memeorandum: Rep. Paul Ryan Rips Obama's Jobs Plan; Herman Cain Defends His ‘999’ Tax Proposal (Chris Wallace/Fox News)

10:40 PM ET, September 18, 2011

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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

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: Los Angeles Times, The Political Carnival and Business Insider

Steve Chapman / Chicago Tribune:

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: The Lonely Conservative, 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

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

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: Crooks and Liars and Campaign 2012

Brian Knowlton / New York Times:
Republicans Call Obama's Tax Plan ‘Class Warfare’

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Runnin' Scared and Gawker

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

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

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

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

New York Magazine:

Obama's Economic Quagmire: Frank Rich and Adam Moss Talk About What's Really in Ron Suskind's Revealing New Book About the White House — President Obama. — Adam: Hi, Frank. So there's a little commotion about this new book Confidence Men, by Ron Suskind, which is being published on Tuesday.

Discussion: Gawker and Daily Kos

Washington Post:
Book portrays dysfunction in Obama White House

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

Paul Krugman:

Hysteresis Begins — The slump in the United States and other advanced economies is the result of a failure of demand — period, end of story. All attempts to claim that it is somehow structural, or maybe the result of reduced incentives to produce, have collapsed at first contact with the evidence.

Discussion: Firedoglake, Hullabaloo and Real Time Economics

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

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