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8:40 PM ET, September 23, 2011

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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.
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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: Hot Air
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:   Debates Appear To Be Hurting Rick Perry
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Romney Leads Endorsement Race
Discussion: Trail Blazers Blog
Juana Summers / The Politico:
Web verdict on Perry: Brutal
Discussion: New York Post and AmSpecBlog
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Perry: Don't elect ‘smoothest debater’
Discussion: The New Republic and CNN
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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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.
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 …
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
The Power of Flat Out Lies  —  The level of crazy in last night's debate was too high to really keep track of, but Paul Waldman points to this statement from Herman Cain about why he'd be dead if healthcare reform had been the law of the land back when he was diagnosed with cancer: … Paul comments:
Paul Waldman / TAPPED:
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, Affordable Care Act Edition
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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 …
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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 …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
No Thanking the Gay Soldier in Iraq for His Service?  —  Rereading the transcript of last night's debate, I am struck that Rick Santorum did not thank Stephen Hill, a gay soldier in the U.S. Army currently in Iraq, for his service.  Nor did anyone else on that stage.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Truth Wins Out
Debbie Goffa / L.A. NOW:
‘Irvine 11’ jury finds all 10 students guilty  —  After more than two days of deliberation, an Orange County jury on Friday found 10 Muslim students guilty of two misdemeanors to conspire and then disrupt a February 2010 speech at UC Irvine last year by the Israeli ambassador to the United States.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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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.
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
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
The Dueling UN Speeches, or, This Is Getting Tiresome
Discussion: Attackerman
Lisa Depaulo / GQ:
Is This the Sanest Man Running for President?  —  If you're seeking the presidency but no one notices, are you still seeking the presidency?  Gary Johnson was governor of New Mexico for eight years, balanced the hell out of his budgets, and climbed Mount Everest with a broken leg.
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Ron Suskind's Larry Summers problem  —  Jacob Weisberg isn't a big fan of Ron Suskind's new book, nor, for that matter, of Ron Suskind.  I've also been reading ‘The Confidence Men,’ and like Weisberg, I'm not impressed, but for a very different reason.  Let's call it, as Suskind does, the Larry Summers problem.
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Majority Rates Obama Same or Worse Compared With Bush  —  Half say Obama has been worse than Clinton  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Asked to compare Barack Obama with George W. Bush, Americans are more inclined to say Obama has been a better (43%) rather than a worse (34%) president, with 22% seeing no difference between the two.
Erick Erickson / RedState:
Herman Cain Won the Debate  —  Good Lord this was the worst debate I think I've ever watched.  —  The audio was terrible.  When the audience clapped the sound of the candidates faded away.  The charts and polling was silly.  Too many bells and whistles and too damn many candidates on the stage.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
The ACA would not have killed Cain
Caitlin McDevitt / The Politico:
Morgan Freeman: Tea party is racist  —  Morgan Freeman says that the Obama presidency has made racism in the U.S. more apparent.  —  During an interview that airs Friday, CNN's Piers Morgan asked the actor, “Has Obama helped the process of eradicating racism or has it, in a strange way, made it worse?”
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.”
The Daily Beast:
Obama Sold Israel Bunker-Buster Bombs  —  While Obama publicly pressured Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians over settlements, he secretly sold Jerusalem deep-penetrating bombs it had long sought.  Eli Lake previews an exclusive story appearing in Monday's Newsweek.
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
John Mearsheimer Endorses a Hitler Apologist and Holocaust Revisionist  —  Gilad Atzmon is a jazz saxophonist who lives in London and who has a side gig disseminating the wildest sort of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.  He is an ex-Israeli and a self-proclaimed “self-hater” …
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.
New York Times:
U.S. Presses Europe to Stop Spread of Greek Debt Crisis  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, increasingly alarmed by the spillover effects of Europe's financial crisis, has begun an intensive lobbying campaign to persuade Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and other leaders to act decisively …
Discussion: Firedoglake and CBS Minnesota
Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
Anti-Immigrant Groups Founded By White Supremacist Wield Influence Over Google/Fox News Debate  —  The Google/Fox News debate last night featured a new online question submission platform, allowing the “viewing public for the first time to weigh in with votes on questions they want asked.”
Aaron C. Davis / Washington Post:
Prince George's Del. Alston indicted on theft charges  —  A state lawmaker who was a central figure this year in the drama over whether Maryland would approve same-sex marriage was charged Friday with stealing campaign funds to pay for her wedding.  —  Charges brought by the Office …
 
 
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The Politico:
Warren's TARP panel under scrutiny
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Rohrabacher's mea culpa for changing Wednesday vote: 'I'm chickens—t'
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
North Carolina Legislator Says State Needs To Ban Same-Sex Marriage To Keep Gay “Agenda” From “Being Normal”
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
As Mississippi Debates Extreme ‘Personhood’ Amendment, Advocates Ask Where Are The Dems?
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Maddow Blog
Donald J. Boudreaux / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Regime uncertainty
Discussion: Hit & Run
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Obama raising with Missouri stimulus beneficiary
Discussion: National Review and Weasel Zippers
Elana Schor / New York Times:
Waxman Says Energy and Commerce Dems Would Support GOP Subpoena of Solyndra Execs
Discussion: Hot Air
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Rasmussen Reports:
New Hampshire GOP Primary: Romney 39%, Perry 18%, Paul 13%
Geneva Sands-Sadowitz / The Hill:
Gov. Mitch Daniels: Obama ‘inhabits a different planet’ on economic issues
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Fact checking the GOP debate in Orlando
Tempie / Ranting Professor:
I bet you didn't know this about selling silver coins for cash
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Rush Limbaugh On Gary Johnson Joke: 'Guess I've Become Show Prep For The GOP Debates'