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Rick Santorum Owes Gay Soldier an Apology — For Immediate Release — Joint Statement of Christopher R. Barron, Chairman of the Board and Jimmy LaSalvia, Executive Director — (Washington, D.C.) - “Tonight, Rick Santorum disrespected our brave men and women in uniform, and he owes Stephen Hill …
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Fox News:
TRANSCRIPT: Fox News-Google GOP Debate — This is a rush transcript from the Fox News-Google GOP Presidential debate on September 22, 2011 at the Orlando Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. — BRET BAIER, ANCHOR …
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ThinkProgress, Top of the Ticket, ImmigrationProf Blog, PoliPundit.com, Rick Perry 2012 Campaign … and CNN
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Audience Members Of GOP Debate Boo Steven Hill, Gay Soldier Serving In Iraq — At Thursday night's Fox News/Google Republican Presidential Debate, the crowd was once again the star of an ugly moment. Moderator Megyn Kelly introduced a question via Youtube from Stephen Hill, a soldier who's currently serving in Iraq.
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ThinkProgress, Outside the Beltway and The Atlantic Online
Evan McMorris-Santoro / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Audience Members At Fox News Debate Boo Gay Soldier (VIDEO) — ORLANDO, FL — Members of the crowd gathered for the Fox News/YouTube debate booed a video of a gay soldier in Iraq who asked if the nine presidential candidates on stage would work to “circumvent” the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
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democracyarsenal.org, Business Insider, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Harry's Place
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Gay soldier booed at GOP debate, candidates stay mum — Some members of the GOP debate audience booed a gay soldier who asked via video whether the Republican candidates would reinstitute the recently repealed “don't ask, don't tell” policy of banning openly gay soldiers.
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Outside the Beltway and The Politico
Russell Berman / The Hill:
House approves stopgap funding, Reid says Senate will block — The House early Friday narrowly approved a stopgap spending measure to keep the federal government running into October, as Republican leaders secured the votes of conservatives who rejected a similar bill a day earlier.
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Ballot Box, Reuters, ThinkProgress, Los Angeles Times, Don Surber, americanthinker.com and Michelle Malkin
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Senate likely to reject House-passed spending bill; shutdown still possible — Washington lurched toward another potential government shutdown crisis Friday, as the House approved by a 219-203 vote a GOP-authored short-term funding measure designed to keep the government running through Nov. 18 …
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Washington Monthly
Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
Tea Party House Republicans Sell Their Principles For Gimmicky $100 Million Cut — On Wednesday night, House Republicans failed to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government funded beyond Sept. 30, as 48 Republicans cut ranks with their leadership and voted against the measure …
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US Politics, The Huffington Post, Daily Kos and National Review
Robert Pear / New York Times:
House Passes New Version of Stopgap Spending Bill
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The Caucus and msnbc.com
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
GOP Ups Ante Big Time In Government Shutdown Fight
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Hullabaloo, Daily Kos and Firedoglake
Michelle Malkin:
Video: Perry's cringe-worthiest debate moment — This is a gimme. Seriously. — I mentioned Rick Perry's DREAM Act debate blunder in my round-up post. — It gets second place. — The cringe-worthiest moment, by a hair, was when Perry botched what should have been his most potent attack on Mitt Romney's chronic flip-flopping.
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Perry: “I Don't Think You Have a Heart” If You Oppose In-State Tuition for Children of Illegal Immigrants
Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
Why I doubt Romney would repeal Obamacare
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Washington Post, Cold Fury, Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
New York Times:
Republican Presidential Candidates Debate
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The Atlantic Online, GOP 12, Wall Street Journal and msnbc.com
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
N.H. poll shocker: Perry falls, Romney surges as does Jon Huntsman
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The Caucus, Left Coast Rebel, Hit & Run, Campaign 2012 and Outside the Beltway
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Rush Limbaugh On Gary Johnson Joke: 'Guess I've Become Show Prep For The GOP Debates' … NEW YORK — Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson brought down the house at Thursday night's Fox News/ Google debate when he joked about how his “next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.”
