memeorandum: Monday Night Urgent OWS Message (n+1)

10:50 AM ET, October 25, 2011

Top Items:

My Tax and Spending Reform Plan — Individuals will have the option of paying a 20% flat-rate income tax and I'll cap spending at 18% of GDP. — The folks in Washington might not like to hear it, but the plain truth is the U.S. government spends too much.

Kevin Drum / Political Mojo:

Rick Perry's Miraculous Tax Plan — Huzzah! Rick Perry's new tax plan is out: … In addition, Perry is going to lower the corporate tax rate, move to a territorial tax system, pass a Balanced Budget Amendment, ban earmarks, freeze federal hiring and salaries through 2020 …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Washington Post, The Atlantic Online, Balloon Juice, Pat Dollard, Weasel Zippers and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

The Politico:

Rick Perry readies assault on Mitt Romney — The Rick Perry relaunch has finally arrived. — After weeks battling questions about how he plans to salvage his listing presidential bid, the Texas governor has finally started spelling out an answer. It involves opening his $15 million campaign war chest …

Discussion: CNN and Connecting.the.Dots

John Harwood / The Caucus:

10 Questions for Rick Perry — Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is seeking to jump-start his Republican presidential campaign by proposing a new tax system: a 20 percent flat rate on individual and corporate income, down from the current 35 percent top rate, and elimination of existing taxes on estates, capital gains and dividends.

Discussion: New York Times and Campaign 2012

Jason Embry / Austin American-Statesman:

First Reading: Details of Perry's tax proposal — Perry to call for flat tax of 20 percent, plan will be called a gift to the rich and Herman Cain web ad leaves plenty of heads scratched. — (Happy birthday to Luke Legate, even though it was yesterday. Today, happy birthday to Rep. Donna Howard.)

Discussion: The Agonist, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, Business Insider and msnbc.com

The Daily Beast:
Why the GOP Demonizes ‘Illegals’

Discussion: 24Ahead, Washington Monthly and Los Angeles Times

San Francisco Chronicle:

Cops arrest Occupy Oakland protesters — (10-25) 05:58 PDT OAKLAND — Oakland police arrested dozens of people at a plaza outside City Hall, two weeks after the protesters began building an intricate encampment as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement against corporate greed and economic inequality.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Right Wing Nut House, Big Government, L.A. NOW and JammieWearingFool

Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story:

Watch live: ‘Occupy Oakland’ attacked by police — Hundreds of protesters at “Occupy Oakland” were facing arrest in the early hours of Tuesday morning as 100 or more police officers closed in on their location. — Local media reports indicated that hundreds of police showed …

Discussion: Crooks and Liars

Mercury News: Police arrest protesters, tear down Occupy Oakland tent city

David Weigel / Slate:

Herman Cain's Amazing Campaign Ad … - Saletan: Bachmann Thinks Our Military Was in Iraq Not To Liberate It but To Own It - The President of ASU on Rick Scott's Stupid Idea To Cut Funding for Liberal Arts Education - My Seven Beliefs About Tim Tebow: 1) He Is Not a Viable NFL Quarterback …

Discussion: GOP 12 and Political Mojo

Geneva Sands-Sadowitz / The Hill:
Cain ad catches attention with chief of staff puffing cigarette

Discussion: CNN, CBS News and The Atlantic Online

Byron York / Campaign 2012:
Cain: Rove deliberately talking down my campaign

Discussion: Hot Air, msnbc.com, Crooks and Liars, The Greenroom, The Atlantic Online, The Politico, The Moderate Voice, Race 4 2012, Connecting.the.Dots, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and Swampland

Joseph E. Gagnon / RealTime Economic Issues Watch:

The Last Bullet — US policymakers are running out of options to solve our massive unemployment problem and get the economy growing again. The Administration's jobs bill faces resistance in Congress. The best option that can be implemented without a vote of Congress is to work through …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress, Washington Post, Prairie Weather, Angry Bear, Daily Kos, Paul Krugman and New York Times

MIke Lillis / The Hill:
House Dems: Obama's response to mortgage crisis is insufficient

Discussion: naked capitalism, Sky Dancing, The Atlantic Online and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Biden complains after dust-up with reporter — Joe Biden's office has complained to the Senate press gallery about a confrontation the vice president had with a conservative journalist last week on Capitol Hill. — Biden aides asked whether Senate rules were broken in the wake …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, NewsBusters.org blogs and JammieWearingFool

Quinnipiac University:

Opposition To Ohio's SB 5 Grows, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Women, Union Members Push Kasich Deeper In Hole — Ohio voters support 57 - 32 percent the repeal of SB 5, the centerpiece of Gov. John Kasich's legislative program, as the margin against the governor's measure has almost doubled …

Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and Hotline On Call

Tracy Connor / NY Daily News:

