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4:25 PM ET, September 9, 2010

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George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:
President Obama to Pastor Jones: ‘Stunt’ Endangers Troops - Full Transcript of Exclusive Interview  —  I covered a lot of ground with the president in Cleveland yesterday: His decision to make John Boehner the midterm punching bag.  Will he veto a sanction of Bush tax cuts for the wealthy?
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
What Speaker Boehner would do first — Matt Bai thinks Obama may have missed his Mt. Rushmore moment - Kinsley and Scarborough to write columns for POLITICO — Ceci Connolly to McKinsey  —  “THE PRESIDENT TAKES ON THE PASTOR” — PRESIDENT OBAMA on “Good Morning America,” …
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Obama Speaks Out Against Pastor's Plan to Burn Koran  —  WASHINGTON— President Obama sharply criticized a Florida pastor's plan to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, calling it a “stunt” that threatens the lives of American troops in Afghanistan …
ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: President Obama Says Terry Jones' Plan to Burn Korans Is ‘A Destructive Act’  —  President: Pastor's ‘Stunt’ Could Endanger Lives Here and Abroad  —  A Florida pastor's plan to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11 could result in “serious violence” …
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Patricia Murphy / Politics Daily:
Colin Powell Says Ground Zero Mosque Should Go Forward
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and HotAirPundit
Katrina Trinko / National Review:
Imam Rauf on CNN
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
More House Dems balking at ending Bush tax cuts for rich  —  Even as President Obama is mounting a strong stand in favor of letting the Bush tax cuts for the rich expire, and even as he's signaling that it will be a major campaign issue, more and more vulnerable House Dems are bolting in the other direction.
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The Hill:
Momentum builds for extending all of President Bush's tax cuts  —  Momentum built Thursday for extending all of the Bush-era tax cuts after President Obama avoided a veto threat and a key Senate Democrat voiced support for the extension.  —  Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), a centrist who has been a key vote …
Janet Adamy / Wall Street Journal:
Health Outlays Still Seen Rising  —  The health-care overhaul enacted last spring won't significantly change national health spending over the next decade compared with projections before the law was passed, according to government figures set to be released Thursday.
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Republicans Dominate Medicare Discussions On White House Fiscal Commission
Kenric Ward / sunshinestatenews.com:
Marco Rubio Holds Double-Digit Lead in Senate Race  —  GOP candidate even beats Crist among independent voters, poll finds  —  Republican Marco Rubio, garnering surprising strength among independent voters, holds a double-digit lead over his two chief rivals in Florida's U.S. Senate race, a new Sunshine State News Poll reports.
Ezra Klein:
Forum: Andy Stern's plan to create 12 million new jobs  —  Late last week, I spoke with former SEIU president and current Georgetown fellow/fiscal commission member Andy Stern about hosting a series of pieces laying out different ideas to kick-start job creation.
Discussion: National Review
Jay Newton-Small / Time:
Obama's MIA Volunteers: Organizing for America Shrinks  —  What happened to Barack Obama's once vaunted political machine?  The outfit that put upwards of 8 million volunteers on the street in 2008 — known as Organizing for America — is a ghost of its former self.
John Stanton / Roll Call:
Murkowski Likely to Lose Leadership Spot if Campaign Continues  —  Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) will likely be forced out of her party leadership position should she decide to launch a write-in or third-party candidacy, a Senate Republican said Wednesday.  —  Murkowski, who conceded …
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Jonathan Strong / The Daily Caller:
Shake up: The Tea Partiers are coming to the staid Senate
Discussion: MyDD and Hot Air
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Untamed Prince  —  Marc Ambinder reports on the dictatorial powers held by many in government and upheld yesterday by a judiciary that gives unaccountable power - even the power to torture and kill - a drop-shadow, not a check.  Marc has been following this state secrets issue for a long time …
Discussion: Newshoggers.com and New York Times
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Obama wins the right to invoke “State Secrets” to protect Bush crimes
Ben White / The Politico:
Warren delay has Wall St. wondering  —  What's taking so long?  —  That is what some on Wall Street are asking about the lack of a nominee from the White House for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the new financial watchdog agency created by the Wall Street reform bill.
Discussion: CNN
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Washington Post:
Obama's tax-credit plan getting a cool reception
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
CRISIS ON THE COURTS.... Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy recently noted the problems with the Senate's inability to confirm judicial nominees.  “It's important for the public to understand that the excellence of the federal judiciary is at risk,” Kennedy said.
Christina Wilkie / The Hill:
Biden: Bush deserves ‘a lot of credit’  —  Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday night said that former President George W. Bush deserves ‘a lot of credit’ for his handling of the initial Iraq war drawdown.  —  Speaking to Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert, who conducted a rare …
Henry Blodget / The Wire:
Sulzberger Concedes: “We Will Stop Printing The New York Times Sometime In The Future”  —  At a conference in London, Arthur Sulzberger Jr conceded that someday the New York Times Company will be forced to stop publishing a printed paper.  This sounds obvious, but it's a big deal.
Bryan Fischer / RenewAmerica:
Handle Muslims just like we handle the neo-Nazis  —  Germany is giving us a template on how we handle Muslims: just like we handle neo-Nazis.  —  According to Bloomberg, German police carried out 30 predawn raids against the nation's largest neo-Nazi group two days ago.  —  Why?
Bloomberg:
Super PACs Flourish to Influence U.S. Vote After Companies Freed to Give  —  At least 25 “super PACS,” including one linked to Karl Rove, are fueling a surge in money for this year's elections following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down limits on corporate campaign spending.
David Weigel / Weigel:
Meg Whitman Attacks Jerry Brown With the Ghost of Bill Clinton*  —  Meg Whitman's Republican campaign for governor of California, clearly not done with the decades of video tape they have on Jerry Brown, bring us back to the good old days of the 1992 presidential campaign.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
T.W. Farnam / Washington Post:
Capitol Hill employees owed $9.3 million in back taxes last year, data show  —  Capitol Hill employees owed $9.3 million in overdue taxes at the end of last year, a sliver of the $1 billion owed by federal workers nationwide but one with potential political ramifications for members of Congress.
Discussion: Politics Daily and National Review
Matt Lewis / Politics Daily:
Christine O'Donnell, running for U.S. Senate in Delaware, has a new TV ad bashing her Republican primary opponent, Rep. Mike Castle.  —  But O'Donnell's ad looks eerily similar to one recently produced by Intrepid Media for Americans for New Leadership, in support of Nevada candidate Sharron Angle …
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Md. flier ban may be unconstitutional  —  A Maryland judge's ban on distribution of campaign literature that state officials contend is misleading likely amounts to a prior restraint that runs afoul of the First Amendment, two prominent lawyers in the field told POLITICO.
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Lobbyists Rush to Hire G.O.P. Staff Ahead of Midterm Vote  —  WASHINGTON — With Democrats in danger of losing control of Congress, some prominent lobbying shops, trade groups and contractors are already moving to bring more Republicans on board to bolster their political fortunes.
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Fired Up  —  This may win the prize for the worst stump speech ever.  Oh my.  —  Here's the video via Oliver Willis:
 
 
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Blue Dog leader grades Obama ‘in the C range’
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First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Obama vs. Boehner
Ezra Klein:
The Keynesian experiment  —  It's become common to hear …
Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
Emanuel moves event for Rep. Halvorson, prompting speculation
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Hatch: History will judge Clinton a better president than Obama
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