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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Setting Their Hair on Fire — First things first: I was favorably surprised by the new Obama jobs plan, which is significantly bolder and better than I expected. It's not nearly as bold as the plan I'd want in an ideal world. But if it actually became law, it would probably make a significant dent in unemployment.
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Associated Press:
FACT CHECK: Obama's jobs plan paid for? Seems not — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's promise Thursday that everything in his jobs plan will be paid for rests on highly iffy propositions. — It will only be paid for if a committee he can't control does his bidding …
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The Politico:
Obama jobs speech transcript: Full text (as prepared for delivery) — Remarks of President Barack Obama in an Address to a Joint Session of Congress — Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, and fellow Americans: — Tonight we meet at an urgent time for our country.
The White House:
THE AMERICAN JOBS ACT — 1. Tax Cuts to Help America's Small Businesses Hire and Grow — Cutting the payroll tax in half for 98 percent of businesses: The President's plan will cut in half the taxes paid by businesses on their first $5 million in payroll, targeting the benefit …
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
On the Tone and Structure of the Obama Jobs Speech — 1) In his appraisal, the Atlantic's Chris Good said that the speech's refrain — pass this jobs bill; you should pass it right away — amounted to a kind of begging to Congress. That may be the President's real situation.
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Wonkbook: What's in the president's jobs plan, and what comes next — Members of the U.S. Congress applaud as U.S. President Barack Obama addresses a Joint Session at the U.S. Capitol. (Chip Somodevilla - GETTY IMAGES) — “Pass this jobs bill,” said President Obama. Then he said it again.
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Michael Barone / Campaign 2012:
The unhappy warrior — Barack Obama looked and sounded angry …
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Macroeconomic Advisers / Macroadvisers:
American Jobs Act: A Significant Boost to GDP and Employment
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Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
Obama gives campaign speech to liberals
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Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
Feds: Zawahiri Launched Al Qaeda Terror Plot for 9/11 Anniversary — U.S. authorities are scrambling to sort through information that the CIA developed in the past 24 hours indicating that at least three individuals entered the U.S. in August by air with the intent to launch a vehicle-borne attack …
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CBS News:
U.S. tracks “credible” threat to NYC, D.C. — PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO — 9/11: Ten Years Later — WASHINGTON - Just days before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. counterterrorism officials were chasing a credible but unconfirmed al Qaeda threat to use a car bomb on bridges or tunnels in New York City or Washington.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The irrelevancy of the Obama presidency — President Obama gave one of the most impassioned speeches of his presidency when he addressed a joint session of Congress Thursday night. Too bad so many in the audience thought it was a big, fat joke. — “You should pass this jobs plan right away!”
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Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Eric Cantor: We'll pass some of Obama's jobs proposals
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
We Are All Ponzi Schemers Now — I know I should ignore this. Ignore, ignore, ignore. You can do it, Kevin! — But no. I'm hopeless. Here is Reason's Shikha Dalmia on why Social Security isn't a Ponzi scheme, it's worse than a Ponzi scheme: … Forget the business about the surplus.
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Adam C. Smith / St. Petersburg Times:
Rick Perry: I'm all in for Fla's P5 straw poll — Leading Republican presidential contenders Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann say they won't risk their top tier perception by participating in the Florida GOP's Presidency 5 straw poll, even though they will spend plenty of time courting Florida activists …
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Ron Paul Describes ‘Confrontation’ With Rick Perry On GOP Debate Stage — During the break of the GOP debate on Wednesday night, Texas Governor Rick Perry left his own podium to address his fellow Texan, Rep. Ron Paul. A photographer captured the exchange, which appeared to be rather spirited given …
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Rick Klein / ABCNEWS:
Jacqueline Kennedy on Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — Speaking in the months after her husband's assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy was so upset with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that she told a friend and interviewer that she could barely look at images of him.
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Rick Klein / ABCNEWS:
Jacqueline Kennedy Reveals That JFK Feared an LBJ Presidency
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Wall Street Journal:
The Latest Jobs Plan — More temporary and targeted tax cuts and spending increases. — If President Obama's economic policies have had a signature flaw, it is the conceit that by pulling this or that policy lever, by spending more on this program or cutting that tax for a year …
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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
President Obama Pushes $447 Billion Jobs Plan in Address to Congress
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Maria Sacchetti / Boston Globe:
Obama's uncle quietly released from jail — Officials released President Obama's uncle from Plymouth County jail yesterday after holding him for more than two weeks on an immigration detainer for violating an order to return to his native Kenya in 1992. — US officials refused to disclose …
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Anand Giridharadas / New York Times:
Some of Sarah Palin's Ideas Cross the Political Divide — CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — Let us begin by confessing that, if Sarah Palin surfaced to say something intelligent and wise and fresh about the present American condition, many of us would fail to hear it. — That is not how we're primed to see Ms. Palin.
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Ben Geman / The Hill:
Waxman: Obama's smog retreat is a mistake ‘substantively and politically’ — Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) said Thursday that President Obama's decision to scuttle upcoming ozone pollution standards was a mistake “substantively and politically.” — “It was very discouraging to their environmental base …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Live-Blogging Obama's Jobs Address — 7.57 pm. This was also a speech aimed directly at his own party - rallying the troops, creating a framework for the campaign ahead, betting that things are bad enough that the infrastructure spending and the tax cuts will not alienate debt-concerned independents.
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