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 …

Conservatives launch “We are the 53 percent” to criticize 99 percenters  —  Conservative activists have created a Tumblr called “We are the 53 percent” that's meant to be a counterpunch to the viral “We are the 99 percent” site that's become a prominent symbol for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

A Nobel for Non-Keynesians  —  People's expectations about government policy make it difficult for officials to affect the economy in the ways they intend to.  —  On Monday the Nobel Committee announced the winners of the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics: Thomas J. Sargent of New York University …

The not-so-super committee  —  In news that should surprise absolutely no one, it appears the Murray/Hensarling super-committee isn't even close to reaching any kind of deal. … Remember all of those predictions that said the super-committee would fail because Republicans would never …

One-On-One With Rahm's Replacement  —  He's the White House Chief of Staff — just steps from the Oval Office, brought in as the successful banker and attorney to give the Obama team a different image.  —  Bill Daley is also best friends with the man who held the pressure cooker White House job before him, Mayor Rahm Emanuel.