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12:40 PM ET, September 6, 2013

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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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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 …
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.
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
McCain Berated Over Syria At Arizona Town Halls (VIDEO)  —  Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was grilled at a pair of town halls Thursday in Arizona by constituents who expressed strident opposition to military intervention in Syria.  —  McCain, one of the most vocal oppoents for military action in Syria …
Discussion: Hit & Run
Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
John McCain ripped on Syria at town hall
Discussion: American Prospect
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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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.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Manu Raju / Politico:
AIPAC to go all-out on Syria  —  The powerful pro-Israel lobby AIPAC is planning to launch a major lobbying campaign to push wayward lawmakers to back the resolution authorizing U.S. strikes against Syria, sources said Thursday.  —  Officials say that some 250 Jewish leaders and AIPAC activists …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
No Syria breakthrough in Obama-Putin chat on G-20 summit sidelines
Discussion: CNN and Reuters
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
No Syria Attack Without Congressional Approval, Obama Aide Says
Discussion: Hot Air and Post Politics
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 …
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 …
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Jodi Rudoren / New York Times:
Israel Backs Limited Strike Against Syria
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.
Discussion: Power Line and Daily Kos
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Decision to Publish Against Government Request Was ‘Not a Particularly Anguished One’  —  The New York Times has come under fire in the past for agreeing to government requests to hold back sensitive stories or information, but it bucked such requests in publishing a front-page article in Friday's paper.
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New York Times:
N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web
Steven Nelson / US News:
Rep. Alan Grayson: Syria Intelligence Manipulated  —  Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., who is aggressively lobbying against a military strike on Syria, says the Obama administration has manipulated intelligence to push its case for U.S. involvement in the country's two-year civil war.
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Jobs Day: Tapering Is Still Insane  —  For reasons that are a bit unknown to me there was a surge of enthusiasm this week about the likely state of the American labor market, a surge that's been popped by today's mildly disappointing jobs report that shows a continuation of the long-term trend …
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Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
Mediocre Jobs Report Adds to Fed Speculation
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.
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” …
Discussion: The Hill
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 …
Discussion: Quad City Times
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 …
Timothy Egan / Opinionator:
The Bush Burden  —  He's there in every corner of Congress where a microphone fronts a politician, there in Russia and the British Parliament and the Vatican.  You may think George W. Bush is at home in his bathtub, painting pictures of his toenails, but in fact he's the biggest presence in the debate over what to do in Syria.
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Republican House lawmaker fundraising off flip-flop on Syria strike vote  —  Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.) is fundraising off of his decision to withdraw support for a military strike on Syria.  —  “As your voice in Washington, I will continue to listen and take a stand for you.
Discussion: Politico and BuzzFeed
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Activists Ask Iowa Judge To Stop Purge Of Non-Citizens From Voter Rolls  —  The Iowa chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and the League of United Latin American Citizens of Iowa have sued Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz (R) over a rule that aims to remove names from voter rolls …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Did Obama even have a war plan for Capitol Hill?  —  The Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday voted 10-7 to approve President Obama's request for an authorization to use military force in Syria.  The Boston Globe reports the vote gives “more momentum to the White House plan.”
Associated Press:
Police: Afghan militants drag female author out of her home, shoot her dead  —  Suspected Taliban militants in Afghanistan on Thursday shot dead an Indian woman whose memoir about marrying an Afghan and life under the Islamist militia was made into a Bollywood movie, officials said.
 
 
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Clear-Cut Stupidity on Syria
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Los Angeles Times:
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CBS Los Angeles:
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Neil Irwin / Wonkblog:
Ignore the headlines. This was a very bad jobs report.
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Brian Brown / NOM Blog:
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Discussion: ThinkProgress
Ruth Sherlock / Telegraph:
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Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
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New York Times:
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John Dickerson / Slate:
The Obama administration should stop pretending it's easy.
Discussion: Washington Wire and Salon