memeorandum: Bill Clinton: Dick Cheney ‘Sowing Discord’ With Suggestion That Hillary Run Against Obama In 2012 (The Huffington Post)

10:00 PM ET, September 18, 2011

Top Items:

Why Obama should withdraw — When Ronald Reagan ran for re-election in 1984, his slogan was “Morning in America.” For Barack Obama, it's more like midnight in a coal mine. — The sputtering economy is about to stall out, unemployment is high, his jobs program may not pass …

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, Hot Air, Left Coast Rebel, YID With LID and The Crawdad Hole

The Huffington Post:

Bill Clinton: Dick Cheney ‘Sowing Discord’ With Suggestion That Hillary Run Against Obama In 2012 … On Sunday, former President Bill Clinton laughed off former Vice President Dick Cheney's suggestion that Hillary Clinton should challenge President Barack Obama in 2012.

Discussion: Power Line

David Goldstein / MiamiHerald.com:

Black caucus head treads line between criticizing, supporting Obama — WASHINGTON — As the debate over jobs turns into the latest political tug-of-war, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri walks a careful but candid line. — As chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus …

Discussion: Hot Air, The Crawdad Hole and The Raw Story

Wall Street Journal:

New Obama Deficit Plan — Half of $3 Trillion in Savings to Come From More Taxes; GOP Opposes Fresh Levies — President Barack Obama is expected to offer a new plan to reduce the federal deficit by about $3 trillion over a decade, roughly half of which would come from tax increases, people familiar with the proposal said.

Discussion: New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Political Carnival and Business Insider

Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:

Cleaver: If Obama wasn't president, we would be ‘marching on the White House’ — Unhappy members of the Congressional Black Caucus “probably would be marching on the White House” if Obama were not president, according to CBC Chairman Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.).

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

Washington Post:
Obama to call for new minimum tax rate for millionaires

Discussion: Firedoglake, Hullabaloo, Runnin' Scared, Instapundit, Don Surber, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Moderate Voice, American Power, Daily Kos and Outside the Beltway

Jessica Yellin / CNN: Obama to propose new tax rate for millionaires

Henry K. Lee / San Francisco Chronicle:

Michelle Le search turns up body in Sunol Canyon — Sunol — Ten days after Hayward police arrested a woman on suspicion of murdering a nursing student whose body has not been found, a volunteer searcher discovered human remains Saturday in rural Alameda County.

Discussion: ABCNEWS, Scared Monkeys, L.A. NOW and Associated Press

Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:

Israel: Adrift at Sea Alone — I'VE never been more worried about Israel's future. The crumbling of key pillars of Israel's security — the peace with Egypt, the stability of Syria and the friendship of Turkey and Jordan — coupled with the most diplomatically inept and strategically incompetent government …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Israel Matzav, YID With LID, Salon and Elder of Ziyon

John T. Bennett / The Hill:
Palestinian envoy: UN petition for membership will be presented Fri.

Discussion: Reuters

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

Egghead and Blockheads — THERE are two American archetypes that were sometimes played against each other in old Westerns. — The egghead Eastern lawyer who lacks the skills or stomach for a gunfight is contrasted with the tough Western rancher and ace shot who has no patience for book learnin'.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Don Surber, CANNONFIRE, Northern Reflections, Althouse and Prairie Weather

Gail Collins / New York Times:
Rick Perry, Uber Texan

Discussion: Hot Air, And So it Goes in Shreveport, Mediaite, The Crawdad Hole, Connecting.the.Dots and Althouse

Washington Post:

Book portrays dysfunction in Obama White House — The book, which covers Obama's presidency through February of this year and is based on more than 700 hours of interviews, suggests that the president was not always the dominant figure in his White House. — Suskind cites a series of memos …

Discussion: Firedoglake, JustOneMinute, NewsBusters.org and Ben Smith's Blog

New York Magazine:
Obama's Economic Quagmire: Frank Rich and Adam Moss Talk About What's Really in Ron Suskind's Revealing …

Discussion: Gawker and Daily Kos

David Bernstein / The Volokh Conspiracy:

Media Matters and Lochner — When we last encountered the Media Matters blog, its authors reacted to a George Will column on Rehabiltating Lochner by declaring that Lochner v. New York is “in no way a liberal bogeyman.” — Today, reacting to a blog post of mine suggesting that the idea …

Discussion: The Other McCain

Chris Wallace / Fox News:

Rep. Paul Ryan Rips Obama's Jobs Plan; Herman Cain Defends His ‘999’ Tax Proposal — Special Guests: Rep. Paul Ryan, Herman Cain … CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: I'm Chris Wallace. — President Obama takes on entitlements and wants to raise taxes on millionaires to cut the nation's debt, while continues a hard sell on his jobs plan.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Crooks and Liars and Campaign 2012

msnbc.com:

Transcripts on — September 18: Clinton, McConnell, Granholm, Castellanos, Halperin, Cooper — Below: — MR. DAVID GREGORY: This Sunday, the hard sell. The president wants a jobs bill. — PRES. BARACK OBAMA: My question to Congress is, what on earth are we waiting for?

Discussion: Althouse and Campaign 2012

Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:

Reinventing The HMO — The Stewart Community Choice health care plan concept, being launched in Massachusetts, seems like an obvious future step for a financially constrained world. They'll be essentially offering people lower insurance premiums if they accept less choice of where they accept treatment.

Discussion: Washington Post, Modeled Behavior and Boston Globe