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9:50 PM ET, October 11, 2011

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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Jim Messina broaches a provocative line  —  There's been at least some discussion this year about the “sabotage” question — whether Republicans are deliberately hurting the country, holding back the economy on purpose, for the express purpose of undermining the Obama presidency.
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Left's Nervous Breakdown  —  Obama has failed, and his supporters are turning to nihilism.  —  The White House is “bracing for the defeat of President Obama's jobs bill,” the Hill reports.  That's hardly surprising, since Republicans control the House—except that it is the Senate …
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Dems scramble to save face on jobs bill  —  Democratic leaders in the Senate are scrambling to avoid defections on President Obama's jobs package, which appears headed for defeat on Tuesday.  —  A lack of Democratic unity on the president's bill would be embarrassing for the White House …
Scott Wong / The Politico:
Senate passes China currency bill  —  A bipartisan bill targeting China's alleged currency manipulation easily cleared the Senate Tuesday night, despite warnings from Beijing and free-trade backers that the legislation could spark a trade war and harm the global economic recovery.
Discussion: Pat Dollard
The Hill:
The Hill's Whip List of selected senators on Obama's jobs bill
Discussion: Campaign 2012 and Booman Tribune
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A note about motions to proceed
The Politico:
Obama jobs bill stalls in Senate
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Will Dems fall short of majority for jobs bill?
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Shaheen to fly in for jobs vote
Discussion: Campaign 2012
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House braces for defeat of jobs bill
ABCNEWS:
U.S. Says Iran-Tied Terror Plot in Washington, D.C. Disrupted  —  FBI and DEA agents have disrupted a plot to commit a “significant terrorist act in the United States” tied to Iran, federal officials told ABC News today.  —  The officials said the plot included the assassination …
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J. David Goodman / New York Times:
U.S. Accuses Iranians of Plotting to Kill Saudi Envoy  —  Federal authorities foiled a plot by men linked to the Iranian government to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States and to bomb the embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said in a news conference on Tuesday.
Max Fisher / The Atlantic Online:
Would Iran Really Want to Blow Up the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S.?  —  The alleged Iranian plot would make great material for a spy novel, but it would go against Iran's own interests and past behabior  —  It's entirely possible that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement today …
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Lawmakers: Bombing plot shows Iran's danger to US
Discussion: ABCNEWS
The Politico:
Herman Cain: 'I'm going after Romney' at debate  —  In a radio interview just now, Herman Cain previewed his Tuesday night debate plan: “I'm going after Romney.”  —  “I'm not going after Perry.  I don't need to go after Perry,” Cain said, per POLITICO's Juana Summers.
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Fox News:
Christie to Endorse Romney Ahead of GOP Debate  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, just one week after definitively announcing he will not run for president in the 2012 race, plans to endorse Mitt Romney for the job Tuesday afternoon, Fox News has learned.  —  The event is set to take place …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Tonight in New Hampshire  —  The latest in a series of debates …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Cain leads in Iowa
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
About those ‘53 percent’  —  Republicans have been preoccupied for much of the year with those Americans who don't make enough money to qualify for a federal income tax burden.  Some are working-class families who fall below the tax threshold; some are unemployed; some are students; and some are retired.
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Ari Rabin-Havt / Media Matters for America:
We Need a New System
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Milquetoast Radicals  —  The U.S. economy is probably …
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Cantor shifts tone on Wall Street protesters, calls frustration ‘justified’
Ethan Bronner / New York Times:
Israel Reaches Deal With Hamas to Free Gilad Shalit  —  JERUSALEM — Israel and Hamas announced an agreement on Tuesday to exchange more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli soldier held captive in Gaza for five years, a deal brokered by Egypt that seemed likely to shake …
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Neil W. McCabe / Human Events:
SunPower: Twice As Bad As Solyndra, Twice As Bad For Obama  —  Congressman's son lobbied for failing solar panel company … How did a failing California solar company, buffeted by short sellers and shareholder lawsuits, receive a $1.2 billion federal loan guarantee for a photovoltaic …
New York Times:
Slovakia Rejects Euro Bailout  —  WARSAW — Slovakia's Parliament rejected participating in a crucial euro rescue fund on Tuesday night in a vote that backfired on the prime minister, who had tied her government to the legislation through a confidence vote.  —  Negotiations to try to stave off …
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Rudy Giuliani: I'm not running in 2012  —  In other news on doors shutting, Rudy Giuliani announced at a Long Island Association event just now that he's not running for president.  —  Asked by the group's president Kevin Law about reports that he had sent messages to New Hampshire supporters …
Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
“Gunwalking” subpoena for AG Holder imminent  —  PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO  —  CBS News has learned a congressional subpoena directed to Attorney General Eric Holder could go out as early as Tuesday, ordering him to turn over documents to lawmakers about when he was aware of a controversial gun smuggling operation known as Fast and Furious.
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Washington Post:
Eric Holder, Obama's albatross
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama ‘heartbroken’ NBA season will be delayed  —  President Obama said Tuesday that he's “a little heartbroken that the NBA season is getting delayed” at a fundraiser in Orlando with Magic star Dwight Howard.  —  NBA commissioner David Stern announced Monday that at least the first two weeks …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Adam Weinstein / Mother Jones:
Rick Scott to Liberal Arts Majors: Drop Dead  —  Florida's unpopular tea party governor, Rick Scott, wants more of the state's youths to pick up college degrees... but only if the degrees are useful to corporations and don't teach students to question social norms.  “You know what?
 
 
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Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
Gulf Shrimp Are Scarce This Season; Answers, Too
Discussion: Prairie Weather and Monkeyfister
MicheleBachmann.com:
Bachmann Introduces “American Jobs, Right Now” Blueprint for Economic Prosperity and Job Creation
Discussion: Opinion L.A. and The Caucus
Tammy Stables Battaglia / Detroit Free Press:
Majority of Highland Park's streetlights removed as city struggles with monthly energy bill
Discussion: Detroit News and Crooks and Liars
Inside Higher Ed:
The Lecturers' Filibuster
Discussion: Hot Air and Campaign 2012
Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
Georgia Considers Replacing Firefighters With Free Prison Laborers
Rick Perry / unionleader.com:
We must remove energy production obstacles to create jobs
Discussion: Ballot Box, ABCNEWS and ThinkProgress
 Earlier Items: 
Elisa Roche / Daily Express:
A MUSLIM LIFE OF BRIAN? NO WAY, SAYS PYTHON
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
What Washington should have done to create jobs
Steve Jordon / Omaha World-Herald:
Cain: The Godfather's years
Suzanna Andrews / Vanity Fair:
The Woman Who Knew Too Much  —  Millions of Americans hoped …
 

 
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