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New York Magazine, Brains and Eggs, Hit & Run and Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Social Contract — This week President Obama said the obvious: that wealthy Americans, many of whom pay remarkably little in taxes, should bear part of the cost of reducing the long-run budget deficit. And Republicans like Representative Paul Ryan responded with shrieks of “class warfare.”
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Northern Reflections, Prairie Weather, Daily Kos, Washington Post, FrumForum and Booman Tribune
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
New gaffe: Obama hails America's historic building of ‘the Intercontinental Railroad’ … That's what the president of the United States flat-out said Thursday during what was supposed to be a photo op to sell his jobs plan next to an allegedly deteriorating highway bridge. — A railroad between continents?
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Michelle Malkin, Weasel Zippers and Cold Fury
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Mori Rothman / White House.gov Blog:
President Obama: “It's Time to Build an Economy that Lasts”
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Washington Monthly, Power Line, Cincinnati.com, Lexington Herald-Leader and The Democratic Daily
John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
Obama Jobs Bill Might Not Help Touted Bridge
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Top of the Ticket, Outside the Beltway, Sense of Events, Hot Air, Pirate's Cove and Weasel Zippers
Lymari Morales / Gallup:
Majority in U.S. Continues to Distrust the Media, Perceive Bias — More perceive liberal bias than conservative bias — WASHINGTON, D.C. — The majority of Americans still do not have confidence in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly.
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Big Journalism, Questions and Observations, NewsBusters.org and Weasel Zippers
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The Politico:
Texas toast? Perry worries GOP — ORLANDO - The first line of Rick Perry's campaign obituary may have been drafted Thursday night: He got in too late. — It's not quite time for his camp to panic but in his third debate in a month - nearly as many as he's done in the entire decade he's served …
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New York Magazine
Arlette Saenz / Politics:
HPV Vaccine Fact Check: Perry Misstated Relationship With Dying Woman — Although Rick Perry said at a debate on Thursday that he was “lobbied” by a 31-year-old woman suffering from cervical cancer to require young girls to receive the HPV vaccine, he did not meet the cancer patient until …
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Seth McLaughlin / Washington Times:
Perry's support of tuition for children of illegals puts him in GOP crosshairs
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Right Wing News
Jacob Weisberg / Slate Magazine:
His book about Obama is as spurious as the ones he wrote about Bush. — As an editor, you develop a B.S. meter—an internal warning system that signals caution about journalism that doesn't feel trustworthy. Sometimes it's a quote or incident that's too perfect —a feeling I always …
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Politics and Business Insider
Paul A. Gigot / Wall Street Journal:
Christie's Next Showcase — For a man who says he's not running for president, Chris Christie isn't keeping a low profile. — For a man who says he's not running for president, Chris Christie isn't keeping a low profile. The New Jersey governor will give presidential tea-leaf readers another chance …
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msnbc.com and Associated Press
Jim Forsyth / Reuters:
Fancy last supper requests off the menu on Texas death row — (Reuters) - The Texas prison system abolished on Thursday the time-honored tradition of offering an opulent last meal to condemned inmates before their executions, saying they will get standard prison fare instead.
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Hullabaloo, Outside the Beltway, The Moderate Voice, New York Magazine and The Agonist
Hotline On Call:
Dem Poll: Obama Dragging Down His Own Party — One of the Democratic party's leading pollsters released a survey of 60 Republican-held battleground districts today painting an ominous picture for Congressional Democrats in 2012. The poll shows Democratic House candidates faring worse …
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RedState, Don Surber, Scared Monkeys, Weasel Zippers and The Politico
Investor's Business Daily:
We're Sinking Under Obama's Policies — Economy: The head-scratching continues as stocks take another leg down. Why, they ask, must the market be so negative? With an economy buckling under leftist incompetence, what, we ask, is there to be positive about?
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Hot Air
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Dead federal retirees are paid $120 million annually, report says — The federal government pays out millions of dollars to dead people each year — including deceased retired federal workers, according to a new report. — In the past five years, the Office of Personnel Management …
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The Politico and Gretawire
Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Tax Morass — Barack Obama and his perpetually angry Democratic “base” are the outliers on comprehensive tax reform. — Barack Obama has a remarkable habit of dumping the responsibility for solving massive fiscal and political problems on someone else.
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