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New York Times:
Pentagon Is Ordered to Expand Potential Targets in Syria With a Focus on Forces — WASHINGTON — President Obama has directed the Pentagon to develop an expanded list of potential targets in Syria in response to intelligence suggesting that the government of President Bashar al-Assad …
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Robert H. Scales / Washington Post:
A war the Pentagon doesn't want — Robert H. Scales, a retired Army major general, is a former commandant of the U.S. Army War College. — The tapes tell the tale. Go back and look at images of our nation's most senior soldier, Gen. Martin Dempsey, and his body language during Tuesday's …
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Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
McCain: ‘There Would Be An Impeachment’ Of Obama If He Put Boots On Ground — WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Sen. John McCain warns President Barack Obama could face impeachment if he decides to put “boots on the ground” in Syria. — The Republican Arizona senator made the comments …
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Dan Nowicki / Arizona Republic:
Critics of Syria intervention blast McCain during Phoenix town hall — FONT: — Sen. John McCain felt the heat of opposition to U.S. military intervention in Syria on Thursday during a town-hall meeting in Phoenix that exposed the emotions and ethic and religious tensions connected to crisis in the Middle East.
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Charles Krauthammer / National Review:
Unserious Commander-in-Chief — If Obama can't tell us what his objectives for attacking Syria are, Congress should vote no. … — Senate hearing on the use of force in Syria, September 3 — We have a problem. The president proposes attacking Syria, and his top military officer cannot tell you the objective.
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
McCain Berated Over Syria At Arizona Town Halls (VIDEO)
McCain Berated Over Syria At Arizona Town Halls (VIDEO)
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Clear-Cut Stupidity on Syria
Clear-Cut Stupidity on Syria
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Why America Is Saying ‘No’ — Syria and Obama: Wrong time, wrong place, wrong plan, wrong man. — It is hard, if you've got a head and a heart, to come down against a strong U.S. response to Syria's use of chemical weapons against its civilian population.
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Wall Street Journal:
Iran Plots Revenge, U.S. Says — Officials Say Intercepted Message to Militants Orders Reprisals in Iraq if Syria Hit — WASHINGTON—The U.S. has intercepted an order from Iran to militants in Iraq to attack the U.S. Embassy and other American interests in Baghdad in the event of a strike on Syria …
Charles C. Johnson / The Daily Caller:
Woman informing Kerry, McCain's opinions on Syria also an advocate for Syrian rebels
Woman informing Kerry, McCain's opinions on Syria also an advocate for Syrian rebels
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Politico:
President Obama could lose big on Syria in House — If the House voted today on a resolution to attack Syria, President Barack Obama would lose — and lose big. — That's the private assessment of House Republican and Democratic lawmakers and aides who are closely involved in the process.
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Manu Raju / Politico:
AIPAC to go all-out on Syria
AIPAC to go all-out on Syria
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Mark Memmott / NPR:
Obama Has No ‘Intention’ To Strike Syria If Congress Says No … “The president of course has the authority to act” even if Congress does not support his plan for a military strike on Syria, White House deputy national security adviser Tony Blinken told Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep earlier today.
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Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
No Syria Attack Without Congressional Approval, Obama Aide Says
No Syria Attack Without Congressional Approval, Obama Aide Says
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New York Times:
G-20 Ends With No Consensus on Syria Strike — Obama Discusses Syria at the G-20 Summit: In St. Petersburg, President Obama continued to hold his ground on Syria. He also said he intended to make his case in an address Tuesday to the American people. — STRELNA, Russia …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Years of Tragic Waste — In a few days, we'll reach the fifth anniversary of the fall of Lehman Brothers — the moment when a recession, which was bad enough, turned into something much scarier. Suddenly, we were looking at the real possibility of economic catastrophe. — And the catastrophe came.
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CNN:
Biden wants Napolitano on Supreme Court — (CNN) - Vice President Joe Biden made it clear Friday how he feels about departing Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. — “I think Janet Napolitano should be on the Supreme Court of the United States,” he said Friday morning at her going away ceremony.
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Brian Brown / NOM Blog:
They are Clueless — A recent story in the Washington Post illustrates …
They are Clueless — A recent story in the Washington Post illustrates …
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Neil Irwin / Wonkblog:
Ignore the headlines. This was a very bad jobs report. — View Photo Gallery —If you're on the job hunt, employment opportunities are no longer limited to the East or West Coast. Job aggregation Web site Bright.com recently ranked metro areas with the highest number of job openings.
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
The Right Vote — The statesmanlike case for voting Yes on the congressional resolution to use force against the Assad regime has been made widely and well by conservative foreign policy thinkers. At the end, the case boils down to this: As a policy matter, a Yes vote may be problematic in all kinds of ways.
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Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
Weak Jobs Report Adds to Uncertainty on Fed's Move — A disappointing jobs report on Friday raised doubts about whether the Federal Reserve would — or should — start pulling back on its stimulus program in a few weeks, as Wall Street has been expecting. — The Labor Department's snapshot …
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Jobs Day: Tapering Is Still Insane
Jobs Day: Tapering Is Still Insane
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Tom Carson / American Prospect:
Middle-Aged White Males: No Longer the Ones Who Knock — As AMC's superlative-burdened Breaking Bad inches toward its September 29 finale—and honestly, would it kill series creator Vince Gilligan to include even one fast-paced scene to vary the endgame?—viewers are bidding adieu to more than just one show.
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
New Inquiry for Bachmann on Her Presidential Race — Representative Michele Bachmann's presidential hopes ended 20 months ago, but her brief and chaotic campaign continues to be the focus of ethics investigations. — The latest is a federal inquiry into whether an outside “super PAC” …
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Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
Bad Bet: Why Republicans Can't Win With Whites Alone — Obama lost key groups of white voters by the largest margins since the 1980s, but that doesn't mean Republicans can rely on whites to retake the White House. — This much is undisputed: In 2012, President Obama lost white voters …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama: I'm Bypassing the ‘Hocus Pocus’ of the United Nations — President Obama said that the U.S. talk of military action in Syria is bypassing the “hocus pocus” of the U.N.: — “Frankly, if we weren't talking about the need for an international response right now, this wouldn't be what everybody …
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