memeorandum: Upper-Income Americans' Economic Confidence Shaken (Gallup)

11:30 AM ET, September 13, 2011

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The frontrunner has no clothes — The applause identified Rick Perry as the crowd favorite when he took the stage in Tampa for Monday night's Tea Party debate, greeting his lesser rivals as “fellas.” — But two hours later, those fellas - and a gal from Minnesota - had made some serious …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Booman Tribune, The Mahablog, msnbc.com, Mother Jones, Prairie Weather and Daily Kos

Maggie Haberman / The Politico:

Bachmann: 'I'm offended' — Within 90 minutes of the end of the GOP debate, Michele Bachmann's camp emailed on the HPV vaccine dust-up with Rick Perry, highlighting her status as a mom as she questioned his conservative credentials. — It's also the first time I can remember Bachmann …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Moderate Voice, The Other McCain, The Huffington Post, American Spectator and National Review

New York Times:

Perry Wears a Bull's-Eye at G.O.P. Debate — TAMPA, Fla. — The Republican presidential candidates aggressively confronted Gov. Rick Perry at a debate here on Monday night and pressed him to expound upon his views on Social Security and a controversial vaccination program for teenage girls that he signed into law in Texas.

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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:

Romney's Win — If a debate more than four months before the first vote is cast can influence the outcome of a presidential nomination race, the debate last night among eight Republicans should aid Mitt Romney's candidacy. Seldom has there been as clear a winner.

Discussion: Hot Air, Campaign 2012, americanthinker.com and National Review

CNN:

CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL — Full Transcript of CNN-Tea Party Republican Debate, 20:00- 22:00 — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — ANNOUNCER: Tonight, eight Republicans, one goal: to win the White House and kick Barack Obama out.

Discussion: Washington Monthly and Hit & Run

Wall Street Journal:

Perry's the Man in the Middle — Fellow Republican Presidential Candidates Take Aim at Front-Runner in Debate — Texas Gov. Rick Perry's status as front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination animated a candidates' debate in Florida Monday, as rivals attacked his rhetoric on Social Security …

Discussion: JustOneMinute, Washington Post, GOP 12, The Caucus and Connecting.the.Dots

Paulburka / Burkablog:
Not Rick Perry's night

Discussion: The Politico, Taylor Marsh, New York Magazine and Ben Smith's Blog

CNN: Did Bachmann's drug lobbyist claims ring true?

Walter Shapiro / The New Republic:
The Debate in Tampa: How Perry's Rivals Are Perfecting Their Attacks on the Frontrunner

Discussion: Washington Post, The Daily Dish, Politics, The Washington Independent, The Moderate Voice, Taegan Goddard's … and The Daily Beast

RushLimbaugh.com:
Be Careful, Republicans, When Attacking Perry on Social Security

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CNN:
New CNN Poll: Social Security needs changes, but it's not a failure

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Maggie's Farm and alicublog

Alexander Burns / The Politico:
2012 debate escalation! — Mitt Romney went on the attack …

Discussion: Sky Dancing, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Lonely Conservative, Liberal Values, Real Clear Politics, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit, National Review and Washington Monthly

David Nakamura / Washington Post:

Obama to push jobs plan in Boehner's home state of Ohio — President Obama will continue to push his $447 billion jobs plan Tuesday when he travels to Columbus, Ohio, to highlight a proposed $30 billion investment to modernize schools and hire and retain teachers.

Discussion: Politics Extra and The Lonely Conservative

New York Times:
Obama Offers Jobs Bill, and the G.O.P. Balks

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Wall Street Journal:
Obama Seeks to End Tax Breaks to Pay for Jobs Plan

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David Rogers / The Politico:
Boehner plan cuts 2012 spending

Discussion: Washington Monthly, TPMDC, CNN and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Evan McMorris-Santoro / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:

TPM2012 — Tea Party Debate Audience Cheers Idea Of Letting Sick Man Without Insurance Die (VIDEO) — The last two Republican presidential debates have been some of the most macabre on record. Last time around, at the Reagan Library, the crowd gave the biggest applause of the night …

Discussion: Firedoglake, Mother Jones, Business Insider, Talking Points Memo and Zandar Versus The Stupid

Robert Hendin / CBS News:
Debate exchange offers window into larger question about role of health care

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Indecision Forever, The Agonist and Hullabaloo

Lally Weymouth / Washington Post:

Iran's president says he intends to release, ‘pardon’ U.S. hikers — View Photo Gallery — Laura Fattal kisses son Josh after a news conference in Tehran in May, 2010. Josh Fattal and fellow hiker Shane Bauer will be released this week after more than two years in detention, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday.

