memeorandum: Perry Declares ‘There Is Nothing In That Constitution’ That Allows Medicaid To Exist (Scott Keyes/ThinkProgress)

6:50 PM ET, October 3, 2011

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Exclusive: Occupy Wall Street Activist Slams Fox News Producer In Un-Aired Interview [Video] — Even if Geraldo Rivera was at the Zuccotti Park yesterday, Fox News has generally been a tad dismissive of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Foxnews.com (as of this writing) …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Washington Post, ThinkProgress, Guardian, Crooks and Liars, ANIMAL, The Daily What, Mediaite, The Raw Story and PolitickerNY, more at Mediagazer »

Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:

The Cost Of A Demobilized Left — Watching the growth of Occupy Wall Street solidarity protests around the country, it's hard not to be reminded of the lost opportunity to mobilize a left-wing popular movement back in the winter of 2008-2009 and the spring of 2009.

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog, The Crawdad Hole, Balloon Juice and Eschaton

NY Daily News:

TWU blasts city for putting handcuffed Occupy Wall Street protesters on buses — The Transport Workers Union will go to court Monday to try to stop the city from forcing bus drivers to transport Wall Street protesters arrested by the NYPD, the Daily News has learned.

Discussion: City Room, ThinkProgress, Firedoglake, thenation.com/blogs/163273, Guardian, Runnin' Scared, Daily Kos, New York Times, New York Post, New York Magazine, CBS New York and Balloon Juice

Justin Sink / The Hill:
Paul supports anti-Wall Street protests

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog

Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:

‘Niggerhead’ — Ok, then: … In all seriousness, I think this says very little about Rick Perry, and a lot more about the country he seeks to govern. A few choice quotes: … And from the Times: … Surely there are people, in both stories, who find the name offensive.

Discussion: New York Times, Outside the Beltway, Colorlines, Gawker, ThinkProgress and Political Mojo

Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:

Perry Declares ‘There Is Nothing In That Constitution’ That Allows Medicaid To Exist — ThinkProgress filed this report from a town hall in Derry, NH. — This weekend in New Hampshire, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) doubled down on his belief that programs ranging from Medicaid to federal assistance …

Rick Perry / Washington Post:
At Rick Perry's Texas hunting spot, camp's old racially charged name lingered

Discussion: Swampland, Wonkette, pandagon.net and The Daily Dish

Emily Ramshaw / The Texas Tribune:
Perry Critics Defend Him In Racist Camp Name Furor

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, ThinkProgress, Iowa Caucuses, National Review, DownWithTyranny!, The New Republic and Weasel Zippers

Justin Sink / Ballot Box:
Cain denies playing ‘race card’

Discussion: CNN, NewsBusters.org blogs, RealClearPolitics Video Log, Sister Toldjah, Instapundit and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Rick Perry Signed 2007 Mandate Requiring 30 Minutes Of Daily Exercise For Texas Students

Discussion: ThinkProgress and Campaign 2012

Michael Crowley / Swampland:
Michael Steele on Perry's Hunting Camp: “It's Very Troubling”

Discussion: Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress, Washington Post, 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com, Little Green Footballs, Big Journalism, Los Angeles Times, Ben Smith's Blog, THEROOT.COM and CNN

Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:

Shock Photos: Candidate Obama Appeared And Marched With New Black Panther Party in 2007 — New photographs obtained exclusively by BigGovernment.com reveal that Barack Obama appeared and marched with members of the New Black Panther Party as he campaigned for president in Selma, Alabama in March 2007.

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, Big Journalism, National Review, Hot Air, Media Matters for America, Atlas Shrugs, Pajamas Media, The Lonely Conservative, The Gateway Pundit, The Right Scoop, Sister Toldjah, Moonbattery, Verum Serum, Weasel Zippers, Michelle Malkin, GayPatriot and JammieWearingFool

Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS:

President Obama Calls Himself ‘Underdog’ in 2012 Race for White House — George Stephanopoulos of ABC News interviews President Barack Obama live on ABCNews.com and Yahoo! today at 2:35 EST. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) — Calling himself an “underdog,” President Obama today …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Yahoo! News, Guardian, Questions and Observations, CNN and Weasel Zippers, more at Mediagazer »

Russell Berman / The Hill:
Rep. Cantor rejects Obama, says president's jobs package is dead

Discussion: Firedoglake and CNN

Janet Hook / Washington Wire:
Cantor: Obama's Job Bill Is Dead in Congress

Discussion: Economist's View

Bob Inglis / Bloomberg:

Conservative Means Standing With Science on Climate: Bob Inglis — Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) — Normally, the country can count on conservatives to deal in facts. We base policies on science, not sentiment, we insist on people being accountable for their actions, and we maintain that markets, not mandates, are the path to prosperity.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Ballot Box and Agence France Presse

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
For Christie, a ‘modern front-porch campaign’?