Occupy Wall Street sympathizer creates 'I'm Getting Arrested' app to help protesters — Police arrested this Occupy Wall Street supporter during a protest against ‘stop and frisk.’ — An Occupy Wall Street sympathizer created a free app called “I'm Getting Arrested” that lets protesters send …

Discussion: Shakesville, Guardian and Weasel Zippers

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Public Divided Over Occupy Wall Street Movement

Discussion: American Power and The Raw Story

CBS News:

GlobalPost: Qaddafi apparently sodomized after capture — Amid mounting questions about just how and when Muammar Qaddafi died, a GlobalPost analysis of video footage suggests a Libyan fighter sodomized the former dictator after he was captured near Sirte. — As GlobalPost reports:

Discussion: Washington Post, New York Magazine, JONATHAN TURLEY and The Jawa Report

Allison Kopicki / The Caucus:

Most Republican Primary Voters Remain Uncommitted — A large majority of Republican primary voters have yet to make up their minds about the candidate they would like to see as their party's nominee for president in 2012, with the nation's first nominating contests just two months away.

Discussion: ABCNEWS, GOP 12, Questions and Observations, Indecision Forever, Taegan Goddard's …, Hotline On Call and Business Insider

n+1:

Monday Night Urgent OWS Message — UPDATE (12:44 AM): Crisis averted: tonight at the General Assembly, the working group of drummers, Pulse, in a spirit of conciliation and generosity, brought forward a proposal to limit their drumming from 12 to 2 and 4 to 6 PM only.

Discussion: Daniel W. Drezner, Hot Air and Gawker

Justin Sink / The Hill:

Obama tells Hollywood 2012 campaign won't be as ‘sexy’ as last time — President Obama acknowledged that his re-election effort “will not be as sexy as the first one” at a star-studded fundraiser Monday night in Hollywood. — “This election will not be as sexy as the first one,” Obama said.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and americanthinker.com

C.J. Ciaramella / The Daily Caller:

Justice Dept. proposes lying, hiding existence of records under new FOIA rule — A proposed revision to Freedom of Information Act rules would allow federal agencies to lie to citizens and reporters seeking certain records, telling them the records don't exist.

Discussion: Right Wing News, ProPublica, Betsy's Page and Big Government

David Welna / NPR:

Rubio Tries To Clarify How His Family Left Cuba … GOP rising star Sen. Marco Rubio caught heat last week for his Senate bio that misstated when his family left Cuba for the U.S., a detail of some relevance in his home state of Florida. But in explaining his side of the story in a Politico op-ed …

Discussion: US Politics, Naked Politics, DownWithTyranny!, Washington Post and Associated Press

Arlette Saenz / ABCNEWS:

Rick Perry Doubles Down on Birther Issue — Perry in Iowa. Is he risking his candidacy with birther talk? Nati Harnik/AP Photo — Gov. Rick Perry will unveil an economic plan today that he hopes will revive the economy as well as his campaign, but in an interview prior to his speech …

Discussion: The Raw Story

Sarah Kunin / ABCNEWS:

Jon Huntsman Vies for ‘The Colbert Bump’ — With poor poll percentages and even worse fundraising numbers, there's no denying that these days Jon Huntsman could use a little public relations pick-me-up. — On Monday, the former governor swapped out the New Hampshire house party circuit …

Discussion: The Politico and Campaign 2012

Victor Davis Hanson / Works and Days:

Rage On—and on and on... Occupy Wall Street? — I've been following the Wall Street protests, in New York and elsewhere. I read as well of the Democratic Party's sorta interest in turning the anger of a few into a left-wing Tea-Party-like movement of many.

Discussion: americanthinker.com and Pajamas Media

Gregory Simmons / ABCNEWS:

The Unforgiven: RNC Chairman Reince Priebus Says Florida Must Pay the Price for Moving Primary — ABC News' Jonathan Karl and Gregory Simmons report: — The 2012 political calendar may now be set, but Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus says Florida will not be forgiven …

Discussion: Iowa Caucuses and Hot Air

Gallup:

Gov't Regulations at Top of Small-Business Owners' Problem List — PRINCETON, NJ — Small-business owners in the United States are most likely to say complying with government regulations (22%) is the most important problem facing them today, followed by consumer confidence in the economy (15%) and lack of consumer demand (12%).

Discussion: Modeled Behavior, The Politico, Campaign 2012 and National Review

Financial Times:

Hard line adopted on Greek debt loss — By Peter Spiegel in Brussels, Gerrit Wiesmann in Berlin and Hugh Carnegy in Paris — European negotiators have asked Greek debt holders to accept a 60 per cent cut in the face value of their bonds, a hardline stance that far exceeds losses agreed …

Discussion: AMERICAN FUTURE and Calculated Risk