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4:20 PM ET, September 6, 2010

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Obama Calls for $50 Billion Spending on Public Works  —  MILWAUKEE — President Obama, looking for ways to jump-start the sagging economy and create new jobs, called on Congress on Monday to approve a far-reaching plan to rebuild and modernize the nation's transportation networks — roads …
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Darren Goode / The Hill:
Boehner: Obama infrastructure plan is more failed stimulus  —  House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio Monday criticized President Barack Obama's proposal to boost infrastructure investment as more stimulus spending doomed to fail.  —  “As the American people, facing near double-digit unemployment …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
GOP ATTACKS ON INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT ALREADY UNDERWAY.... I really wish I could understand the way John Boehner's mind works. … Now, I realize that Boehner's depth of policy knowledge is frighteningly limited, and that the poll-tested buzz words of his press releases might resonate …
The Politico:
President Obama unveils $50 billion road, rail plan  —  Seeking to bolster the sluggish economy, President Barack Obama is using a Labor Day appearance in Milwaukee to announce he will ask Congress for $50 billion to kick off a new infrastructure plan designed to expand and renew the nation's roads, railways and runways.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Washington Post:
Obama to call for $100 billion business tax credit  —  Under mounting pressure to intensify his focus on the economy ahead of the midterm elections, President Obama will call for a $100 billion business tax credit this week, using a speech in Cleveland on Wednesday to launch what administration officials said was a new policy push.
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Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
Obama Economic Policy: Yet Another “Obama Bunts” Edition  —  With a multiplier of 2, $50 billion in the first year is 0.3% on the unemployment rate—and it's not clear if we can ramp up an extra $50 billion of infrastructure spending in the first year.  —  Don't get me wrong …
Fox News:
Obama to Call for Major Infrastructure Spending
Christi Parsons / Los Angeles Times:
Obama to seek extension of R&D tax credits
Discussion: The Remmers Report
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
1938 in 2010  —  Here's the situation: The U.S. economy has been crippled by a financial crisis.  The president's policies have limited the damage, but they were too cautious, and unemployment remains disastrously high.  More action is clearly needed.  Yet the public has soured on government activism …
Wall Street Journal:
Petraeus Condemns U.S. Church's Plan to Burn Qurans  —  KABUL—The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said the planned burning of Qurans on Sept. 11 by a Florida church could put the lives of American troops in danger and damage the war effort.  —  Gen. David Petraeus said the Taliban …
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Andy Saputra / CNN:
Indonesians protest U.S. church's plan to burn Quran
Discussion: Osborne Ink and TPMMuckraker
Peter J. Boyer / New Yorker:
FRAT HOUSE FOR JESUS  —  The entity behind C Street.  —  One midwinter night in 2008, Senator John Ensign, of Nevada, the chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, was roused from bed when six men entered his room and ordered him to get up.  Ensign knew the men intimately …
CNN:
CNN Poll: GOP's midterm advantage is growing  —  (CNN) — With November's midterm elections less than two months away, a new national poll indicates that the Republicans' advantage over the Democrats in the battle for Congress is on the rise.  —  According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation …
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Number of people who say economy in very poor shape on rise
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Lena H. / Washington Post:
Finding new weapons to kill bedbugs  —  The brown bugs, each about half the size of a pencil eraser, lie in glass petri dishes - a few on their backs, legs in the air.  They died within seconds of scurrying across a piece of paper containing drops of a chemical.The next step is to find …
CNN:
Sharron Angle tells CNN: 'I'll be a mainstream senator'  —  Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) - Nevada Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle just might be the Tea Party's biggest gamble yet.  A staunch conservative with a history of making bold and sometimes controversial comments …
Discussion: The Politico and TPMDC
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WDSU-TV:
Jindal Staying Out Of Upcoming Senate Race  —  Governor: ‘Voters Can Make Up Their Own Minds’  —  BATON ROUGE, La. — Gov. Bobby Jindal said he's staying out of the upcoming Senate race between Republican incumbent David Vitter and his Democratic challenger, Rep. Charlie Melancon.
Discussion: Think Progress and GOP 12
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CNN:
Jindal isn't endorsing Vitter - yet
Discussion: Mediaite and Roger Ailes
Mark Hurd / Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles school named after Al Gore  —  He's the first vice president to have an L.A. school named after him, sharing the honor with author Rachel Carson.  Fittingly, the campus will be devoted to environmental themes.  But there's a catch.  —  First-grade teacher Yolanda Alcala, left …
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Housing Woes Bring New Cry: Let Market Fall  —  The unexpectedly deep plunge in home sales this summer is likely to force the Obama administration to choose between future homeowners and current ones, a predicament officials had been eager to avoid.  —  Over the last 18 months …
New York Times:
Attack Shows Lasting Threat to U.S. in Iraq  —  BAGHDAD — Insurgents mounted a coordinated attack on one of the main military commands in Baghdad on Sunday, briefly drawing fire from American soldiers, an event that underscored the ambiguity of the American military's role in Iraq.
Discussion: FrumForum and AMERICAblog News
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Some See a Ploy as Craigslist Blocks Sex Ads  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Craigslist, by shutting off its “adult services” section and slapping a “censored” label in its place, is engaging in what some analysts describe as a high-stakes stunt to influence public opinion.
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Adult services censored on Craigslist
 
 
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Alana Semuels / Los Angeles Times:
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Lieberman: This generation will not see Middle East peace
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Major Democratic donors shift donations to the right
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Congressional Charities Are Pulling In Corporate Cash
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Cynthia Tucker: Voter Anger Is About Racism - ‘Fear of a White Minority’