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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.
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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 …
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Washington Monthly, Los Angeles Times, Hullabaloo, The Politico, The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
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.
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Washington Post and Pirate's Cove
Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
Obama Said to Seek $300 Billion Jobs Package
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Business Insider
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Carney blames low poll numbers on frustration toward Washington
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Scared Monkeys, The Politico, Weasel Zippers, iOwnTheWorld.com, This ain't Hell … and JammieWearingFool
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
For Obama, a Familiar Labor Day Theme
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Ricochet Conversation Feed, The Atlantic Online and NewsBusters.org
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.
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Wizbang, The Other McCain, Big Journalism, Scared Monkeys, Pajamas Media, Big Hollywood and Right Wing News
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Tea Party's ridiculous hissy fit over Jimmy Hoffa
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Mediaite, Michelle Malkin, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The TrogloPundit, News Hounds and Washington Monthly
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
New online game: “Tea Party Zombies Must Die”
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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 …
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Pirate's Cove
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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Power Line, Rolling Stone, Outside the Beltway, ThinkProgress, Maggie's Notebook, americanthinker.com and Don Surber
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.
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Weasel Zippers, The Lonely Conservative and JammieWearingFool
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.
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EconLog and Marginal Revolution
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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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 …
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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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.
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The Politico and Campaign 2012
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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.
NBC Chicago:
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, Doug Ross, UrbanGrounds and JammieWearingFool
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 …
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Business Insider, Hot Air, BizzyBlog and The Lonely Conservative
P.J. Salvatore / Big Journalism:
VIDEO: ‘Sons of Bitches’ Ask David Brock For Media Matters' Tax Filings — Earlier today, a few of us Tea Party “sons of bitches” decided to call on the “debunked” progressive propagandists at Media Matters for America (MMFA) to ask them to produce their latest IRS 990 form-the tax document …
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YID With LID, Media Matters for America, Mediaite, Pajamas Media and National Review
The Politico:
POLITICO-NBC News Republican Candidates Debate details — WHEN: Begins at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on Wednesday, Sept. 7. — WHERE TO WATCH: POLITICO will be livestreaming the debate online - with a pre-debate show from the Library beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET and post-debate analysis immediately following.
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Iowa Caucuses
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.
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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