memeorandum: Curse of the Woke Conservatives (Kurt Schlichter/Townhall.com)

10:10 AM ET, September 7, 2017

Top Items:

Republican leaders ‘visibly annoyed’ after Ivanka Trump enters Oval Office during debt ceiling talks — Negotiations between Republican and Democratic congressional leaders and President Trump broke down when first daughter Ivanka Trump entered the Oval Office to say hello during the Wednesday meeting …

Discussion: CNN, Althouse, Splinter and New York Magazine

Mike Allen / Axios:

Inside Trump's head-scratching deal with “Chuck and Nancy” — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is perplexed, with no idea what President Trump thinks he was gaining. — In fact, McConnell rather doubts the president has a strategy, a close source tells Axios.

Discussion: Daily Wire, New York Times, Associated Press, Townhall.com and IJR

Robert Costa / Washington Post:

Freedom Caucus leaders vent to Paul Ryan after talks with Steve Bannon — Leaders of the Freedom Caucus met with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) on Wednesday to candidly express their frustrations with his leadership and his handling of the Republican legislative agenda, according to two people familiar with the discussion.

Discussion: Politico, Washington Examiner, RedState, Mediaite and Political Wire

Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:

Democrats dread Hillary's book tour — President Donald Trump may be the only person in politics truly excited about Hillary Clinton's book tour. — Democratic operatives can't stand the thought of her picking the scabs of 2016, again — the Bernie Sanders divide, the Jim Comey complaints …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

New York Times:

To Allies' Chagrin, Trump Swerves Left — WASHINGTON — Republican congressional leaders perched on the couches in the Oval Office froze in mid-smile on Wednesday afternoon when they realized President Trump was bypassing them to cut a short-term spending and debt ceiling deal with Democrats, and not them.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Real Clear Politics, Jamie Dupree - AJC, WWLP-TV, Daily Wire and Washington Post

Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:

How Democrats Rolled Trump on the Debt Ceiling — On Wednesday morning, Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, stepped before cameras on the Hill and spoke about the fraught negotiations on debt and spending that will consume Washington through the end of the year.

Discussion: The Hill and FiveThirtyEight

John Bresnahan / Politico:

GOP livid after Trump cuts deal with Democrats — President Donald Trump's and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's tête-à-tê te on Tuesday — after a summer of sniping between the two — lifted Republican hopes that the GOP was finally back in sync ahead of a brutal fall of fiscal deadlines.

Discussion: Washington Post, Reuters, Media Matters for America, Splinter, Los Angeles Times, CNBC, Mother Jones, Bloomberg, Balloon Juice, Axios, The Hill, Business Insider and National Review

NBC News:

Trump Gets His Payback Against McConnell and Ryan — First Read is your briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. — Trump makes budget deal with Democrats, confounding GOP 2:54 — Trump gets payback against Ryan and McConnell

Discussion: Washington Post

Jonathan Swan / Axios:

Scoop: Inside the Freedom Caucus' tax plan — The House Freedom Caucus — a group of around 35 ultra-conservative House Republicans who can block their party's leadership on key legislation — is in the final stages of drafting its own tax plan, according to sources familiar with the process.

Discussion: Daily Kos, The Gateway Pundit and The Hill

Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Clinton's score-settling frustrates Democrats

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, CNN and The Gateway Pundit

Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
The Pivot Is Real, And It's Spectacular

Discussion: The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Scared Monkeys, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Axios, Mediaite, Washington Free Beacon and Politico

Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's Art of the Deal? Not so much

Discussion: Politico, Washington Post, Breitbart, CNN, Mediaite, Shareblue, The Resurgent, JustOneMinute, The Atlantic, Politicus USA, ABC News, Washington Free Beacon, Business Insider, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Kos and IJR

Jack Shafer / Politico:
This Pro-Hillary Website Looks Like North Korean Agitprop

Discussion: RedState, Verrit, The Outline, The Ringer - All, New Republic, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Washington Post

Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
Meet the Swamp: Donald Trump Punts September Agenda to December After Meeting with Congress

Discussion: Shareblue, Washington Post and New York Times

New York Times:
Trump Bypasses Republicans to Strike Deal on Debt Limit and Harvey Aid

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, No More Mister Nice Blog, Politico, CNN, New York Magazine, Axios and Mother Jones

CBS News:

Steve Bannon says Catholic Church has “economic interest” in “unlimited illegal immigration” — In his first extensive interview since leaving the Trump administration, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is speaking out about President Trump's decision to end the DACA program.

Discussion: Washington Post, Axios, NBC News, The Daily Caller and Raw Story

CBS News:

Steve Bannon says he's “a street fighter,” vows to support Trump — Steve Bannon's “60 Minutes” conversation with Charlie Rose is the former White House chief strategist's first extensive interview since he left the Trump administration. — The founding board member of the conservative …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and CNBC

Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
President Trump Unlikely to Nominate Gary Cohn to Become Fed Chairman

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Reuters, CNBC, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, Political Wire, New York Magazine and Mediaite

Facebook:

An Update On Information Operations On Facebook — There have been a lot of questions since the 2016 US election about Russian interference in the electoral process. In April we published a white paper that outlined our understanding of organized attempts to misuse our platform.

