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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Obama Deficit Plan Cuts Entitlements and Raises Taxes on Rich — WASHINGTON — President Obama will unveil a deficit-reduction plan on Monday that uses entitlement cuts, tax increases and war savings to reduce government spending by more than $3 trillion over the next 10 years, administration officials said.
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Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Obama's debt-reduction plan: $3 trillion in savings, half from new tax revenue — President Obama will announce a proposal on Monday to tame the nation's rocketing federal debt, calling for $1.5 trillion in new revenue as part of a plan to find more than $3 trillion in budget savings over a decade, senior administration officials said.
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama Will Veto Super-Committee Plan That's All Medicare Cuts And No Tax Hikes … WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will veto a comprehensive deficit reduction package if it includes cuts to entitlement program benefits but no tax hikes on the wealthy or well-to-do corporations, senior advisers said on Sunday.
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ThinkProgress and Washington Monthly
The White House:
Fact Sheet: Living Within Our Means and Investing in the Future - The President's Plan for Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction — Overview — The health of our economy depends on what we do right now to create the conditions where businesses can hire and middle-class families can feel a basic measure of economic security.
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Washington Monthly, Daily Kos and Guardian
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Obama Debt Reduction Plan a Sharp Pullback from Grand Bargain Territory — President Obama is scheduled to speak this morning at 10:30 a.m. Eastern, to spell out his debt reduction plan. Some details from Obama's plan to “go big” on the Super Committee are out, and it's an opening bid …
Brian Knowlton / New York Times:
Republicans Call Obama's Tax Plan ‘Class Warfare’
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AMERICAN FUTURE, Mother Jones, Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, Runnin' Scared and Gawker
Wall Street Journal:
New Obama Deficit Plan
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The Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, Hullabaloo and The Political Carnival
Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
AFL-CIO outlines how supercommittee can bring down debt
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Weasel Zippers
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama to propose $3T in cuts, pledge to veto tax cuts for wealthy
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The Politico, CBS News and New York Magazine
Mj Lee / The Politico:
Greta Van Susteren: Tucker Carlson's a ‘pig’ for Palin story — Fox News host Greta Van Susteren is calling out Daily Caller owner Tucker Carlson as a “pig” and “purveyor of smut” for prominently posting a story with the headline: “Mike Tyson: Sarah Palin met the ‘womb shifter’.”
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The Raw Story, FishbowlDC, Mediaite, The Other McCain, Datechguy's Blog and Riehl World View
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Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:
Tucker Carlson's THE DAILY CALLER's DISGUSTING POST
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The Crawdad Hole, Left Coast Rebel, The Other McCain, Riehl World View and American Power
Tim Mak / The Politico:
Mahmoud Abbas: ‘All hell has broken out’ — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday that “all hell has broken out” over his bid to seek statehood recognition at the United Nations this week over objections from the United States. — “Matters will be bad” as his campaign …
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Reuters
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John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
The Tsuris — Barack Obama is the best thing Israel has going for it right now. Why is that so difficult for Netanyahu and his American Jewish allies to understand? — The last time Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu shared each other's company, you could say that the encounter did not go well …
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Mediaite, NY Daily News, Weekly Standard, Ben Smith's Blog and JammieWearingFool
Reed Hastings / The Official Netflix Blog:
An Explanation and Some Reflections — I messed up. I owe everyone an explanation. — It is clear from the feedback over the past two months that many members felt we lacked respect and humility in the way we announced the separation of DVD and streaming, and the price changes.
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.).
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C.J. Ciaramella / The Daily Caller:
Rahm Emanuel on Solyndra: 'I don't remember'
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Michelle Malkin, The Politico, The Sundries Shack, The Crawdad Hole, Hit & Run and Weasel Zippers
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Fury over Solyndra loan threatens to sunset solar energy investments
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The Heritage Foundation and JammieWearingFool
First Read / msnbc.com:
First thoughts: Obama's populist pitch — Obama's populist pitch... The $3 trillion in deficit reduction he'll unveil at 10:30 am ET includes $1.5 trillion in increased revenue (read: taxes), $1.1 trillion in ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the rest in entitlement savings …
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Washington Post, Pajamas Media, Big Government and Firedoglake
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Obama's urgent jobs plan: Right now, ‘right now’ means sometime next month maybe — Everybody remembers the urgency of President Obama's attitude toward the awful jobs situation. — Back in early August, Obama said the jobs situation was so urgent that he was going to give another speech about it …
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Don Surber, Hot Air, Right Wing News and Weasel Zippers
James Surowiecki / New Yorker:
JOBS AND THE G.O.P. — There is no truer truism in American politics than James Carville's catchphrase from the 1992 election “It's the economy, stupid.” When people discuss Barack Obama's current approval rating, which is at its lowest level ever, they may invoke his supposed lack …
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Washington Monthly
The Wtmj / Local:
Thompson files fundraising papers for Senate run — MADISON - Former Governor Tommy Thompson has said that his long consideration of a run for U.S. Senate is over, and the process to run for the Senate has begun. — “I've filed my corporation documents today, which allows me now to build my organization …
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Ballot Box and Hotline On Call
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Republican Calls for a More Honest Debate — WASHINGTON — Four months after he decided against jumping into the Republican presidential race, Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana says that he has occasionally been frustrated by the discourse in the campaign and that the field could benefit …
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CNN, The Hill, Shakesville and The 1600 Report
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Bleeding Cure — Doctors used to believe that by draining a patient's blood they could purge the evil “humors” that were thought to cause disease. In reality, of course, all their bloodletting did was make the patient weaker, and more likely to succumb.
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Washington Post and Mother Jones
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BBC:
Seven held in Birmingham anti-terror operation — Specialist police teams are now searching properties in the city — Six men and a woman have been arrested in Birmingham in a large anti-terrorism operation, West Midlands Police say. — The men, aged between 25 and 32 …
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The Jawa Report, Business Insider, Guardian and msnbc.com
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
The Last Days of the Old Parking Meter — Motorists' bane, magnet for thieves, and memorialized in the Beatles' “Lovely Rita,” the diminutive parking meter has led an outsize life. But its days in New York City are about to expire. — The city will remove its last decommissioned single …
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Gothamist and New York Magazine
Palestinian Media Watch:
Mother of 4 terrorist murderers chosen by the PA to launch statehood campaign — Mother of 4 terrorist murderers — chosen by the PA — to launch statehood campaign — by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik — The Palestinian Authority chose the mother of 4 terrorist murderers …
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The Atlantic Online, Israel Matzav, americanthinker.com and The Jawa Report
John Avlon / CNN:
Christine O'Donnell: Exhibit A for getting rid of closed primaries — Editor's note: John Avlon is a CNN contributor and senior political columnist for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. He is the co-author of the new book, “Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columns.”
Bill Keller / New York Times:
Fill In the Blanks — Just a few winters ago my wife and I took our daughters to witness the inauguration of a man who had campaigned on hope and embodied possibility. We are pretty immune to political euphoria, but, circulating among the footsore pilgrims, we could imagine our country …
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Pajamas Media and Balloon Juice
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