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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid's ‘nuclear option’ changes rules, ends repeat filibusters  —  In a shocking development Thursday evening, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) triggered a rarely used procedural option informally called the “nuclear option” to change the Senate rules.
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Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
Reid rewrites Senate rules with shocking move  —  In a stunning turn of events this evening, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., used an arcane legislative maneuver to effectively rewrite Senate rules to make it harder for the minority party to force uncomfortable votes on the majority.
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Obama's jobs bill to get Senate vote
Discussion: Daily Kos
Joseph / CANNONFIRE:
OWS: Here's the message you've all been waiting for  —  Lots of people, including this writer, have criticized the Occupy Wall Street movement for lacking a concrete goal.  I have found it.  I've come up with a single, clear demand — easily stated and easily realized.
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Herman Cain Aims Another Rant at Wall Street Protesters  —  Tea partiers didn't like the financial bailouts, either, and the former CEO has harmed his problem-solving brand by sticking up for big banks  —  On Hugh Hewitt's radio show Wednesday, former CEO Herman Cain offered more criticism …
Discussion: Rod Dreher
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Obama on Bank Prosecutions: They Did Nothing Illegal, Only Found Loopholes That We Worked to Close  —  For perhaps the first time, President Barack Obama was forced to explain why there have been no prosecutions of Wall Street executives for their fraudulent actions during the run-up to the financial crisis.
Seung Min Kim / The Politico:
Nancy Pelosi: ‘God bless’ Wall Street protesters
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Weasel Zippers
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
5 questions for President Obama
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Don Surber
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Wall Street Corruption, Solyndra, and Fast & Furious: Today's Q's for O - 10/6/2011
Discussion: Guardian and emptywheel
Braden / 100.7 WZLX:
Senator Scott Brown Calls In & Thanks Elizabeth Warren For Keeping Her Clothes On  —  WZLX's Kevin Karlson: “Have you officially responded to Elizabeth Warren's comment about how she didn't take her clothes off?”  —  Senator Scott Brown (laughs) “Thank God.”
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Eric Kleefeld / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012  —  Scott Brown Replies To Warren: ‘Thank God’ She Didn't Take Her Clothes Off (AUDIO)  —  Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) was interviewed on a local talk radio show Thursday morning.  And he had an interesting response to a recent line from Democratic frontrunner Elizabeth Warren.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Scott Brown, on Elizabeth Warren's claim she kept her clothes on during college: “Thank God”
Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Scott Brown On Elizabeth Warren ‘Keeping Her Clothes On’ During College: ‘Thank God’
Discussion: Hot Air and Swampland
Nick Baumann / Political Mojo:
Scott Brown Calls Elizabeth Warren Ugly
Amanda Carey / The Daily Caller:
As Scott Brown fights for re-election, tea party groups vow to sit this one out
Discussion: Instapundit
Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Huntsman Hits Palin for ‘Stringing People Along’  —  ABC News' Shushannah Walshe (@shushwalshe) and Sarah Kunin (@sarah_kunin) Report:  —  In an interview with ABC's “The View,” presidential candidate Jon Huntsman rebuked former Gov. Sarah Palin for “stringing people along” as she decided whether to run for president.
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Adam Brickley / The Daily Caller:
The Palin movement isn't retreating, it's reloading  —  I've been a Palinista for going on four years now, starting back in 2007 when I anonymously launched a little website called “Draft Sarah Palin for Vice President.”  That site represented the first concrete, public expression of support …
Discussion: Conservatives4Palin
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Sarah Palin industry faces depression
Washington Examiner:
Palin was right to forgo 2012 presidential run
Lindsey Boerma / NationalJournal.com:
Cain Says He ‘Would Not Be Comfortable’ As Perry's Running Mate  —  Businessman Herman Cain, a Republican candidate for president, says he would consider running for vice presidential with anyone other than Texas Gov. Rick Perry.  —  HOUSTON — Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain …
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Simon Maloy / Media Matters for America:   Laura Ingraham Isn't Sure If Obama Is Black
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Cain open to VP offer from any Republican candidate except Perry
Discussion: CNN, Riehl World View and Hot Air
Jon Bershad / Mediaite:
Laura Ingraham: Would A Herman Cain Presidency Be Historic Because Obama Has White Relatives?  (UPDATE)
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Repeating the same mistake, expecting new results  —  The very first question in this morning's White House press conference was pretty discouraging: … Towards the end of the event, another reporter asked the nearly identical question: … Look, I realize the media loves the idea of compromise.
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Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
FACT CHECK: Obama claims miss some evidence
The White House:
News Conference by the President
Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml:
BBC Does It Again: “In The Absence Of A Credible Plan We Will Have A Global Financial Meltdown In Two To Three Weeks” - IMF Advisor  —  A week after the BBC exploded Alessio Rastani to the stage, it has just done it all over again.  In an interview with IMF advisor Robert Shapiro …
Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
Lindsey Graham On ‘Intimidation’: 'If You're A Southern White Guy, It Is Part Of Your Life'  —  GOP presidential candidate Gov. Rick Perry (TX) has faced severe backlash this week as the result of stories that he had opposed a campaign to remove the Confederate battle flag from statehouses across …
Discussion: Shakesville and Poynter
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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Secret panel can put Americans on “kill list'  —  (Reuters) - American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Execution by secret WH committee
Robert Bryce / Wall Street Journal:
Five Truths About Climate Change  —  During the decade that Al Gore dominated the environmental debate, global carbon-dioxide emissions rose by 28.5%.  —  Over the past two months, environmental activists have held protests at the White House and elsewhere hoping to convince the Obama administration …
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Darius Dixon / The Politico:
DOE loan program official Jonathan Silver steps down
Discussion: CNN and The Page
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
‘Fast and Furious’ docs reveal Holder was given multiple detailed accounts of gun program  —  New Department of Justice documents the House Oversight Committee released Thursday morning show Attorney General Eric Holder was briefed on Operation Fast and Furious many more times than previously discovered documents suggested.
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New York Post:
‘Furious’ mess has Justice in full panic
Discussion: National Review
Will Oremus / Slate:
The Presidential Horse Race  —  Literally: an animation of the 2012 Republican campaign as a horse race.  —  The press is routinely accused of covering political campaigns as if they were horse races: so preoccupied with who's up or down in the polls that it ignores the substance of the campaign.
Walter S. Mossberg / Wall Street Journal:
The Steve Jobs I Knew  —  That Steve Jobs was a genius, a giant influence on multiple industries and billions of lives, has been written many times since he retired as Apple's chief executive in August.  He was a historical figure on the scale of a Thomas Edison or Henry Ford …
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Why So Few Steve Jobses?
Discussion: Political Mojo
 
 
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