memeorandum: Trump: I was on too much, treated fairly (msnbc.com)

1:00 PM ET, September 17, 2015

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Matt Bai / Yahoo:

Jeb leaves a vacuum. Who fills it? — If you were in Washington watching the Republican debate last night, you might have felt a small tilt in the floor, or heard the plates rattling gently in their cupboards. — That was the sound of the Republican establishment shifting …

Discussion: JustOneMinute

Sarah Kliff / Vox:

Carly Fiorina is wrong about the Planned Parenthood tapes. I know because I watched them. — Carly Fiorina gave a harrowing description of the Planned Parenthood sting videos at Wednesday's Republican debate. She challenged Barack Obama to watch “a fully formed fetus on the table …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Slate, American Prospect, Refinery29, Hullabaloo, Daily Kos, RH Reality Check, The Federalist, Washington Post, Business Insider and Mediaite

Ezra Klein / Vox:

Carly Fiorina won the GOP debate, but fact checkers will have a field day — At Wednesday's CNN debate, Carly Fiorina did what no other Republican has been able to do: she stopped Donald Trump cold. — CNN's Jake Tapper provided the opening. “In an interview last week in Rolling Stone magazine …

Discussion: JustOneMinute, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Slate, Daily Kos, Hot Air, Chicago Business, Lawyers, Guns & Money and US News

Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:

No, Jeb Bush, Your Brother Did Not Keep Us Safe — Jeb looked delusional, but he wasn't alone. — GETTY JUSTIN SULLIVAN — “There's one thing I'll tell you about my brother,” said Jeb (!) Bush. “He kept us safe.” — And everybody cheered. — I ran out of patience long ago with The Great Mulligan.

Discussion: Business Insider and Eschaton

Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:

Carly's Night — From the beginning of her campaign for president, Carly Fiorina has had to deal with lowered expectations, encapsulated in a frequent question: Aren't you just running for vice president? “People ask that because I'm a woman and I'm not a politician,” she told me earlier this year.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Washington Post, Horizons, Real Clear Politics, Taylor Marsh, No More Mister Nice Blog and CNN

Dan Balz / Washington Post:

The rest of the field figured out how to make Trump not quite as dominant — SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — Something unusual happened here Wednesday when the Republican presidential candidates met for their second debate: For the first time since he joined the race, Donald Trump wasn't the commanding presence on the stage.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, US News, New York Times, Politico, ABC News, WIAT-TV, BuzzFeed, Guardian and Washington Post

Ben Schreckinger / Politico:

Trumped: His 14 most memorable debate lines — <p>Donald Trump did it again. After an explosive first debate in which Trump clashed with the moderators and stole the show, the bomb-throwing frontrunner came out swinging at the second Republican debate in Simi Valley, California, on Wednesday.

Discussion: ABC News, The Hill, Weekly Standard, Scared Monkeys, Bloomberg.com news and Bloomberg Business

Joe Klein / TIME:

How to Make Donald Trump Disappear — It's coming — We now know how to make Donald Trump disappear: talk policy. He simply has nothing useful to say. He'll deal with it when the time comes. He'll hash out Syria with Putin. He'll hire people. “Killers,” no doubt, as he likes to say.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Katie Glueck / Politico:
GOP insiders: Carly crushed it

Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors

Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Sound and Fury Signifying Little

Discussion: Booman Tribune and Talking Points Memo

Kyle Kondik / Politico:
‘Donald Trump Met His Match in Carly Fiorina’

Discussion: International Business Times

David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Who Won the Second Republican Presidential Debate?

