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4:10 PM ET, October 11, 2011

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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House braces for defeat of jobs bill
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Obama considers splitting jobs bill
Discussion: National Review and Weasel Zippers
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Shaheen likely to miss Jobs Act vote
Discussion: Campaign 2012
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.
Discussion: 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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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.
Nia-Malika Henderson / Washington Post:
Herman Cain Debate Plan: Hit Romney
Discussion: Gawker
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Five Things to Watch for in the G.O.P. Debate
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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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).
Adam Serwer / Mother Jones:
Conservative Pundit Says “Get A Job Hippies!”
Suzy Khimm / Washington Post:
Conservatives launch “We are the 53 percent” to criticize 99 percenters
Fox News:
Wall Street Protesters Plan ‘Millionaires March’ to Tycoons' New York City Homes
Discussion: Firedoglake, Mediaite and ThinkProgress
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
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Chris Christie endorses Mitt Romney
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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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 …
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
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Debbie Siegelbaum / The Hill:
Six protesters arrested at Senate Hart Building
Discussion: TPMDC
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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Brad Johnson / ThinkProgress:
Boston Police Throw American Flag To Ground, Arrest Veterans, Trash Property To Protect ‘Green Space’ From 99%
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
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.
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 …
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?
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 …
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: techPresident and Shakesville
 
 
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Bill Pugliano / ABCNEWS:
Obama Jobs Council Stacked With Democratic Donors
Virginia Postrel / Bloomberg:
About Virginia Postrel  —  Virginia Postrel writes about commerce …
Discussion: Marginal Revolution
A. G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
States Adding Drug Test as Hurdle for Welfare
Discussion: Via Meadia and The BLT
Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
FBI's Osama bin Laden poster used my face, says Spanish pol
Discussion: Guardian
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
Robert Greenwald / The Huffington Post:
To David Koch: Will You Be My Guest in Arkansas?
Discussion: Speakeasy, Hullabaloo and The Raw Story
David DeCamp / St. Petersburg Times:
Dozens show up at Pinellas County Commission meeting to talk fluoride
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Mike Dorning / Bloomberg:
Americans in Poll Back Taxing Rich to Reduce Deficit
Brad Wilmouth / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Tony Bennett: Obama is America's ‘Greatest Accomplishment,’ Not Sure if Fighting Hitler ‘Justified’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
The not-so-super committee  —  In news that should surprise absolutely …
David R. Henderson / Wall Street Journal:
A Nobel for Non-Keynesians
 

 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response

Bloomberg:
The DOJ's proposal would require Google to divest from AI partnerships, like with Anthropic, and ban Google from offering exclusive deals to content providers

 
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