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3:30 AM ET, September 24, 2008

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Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Stephanopoulos: McCain Holds Key to Administration's Bailout Passage on Capitol Hill  —  ABC News' George Stephanopoulos reports: If Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain doesn't vote for the Bush administration's $700 billion economic bailout plan, some Republican …
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The Politico:
House GOP rises up against Cheney  —  There was a time when Dick Cheney could turn back a Republican revolt on Capitol Hill.  —  That time is gone.  —  House Republicans rose up en masse against their vice president on Tuesday morning to blast an administration proposal …
Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and Balloon Juice
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Gingrich urges vote against ‘stupid’ Paulson plan
Discussion: Buck Naked Politics and Daily Kos
CNN:
Conservatives: ‘Take a breath’ before bailout
Discussion: Associated Press
New York Times:
McCain Aide's Firm Was Paid by Freddie Mac  —  WASHINGTON— One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain's campaign manager from the end of 2005 through last month, according to two people with direct knowledge of the arrangement.
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Matthew Benjamin / Bloomberg:
Americans Oppose Bailouts, Favor Obama to Handle Market Crisis  —  Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) — Americans oppose government rescues of ailing financial companies by a decisive margin, and blame Wall Street and President George W. Bush for the credit crisis.  —  By a margin of 55 percent to 31 percent …
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Pew Research Center:
57% of Public Favors Wall Street Bailout  —  Obama Seen As Better Able to Address Crisis  —  By a margin of almost two-to-one the American public thinks the government is doing the right thing in investing billions of dollars to try to keep financial institutions and markets secure.
Patrick Healy / The Caucus:
Obama Says Bailout Should Include 4 Conditions
Discussion: Weekly Standard and New York Times
Emptywheel:
Bush Mouthpiece Admits: They've Been Sitting on this Plan  —  Hidden in an article reporting that Cheney's going to go hunt up some support for the $700,000,000,000 bailout is this admission that the Bush Administration has been sitting on it for some time: … Which raises three questions for me:
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Chris Bowers / Open Left:
There Is No Crisis—Summary  —  Things are getting a little suspicious about this “crisis.”  — Why did the Bush administration suddenly declare a “crisis” during the final two weeks when Congress would be in session during his presidency?  Is it maybe because, after the election …
Washington Post:
Economic Fears Give Obama Clear Lead Over McCain in Poll  —  Turmoil in the financial industry and growing pessimism about the economy have altered the shape of the presidential race, giving Democratic nominee Barack Obama the first clear lead of the general-election campaign over Republican John McCain …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Daily Kos
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Holds 3-Point Edge
Discussion: MyDD
Scott Conroy / CBS News:
Palin Camp Goes To New Lengths To Shut Out Media  —  From CBS News' Scott Conroy:  —  (NEW YORK) Update: After media outlets complained to the McCain/Palin campaign about its attempt to prevent an editorial presence at Gov. Palin's first meeting of the day, a pool producer was allowed …
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Paul Slansky / The Huffington Post:
A Note to Bill Clinton  —  Given that we would never have had the odious George W. Bush in the White House in the first place if it wasn't for your blow jobs, Bill, it seems obvious that you owe it to the people of this country, and especially to the parents whose kids died in the Iraq War …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
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Gawker:
Chris Rock To Bill Clinton: ‘Hillary Lost!’  —  As in his appearance on the View, Bill Clinton offered the most tepid support possible for Barack Obama's presidential ticket on David Letterman's Late Show last night.  After repeatedly invoking his vanquished wife Hillary …
Discussion: Open Left and Amygdala
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Democrats to let offshore drilling ban expire  —  WASHINGTON - Democrats have decided to allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week, conceding defeat in a months-long battle with the White House and Republicans set off by $4 a gallon gasoline prices this summer.
Henry Blodget / The Huffington Post:
Bernanke and Paulson: Here's Why We're Screwing You  —  At today's Wall Street Bailout Hearings, we finally learned what Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke are thinking.  Specifically, we learned what prices they plan to pay for the crap assets they're buying (more than they're worth).
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Heart-ache: Tiny terrorist gives Bush speech thumbs down at the UN; Update: Obama rips UN, Ahmadinejad  —  A spontaneous gesture of disapproval?  Hardly.  ABC caught him waving at the White House press corps intermittently to get their attention.  He may be a cretin, but he's a media-savvy cretin.
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New York Times:
For Palin in New York, a Predebate Introduction to Motorcade Diplomacy  —  Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska met her first head of state on Tuesday as she crisscrossed New York City receiving foreign policy tutorials in advance of her debate next week with Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Palin press relationship gets testy
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
And the Media Worries about Palin's Experience and McCain's Age?  —  I think in the space of about the last 24 hours, Joe Biden claimed that the AIG bailout was bad, but then said it wasn't bad;  —  that his apology about the dirty McCain ad was, as they say, inoperative;
Mark Krikorian / The Corner:
Credit Is Not a Civil Right  —  I have no way of judging whether the Wall Street bailout is a necessary evil or an impending disaster.  But we're in this mess, ultimately, because our political elites thought it was good social policy to encourage banks to give mortgages to uncreditworthy people …
Discussion: Salon and Whiskey Fire
Monica Mercer / Chattanooga Times Free Press:
Chattanooga: UT student not indicted in Palin e-mail hacking case … A federal grand jury in Chattanooga ended its session around lunch time today without indicting a University of Tennessee student who authorities believe may have hacked into vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account.
Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
‘Grim’ Afghanistan Report To Be Kept Secret by US  —  “No Plans to Declassify” New National Intelligence Estimate for White House  —  US intelligence analysts are putting the final touches on a secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan that reportedly describes the situation as …
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Dramatically Ramping Up Overall Ad Spending; Now Outgunning McCain  —  In a sign that the Obama campaign is getting serious about tapping his financial advantage over McCain with six weeks to go, Obama's overall spending on TV ads has jumped 50% in the last two weeks …
Cincinnati.com:
If Ohio polling looks like Chicago, ‘thank’ Brunner  —  Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has a reputation as the most partisan state official in Ohio.  And she works hard to earn it.  The Democrat's latest stunt rejected absentee ballots for thousands of Republicans.  —  But it's not her first rodeo.
Joseph Curl / Washington Times:
269 tie: An electoral college ‘doomsday’?  —  Scholars speculate on scenario  —  President Obama, with Vice President Palin?  President Biden?  President Pelosi?  Call them the “Doomsday” scenarios — On Nov. 5, the presidential election winds up in a electoral-college tie, 269-269 …
Ben White / New York Times:
Goldman to Raise Capital, With $5 Billion From Buffett  —  Warren E. Buffett, the country's most famous investor and one of the world's richest men, announced on Tuesday that he would invest $5 billion in Goldman Sachs, the embattled Wall Street titan, in a move that could bolster confidence in the financial markets.
Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Media Matters for America:
Time 's Carney claimed new McCain ad — which contains falsehoods — is “[l]egitimate” and “entirely within bounds”  —  In a September 23 post on Time.com's Swampland blog headlined “McCain's Legitimate Attack,” Time Washington bureau chief Jay Carney wrote that “what's important” …
 
 
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SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
Chuck Schumer to Sec. Paulson: Why $700 billion?  Why not $150 billion?
Discussion: Buck Naked Politics and The RBC
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Count me Out of the Bailout  —  Sorry for the radio silence.
Discussion: Wizbang
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Obama's Michigan Attack
Discussion: Swampland
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
McCain in Indiana? [CORRECTED]
Discussion: MyDD and Daily Kos
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