memeorandum: A Lesson in Fairness For Obama (Investor's Business Daily)

9:15 AM ET, December 8, 2011

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Topline Results of Nov. 29-Dec. 6, 2011, CNN/TIME/ORC Poll — FLORIDA — BASED ON INTERVIEWS WITH 446 REGISTERED REPUBLICANS WHO ARE LIKELY TO VOTE IN THE FLORIDA REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY — SAMPLING ERROR: +/- 4.5 PERCENTAGE PTS. — 1. If the Republican presidential primary were held today …

Discussion: ABCNEWS, 2012 Decoded, The PJ Tatler, Don Surber, Ballot Box, The Moderate Voice, The Page, Taegan Goddard's …, National Review, Business Insider and USA Today

New York Times:

Democrats See 2-Horse Race, Adding Whip — WASHINGTON — The White House and its allies are starting to turn their sights to Newt Gingrich, invoking his tumultuous history as House speaker to brand him as the “king of gridlock,” a testament to his new viability and the sudden realization …

Discussion: ABCNEWS, The Hill, Washington Post, The Page, Wall Street Journal, The Caucus, Campaign 2012, The Smoking Gun and Prairie Weather

Maggie Haberman / The Politico:

GOPers prep for ‘alpha dog’ debate — In a Republican presidential campaign marked by eventful debates, Saturday's forum stands to outdo all the others that came before it. — The drama is unmistakably building. The ABC News/Des Moines Register debate at Drake University comes …

Discussion: CNN, Media Decoder, Swampland, Hot Air and Iowa Caucuses

Kevinliptak / CNN:
Trump: I know more than all the other moderators

Discussion: The Politico, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Weasel Zippers and The Right Scoop

ABCNEWS:
The Forgotten Candidate: Ron Paul Gathers Momentum, Has Sights Set on Newt Gingrich

Discussion: GOP 12 and The Reaction

Neil King Jr / Washington Wire:
Gingrich Clocks Huge Gains in All Early Voting States

Discussion: Swampland, The Other McCain, Hot Air and Capital J | JTA

Justin Sink / Ballot Box:
Ron Paul downplays exclusion from Jewish forum

Discussion: The Politico

Michael Kazin / The New Republic:
Why a Gingrich vs. Obama Matchup Would Be Good For the Country

Discussion: Business Insider and Campaign Stops

Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
My Confession — The problem with Mitt Romney is the inconsistencies in his record.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Townhall.com, The Politico, The Reality-Based Community and American Spectator

Jackie Kucinich / USA Today:
Romney says he'd consider naming his Cabinet early

Discussion: msnbc.com, ThinkProgress, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, ABCNEWS, The Raw Story and Crooks and Liars

Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Colorado shows GOP electability differences

Discussion: Hot Air and Ballot Box

Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:

JON CORZINE WILL TESTIFY: ‘I Simply Do Not Know Where The Money Is’ — Former MF Global CEO Jon Corzine will speak in front of a House panel today. — His testimony has just been released. — You can download it here. — One line that stands out (via @djfxtrader): “I simply do not know where the money is.”

Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools

David S. Hilzenrath / Washington Post:

Jon Corzine to tell House panel he doesn't know where customers' money went — Jon S. Corzine, the former U.S. senator and New Jersey governor who presided over the collapse of the commodities brokerage MF Global, says he cannot explain what happened to “many hundreds of millions of dollars” that the firm was holding for customers.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and The Lonely Conservative

New York Post:
EXCLUSIVE: At House hearing Thursday, Corzine expected to plead the Fifth

Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Reuters

Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:

Documents: ATF used “Fast and Furious” to make the case for gun regulations — Documents obtained by CBS News show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discussed using their covert operation “Fast and Furious” to argue for controversial new rules about gun sales.

Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
NY Dems unaware of Operation Fast and Furious, confronted by reporter [VIDEO]

Discussion: Hot Air and The Right Scoop

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
New e-mails: ATF officials discussed using Fast & Furious to ... push gun control

Discussion: Right Wing News, The Daily Caller, The Politico, CNN and National Review

Frank Newport / Gallup:

Republicans Less Enthusiastic About Voting in 2012 — Republicans' enthusiasm gap over Democrats narrows — PRINCETON, NJ — Republicans' enthusiasm about voting in the election for president next year has decreased, with 49% of Republicans and independents who lean Republican now saying …

Discussion: The Politico and Hotline On Call

Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:

Poll: Elizabeth Warren soars 7 up over Scott Brown — UMass-Lowell, Herald poll shows attack ads harm both — Democrat Elizabeth Warren has opened up a lead against Republican incumbent Scott Brown for the first time in their U.S. Senate showdown, but a barrage of attack ads appears …

Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …, Talking Points Memo, Jammie Wearing Fools and HotAirPundit

Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Warren Cursed by the Bambino

Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Boston Globe and Taegan Goddard's …

Alec Baldwin / The Huffington Post:

A Farewell to Common Sense, Style, and Service on American Airlines … Airlines , American Airlines , Alec Baldwin , Alec Baldwin American Airlines , Flight Attendants , Flying , Travel News — First off, I would like to apologize to the other passengers onboard the American Airlines flight that I was thrown off of yesterday.

Discussion: Mediaite, Gawker, Hot Air, Associated Press, L.A. NOW, ECHIDNE of the snakes, ABCNEWS, Ace of Spades HQ, Sister Toldjah, Gothamist, New York Post and TMZ.com

Ben Geman / The Hill:

Obama threatens veto if pipeline decision is added to payroll tax cut — The battle between the White House and Republicans over the Keystone XL pipeline escalated Wednesday with a veto threat delivered personally by President Obama. — Obama warned that he would veto an extension of the payroll-tax cut …

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Republicans are the real defenders of Social Security, Republicans say

Discussion: The Hill, Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress, Daily Kos and Slate

Byron Tau / The Politico:
Obama unveils new border rules

Discussion: CNN and ThinkProgress

Investor's Business Daily:

A Lesson in Fairness For Obama — Election '12: President Obama this week started testing his new campaign theme, replacing “hope and change” with the equally vacant promise of “fairness.” Apparently he hopes Americans can be fooled twice. — In a talk Tuesday at the site of Teddy Roosevelt's …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Indecision Forever

RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Moore: “Wall Street Has Their Man And His Name Is Barack Obama”

Discussion: Big Hollywood, Scared Monkeys and Weasel Zippers

Washington Post:

Air Force dumped ashes of more troops' remains in Va. landfill than acknowledged — The Air Force dumped the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops in a Virginia landfill, far more than the military had acknowledged, before halting the secretive practice three years ago, records show.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, msnbc.com, Mediaite and Booman Tribune

Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:

Eric Boehlert Targeted In Bungled ‘Verizon’ Sting … Verizon , Video , 99 Percent , Eric Boehlert , Mandy Nagy , Media Matters , Media Criticism , Mike Flynn , Sam Stein , Andrew Breitbart , James o'Keefe , To Catch a Journalist , Politics News — It was the middle of the day on Friday, and Eric Boehlert heard a knock on the door.

Discussion: Big Journalism

Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:

House Passes Bill To Grant Congress Veto Power Over White House Rules … 112th Congress , Nancy Pelosi , Congress , Regulation , Video , Government Regulators , Obama Regulations , Ben Quayle , Congress Regulations , Epa , Government Regulations , Reins Act , Ted Poe , Politics News

Discussion: Firedoglake

Wall Street Journal:

Banks Prep for Life After Euro — Countries Study Printing Their Own Notes in Case Monetary Union Unravels — Some central banks in Europe have started weighing contingency plans to prepare for the possibility that countries leave the euro zone or the currency union breaks apart entirely …

Discussion: naked capitalism, Guardian and Business Insider

Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS:

Voters Flee Democratic Party in Key Swing States — President Obama's uphill battle to re-election is getting steeper. — A report released today by the centrist think-tank Third Way showed that more than 825,000 voters in eight key battleground states have fled the Democratic Party since Obama won election in 2008.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The Lonely Conservative and Jammie Wearing Fools

Miriam Elder / Guardian:

Russia's anti-Putin protests grow — Tens of thousands say they are prepared to take to the streets in the biggest challenge yet to the country's government — Russia's anti-government protest movement has gathered momentum as tens of thousands of people said they were prepared …

Discussion: US Politics

Associated Press:

After scandal and spectacle, ousted Ill. Gov. Blagojevich sentenced to 14 years for corruption — CHICAGO — Rod Blagojevich, the ousted Illinois governor whose three-year battle against criminal charges became a national spectacle, was sentenced to 14 years in prison Wednesday …