memeorandum: Mitt Romney: We don't need more cops, firefighters or teachers (Greg Sargent/Washington Post)

11:25 AM ET, June 9, 2012

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“They aren't fighting the special interests. They're fighting us.” — Following up on David's post below, I think it's refreshing when Presidential candidates say what they really believe. This comment by Mitt Romney is truly revealing and I appreciate the fact that he said it:

Discussion: Associated Press and DownWithTyranny!

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

Mitt Romney: We don't need more cops, firefighters or teachers — When Republicans attack public workers, they often take care to exempt cops and firefighters, because they are culturally sympathetic figures, and muddle the message that government workers are parasites who are destroying the economic conditions of ordinary Americans.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Slate, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Daily Beast, Daily Kos, Connecting.the.Dots, The Raw Story, The Maddow Blog, Balloon Juice, The New Civil Rights Movement, US Politics, CNN and ABCNEWS

Rebecca Kaplan / CBS News:

Jindal: Obama “most liberal, most incompetent” president since Carter — (CBS News) ROSEMONT, Ill. - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, whose star as a potential running mate for Mitt Romney has been rising in recent weeks, delivered a scathing critique of President Obama at the Chicago Conservative …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite

Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:

Romney Says America Doesn't Need ‘More Firemen, More Policemen, More Teachers’ — The last three years are the worst on record for public sector job loss, and the 700,000 government jobs that no longer exist remain a large drag on the American economy. — Today, New Jersey …

Discussion: Prairie Weather and The New Civil Rights Movement

Mike Lupica / NY Daily News:
The silent issue that could doom President Obama in 2012 election

Discussion: Mediaite and Weasel Zippers

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

Eric Holder unaware that court visitors must show ID — Due to a recent work assignment, I had the opportunity to enter a federal courthouse about 200 times in the past six weeks or so. Each and every time, I was asked for a photo ID, which the court security officer looked at and then allowed me to put away in my wallet.

Weasel Zippers:

US Attorney General Eric Holder completely unaware that federal courthouses require visitors to show government-issued photo IDs — Galactically stupid and irremediably corrupt.

Discussion: Moe Lane

Charlie Savage / New York Times:

Holder Directs U.S. Attorneys to Track Down Paths of Leaks — WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Friday assigned two United States attorneys to lead separate criminal investigations into recent disclosures to the news media of national security secrets, saying they were authorized to …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard, emptywheel, Mother Jones, The Caucus and msnbc.com

CNN:
Holder assigns prosecutors to investigate alleged leaks

Discussion: Salon, Hot Air, National Review and This Just In

Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
President: Allegation that security leaks were politically motivated is ‘offensive’

Discussion: Politico, Hot Air, The Lonely Conservative and Algemeiner.com

Ezra Klein:

Obama's press conference: The public sector isn't fine — President Obama's press conference today was meant to make a simple argument: Given the risks posed by further deterioration in the euro zone, it would be smart for Congress to take out some insurance for the American economy by expanding …

Discussion: sisu, Business Insider, msnbc.com, Little Green Footballs and protein wisdom

David Weigel / Slate:
The Private Sector is Doing Fine. The Political Press? Eh...

Discussion: The Daily Dish, The Moderate Voice, News Desk, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, US Politics, New York Magazine, Mother Jones and The New Republic

Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
President Obama Clarifies “Private Sector Is Doing Fine” Remarks

Discussion: 2012 Decoded, Weasel Zippers, Daily Kos and Hot Air

Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Scott Walker: Obama's Comments Reflect a Fundamental Misunderstanding of the Economy

Discussion: Ed Driscoll

John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Obama's Most Clueless Moment Yet?

Discussion: Randy's Roundtable, small dead animals and Ed Driscoll

Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama walks back comment about private economy ‘doing fine’

Discussion: Pirate's Cove and Race 4 2012

BuzzFeed:
Obama's “Fundamentals Of The Economy” Moment

Discussion: Mediaite, Moe Lane and Hot Air

Michael O'Brien / msnbc.com:
Obama: ‘It is absolutely clear that the economy is not doing fine’

Discussion: Business Insider, Indecision Forever and BuzzFeed

Gregg Kilday / Hollywood Reporter:

Don Rickles Shocks Hollywood Crowd With Racial Obama Joke — The 86-year-old comic brought his shtick to the AFI's Shirley MacLaine tribute; likened the president to a janitor. — Don Rickles nearly hijacked the American Film Institute's tribute to Shirley MacLaine on Thursday night …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Moderate Voice and Outside the Beltway

Jason Clayworth / Des Moines Register:

Romney heckler and a Biz owner in Council Bluffs: We were disrespected — Council Bluffs, Ia. — A 62-year-old Vietnam veteran who continuously disrupted Mitt Romney's event here today by screaming “liar” over a megaphone says he was disrespected by security and guests who shouted insults …

Discussion: Daily Kos

BuzzFeed:
Romney Visits Iowa Restaurant, Owners Feel Dissed

Discussion: Des Moines Register and Guardian

Anne Sorock / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:

Elizabeth Warren dodges questions at Netroots Nation - security guards block me — I returned to Netroots Nation today. — At lunch, I went to listen to Elizabeth Warren's speech and panel discussion. I wanted to ask her a few questions after her panel, which was entitled “2012 and the War on (and for) Women.”

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and American Power

William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Breitbart lives in the heads of Netroots Nation protectors of Elizabeth Warren

Discussion: American Power

The White House:

Remarks by the President — THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. I just want to say a few words about the economy, and then I will take some of your questions. — Today, we're fighting back from the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression. After losing jobs for 25 months in a row …

Discussion: JustOneMinute, Obama 2012 Blog, NewsBusters.org blogs, White House.gov Blog and Washington Post

Washington Wire:
Full Transcript of Obama's Friday Morning Remarks on Economy

Discussion: Althouse, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Caller and Weekly Standard

Peter Baker / New York Times:

E-Mails Highlight Extent of Obama's Deal With Industry on Health Care — WASHINGTON — After weeks of talks, drug industry lobbyists were growing nervous. To cut a deal with the White House on overhauling health care, they needed to be sure that President Obama would stop a proposal intended to bring down medicine prices.

Discussion: Speaker Mobile, Mother Jones, DownWithTyranny!, Washington Wire, Hot Air, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Daily Kos, Hullabaloo and House Energy …

Colleen McCain Nelson / Wall Street Journal:

Absence Makes the Vote Grow Bigger for GOP — The Play: Getting out the absentee vote — The Strategy: As Mr. Walker, Wisconsin's Republican governor, tried to fend off an effort to recall him from office over his law limiting union power, Republicans rolled out a program to encourage less …

BuzzFeed:

Mitt Romney Struggles To Identify A Donut — “Can you see that one of those chocolate, um, uh, chocolate goodies finds its way to our ride?” — McKay Coppins — an hour ago — 20 responses

Discussion: New York Magazine, Outside the Beltway, TheBlaze.com and Wonkette

Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:

Koran-Hating Pastor Hangs Barack Obama In Effigy In Florida Church's Front Yard — The Florida pastor who ignited an international furor by threatening to burn a pile of Korans has applied his subtle touch to the 2012 presidential campaign by constructing a gallows from which a likeness of President Barack Obama now hangs in effigy.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Towleroad News #gay

Dana Hughes / ABCNEWS:

Iraq Ambassador Nomination Jeopardized by Racy Emails to Journalist — As a former national security staffer for President George W. Bush, President Obama's nominee to be U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Brett McGurk, was supposed to garner bipartisan support for his confirmation.

Discussion: Washington Post, Mediaite, RedState and New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »