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Cindy Adams / New York Post:
Obama's top ‘fat cat’ strays — JP Morgan honcho Jamie Dimon, once a “fat cat” ally of President Obama, seems to have strayed to Republican contender Mitt Romney. — Dimon, a lifelong Democrat who was rumored to be on Obama's short list for treasury secretary before he settled on Tim Geithner …
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New York Magazine, Business Insider, Betsy's Page and DealBook
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Jason Linkins / The Huffington Post:
Late Returns: One More Reason For Chris Christie To Stay Home In 2012 … There's been a lot of discussion about the many reasons why Chris Christie and the GOP primary electorate wouldn't exactly see eye-to-eye, and that's enough reason to not be surprised that he's once again affirmed that he will not run for President in 2012.
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Crooks and Liars, The Awl, Indecision Forever, Suburban Guerrilla and alicublog
Catalina Camia / USA Today:
Buzz for Christie to seek White House isn't over
Buzz for Christie to seek White House isn't over
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Top of the Ticket, msnbc.com, GOP 12 and The Reaction
Megan DeMarco / New Jersey Online:
Gov. Christie slams Obama, talks foreign policy during Reagan Library speech
Gov. Christie slams Obama, talks foreign policy during Reagan Library speech
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Associated Press, Outside the Beltway, The Other McCain and Hot Air
New York Times:
Gov. Chris Christie Keeps Political Fans Guessing
Gov. Chris Christie Keeps Political Fans Guessing
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Jason Linkins / The Huffington Post:
Chris Christie Presidential Speculation Ends Just As Quickly As It Spiked
Chris Christie Presidential Speculation Ends Just As Quickly As It Spiked
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Politics, AlterNet and Mish's Global Economic …
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Christie source: Run still possible
Christie source: Run still possible
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NorthJersey.com, Tea Party Brew, CNN, Swampland, Fox News, New York Magazine, New Jersey Online, Politics and Daily Kos
Peter Hamby / CNN:
First on CNN: Florida will likely hold Jan. primary, threatening presidential calendar — Washington (CNN) — Florida is now expected to hold its presidential primary on the last day in January 2012, a move likely to throw the carefully arranged Republican nominating calendar into disarray …
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First on CNN: Florida zeroes in on primary date, threatening presidential calendar — Washington (CNN) - Florida is expected to hold its presidential primary to the last day in January 2012, a move likely to throw the carefully arranged Republican nominating calendar into disarray and jumpstart …
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Washington Post
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Defiant Team Perry's plan: Hit harder
Defiant Team Perry's plan: Hit harder
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Smart Politics, The Hill, Hot Air, msnbc.com and GOP 12
Jbfrank / Raleigh News & Observer:
Perdue suggests suspending Congressional elections for two years — was she serious? — UPDATED: File this in the random-things-politicians-say file. — Speaking to a Cary rotary club today, N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue suggested suspending Congressional elections for two years so that Congress …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Democrats Emerge From Closet, Oppose Democracy
Democrats Emerge From Closet, Oppose Democracy
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The Daily Caller, JammieWearingFool, Big Government and Instapundit
Kevin Gosztola / Firedoglake:
Why Establishment Media & the Power Elite Loathe Occupy Wall Street — Straw Poll on Direct Action (photo: Collin David Anderson) — Over the past ten days, hundreds of people have occupied Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan in New York as part of Occupy Wall Street.
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NPR and Jesus' General
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Edward Schumacher-Matos / NPR:
Newsworthy? Determining the Importance of Protests on Wall Street
Newsworthy? Determining the Importance of Protests on Wall Street
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Wonkette and Concurring Opinions
Charles Mead / Bloomberg:
Wall Street Protesters Joined by Susan Sarandon
Wall Street Protesters Joined by Susan Sarandon
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City Room, Mother Jones and New York Magazine
Deborah Solomon / Wall Street Journal:
Solyndra Said to Have Violated Terms of Its U.S. Loan — Solyndra LLC had such steep financial problems in late 2010 that the company violated terms of its loan-guarantee agreement with the Department of Energy and technically defaulted on its $535 million loan, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker demands independent probe into Solyndra
GOP lawmaker demands independent probe into Solyndra
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The Heritage Foundation
Timothy R. Homan / Bloomberg:
Obama Jobs Plan May Prevent 2012 Recession — President Barack Obama's $447 billion jobs plan would help avoid a return to recession by maintaining growth and pushing down the unemployment rate next year, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. — The legislation …
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ThinkProgress, Washington Monthly, The Politico and Business Insider
Dick Morris / The Hill:
Blacks leave Obama — Behind the president's whining to the Black Caucus, begging them to “quit grumbling,” is a decline in his personal popularity among African-American voters that could portend catastrophe for his fading reelection chances. — According to a Washington Post/ABC News survey …
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Outside the Beltway, No More Mister Nice Blog, Tea Party Brew and The Politico
Raghavan Mayur / Investor's Business Daily:
A President Who's Well-Liked Falls Well Short On Execution — President Obama faces head winds from independents, an important voting bloc for re-election in 2012. Many of them think well of him personally, but they are disenchanted. They don't like his policies, and they see him as inexperienced.