Discussion: ThinkProgress

Washington Examiner:
York: The crazy math of a Chris Christie candidacy

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Ricochet Conversation Feed and The Daily Caller

Marc Caputo / St. Petersburg Times:

Fla poll: Romney 28%, Cain 24, Gingrich 10, Perry 9 — Debates matter. So did Florida's straw poll. Just ask two guys: Herman Cain and Rick Perry. — Cain is now running in second place in Florida now that his support surged nearly 19 percentage points after last month's Republican Party …

Discussion: New York Magazine and Campaign 2012

CNN:
TRENDING: Cain: I'm ‘not playing the race card’ with Perry

Discussion: New York Magazine, Ballot Box and The Lonely Conservative

Adam Serwer / Mother Jones:
Faced With Perry's “Niggerhead” Controversy, Conservatives Slam...Herman Cain

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Washington Post, GOP 12, Daily Kos, Mediaite and Hullabaloo

Gary Langer / Politics:

Majority Expects Obama to Lose Re-Election — A majority of Americans expect Barack Obama to be a one-term president, an assessment on which, in past elections, the public more often has been right than wrong. — Just 37 percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say they expect Obama …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, GayPatriot, Indecision Forever, Ballot Box and The Daily Caller

Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:

VIDEO: Reagan Called For An End To ‘Crazy’ Tax Loopholes That Let Millionaires Pay Less Than Bus Drivers — When President Obama released his plan for “the Buffett rule,” which involves closing tax loopholes and ensuring that millionaires pay their fair share in taxes, he explained that …

Discussion: Center for American Progress, Washington Monthly, Jay Bookman, Money & Company and Daily Kos

Fran Tarkenton / Wall Street Journal:

What if the NFL Played by Teachers' Rules? — Imagine a league where players who make it through three seasons could never be cut from the roster. — Imagine the National Football League in an alternate reality. Each player's salary is based on how long he's been in the league.

Discussion: The Politico, his vorpal sword, ECHIDNE of the snakes, Big Government, Don Surber, OpenMarket.org, Cato @ Liberty, Betsy's Page, Roger Ailes, TheBlaze.com, NewsBusters.org blogs and The Lonely Conservative

Dan Hirschhorn / The Politico:

Obama impeachment a possibility, says Ron Paul — Ron Paul said Monday that President Barack Obama's targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki might be an impeachable offense. — Asked at a Manchester, N.H. town hall meeting about last week's killing of the American-born Al Qaeda leader …

Discussion: CNN and Weasel Zippers

New York Post:

Furiously unraveling — The joke goes that anything named “Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms” ought to be a convenience store instead of an arm of the federal government, but what's going on in Washington these days with the embattled agency is no laughing matter.

Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Donor, officials warned Obama not to visit Solyndra after financial warnings

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Lonely Conservative

Washington Examiner:

Thank Wal-Mart for your new bank card fee — When Bank of America announced last week that it would charge $5 a month to customers who make purchases with their debit card, customers railed against the bank. — Many conservatives and libertarians said the anger should be aimed at Congress …

Discussion: The Crawdad Hole and Sense of Events

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

How Obama's tax hikes would really impact the rich, in three easy charts — Ever since Obama redoubled his push to hike taxes on the rich, conservatives have been ridiculing Obama's invocations of fairness, insisting that the rich are already paying a rising share of the overall tax burden …

Discussion: Political Mojo

Amanda Knox / The Daily Beast:

Inside Obama's Populist Makeover — The president's friends (and foes) on what prompted his lurch to the left—and whether it will work. Plus, Michael Tomasky on Obama's new centrist battle plan.

Discussion: The Politico, Washington Monthly, TPMDC, nation.foxnews.com, Weasel Zippers and The Daily Caller

Neal Stephenson / World Policy Institute:

Innovation Starvation — My lifespan encompasses the era when the United States of America was capable of launching human beings into space. Some of my earliest memories are of sitting on a braided rug before a hulking black-and-white television, watching the early Gemini missions.

Jane Mayer / New Yorker:

STATE FOR SALE … - POLITICS - PROFILES - THE TALK OF THE TOWN - COMMENT - TABLE OF CONTENTS - THE FINANCIAL PAGE - NEWS DESK - THE POLITICAL SCENE

Discussion: southernstudies.org, Ricochet Conversation Feed, Booman Tribune, Outside the Beltway, Prairie Weather, The Progressive Pulse and Taegan Goddard's …

Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:

Risk-averse America — Economist Robert Litan of the Kauffman Foundation likes to recall that half of today's Fortune 500 companies began as start-ups in a recession or a bear stock market. And why not? During a recession, it's cheaper to hire new workers, rent office space, buy supplies.

Discussion: ThinkProgress

New York Times:

A U.S.-Backed Geothermal Plant Struggles — WASHINGTON — In a remote desert spot in northern Nevada, there is a geothermal plant run by a politically connected clean energy start-up that has relied heavily on an Obama administration loan guarantee and is now facing financial turmoil.