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4:50 PM ET, September 4, 2013

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Fox News:
McCain opposes Syria strike resolution  —  Sept. 2, 2013: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, accompanied by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks with reporters outside the White House in Washington.AP  —  Sen. John McCain, President Obama's biggest cheerleader on Capitol Hill for a strike in Syria …
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Tom Cohen / CNN:
Senate committee approves Syria resolution  —  (CNN) — President Barack Obama said Wednesday that the world set a red line against chemical weapons use that he now seeks to apply to Syria, while a Senate committee approved a resolution authorizing the U.S. military attack that he is planning.
Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:
GOP Congressman Accuses Obama Of Using Syria To Distract From Benghazi, IRS  —  Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) used Wednesday's hearing on whether or not the United States will take military action in Syria to ask whether the whole debate was a ruse to cover-up the many “scandals” the Obama administration is facing.
Associated Press:
McCain opposes Senate resolution on Syria  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John McCain says he doesn't support the latest Senate resolution to authorize military force against Syria.  —  McCain is an outspoken advocate of intervention against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime and wants …
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House members drafting Syria resolution  —  Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee who supports military intervention in Syria, said this week he is part of a House effort to develop a resolution authorizing the use of force in that country.
Discussion: CNN
Gregory Korte / USA Today:   Senate committee approves Syria war resolution
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Divided Senate Panel Approves Resolution on Syria Strike
Discussion: NPR
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
The Senate's Syria hearing: Live updates
Politico:   Senate panel approves Syria measure
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama: 'I Didn't Set a Red Line' on Syria  —  President Obama said in Sweden today that he personally “didn't set a red line” on Syria:  —  “First of all, I didn't set a red line,” said Obama.  “The world set a red line.  The world set a red line when governments representing 98 percent …
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Yahoo! News:
Obama: 'I didn't set a red line' on Syria
Discussion: Liberal Values and BizPac Review
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The Morning Plum: How White House hopes to get Congress to Yes on Syria
J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Anthony Weiner Blows Up in Absurd Shouting Match with Jewish Voter  —  Failed mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner yelled at a Jewish voter in Brooklyn's Borough Park after the voter suggested that Weiner should drop out of the mayoral race.  Watch the thoughtful discussion of morality and divine judgement that ensued.
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Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Anthony Weiner Gets Into Explosive Confrontation With Jewish Voter (VIDEO)  —  New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner got into an explosive confrontation with a man who brought up his sexting scandal on Wednesday while in the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Boro Park, Brooklyn.
Ross Barkan / Politicker:
Anthony Weiner Explodes at ‘Jackass’ Voter in Brooklyn
Discussion: Politico, The Hill and The Raw Story
Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Former Boehner Aides, GOP Sources: House Speaker Will Step Down After 2014 Elections  —  WASHINGTON — Former aides to John Boehner and other high-level GOP operatives are increasingly convinced that the House Speaker will step aside after the 2014 midterm elections, according to interviews with a dozen Republican sources.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The GOP wants to have it both ways on Syria  —  Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, is in a spirited debate — with himself.  —  Four months ago, Inhofe demanded that “President Obama step up and exhibit the leadership required” to show Syria's Bashar al-Assad …
John Boehner / USA Today:
Tie debt limit to spending cuts
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Rumsfeld refers to Obama as ‘so-called commander-in-chief’  —  Former Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday endorsed the Obama administration's case for a military strike against Syria.  —  “My view is that we've had over 100,000 people dead in Syria over the last year or two,” Rumsfeld told Fox and Friends.
Discussion: The Raw Story
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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Another Set of Questions About Syria
Discussion: The Dish
Jason Millman / Politico:
Clinton: Improve, don't repeal, ACA  —  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Former President Bill Clinton urged opponents of President Barack Obama's health care law to stop fighting it and work to improve the law in a highly anticipated speech that tried to remind Americans why the three-year-old law was passed in the first place.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
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Sam Baker / The Hill:   Bill Clinton says GOP has duty to help fix ObamaCare ‘glitches’
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Bill Clinton, back in Arkansas
Discussion: Hot Air and National Review
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Ted Cruz: U.S. not 'Al Qaeda's air force'  —  Sen. Ted Cruz called President Barack Obama's efforts to authorize military intervention in Syria a public relations move, saying the U.S. military shouldn't be “Al Qaeda's air force.”  —  The Texas Republican said Tuesday on TheBlaze …
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Glenn Beck:
Senator Ted Cruz weighs in on U.S. military action in Syria
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Rubio: We Wouldn't Be At This Stage With Syria ‘If I Had Been In Charge’ (VIDEO)  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said Tuesday that he's “very skeptical” that the proposed airstrike on Syria will deter the Assad regime from using chemical weapons in the future, while arguing that he'd have handled …
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Votes on Syria could have huge ramifications on 2016 contenders
Discussion: Politico
CNN:
Texas high school stabbings: 1 student killed, 3 others injured, police say  —  (CNN) — A 17-year-old student was killed and three other students were injured in stabbings Wednesday morning at a Houston-area high school, Harris County authorities said.  —  The stabbings happened shortly …
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KHOU-TV:
HCSO: 1 killed, 3 injured in fight at Spring HS; 3 in custody
jhnewsandguide.com:
Cheney knocks Obama, papers  —  150 in Tea Party crowd hear candidate call for a ‘rebirth of freedom.’  —  Liz Cheney would not vote to attack Syria if she were in the U.S. Senate.  —  Speaking to an enthralled crowd of 150 Jackson Hole Tea Party members Tuesday night in her first public appearance …
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Al Gore's Incredible Shrinking Climate Change Footprint  —  Illustration by John Gara / BuzzFeed; Joe Raedle / Getty Images; Saul Loeb / Getty Images  —  WASHINGTON — Last January, Al Gore took a boatload of scientists, donors, and celebrities to Antarctica to talk about climate change.
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Arm and Shame  —  The Obama team has clearly struggled with its Syria policy, but, in fairness, this is a wickedly complex problem.  We need a policy response that simultaneously deters another Syrian poison gas attack, doesn't embroil America in the Syrian civil war and also doesn't lead …
Patrick Cockburn / The Independent:
Special report: We all thought Libya had moved on - it has, but into lawlessness and ruin  —  Libya has plunged unnoticed into its worst political and economic crisis since the defeat of Gaddafi  —  A little under two years ago, Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, urged British businessmen to begin …
 
 
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