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Questions and Observations and Weasel Zippers
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
Germany slams ‘stupid’ US plans to boost EU rescue fund — Germany and America were on a collision course on Tuesday night over the handling of Europe's debt crisis after Berlin savaged plans to boost the EU rescue fund as a “stupid idea” and told the White House to sort out its own mess before giving gratuitous advice to others.
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Daniel Howes / Detroit News:
Ford pulls its ad on bailouts
Ford pulls its ad on bailouts
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Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Palin sends more mixed signals — Sarah Palin, as often, sent ambivalent signals in her interview on Fox News last night. — The clip that everyone is buzzing about last night and this morning as a sign that she's leaning against a run: … I say “ambivalent signals” because …
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Spiegel Online:
Euro Crisis — Related articles, background features and opinions about this topic. — The World from Berlin — Obama's Euro-Crisis Lecture Is ‘Pitiful and Sad’ — Obama slammed the Europeans at an event in Mountain View, California on Monday. — US President Obama has given …
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Big Peace and JammieWearingFool
Ali A. Akbar / Tea Party Brew:
A Tea Party Invitation to Morgan Freeman — My name is Ali Akbar. I'm a 26 year-old African-American small business owner and a tea party activist. I'm not writing to rake you over the coals in the way that many conservatives have done in the last 48 hours.
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Pajamas Media
Jason Horowitz / Washington Post:
For David Plouffe, a top Obama adviser, a new strategy and old doubts — View Photo Gallery — President Obama's reelection campaign and DNC together raised $86 million in the second quarter of 2011. Outside of fundraising, the president is ramping up support for his reelection …
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
O-bummer! MTV tunes out prez campaign — President Obama's re-election campaign wants to connect with young Americans and reached out recently to MTV for help — but the cable network turned them down, sources tell The Post. — The president's Get Out the Vote campaign, run by Buffy Wicks …
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Weasel Zippers, Mediaite and Don Surber
Ben Geman / The Hill:
EPA delays auto emissions, mileage rule rollout — The Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department are delaying the release of proposed regulations establishing the next round of joint greenhouse gas and mileage standards for cars and light trucks.
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ThinkProgress
Nicholas Kulish / New York Times:
As Scorn for Vote Grows, Protests Surge Around Globe — MADRID — Hundreds of thousands of disillusioned Indians cheer a rural activist on a hunger strike. Israel reels before the largest street demonstrations in its history. Enraged young people in Spain and Greece take over public squares across their countries.
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Daniel W. Drezner and The Agonist
Financial Times:
Split opens over Greek bail-out terms — By Peter Spiegel in Brussels and Quentin Peel in Berlin — A split has opened in the eurozone over the terms of Greece's second €109bn bail-out with as many as seven of the bloc's 17 members arguing for private creditors to swallow a bigger writedown …
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Djw / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Two Cheers for Luddism — An interesting discussion in the comment thread to Erik's post on the welcome decline of robocheckers below. There's been some mild pushback against the notion of resisting robocheckers out of solidarity with the actual paycheck-drawing, rent-paying, family-feeding workers.
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Lance Mannion and Outside the Beltway
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Rights Collide as Town Clerk Sidesteps Role in Gay Marriages — LEDYARD, N.Y. — Rose Marie Belforti is a 57-year-old cheese maker, the elected town clerk in this sprawling Finger Lakes farming community and a self-described Bible-believing Christian. She believes that God has condemned homosexuality …
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Joe. My. God.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid playing for leverage with jobs bill — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has made it clear that he will not schedule a vote on President Obama's jobs package until after the upper chamber moves a China currency bill that the administration does not support.
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