Discussion: Politico, CNN, CBS New York, Fox News Insider, New York Times and BillMoyers.com

Washington Post:
Wednesday's GOP debate transcript, annotated

Discussion: The Pulse 2016, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, Shakesville, Common Dreams, Hit & Run and Mashable

Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
A Trump lie: He tried to expand casino gambling in Florida

Discussion: Bloomberg Business and JustOneMinute

Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump fails to stampede GOP herd

Discussion: Bloomberg Business, ABC News, Daily Kos and The Moderate Voice

New York Times:
Candidates Use Second G.O.P. Debate to Taunt Donald Trump

Discussion: Power Line, Vox, Outside the Beltway, Fox News, Politico, The Atlantic, Guardian, Political Insider blog and Hullabaloo

Andrew Romano / Yahoo:
This is the way Trump ends — SAN PEDRO, Calif. — It had all the makings of A Moment.

Discussion: Reason, Liberaland, Washington Post and Betsy's Page

Elizabeth F. Ralph / Politico:
‘Look in the Mirror, Fat Boy’

Discussion: Bloomberg Business, Hit & Run, Hot Air, Talking Points Memo and Wall Street Journal

John Harwood / CNBC:
10 questions for Carly Fiorina

Discussion: Washington Post, Business Insider, DownWithTyranny!, The Gateway Pundit, The Hill, Philly.com, Slantpoint, Jezebel, Hot Air, Taylor Marsh and No More Mister Nice Blog

James Nash / Bloomberg Business:
Long Shadow of Donald Trump Dominates Debate He Missed

Discussion: The Hill, Hot Air, Politico and Talking Points Memo

Jordain Carney / The Hill:

Dems block amendment linking Iran deal to Israel — Democrats on Thursday blocked a last-ditch effort from Republicans to stop the Iran nuclear deal by linking the agreement to Israel and American prisoners. — Senators voted 53-45 on an amendment from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell …

Discussion: Politico and Hot Air

Burgess Everett / Politico: GOP senator breaks with McConnell strategy

Alan Fram / Associated Press:
GOP leaders hope Right to Life can help head off shutdown

Discussion: Erick on the Radio

Anna Palmer / Politico:
McCarthy, Ryan call for end to Boehner drama

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Bloomberg Business

Burgess Everett / Politico:
Fearsome fiscal cliff looms for Congress

Discussion: Daily Kos, Bloomberg Business, Hot Air and neo-neocon

Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
CBO: Defunding Planned Parenthood means ‘several thousand’ more births

Discussion: Politico and LifeNews.com

Russell Moore / New York Times:

Have Evangelicals Who Support Trump Lost Their Values? — IN 2006, the television comedy “The Office” aired an episode in which one of the characters, Dwight Schrute, nervously faces the prospect of delivering a speech after winning the title of top salesman of the year for his company, Dunder Mifflin.

Discussion: RedState

Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Ben Carson's shockingly weak debate performance

Discussion: Betsy's Page

Brent Budowsky / The Hill:

Biden-Warren in 2016? — Until now, my position regarding the 2016 campaign has been to support Hillary Clinton for president and to be extravagantly friendly toward Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and his supporters, who embody the heart, soul and idealism of the Democratic Party at its best.

Discussion: Politico

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Hillary Clinton Is Stuck In A Poll-Deflating Feedback Loop

Discussion: Washington Monthly, NewsBusters, Bloomberg View and Instapundit

Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:

GOP debate ratings appear to set new CNN record — Wednesday's GOP debate appears to be the highest-rated event in CNN's history, according to preliminary Nielsen ratings. — The prime time debate averaged a 14.7 household rating, indicating that 1 in 7 American homes with TVs tuned in.

Discussion: Bloomberg Business, Talking Points Memo, Hit & Run, Mashable, National Review and The Daily Caller

TIME:

Transcript: Read the Full Text of the Second Republican Debate — Eleven Republican presidential candidates met at the Reagan Library for a primetime debate on CNN. — At the debate were real estate mogul Donald Trump, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker …

Discussion: Right Wing Watch, NO QUARTER USA NET, Hit & Run, National Review, Informed Comment and Hot Air

The Hill:

Obama invites suspended Muslim teen to the White House — A Texas teenager who was suspended from school for bringing a homemade clock to class received a 21st century invitation from President Obama on Wednesday to visit the White House. — Instead of making a traditional phone call …