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6:20 PM ET, October 9, 2011

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Protesters Against Wall Street — As the Occupy Wall Street protests spread from Lower Manhattan to Washington and other cities, the chattering classes keep complaining that the marchers lack a clear message and specific policy prescriptions. The message — and the solutions …

Discussion: Firedoglake, Daily Kos, Mediaite, Patterico's Pontifications, Washington Monthly, The Politico and ABCNEWS

Bernie Becker / The Hill:

Cain, Gingrich blast Occupy Wall Street protests — Herman Cain charged Sunday that groups sympathetic to President Obama were ginning up the Occupy Wall Street protests to take attention away from the administration's policies. — Cain, the GOP presidential candidate …

Discussion: Firedoglake, Weasel Zippers and The Crawdad Hole

Greg / The Belgravia Dispatch:

Occupy Wall Street: An Early Assessment — I stumbled on the initial Occupy Wall Street protests by accident back on its first day of September 17th walking through the financial district in lower Manhattan. While the group seemed quite inchoate and far smaller than the 20,000 thousand …

Discussion: Newshoggers.com and ThinkProgress

CNN: As ‘Occupy’ protests spread, some politicians rebuke

Jennifer Preston / New York Times:
Wall Street Protest Spurs Online Dialogue on Inequity

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Moe Lane, ThinkProgress, Prairie Weather, Firedoglake, Fausta's Blog, Wonkette, Monkeyfister, Washington Post and Daily Mail

Charlie Grapski / cgrapski's FDL blog:

American Spectator Editor Admits to Being Agent Provocateur at D.C. Museum — The following photograph taken by opednews.com shows a confrontation in the lobby of the National Air and Space Museum between two individuals and an officer shortly before video shows officers …

Discussion: Opednews.com Progressive …, ThinkProgress, Gawker, Boing Boing, Dependable Renegade, The Raw Story and The Other McCain, more at Mediagazer »

Patrick Howley / American Spectator:

Standoff in D.C. — WASHINGTON — The fastest-running protesters charged up the steps of Washington's National Air and Space Museum Saturday afternoon to infiltrate the building and hang banners on the “shameful” exhibits promoting American imperialism. As the white-uniformed security guards hurried …

Discussion: skippy the bush kangaroo, Little Green Footballs, Balloon Juice, The Crawdad Hole, The Political Carnival, The Raw Story and Boing Boing

Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:

The Changing Story — You should definitely read Ezra Klein's long take on the Obama administration economic team's retroactive assessment of their performance. But I think it's helpful to skip to the end: … I have some policy points to make about the whole thing …

Ezra Klein / Washington Post:

Could this time have been different? — (KEVIN LAMARQUE - REUTERS) Christina Romer had traveled to Chicago to perform an unpleasant task: she needed to scare her new boss. David Axelrod, Barack Obama's top political adviser, had been very clear about that.

Discussion: Connecting.the.Dots, Paul Krugman, Business Insider, Political Mojo, Booman Tribune and Balloon Juice

Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Financial crisis and stimulus: Could this time be different?

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Kevinliptak / CNN:

Cain: Racism not holding anyone back — (CNN) - Presidential candidate Herman Cain said Sunday that he didn't believe racism was a major factor holding minorities back in America, asserting instead that African Americans had a level playing field on which to advance economically.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and neo-neocon

Gautham Nagesh / The Hill: Cain: Racism doesn't hold blacks back

Lucy Madison / CBS News:
Gingrich: Not for us to judge Romney's religion

Discussion: The Political Carnival

Jazz Shaw / Hot Air:

Occupy Atlanta gives John Lewis the cold shoulder — Apparently having solved all other problems in Georgia, a group of roughly 300 protesters decided to mimic the recent events in Manhattan and set up Occupy Atlanta. Unlike their brothers and sisters in arms up in the Big Apple, though …

Discussion: Power Line, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Weasel Zippers, Datechguy's Blog and The Other McCain

Richard A. Serrano / Los Angeles Times:

Fast and Furious weapons were found in Mexico cartel enforcer's home — Guns illegally purchased under the ATF operation were found in April hidden in violence-plagued Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, court records show. — Reporting from Washington— High-powered assault weapons illegally purchased under …

Discussion: Campaign 2012, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, Scared Monkeys, Fausta's Blog, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, Sense of Events and The Hill

David Leonhardt / New York Times:

The Depression: If Only Things Were That Good — David Leonhardt is The New York Times Washington bureau chief. — UNDERNEATH the misery of the Great Depression, the United States economy was quietly making enormous strides during the 1930s. Television and nylon stockings were invented.

Discussion: Political Mojo and ThinkProgress

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:

Perry's immigration problem — It's safe to say Rick Perry has given up his perch as the Republican presidential frontrunner. In fact, the apparent collapse happened rather suddenly, with a debate in Florida marking the pivot point. Almost immediately, the question in GOP circles went from …

Discussion: Booman Tribune and Washington Post

Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
In Iowa, Rick Perry's immigration problem grows

Discussion: Iowa Caucuses, Outside the Beltway and The Caucus

Los Angeles Times:

Brown signs California Dream Act — The law grants illegal immigrants access to state aid at public universities and colleges. It is one of 50 education-related bills weighed by the governor. — Reporting from Sacramento— Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday granted illegal immigrants access …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, Joanne Jacobs, ImmigrationProf Blog and L.A. NOW

Paul Sperry / New York Post:

Jihad,Va. — The 9/11 imam Anwar al-Awlaki may be dead, but his old mosque is still open for business and remains a dangerous breeding ground for terrorists — and it's right in the president's back yard. — Nothing much has changed since 2002, when Awlaki voluntarily left the pulpit …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch

Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen

Discussion: Power Line, Don Surber, Lawfare, Washington Monthly, Balkinization, Political Mojo, Runnin' Scared, Capitol Ideas …, Prairie Weather, Unqualified Offerings, Mondoweiss, Opinio Juris, The Political Carnival, emptywheel, American Power, The Volokh Conspiracy and Business Insider

Jeff Sommer / New York Times:

An Ugly Forecast That's Been Right Before — LET'S face it: economic forecasting is an act of sheer hubris. Which, of course, only incites people to do it. — Multimedia — The stock market offers its predictions, and, occasionally, it's even right.