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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Impressions of Tonight's Debate — The GOP presidential debate is coming to a close. Here are some random thoughts: — * I doubt that many people saw it. My wife wasn't able to find it on television, and finally tracked it down on the internet, when it was half done. So the impact is likely to be slight.
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Datechguy / Datechguy's Blog:
Dartmouth Debate blog — Update: A Memeorandum thread and linked by friends. If it wasn't 3 a.m. and I was awake I'd list them. — 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.
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Michelle Malkin:
Quick and dirty debate after-report: Perry is running out of gas; Excuses, excuses — To be fair, if you and I had to be up on stage with Charlie Rose and Karen Tumulty, we'd be soporifically stupefied after a few minutes, too. — But then again, we're not running for the highest office …
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Mitt Romney builds case for inevitability
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Fox News:
GOP Presidential Candidates Target Cain's 9-9-9 Plan, Gingrich Takes Aim at Federal Reserve
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Cain takes center stage in Republican economic debate
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Justin Sink / Ballot Box:
Cain defends 9-9-9 plan as not ‘off a pizza box’
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Michael Cooper / New York Times:
Republican Candidates Divide on How to Aid Economy
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Cain leads in Iowa
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The Politico:
Herman Cain: 'I'm going after Romney' at debate
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Obama's jobs plan blocked in Senate — President Obama received a slap from members of his own party Tuesday as the Senate voted 50-49 to block his $447 billion jobs package. — The jobs plan, which the president has spent much of the last month touting on a cross-country tour, fell well short of the 60 votes it needed to proceed.
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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 …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
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.
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Obama's jobs bill stalled in Senate — President Obama's $447 billion jobs plan foundered in the Senate on Tuesday night, as a unified Republican caucus and a pair of Democrats joined to deny the proposal the 60 votes needed to allow it to proceed to full consideration.
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
President's Jobs Measure Is Turned Back in Key Senate Test — WASHINGTON — In a major setback for President Obama, the Senate on Tuesday blocked consideration of his $447 billion jobs bill, forcing the White House and Congressional Democrats to scramble to salvage parts of the plan …
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama says Senate defeat of jobs bill ‘by no means the end of this fight’
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Scott Wong / The Politico:
Senate passes China currency bill
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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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Iran rejects US plotting accusations — Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast (file photo) — Iran has categorically rejected the US accusations that the Islamic Republic was involved in a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington, calling it a ‘prefabricated scenario.’
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Max Fisher / The Atlantic Online:
Would Iran Really Want to Blow Up the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S.?
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The United States Department of Justice:
Two Men Charged in Alleged Plot to Assassinate Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States
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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 …
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
The Gilad Shalit Prisoner Exchange
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Zombie / Pajamas Media:
Occupy L.A. Speaker: Violence will be Necessary to Achieve Our Goals — Citizen journalist Ringo captured this speaker at the Occupy Los Angeles camp a few days ago letting the cat out of the bag: After dismissing nonviolence as a dead end, he admits that for the Occupiers to achieve their goals …
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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 …
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Obama: 'I'm a fourth-quarter player' — (CNN) - President Barack Obama compared his re-election bid to a game of basketball, to make the point to Democratic supporters that he's a strong closer. — The president made his comments Tuesday night at the second of two campaign fundraisers in Florida.
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 …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama ‘heartbroken’ NBA season will be delayed — President Obama said Tuesday that he's “a little heartbroken that the NBA season is getting delayed” at a fundraiser in Orlando with Magic star Dwight Howard. — NBA commissioner David Stern announced Monday that at least the first two weeks …
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John Stevens / Daily Mail:
Heartbreak for Huma as new messages reveal how Anthony Weiner called her parents ‘backwards thinking’ and compared her to his ‘sextees’ in vulgar messages — Accused his successor Bob Turner of being ‘just another rich businessman trying to buy himself an election’
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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 …
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