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9:00 PM ET, October 8, 2011

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Daily Mail:
INSIDE MAN: IS PRESIDENT OBAMA SUPPORTING THE PROTESTERS?  —  Despite claiming to represent ‘the 99 per cent’, not all Americans are behind the Wall Street protests.  —  But according to the Financial Times, the President himself is unofficially backing their cause.
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Cara Buckley / New York Times:
Occupy Wall Street Begins to Chafe Its Neighbors  —  Panini and Company Cafe normally sells sandwiches to tourists in Lower Manhattan and the residents nearby, but in recent days its owner, Stacey Tzortzatos, has also become something of a restroom monitor.  Protesters from Occupy Wall Street …
Gail Collins / New York Times:
Wall Street Weeks  —  The Occupy Wall Street encampment in Lower Manhattan is covered with damp sleeping bags, interspersed among piles of wet, abandoned clothes.  Molding stuff is everywhere.  It looks like a scene from “Outdoor Hoarders.”  —  “How about one big cleaning day?” someone asks during a morning meeting.
Steven Law / Politics:
Jon Tester: Senate Dems' canary in the coal mine  —  Since August, President Obama has made “running against Congress” a centerpiece of his reelection strategy, as President Truman did in 1948.  But the comparison between 1948 and 2012 contains one inconvenient fact: the Senate is still controlled …
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
CBO: Obama jobs bill reduces budget deficit  —  The Congressional Budget Office on Friday confirmed that President Obama's jobs bill would be fully paid for over ten years and also gave its seal of approval to Senate Democrats' version that includes a surtax on millionaires.
Washington Post:
Obama, the loner president  —  Beyond the economy, the wars and the polls, President Obama has a problem: people.  —  This president endures with little joy the small talk and back-slapping of retail politics, rarely spends more than a few minutes on a rope line, refuses to coddle even his biggest donors.
Discussion: neo-neocon and Pajamas Media
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Ben Geman / The Hill:
Emails raise questions about Energy, Treasury disagreement on Solyndra  —  House Republicans released an email Friday evening showing that a senior Treasury Department official in August expressed concern that the Energy Department's early 2011 restructuring of the solar company Solyndra's …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Romney criticizes summit speaker for ‘poisonous language’  —  Mitt Romney criticized another speaker at the Values Voter Summit Saturday for bringing “poisonous language” into public debate, a day after his Mormon faith came under attack by a Texas megachurch leader here.
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A.Killough / CNN:
Romney jabs controversial speaker at Values Voter Summit  —  Washington (CNN) - Addressing the Values Voter Summit in Washington, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney chided a controversial conservative leader who has denounced Mormonism.  —  The former Massachusetts governor …
New York Times:
Prominent Pastor Calls Romney's Church a Cult
Doug Powers / Michelle Malkin:
Undrained Swamp Update: Things You Can't Believe are Legal Inside the Beltway, Part XXVII  —  It isn't difficult to see why so many in Washington can't or won't recognize the inherent problem with things like the Solyndra debacle — or crony capitalism in general.
Andy Crouch / Wall Street Journal:
Steve Jobs: The Secular Prophet  —  Steve Jobs turned Eve's apple, the symbol of fallen humankind, into a religious icon for true believers in technology.  But can salvation be downloaded?  —  For every magical thing Steve Jobs revealed in his Apple keynote addresses, there were many other things he concealed.
Matthew Kaminski / Wall Street Journal:
The Big Easy's School Revolution  —  John White, superintendent of New Orleans' public schools: ‘In other cities, charter schools exist in spite of the system.  Here they are the system.’  —  New Orleans  —  At John McDonough High School in this city's Esplanade Ridge district …
 
 
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Mary Pat Flaherty / Washington Post:
Widow of slain D.C. sanitation worker sues city, alleges negligence
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New York Times:
State Dept. Assigned Keystone XL Review to Company With Ties to TransCanada
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Floyd Norris / New York Times:
After a Rating Downgrade, U.S. Treasuries Turn a Profit
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Mary Beth Sheridan / Washington Post:
State Department readies Iraq operation, its biggest since Marshall Plan
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A.Killough / CNN:
GOP lauds pro-trade proposals, ignores Obama's pitch for jobs bill
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