memeorandum: Chris Christie Reconsidering 2012 Run, Will Decide in Days (Jim Meyers/NewsMax.com)

8:45 AM ET, September 24, 2011

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Juana Summers / The Politico:

Web verdict on Perry: Brutal — The conservative commentariat spoke with near-unanimity Friday on Rick Perry's debate performance: The Texas governor didn't just lose, he bombed. — There was no election-ending gaffe or singularly disqualifying remark. But his second consecutive weak …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, CNN, New York Post and AmSpecBlog

William Kristol / Weekly Standard:

Special Editorial: Yikes — THE WEEKLY STANDARD's official reaction to last night's Republican presidential debate: Yikes. — Reading the reactions of thoughtful commentators after the stage emptied, talking with conservative policy types and GOP political operatives later last evening and this morning, we know we're not alone.

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:

Reconsidering Romney's Chances — The Perry talking ... it is not so good. — Last night, I watched the debate and immediately concluded, contrary to nearly everybody else, that Rick Perry did himself more long-term good. Upon reflection, I think everybody else has a point.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Washington Post, xpostfactoid, Rick Perry 2012 Campaign … and Washington Monthly

Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
Perry is blowing it — Mitt Romney is an incredibly vulnerable …

Discussion: Washington Post, AmSpecBlog, The Daily Caller, The Huffington Post, Washington Wire, New York Magazine, National Review and Taegan Goddard's …

Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Debates Appear To Be Hurting Rick Perry

Discussion: The Monkey Cage and A plain blog about politics

Rich Lowry / Fox News:
Romney Wins In Orlando

Discussion: The Huffington Post, AlterNet, Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, Marbury and The Daily Dish

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Romney Leads Endorsement Race

Discussion: Trail Blazers Blog

Emily Friedman / Politics:

GOP Candidates React to Booed Gay Soldier — ABC News' Emily Friedman and Arlette Saenz report: — ORLANDO, Fla. — Whether the booing happened at Thursday's night's debate is still a mystery to former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. — Asked again about the booing after a question …

Eric Kleefeld / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:

TPM2012 — Santorum: ‘I Condemn The People Who Booed That Gay Soldier’ (VIDEO) — In an appearance Friday afternoon on Fox News, Rick Santorum responded to one of the most controversial moments from Thursday night's debate: When a few audience members could be heard booing …

Discussion: New York Magazine, Mother Jones, The New Civil Rights Movement, The Atlantic Online, Big Journalism and Towleroad News #gay

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:

The Anger Builds — I have become used to hearing gay people and our lives either ignored or stigmatized or demonized in Republican debates. It is a function of a political party becoming a religion. And so my skin is pretty thick at this point, and my outrage button eroded by two decades …

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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
No Thanking the Gay Soldier in Iraq for His Service?

Discussion: ThinkProgress and Truth Wins Out

Jim Meyers / NewsMax.com:

Chris Christie Reconsidering 2012 Run, Will Decide in Days — More ways to share... Mixx — Stumbled — LinkedIn — Vine — Buzzflash — Newstrust — Technocrati — Forward Article — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is reconsidering his decision not to enter …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The Politico, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Post, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Gretawire and Race 4 2012

The Politico:

Elizabeth Warren's campaign revises pay from TARP panel — The campaign for Democratic Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren said Friday she had been paid $192,722 for serving as chairman of a congressional committee that monitored the 2008 federal bank bailout, three times as much as had originally been acknowledged.

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The Politico:

Warren's TARP panel under scrutiny — Congress gave the oversight panel a broad role in ensuring the Treasury Department was managing TARP funds appropriately. Passed by Congress in 2008, TARP didn't require Warren's oversight panel to provide a budget, nor did it limit the amount of money it could spend.

Discussion: Robert Kuttner, Daily Kos and Firedoglake

Steven F. Hayward / Weekly Standard:

President Solyndra — And his mean green wealth-wasting machine. — The spectacular collapse of Solyndra has all of the trappings of an epic Washington scandal, with serial revelations of embarrassing and potentially improper White House machinations to secure a $535 million federal loan guarantee …

Discussion: Power Line

today.yougov.com News:

Problems For The President: Americans Give Him Lowest Approval Rating Ever — This week's Economist/YouGov Poll is full of bad news for President Barack Obama. The frontrunners for the GOP nomination in the 2012 contest are pulling very close to him in head-to-head matchups …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

Amy Taxin / Associated Press:

Jury: Muslim students guilty of disrupting speech — SANTA ANA, California (AP) — A California jury found 10 Muslim students guilty Friday of disrupting the Israeli ambassador's university speech about U.S.-Israel relations, a case that stoked a debate about free speech.

Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy, Jihad Watch and Law Blog

Debbie Goffa / L.A. NOW:
‘Irvine 11’ jury finds all 10 students guilty

Discussion: Doug Ross and Outside the Beltway

Haaretz:

Bill Clinton: Netanyahu isn't interested in Mideast peace deal — Former U.S. President says a cynical perspective of Prime Minister's calls for negotiations 'means that he's just not going to give up the West Bank'. — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible for the inability …

Discussion: Guardian and The Atlantic Online

Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
The Dueling UN Speeches, or, This Is Getting Tiresome

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New York Times:
Palestinians Request U.N. Status; Powers Press for Talks

Discussion: Hot Air, Global Public Square, Outside the Beltway, Truthdig and CNN

Lauri Apple / Gawker:

Snobby Illiterati to Protest Wall St. ‘Hippies’ With Champagne Toast — As the first week of the #occupywallstreet protest against corporate stuff draws to a close, some classy capitalists have decided to dust off their favorite Nixon-era jargon and hold a champagne-soaked counter-protest of their own.

Discussion: Firedoglake and Gothamist

Monica Davey / New York Times:

Midwest Farmers Are on Alert Against Pig Thieves — LAFAYETTE, Minn. — Here in pig country, the pigs are vanishing. — This month, 150 pigs — each one weighing more than an average grown man — disappeared from a farm building in Lafayette despite deadbolts on its doors.

Melissa Vega / WOAI-TV:

Teacher calls local Tea Party president a Nazi — SAN ANTONIO - Tempers flared during a town hall meeting on the Dream Act Tuesday night. During the meeting a high school government teacher from John F. Kennedy called the local Tea Party president a Nazi. — The exchange was recorded and posted on You tube.

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Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:

Obama Administration to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns — Remember how Obama recently waived new ozone regulations at the EPA because they were too costly? Well, it seems that the Obama administration is would rather make people with Asthma cough up money …

Discussion: Watts Up With That?, Oliver Willis, Hot Air, Associated Press and Gawker

Brian Beutler / TPMDC:

Cram It! Senate Dems And Republicans Reject Holding Disaster Aid Hostage — By a bipartisan vote of 59-36 Friday, Senate Democrats and several Republicans tabled (read: effectively killed) House-passed legislation to fund the federal government beyond September 30.

Discussion: Hullabaloo, Indecision Forever and Daily Kos