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11:45 PM ET, October 11, 2011

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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.

Discussion: Daily Kos, No More Mister Nice Blog, Political Mojo and Booman Tribune

Associated Press:

GOP senators vote to defeat Obama's jobs bill — WASHINGTON (AP) — United against Barack Obama, Senate Republicans voted Tuesday night to kill the jobs package the president had spent weeks campaigning for across the country, a stinging loss at the hands of lawmakers opposed to stimulus-style spending …

Discussion: Booman Tribune, Balloon Juice and US Politics

Scott Wong / The Politico:
Senate passes China currency bill

Discussion: Pat Dollard

Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Dems scramble to save face on jobs bill

Discussion: CNN, ABCNEWS, msnbc.com, Wake up America, The Confluence, Balloon Juice, The Lonely Conservative, Hot Air, Pundit & Pundette and Campaign 2012

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A note about motions to proceed

Discussion: BBC, The Moderate Voice and Daily Kos

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Will Dems fall short of majority for jobs bill?

Discussion: National Review, Hot Air, Daily Kos and Gawker

The Hill:
The Hill's Whip List of selected senators on Obama's jobs bill

Discussion: The Hill, Campaign 2012, Daily Kos and Booman Tribune

Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama says Senate defeat of jobs bill ‘by no means the end of this fight’

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
If moderate Dems vote No on jobs bill, they're only hurting themselves

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, CBS News, Washington Monthly, The Crawdad Hole, The Mahablog, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Big Government and Pat Dollard

The Politico:
Obama jobs bill stalls in Senate

Discussion: The New Republic and National Review

Manu Raju / The Politico:
Democrats' Plan B on jobs bill: Go smaller

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Political Mojo, Firedoglake, Pirate's Cove and The Hill

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 …

The United States Department of Justice:

Two Men Charged in Alleged Plot to Assassinate Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States — WASHINGTON - Two individuals have been charged in New York for their alleged participation in a plot directed by elements of the Iranian government to murder the Saudi Ambassador to the United States …

Discussion: Pajamas Media, ABC News, Fausta's Blog, TalkLeft, Blogs of War, Gawker, Guardian, Michelle Malkin, Online NewsHour and Fox News Insider

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 behavior — Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Adel al-Jubeir speaks in Annapolis / Reuters

Discussion: emptywheel, Global Public Square, Foreign Policy and democracyarsenal.org

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.

Discussion: The Washington Note, Washington Post, The Atlantic Online, Boing Boing, News Hounds, Outside the Beltway, The New Republic, Balloon Juice, americanthinker.com, FP Passport, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and US Politics

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.

Discussion: Public Policy Polling, Washington Post, Hot Air, Pat Dollard, Campaign 2012, FrumForum, Weasel Zippers, Balloon Juice, ABCNEWS, Swampland, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Trail Blazers Blog, American Spectator, Daily Kos, Michelle Malkin and GOP 12

Datechguy / Datechguy's Blog:

Dartmouth Debate blog — The Take away line from the night comes from Herman Cain's man in the spin room. Herman Cain is driving the debate! — My take: Romney Wins Cain close second, Bachmann 3rd. Perry in trouble. Santorum didn't break out. — 9:52 p.m. Paul ignores question …

Discussion: Zilla of the Resistance, The Sundries Shack, The Lonely Conservative, The Other McCain and Pundit & Pundette

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Tonight in New Hampshire — The latest in a series of debates …

Discussion: Washington Post, The Maddow Blog, Big Government and TBogg

Fox News:
Christie to Endorse Romney Ahead of GOP Debate

Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Cain leads in Iowa

Discussion: CNN, Guardian, Don Surber and Outside the Beltway

Patrick O'Connor / Washington Wire:
GOP Debate Live Blog

Discussion: Althouse

Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Christie slaps Perry over Jeffress Mormon comments

Discussion: Hot Air, CNN, Political Mojo, Pajamas Media, Business Insider, National Review and Daily Kos

