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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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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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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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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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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House braces for Senate defeat of Obama's $447B jobs bill
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First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Do-or-die time for Perry
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Democrats' Plan B on jobs bill: Go smaller
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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.
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Bruce Bartlett / Economix:
Inside the Cain Tax Plan
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Five Things to Watch for in the G.O.P. Debate
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Mike Dorning / Bloomberg:
Americans in Poll Back Taxing Rich to Reduce Deficit
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Tuesday debate could be make-or-break for Gov. Perry's presidential hopes
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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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Occupy Wall Street... mansions
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Milquetoast Radicals — The U.S. economy is probably …
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Suzy Khimm / Washington Post:
Conservatives launch “We are the 53 percent” to criticize 99 percenters
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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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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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The Politico:
Chris Christie to endorse Mitt Romney — Chris Christie, the man who much of the sidelined establishment and donor class among Republicans had hoped would run for president, is backing Mitt Romney for president, a Romney official confirms to POLITICO. — The endorsement is expected at a 3 p.m. press conference.
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Chris Christie to endorse Mitt Romney
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Debbie Siegelbaum / The Hill:
Six protesters arrested at Senate Hart Building — Capitol Police arrested six demonstrators in the Hart Senate Office Building Tuesday in a protest stemming from the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement. — The six are charged with unlawful conduct-demonstrating in a Capitol building …
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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 …
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Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Schultz Says Racism Behind Republican Opposition To ‘Occupy’ Movement
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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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Brad Johnson / ThinkProgress:
Boston Police Throw American Flag To Ground, Arrest Veterans, Trash Property To Protect ‘Green Space’ From 99%
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Christine McConville / Boston Herald:
Police arrest 100 in Occupy Boston sweep
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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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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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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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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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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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Shakesville and techPresident
Bill Daley / NBC Chicago:
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.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
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 …
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