memeorandum: President Obama: “It's Time to Build an Economy that Lasts” (Mori Rothman/White House.gov Blog)

11:05 AM ET, September 23, 2011

Top Items:

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 …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Firedoglake, The Daily Dish, The Mahablog, Runnin' Scared, Raw Replay, Crooks and Liars, Good As You, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Towleroad News #gay, American Power and Joe. My. God.

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 …

Discussion: 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.

Discussion: 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.

Discussion: 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audience booed a gay soldier who asked via video whether the Republican candidates would reinstitute the recently repealed “don't ask, don't tell” policy of banning openly gay soldiers.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and The Politico

Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:

House approves spending measure opposed by Senate; shutdown possible — Washington lurched toward another potential government shutdown crisis Friday, as the House approved a Republican-authored short-term funding measure designed to keep government running through Nov. 18 that Democrats in the Senate immediately vowed to reject.

Discussion: Washington Monthly

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.

Discussion: Reuters, Ballot Box, ThinkProgress, Los Angeles Times, Don Surber and Michelle Malkin

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 …

Discussion: US Politics, The Huffington Post, Daily Kos and National Review

Robert Pear / New York Times:
House Passes New Version of Stopgap Spending Bill

Discussion: The Caucus, Swampland and msnbc.com

The Politico:
Funding bill passes; conflict looms

Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Hill

Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
GOP Ups Ante Big Time In Government Shutdown Fight

Discussion: 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.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Fox News, WyBlog, Flower & Thistle, Campaign 2012, Pundit & Pundette, The Other McCain, The Daily Dish, Conservatives4Palin, AmSpecBlog, Riehl World View, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Right Scoop and National Review

John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Perry: “I Don't Think You Have a Heart” If You Oppose In-State Tuition for Children of Illegal Immigrants

Discussion: Mediaite, National Review, Hot Air, Ballot Box, The Politico, No More Mister Nice Blog, Outside the Beltway, American Spectator, Michelle Malkin, Pajamas Media and Vox Popoli

Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
Why I doubt Romney would repeal Obamacare

Discussion: Washington Post, Cold Fury, Hot Air and Weasel Zippers

New York Times:
Republican Presidential Candidates Debate

Discussion: 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

Discussion: The Caucus, Left Coast Rebel, Hit & Run, Campaign 2012 and Outside the Beltway

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?

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Weasel Zippers and Cold Fury

Mori Rothman / White House.gov Blog:
President Obama: “It's Time to Build an Economy that Lasts”

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Cincinnati.com, Lexington Herald-Leader and The Democratic Daily

John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
Obama Jobs Bill Might Not Help Touted Bridge

Discussion: Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and National Review

Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Oops, Obama touts his jobs plan today at an Ohio bridge that won't qualify

Discussion: Power Line, USA Today, Outside the Beltway, Sense of Events, Pirate's Cove, Fox News and National Review

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.”

Discussion: Northern Reflections, Prairie Weather, Daily Kos, Washington Post, FrumForum and Booman Tribune

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.”

Discussion: New York Magazine, Brains and Eggs, ThinkProgress and Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …

Rush Limbaugh:
“Mr. Boehner, Tear Down This Bridge”

Discussion: BizzyBlog and The Daily Caller

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.

Discussion: Big Journalism, Questions and Observations, NewsBusters.org and Weasel Zippers

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Press Widely Criticized, But Trusted More than Other Information Sources

Discussion: The Politico, NewsBusters.org and Mediaite

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 …

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: Washington Post, Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …, The Washington Independent, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Austin American-Statesman, Washington Examiner, New York Times, News Hounds and Trail Blazers Blog

Seth McLaughlin / Washington Times:
Perry's support of tuition for children of illegals puts him in GOP crosshairs

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: Politics and Business Insider

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.

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: RedState, Don Surber, Scared Monkeys, Weasel Zippers and The Politico

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 …

Discussion: msnbc.com and Associated Press

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.

Discussion: The Mahablog, Betsy's Page and New York Magazine

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?

Discussion: Hot Air