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 …

Discussion: The Hill, Pajamas Media, Online NewsHour, The Daily Caller and Hullabaloo

Ari Rabin-Havt / Media Matters for America:

We Need a New System — In the Spring of 2000, my friend and former colleague Zack Exley arrived in Washington, DC, to observe the protests that had engulfed the city during the World Bank's annual meeting. Driving into Washington from the airport, out the window of his taxi he saw …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Philly.com and Eschaton

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
About those ‘53 percent’

Discussion: Economix, CANNONFIRE and Riehl World View

David Brooks / New York Times:
The Milquetoast Radicals — The U.S. economy is probably …

Discussion: New York Magazine, Pajamas Media, Paul Krugman, Firedoglake, ECHIDNE of the snakes, Outside the Beltway, The Baseline Scenario, Left of the Hudson, ABCNEWS, The Daily Caller, A plain blog about politics, The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Mediaite, New Yorker and The Politico

Adam Serwer / Political Mojo:
Conservative Pundit Says, “Get a Job Hippies!”

Discussion: Daily Kos, American Spectator, The Daily Dish, A plain blog about politics and Gawker

Russell Berman / The Hill:
Cantor shifts tone on Wall Street protesters, calls frustration ‘justified’

Discussion: The Politico, Firedoglake, ThinkProgress, Sky Dancing, CNN, Connecting.the.Dots, ABCNEWS and The Hill

Royal Family / Telegraph:
Tim Stanley — Dr Tim Stanley is a research fellow …

Discussion: Reuters, Opinionator, Washington Post, Pajamas Media and ACS Blog

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 …

Discussion: YID With LID, Pajamas Media, The Page, Fire Andrea Mitchell! and New York Magazine

Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
The Gilad Shalit Prisoner Exchange

Discussion: Room Eight

Ynetnews:
Shalit deal to include 1,027 security prisoners

Discussion: Haaretz, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Israel Matzav and Jihad Watch

Reuters:
Israel, Hamas agree on prisoner swap to free Shalit

Discussion: The Jawa Report, CNN and ThinkProgress

Haaretz:
Israel cabinet approves Gilad Shalit prisoner swap

Discussion: The Jawa Report and Hot Air

Justin Sink / Ballot Box:

Cain defends 9-9-9 plan as not ‘off a pizza box’ — Herman Cain defended the economic team behind his 9-9-9 tax plan but still refused to name his economic advisers. — “My advisers come from the American people,” Cain said Tuesday night at a debate sponsored by Bloomberg News and the Washington Post debt.

Discussion: The Politico

Bruce Bartlett / Economix:
Inside the Cain Tax Plan

Discussion: New York Times, New York Times, Omaha World-Herald, Democracy in America, Hot Air, Sky Dancing, Political Mojo, National Review, Ben Smith's Blog, ABCNEWS, The Enterprise Blog, Liberal Values and americanthinker.com

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 …

Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Lonely Conservative

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 …

Discussion: Associated Press, Outside the Beltway, msnbc.com, ThinkProgress and Calculated Risk

Lou Chibbaro Jr / Washington Blade:

Longtime gay activist Frank Kameny dies — Frank Kameny (Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key) — Franklin E. Kameny, one of the nation's most prominent gay rights leaders, died in his home today apparently from natural causes. He was 86. — The death came less than a month …

Discussion: Good As You and Joe. My. God.

Campbell Robertson / New York Times:

Gulf Shrimp Are Scarce This Season; Answers, Too — LAFITTE, La. — The dock at Bundy's Seafood is quiet, the trucks are empty and a crew a fraction of the normal size sits around a table waiting for something to do. But the most telling indicator that something is wrong is the smell.

Discussion: Balloon Juice, Prairie Weather and Monkeyfister

Mike Lillis / The Hill:

Voters share blame for gridlock in Congress, Dem leader says — House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) suggested Tuesday that voters are to blame for the partisan bickering and standoffs that have defined Congress this year. — The Maryland Democrat said voters are “absolutely right” …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Lonely Conservative

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?

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and ThinkProgress