Discussion: The Politico, Alarabiya.net English and americanthinker.com

Fox News:
Columbia Students to Dine With Ahmadinejad

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit

Shebshi / the Heartland:

Some real Shock and Awe: Racially profiled and cuffed in Detroit — Silly me. I thought flying on 9/11 would be easy. I figured most people would choose not to fly that day so lines would be short, planes would be lightly filled and though security might be ratcheted up …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Gawker, Hit & Run and ABCNEWS

Telegraph:

Kabul US embassy attack: live — Live coverage of the Taliban's coordinated attack across the Afghanistan capital Kabul, in which Nato's headquarters and the US embassy are among those targeted. — Afghan policemen arrive at the scene of the rocket-propelled attack in Kabul

Discussion: Guardian, Reuters, BBC and This Just In

New York Times: Militants Launch Attack on U.S. Embassy in Kabul

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Rep. Issa hit with ethics allegations — A liberal advocacy group is filing an ethics complaint against Rep. Darrell Issa, alleging that the California Republican has repeatedly used his public office for personal gain. — The group, American Family Voices, is planning to file the complaint …

Discussion: The Greenroom, The Crawdad Hole, National Confidential and JammieWearingFool

Gallup:

Upper-Income Americans' Economic Confidence Shaken — Gallup's Economic Confidence measure is at -52, down sharply from -42 in July — PRINCETON, NJ — Upper-income Americans' economic confidence was badly shaken in August, with 80% saying the economy is “getting worse,” up from 66% in July.

Discussion: Don Surber

Cameron Joseph / The Hill:

Dems' peril in New York special election sparks fear for Nov. '12 — A looming Democratic loss in New York's special election Tuesday would be seen as a sign of big political and policy problems for President Obama and his party heading into next year's election.

Discussion: NY Daily News, YID With LID, Weasel Zippers and JammieWearingFool

Alexander Burns / The Politico:

Bachmann: ‘Crying’ mother shared HPV story — Michele Bachmann again accused Rick Perry of practicing “crony capitalism” Tuesday morning, appearing on NBC's “Today” show to criticize Perry for seeking to force “innocent little 12-year-old girls or 11-year-old girls” to take a “potentially dangerous” vaccine injection.

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog, Hot Air, National Review, Questions and Observations, Outside the Beltway and RedState

John Lyons / Wall Street Journal:

Dark Side of Brazil's Rise — SÃO PAULO—Brazil is booming amid a tectonic shift in global investing toward the developing world that has lifted its stock market, strengthened its currency and provided financing for new ports and World Cup soccer stadiums.

Abigail Moses / Bloomberg:

Greek Default Probability Is 98% as Papandreou Fails to Reassure Investors — Greece has a 98 percent chance of defaulting on its debt in the next five years as Prime Minister George Papandreou fails to reassure investors his country can survive the euro-region crisis.

Discussion: Firedoglake and Los Angeles Times

Jamie Stengle / Associated Press:

Ruling: Recalculate court costs for cheerleader — DALLAS (AP) — An appeals court on Monday ordered a lower court to recalculate how much a former Texas high school cheerleader should pay in legal fees to the school district that punished for refusing to root for an athlete she said raped her.

Discussion: Law Blog

Associated Press:

Plot against Biden alleged … No comments yet. Be the first!

Discussion: National Confidential

Sam Allen / Los Angeles Times:

Water district taps Google for good coverage — Central Basin pays for positive stories by a firm that Google considers a news site. Officials call it innovation, but open government advocates fear it blurs the line between news and publicity. — Readers who type “Central Basin Municipal Water District …

Discussion: Gawker

Matthew Lee / Associated Press:

US Envoys Back to Mideast to Try to Avert Crisis — The Obama administration's top two Mideast peace envoys are returning to the region this week in a last-ditch bid to avert a looming crisis over a Palestinian bid for statehood recognition at the United Nations later this month.

Discussion: The Politico