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2:45 AM ET, August 10, 2011

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The Politico:
Harry Reid super committee picks in place  —  In the first of what will be a closely watched selection process for a powerful new deficit panel, Democratic sources say Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will appoint Democratic Sens. Patty Murray (Wash.), Max Baucus (Mont.) and John Kerry …
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A.Killough / CNN:
CNN Poll: Time to clean house in Congress?  —  Washington (CNN) - Need more evidence that Americans are extremely angry at Congress?  —  Well, here you go: According to a new national survey, for the first time ever most Americans don't believe their own member of Congress deserves re-election.
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Poll: GOP more unpopular than during Clinton impeachment  —  Voters are more unhappy with the Republican Party now than they were when the Republican-led House voted to impeach then-President Clinton, according to a new CNN poll released Tuesday.  —  Fifty-nine percent of voters polled …
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Meet Your Catfood Commission, Senate Dem Edition: Murray, Kerry, Baucus
Discussion: TalkLeft
The Note:
On the Defense Over the Debt Deal, McConnell Says He's ‘Very Close’ to Super Committee Picks
Discussion: The Hill
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Wisconsin recall elections: Results live blog  —  Protesters yell from a balcony near the the Wisconsin State Assembly Chambers as the assembly meets in the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin March 10, 2011. … 10:13 P.M. The AP, along with local networks, has called …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Reading the Wisconsin Recall Vote  —  Wisconsin residents on Tuesday voted on whether to recall six Republican state senators, whose backing of Gov. Scott Walker in the dispute over collective bargaining rights this year made them targets for Democratic-aligned groups.
Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Wisconsin Recall Turnout: How High Can It Go?
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Dan Primack / Fortune:
About that plane over S&P  —  Who sent an aerial message to Wall Street?  —  Courtesy of NY Observer  —  Earlier today, a plane flew over S&P headquarters trailing a banner that read: … Fortune has learned that the person who paid to fly the banner is a Midwestern broker …
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Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:
Single Mother from St. Louis Flying Banner Over Lower Manhattan: 'Thanks For The Downgrade.  You Should All Be Fired.' (UPDATED)  —  YOU SHOULD ALL BE FIRED."  Pictures and more sightings are beginning to emerge.  Full image below:  —  The S&P offices are in the McGraw Hill building at 96 Water Street …
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
For immediate release  —  Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in June indicates that economic growth so far this year has been considerably slower than the Committee had expected.  Indicators suggest a deterioration in overall labor market conditions in recent months, and the unemployment rate has moved up.
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Paul Krugman:
The Fed States the Obvious
Discussion: Modeled Behavior and MarketBeat
Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
Impeach Obama, says Michael Burgess  —  Burgess, center, wants to impeach Barack Obama to stop him from ‘pushing his agenda.’  —  Impeaching President Barack Obama “needs to happen,” Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) told a local tea party group, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Tuesday.
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JSOnline:
Walker signs legislation to redraw district boundaries  —  By Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel  —  Madison - As elections took place Tuesday in six state Senate districts, Gov. Scott Walker signed legislation to redraw their boundaries along with the rest of legislative districts.
James Joyner / Outside the Beltway:
Honor Fallen SEALs by Questioning Their Mission  —  Joshua Foust tweets that his PBS piece “Lessons from this weekend's Afghan helicopter crash” has been called “enemy propaganda” by some critics.  That charge fundamentally misunderstands patriotism.  He's not divulging troop locations or battle plans …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Joshua Foust / Need to Know:
Lessons from this weekend's Afghan helicopter crash
JSOnline:
Dem spokesman accuses GOP of dirty tricks in Waukesha vote count  —  By Larry Sandler of the Journal Sentinel  —  A state Democratic Party spokesman accused a Republican official Tuesday night of tampering with votes in the tight 8th Senate District recall race.
Parker Leavitt / Arizona Republic:
