memeorandum: Obama on Bank Prosecutions: They Did Nothing Illegal, Only Found Loopholes That We Worked to Close (David Dayen/Firedoglake)

9:55 PM ET, October 6, 2011

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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.

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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Obama's jobs bill to get Senate vote

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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.

Discussion: The Jawa Report and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

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.

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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Herman Cain Aims Another Rant at Wall Street Protesters

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Seung Min Kim / The Politico:
Nancy Pelosi: ‘God bless’ Wall Street protesters

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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Obama Would Accept Surtax on Incomes Over $1 Million

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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
5 questions for President Obama

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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Wall Street Corruption, Solyndra, and Fast & Furious: Today's Q's for O - 10/6/2011

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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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Noah Bierman / Boston Globe:

Scott Brown quips about Elizabeth Warren's appearance on Boston radio show — Republican Senator Scott Brown made a crack about Democrat Elizabeth Warren's physical appearance on a radio show this morning. — Brown was responding to a crack Warren made in Tuesday's debate …

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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.

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Nick Baumann / Political Mojo:
Scott Brown Calls Elizabeth Warren Ugly

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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Scott Brown, on Elizabeth Warren's claim she kept her clothes on during college: “Thank God”

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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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David Frum / FrumForum:

Palin: Already Almost Forgotten — “I will continue driving the discussion for freedom and free markets...” — From Sarah Palin's statement announcing her decision not to run for president. — Um, probably not. Sarah Palin's political voice had dwindled well before she announced her decision not to run.

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Adam Brickley / The Daily Caller:
The Palin movement isn't retreating, it's reloading

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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Sarah Palin industry faces depression

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Washington Examiner:
Palin was right to forgo 2012 presidential run

Discussion: Don Surber, Sister Toldjah and American Spectator

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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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Cain open to VP offer from any Republican candidate except Perry

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Simon Maloy / Media Matters for America: Laura Ingraham Isn't Sure If Obama Is Black

Jon Bershad / Mediaite:
Laura Ingraham: Would A Herman Cain Presidency Be Historic Because Obama Has White Relatives? (UPDATE)

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Roger Simon / The Politico:
Who will be the GOP messiah? — Barack Obama is so doomed politically …

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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 …

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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:

Rick Perry hunting camp resolution blocked by House — This post has been updated. — The House of Representatives has blocked consideration of a resolution calling on Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) to apologize for not immediately “doing away” with a rock bearing the controversial name …

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First Read / msnbc.com:
House dismisses resolution condemning Perry ranch

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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

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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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Miketoole / CBS Boston:
Obama Cites Employed Boston Teacher In Jobs Bill News Conference

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Darren Samuelsohn / The Politico:
GOP Solyndra probe wants Obama's BlackBerry messages

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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 …

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New York Post:

‘Furious’ mess has Justice in full panic — So now the Fast and Furious affair has reached Stage 2 of the classic Washington scandal: House Republicans have called for a special counsel to investigate Attorney General Eric Holder himself for possible perjury.

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Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
‘Fast and Furious’ docs reveal Holder was given multiple detailed accounts of gun program

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Publius / Big Government:
Holder Received at least 5 Memos on ‘Fast and Furious’

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Washington Post:

Solyndra controversy claims casualty as head of Energy Department loan program steps down — The head of the Energy Department's controversial loan guarantee program has decided to step down, department officials confirmed to The Washington Post on Thursday.

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Darius Dixon / The Politico:
DOE loan program official Jonathan Silver steps down

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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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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?

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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.

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Frank Cerabino / Palm Beach Post:

Lawmaker wants state to reinstate dwarf tossing — Some news on the job-creation front in Florida. — A state legislator has found yet another example of government regulation getting in the way of job creation. — So Rep. Ritch Workman, R-Melbourne, filed a bill this week to bring back …