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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 …
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Hot Air
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Debates Appear To Be Hurting Rick Perry
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Perry: Don't elect ‘smoothest debater’
Perry: Don't elect ‘smoothest debater’
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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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Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …, Washington Wire, Hair Balls and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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.
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Washington Post, Campaign 2012 and Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …
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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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:
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The Crawdad Hole, Washington Monthly and Balloon Juice
Paul Waldman / TAPPED:
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, Affordable Care Act Edition
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, Affordable Care Act Edition
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Law Blog, The Volokh Conspiracy and Jihad Watch
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 …
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Guardian and The Atlantic Online
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
The Dueling UN Speeches, or, This Is Getting Tiresome
The Dueling UN Speeches, or, This Is Getting Tiresome
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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.
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The Atlantic Online, Democracy in America, Hit & Run, Slate Magazine and The Agitator
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.
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Mother Jones
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Jacob Weisberg / Slate Magazine:
His book about Obama is as spurious as the ones he wrote about Bush.
His book about Obama is as spurious as the ones he wrote about Bush.
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The Atlantic Online, Politics, Moe_Lane's blog, Flower & Thistle, ThinkProgress and Business Insider
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.
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Politics, Don Surber, The Politico and Weasel Zippers
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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The Daily Beast, US Politics, BizzyBlog, The Daily Dish and Taegan Goddard's …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
The ACA would not have killed Cain
The ACA would not have killed Cain
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The Incidental Economist, The Maddow Blog and Political Correction RSS
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?”
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Little Green Footballs, The TrogloPundit, The Crawdad Hole and Weasel Zippers
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.
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Israel Matzav, Danger Room, Pajamas Media, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Hot Air, Attackerman, The Politico, ThinkProgress and New York Magazine
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” …
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Adam Holland, Via Meadia, Pajamas Media and The Volokh Conspiracy
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.
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Hullabaloo, Indecision Forever and Daily Kos
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 …
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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.”
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Little Green Footballs, News Hounds, Raw Replay and Ballot Box
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 …