Washington Post:
Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election

Discussion: Washington Monthly, FiveThirtyEight, electionlawblog.org, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Mashable, IJR, The Daily Caller, Politicus USA, Axios, Hullabaloo, Towleroad, New York Magazine, TheStreet, Boing Boing and Engadget, more at Mediagazer »

Bob Brigham / Raw Story: Maddow: Jared Kushner may have helped Russian operatives with targeted political ads on Facebook

Michelle Castillo / CNBC: Facebook gave special counsel Robert Mueller data on Russian ads, report says

Blair Shiff / ABC News:

Hurricane Irma destroys 90 percent of structures, vehicles on Barbuda — Hurricane Irma ripped into the Caribbean island of Barbuda Wednesday morning, killing at least one person and destroying 90 percent of its structures and vehicles, according to Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne.

Discussion: Washington Post, The Root, Associated Press and RT

CNN:
There are now three hurricanes in the Atlantic basin

Discussion: FOX2now.com, KTLA, KFOR-TV, myfox8.com, fox13now.com, ROMPER, NHC Atlantic Wallet 1, Balloon Juice and Bloomberg

miamiherald:
Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Caribbean with Florida at center of projected path

Discussion: CNN, New York Times, The Daily Caller, ROMPER, NPR, Grist, The Root, CBS News, Business Insider and Common Dreams

Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Rush Limbaugh's dangerous suggestion that Hurricane Irma is fake news

Discussion: The Rush Limbaugh Show, TheBlaze, WTVR-TV, Media Matters for America, Raw Story, Hullabaloo, The Resurgent and TVNewser

Washington Post:
Extreme Category 5 Irma crashes into Caribbean, sets sights on Florida and Southeast U.S.

Discussion: ABC News, New York Times, The Gateway Pundit, ROMPER, Mediaite, Mashable, The Verge, Reuters, The Atlantic, Daily Kos and Faithwire

Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:

The First White President — It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trump's predecessors made their way to high office through the passive power of whiteness …

Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:

Curse of the Woke Conservatives — So what does the GOP establishment do in 2018 when it comes before us dirty, nasty normals and tries to make the case that its members deserve being reelected to Congress instead of being tarred and feathered? After seven years of solemn assurances …

Joe Concha / The Hill:

CNN's Powers: Trump thinks daughter Ivanka is ‘his prized possession’ — CNN's Kirsten Powers said Wednesday night that President Trump believes his daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump “isn't that impressive to people” and is treated as a “prized possession” by her father.

Discussion: Raw Story

Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
GOP leaders ‘visibly annoyed’ over Ivanka visit to Oval Office: reports

Discussion: Metro, Politico, Towleroad, RedState, Mediaite, Political Wire, Mercury News and CNN

Kaitlan Collins / CNN:

(CNN)President Trump is expected to return to Camp David again this weekend — but this time with his full Cabinet in tow. — CNN has learned that the President will host the members of his Cabinet at the secluded government-owned retreat in Maryland starting Friday.

Discussion: ABC News and The Daily Caller

Darren Sands / BuzzFeed:

New York Official Pushes To Rename Trump Park For Heather Heyer — “The renaming would acknowledge that its current designation does not reflect the goals of uplifting and unifying New Yorkers,” says Nily Rozic. … A New York lawmaker is proposing a bill to rename a state park named …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and NY State of Politics

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Hackers Gain Direct Access to US Power Grid Controls — IN AN ERA of hacker attacks on critical infrastructure, even a run-of-the-mill malware infection on an electric utility's network is enough to raise alarm bells. But the latest collection of power grid penetrations went far deeper …

Discussion: BuzzFeed, ABC News, Gizmodo, The Verge, Mashable and Engadget

Stephen Ide / providencejournal.com:

Tom Perez, former U.S. labor secretary, to teach at Brown — Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee and former U.S. labor secretary under President Barack Obama, will join Brown University as a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for Public Affairs, the university has announced.

Emily Yoffe / The Atlantic:

The Uncomfortable Truth About Campus Rape Policy — This is the first story in a three-part series examining how the rules governing sexual-assault adjudication have changed in recent years, and why some of those changes are problematic. — Kwadwo “Kojo” Bonsu, 23, was on track to graduate …

Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:

Michael Cohen Would Take a Bullet for Donald Trump — In advance of his congressional testimony, Trump's personal lawyer wants the world to know that his loyalty to the president is deep and unwavering, and then some. “I'd never walk away,” he says. — “The part that's most disappointing …

Discussion: Business Insider