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Harry M. Reid / Washington Post:
Trying to restore Senate comity — Democrats have one overriding objective this Congress: to create jobs and get our economy back on track. But our Republican colleagues are so dead set on preventing Democrats from passing job-creating legislation that they have been willing to abuse …
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CNN, Washington Monthly, Booman Tribune, Outside the Beltway, The Politico, Balloon Juice, Don Surber, The Other McCain and Political Mojo
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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 …
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CNN, Wake up America, The Confluence, ABCNEWS, Reuters, Hot Air, Balloon Juice, The Lonely Conservative, Pundit & Pundette and Campaign 2012
The Politico:
Obama jobs bill may not get 51 in Senate — President Barack Obama's jobs plan is at risk of getting less than 51 votes Tuesday evening in the Senate as a handful of politically vulnerable moderates hold out on the president's signature economic proposal. — Adding to the uncertainty …
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The Atlantic Online, Firedoglake, The Huffington Post, Pirate's Cove and The New Republic
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
If moderate Dems vote No on jobs bill, they're only hurting themselves — Top pollster Stanley Greenberg is not shy about criticizing the White House when he thinks it's warranted, and his opinion is widely respected by Democrats in Congress. So if Greenberg tells moderate Senate Democrats …
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The Hill, Washington Monthly, CBS News, Booman Tribune, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, Big Government and Pat Dollard
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House braces for defeat of jobs bill
White House braces for defeat of jobs bill
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msnbc.com, The Political Carnival, Daily Kos and Taegan Goddard's …
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Obama considers splitting jobs bill
Obama considers splitting jobs bill
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National Review and Weasel Zippers
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.
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Outside the Beltway
Steve Jordon / Omaha World-Herald:
Cain: The Godfather's years — Godfather's Pizza of Omaha started with rapid growth, head-spinning profits and a $300 million buyout. — But then profits crashed. Franchise holders were in revolt, complaining that they had been abandoned, weathering three different presidents in four months.
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Ben Smith's Blog and Liberal Values
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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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ABCNEWS, Campaign 2012, GOP 12, Weasel Zippers, Swampland, Hot Air and National Review
Bruce Bartlett / Economix:
Inside the Cain Tax Plan
Inside the Cain Tax Plan
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ABCNEWS, The Enterprise Blog, National Review, New York Times, americanthinker.com and American Spectator
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Tuesday debate could be make-or-break for Gov. Perry's presidential hopes
Tuesday debate could be make-or-break for Gov. Perry's presidential hopes
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Washington Wire, CNN, The Huffington Post, Washington Examiner and Outside the Beltway
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Five Things to Watch for in the G.O.P. Debate
Five Things to Watch for in the G.O.P. Debate
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New York Times and New York Magazine
Susie Madrak / Crooks and Liars:
Who Really Owns The NYPD? Turns Out It's Not Such A Rhetorical Question — I wrote last week about the multi-million dollar contribution to the NYPD from JPChase, but it turns out the corporate influence goes much deeper than that. Pam Martens, an activist who successfully sued the NYPD …
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Suburban Guerrilla, CounterPunch, Hullabaloo, naked capitalism and Dependable Renegade
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Milquetoast Radicals — The U.S. economy is probably going to stink for a few more years. It is beset by short-term problems (low consumer demand, uncertain housing prices, too much debt) and long-term problems (wage stagnation, rising health care costs, eroding human capital).
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Firedoglake, ABCNEWS, Paul Krugman, The Baseline Scenario, Left of the Hudson, Daily Kos, A plain blog about politics and Mediaite
CNNMoney.com:
Occupy Wall Street... mansions
Occupy Wall Street... mansions
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NewsBusters.org blogs, AM New York, Don Surber, Big Government, RedState, The Politico, The Raw Story and Poynter
Adam Serwer / Mother Jones:
Conservative Pundit Says “Get A Job Hippies!”
Conservative Pundit Says “Get A Job Hippies!”
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Political Mojo, The Daily Dish, Balloon Juice and CANNONFIRE
Suzy Khimm / Washington Post:
Conservatives launch “We are the 53 percent” to criticize 99 percenters
Conservatives launch “We are the 53 percent” to criticize 99 percenters
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Washington Monthly, ABCNEWS, Daily Kos, CANNONFIRE, New York Times, Business Insider, Sky Dancing, NY Daily News, A plain blog about politics, Gawker, Grasping Reality …, Balloon Juice, Outside the Beltway, PhillyNow, Mediaite, American Spectator, The Lonely Conservative, Angry Bear and Suburban Guerrilla, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
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Rachel E. Stassen-Berger / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Pawlenty, portrait, both emerge into limelight
Pawlenty, portrait, both emerge into limelight
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Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
The Politico:
Chris Christie to endorse Mitt Romney
Chris Christie to endorse Mitt Romney
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The Caucus, Ben Smith's Blog, Weasel Zippers, The Page and iOwnTheWorld.com
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Chris Christie endorses Mitt Romney
Chris Christie endorses Mitt Romney
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The New Republic and Outside the Beltway
Washington Post:
Eric Holder, Obama's albatross — President Obama says that he has “complete confidence” in Attorney General Eric Holder. That's good news for Republicans. Pick almost any unnecessary, losing battle in Obama's first term, and his hapless attorney general is at the center of it.
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Questions and Observations and Pajamas Media
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Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
“Gunwalking” subpoena for AG Holder imminent
“Gunwalking” subpoena for AG Holder imminent
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Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Flopping Aces, Pajamas Media, Sister Toldjah and PERRspectives
William Lajeunesse / Fox News:
Congressional Investigators to Subpoena Holder in Fast and Furious Probe
Congressional Investigators to Subpoena Holder in Fast and Furious Probe
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Michelle Malkin, Mediaite and Atlas Shrugs
NBC Washington:
Capitol Police Arrest Protesters Inside Senate Office Building — Protesters stopped after unfurling banners inside Hart building. — Capitol Police moved swiftly to stop protesters unfurling banners at a U.S. Senate office building in Washington, D.C. — Members of the Occupy DC protest …
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Boston Globe:
Boston police move in on protesters on Greenway, scores arrested — Boston police moved in and began arresting scores of Occupy Boston protesters who refused to leave a large part of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway early this morning. — At 1:20 a.m., the first riot police officers lined up on Atlantic Avenue.
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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 …
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The Daily Caller
Robert Costa / National Review:
Behind Bachmann's Slide — On August 13, as dusk settled upon Iowa State University, Michele Bachmann hopped onto a makeshift stepstool beside her bus. Her supporters crowded close, pressing against a flimsy rope. Bachmann, clad in an ivory-colored suit and pearls, raised both arms.
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Outside the Beltway, Ben Smith's Blog, The Political Carnival and GOP 12
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 …
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GOP 12, CNN, Outside the Beltway and Business Insider
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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ThinkProgress and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Individualists In The Marine Corps — Erick Erickson and Josh Trevino are, I'm told, the geniuses behind the dimwitted concept of countering the 99 Percent Movement with an effort to divide the country between the 53 percent of the population that has net federal income tax liability …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Suzanna Andrews / Vanity Fair:
The Woman Who Knew Too Much — Millions of Americans hoped President Obama would nominate Elizabeth Warren to head the consumer financial watchdog agency she had created. Instead, she was pushed aside. As Warren kicks off her run for Scott Brown's Senate seat in Massachusetts …
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techPresident and Shakesville