McCain faces angry crowd at Gilbert town-hall meeting  —  U.S. Sen. John McCain's town-hall meeting Monday in Gilbert broke down into a shouting match at times as “tea-party” activists directed their anger and frustration toward the senator over issues ranging from his characterization of them as …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The Wisconsin recall vacuum  —  Wisconsin Republicans are in real danger of losing control of the state Senate in tonight's recall elections, as it looks more and more possible that they will lose at least three of the six seats that are on the ballot.  —  The losses would be cast by Democrats …
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Huckabee to perform with Pawlenty, Cain at Ames Straw Poll
Discussion: The Politico and CNN
Craig Robinson / The Iowa Republican:
Perry's South Carolina Announcement Is A Slap In the Face to Iowa Republicans
Discussion: The Other McCain, Hot Air and GOP 12
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
S&P's Chambers: Balanced budget amendment would do more harm than good  —  (Scott Eells - BLOOMBERG) House and Senate Republicans have rallied around the notion of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution as a solution to the country's dire fiscal straits.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
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Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:   S&P Director: GOP's Balanced Budget Amendment Would Hurt America's Creditworthiness
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
National Review: Obama Secretly Supports Violent London Rioters  —  Violent riots have swept London all week.  The Washington Post reports that last night, “Rampant looting and raging fires engulfed swaths of London on Monday as the wave of civil unrest that has gripped this sprawling capital escalated sharply.”
NPR:
U.S. Credit Downgrade Leaves ‘Horrible Impact’ … Steve Inskeep talks to former Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming about the S&P downgrade of U.S. credit.  Simpson has been saying that he hopes the S&P downgrade will cause lawmakers to take deficit deliberations more seriously.
Carolyn Lochhead / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. gay married couple loses immigration battle  —  Washington —  Citing the Defense of Marriage Act, the Obama administration denied immigration benefits to a married gay couple from San Francisco and ordered the expulsion of a man who is the primary caregiver to his AIDS-afflicted spouse.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Looking Like Dems Come Up Short  —  As of just after 12:30 on the east coast it's looking like Sen. Alberta Darling (R) is pulling out a win in Wisconsin's 8th senate district.  If so, that means that state Democrats picked up two recall victories but fell short of the three needed to take control of the senate.
First Read / msnbc.com:
Bachmann camp speaks on controversial Newsweek cover  —  The Michele Bachmann campaign tells NBC News that the candidate is not interested in getting into a conversation over the controversial Newsweek cover photo of its candidate.  —  The campaign says Bachmann is focused on the Ames Straw Poll …
Keith Koffler / White House Dossier:
Michelle Obama Takes Secret Vacation to Oregon  —  First Lady Michelle Obama Slipped out of Washington unnoticed Monday for a secret trip to visit her brother, Oregon State University men's basketball coach Craig Robinson, at his home on Corvallis, Ore.  —  Mrs. Obama reportedly jetted …
Discussion: FishbowlDC
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Swing State Deficit Polling  —  We decided to look at public opinion on the debt deal in two swing states that could hold the key to Barack Obama's reelection, Colorado and North Carolina.  Here's what we found:  —Voters across party lines in both states think the deal will be bad for the economy.
Jillian Rayfield / tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com:
To Infini-Tea And Beyond: ‘Tea Party In Space’ Aims To Stop NASA's ‘Socialism’  —  An offshoot of the South Florida Tea Party called “Tea Party In Space” is looking to break apart the government's socialist takeover of the final frontier.  —  Andrew L. Gasser launched Tea Party In Space in June as a way to …
 
 
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Andy Birkey / Minnesota Independent:
AFL-CIO votes unanimously to oppose anti-gay marriage amendment
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
John Derbyshire Wants To ‘Let Britain Burn’
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Kansas to return $31M healthcare grant
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Obama's 2008 Hope Morphs Into 2012 Slash-and-Burn
Joe Garofoli / SFGate:
Rick Santorum:Obama's health care “will rob America of its soul”
Wall Street Journal:
A Downgrade Awakening  —  Amid the market wreckage, signs of a political turn.
Benjy Sarlin / TPMDC:
Nebraska AG Jon Bruning Compares Welfare Recipients To Scavenging Raccoons
 

 
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