa ‘Do You Think The Republicans Are Sons of B—hes?’

Discussion: Nice Deb and Mediaite

Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:

Tomblin leads by 6 points in WV — The West Virginia Governor's race has tightened significantly over the last four months and Democrat Earl Ray Tomblin now leads Republican challenger Bill Maloney by only 6 points at 46-40. PPP's last poll, in May, found Tomblin leading by 15 at 45-30 …

Discussion: Don Surber, Taegan Goddard's … and Moe Lane

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.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Gulf News, Foreign Policy, Washington Post and Weasel Zippers

Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
Obama ‘star’ of Palestinian ad

Discussion: Pirate's Cove

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.

Discussion: Maggie's Notebook, Ricochet Conversation Feed, Weasel Zippers, Pajamas Media, The Lonely Conservative and JammieWearingFool

Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:

G.O.P. Legislators Balk at a Call to Tie Storm Aid to Budget Cuts — WASHINGTON — As Congress prepares to tackle the issue of providing aid to areas ravaged by Tropical Storm Irene, a rift has opened among House Republicans over the federal government's role in providing disaster relief.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, No More Mister Nice Blog and Daily Kos

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 …

Discussion: Ricochet Conversation Feed, Indecision Forever, New York Magazine, BizzyBlog, Business Insider, Hot Air and The Lonely Conservative

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: FT Alphaville, EconLog and Marginal Revolution

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.

Discussion: The Politico and nation.foxnews.com

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 …

Discussion: Gawker

New York Times:
Court Rejects Challenges to German Euro Bailouts

Discussion: AMERICAN FUTURE, Vox Popoli and The BLT

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

TSA Agent Threatens Woman With Defamation, Demands $500k For Calling Intrusive Search ‘Rape’ — Amy Alkon is an advice columnist and blogger who is just one of many people who has had a horrifying and traumatizing experience going through airport security lately.

Discussion: Forbes.com, The Agitator, LewRockwell.com Blog and AmSpecBlog