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5:00 PM ET, September 1, 2011

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Obama Rolls Out a Jobs Plan That Doesn't Need Congress — The president has asked federal agencies to find solutions on their own. His message to lawmakers: We can do this without you. — President Obama is either fed up with Congress or he's testing his own administration's mettle. Or both.

Discussion: NationalJournal.com, Pajamas Media, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Other McCain, The Political Carnival, Prairie Weather and The Mahablog

Cenk Uygur / The Huffington Post:

Is Obama Playing Rope-a-Dope? — Here was the headline on Yahoo from Wednesday night: Obama bows to Boehner on jobs speech. — I can tell you what any progressive who has been paying attention thought, “Oh boy, here we go again.” — President Obama has now changed the day of his address to Congress to accommodate the Republicans.

Discussion: Don Surber and National Review

George Stephanopoulos / Politics:

James Carville: White House ‘Out of Bounds’ Over Speech Flap — Democratic strategist James Carville told me that the White House was in the wrong when it requested that the President address Congress on the same night and time as a Republican presidential debate.

Discussion: ABCNEWS, The Politico, Moe Lane, Right Wing Nut House, Outside the Beltway, Fox News, Michelle Malkin and CBS News

New York Times:

Obama Moves Jobs Speech After Skirmish With Boehner — WASHINGTON — Any hopes that a kinder, gentler bipartisan Washington would surface once Congress returns after Labor Day were summarily dashed on Wednesday when President Obama and Speaker John A. Boehner clashed over, of all things …

James Downie / Washington Post:

Obama-Boehner speech spat should worry Democrats — When you thought Washington couldn't get any lower, now the two parties are squabbling over when the president can speak to Congress. The White House asked if President Obama could address a joint session on Sept. 7 at 8:00 p.m. …

Discussion: Mediaite, Althouse, Outside the Beltway, Mad Kane's Political Madness, Scared Monkeys and Sense of Events

Matt Negrin / The Politico:
White House: Send us your petitions

Discussion: ThinkProgress

Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Speaker John Boehner Should Resign For His Unprecedented Insult To The President

Discussion: Verum Serum, Fox News and JammieWearingFool

Andrew Taylor / Associated Press: $1.3T Deficit Projected as Economy Cools

Ezra Klein / Bloomberg:
About Ezra Klein — Ezra Klein is a columnist and blogger …

Discussion: Washington Monthly and The New Republic

Rasmussen Reports:

Perry 44% Obama 41%; President Leads Other GOP Hopefuls — For the first time this year, Texas Governor Rick Perry leads President Obama in a national Election 2012 survey. Other Republican candidates trail the president by single digits. — A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Pajamas Media, The Gateway Pundit, GOP 12, Indecision Forever and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Joshua Green / Associated Press:

Perry can't exploit key weakness for Romney — AS RECENTLY as six months ago, Mitt Romney's bid for the Republican presidential nomination was widely thought to be doomed because, as governor of Massachusetts, he had signed a health care law strikingly similar to the one President Obama signed last year.

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog and GOP 12

Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
Perry Proposed A Bi-National Health Insurance Plan With Mexico In 2001

Discussion: The Raw Story, Trail Blazers Blog, Daily Kos and Wonkette

Quinnipiac University:
Obama Approval Hits All-Time Low, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Economy Is Getting Worse, More Voters Say

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Washington Wire, Campaign 2012, Hotline On Call and Daily Kos

CNN:
New CNN Poll: 65% give Obama thumbs down on economy

Discussion: The Politico, Questions and Observations, Outside the Beltway, The Strata-Sphere, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, americanthinker.com and Wake up America

The Huffington Post:

Pima County Repubs Raffle Glock As Fundraiser; Same Gun Type Used in Tucson Shooting … Talk about a killer gimmick. — An Arizona Republican fundraiser is offering as a prize the same type of gun used in the attempted assassination of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

Discussion: Balloon Juice, ThinkProgress, Outside the Beltway, The Truth About Guns, The Raw Story, Wonkette, Hotline On Call, New York Magazine, ImmigrationProf Blog, The Political Carnival and Religion Dispatches

Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Tucson Republican Leader Slams County GOP For Giffords Gun Raffle

Discussion: Politics

Tim Mak / The Politico: Ariz. GOP raffling off Glock gun

Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:

Gore urges Obama to block pipeline for ‘dirtiest source of fuel on the planet’ — Former Vice President Gore called on President Obama late Wednesday to reject a pending permit application for a controversial pipeline project, calling the oil that it would carry “the dirtiest fuel on the planet.”

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Al's Journal, ThinkProgress, International Business Times and Corrente

Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Chu signals support for proposed oil pipeline

Discussion: Firedoglake, RedState, Energy Now, The American Independent and ThinkProgress

Vanity Fair:

The 2011 New Establishment List: And the Top Spot Goes to... This year's New Establishment list identifies the top 50 of an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigies, and entrepreneurs—"The Age of Information gives way to a burgeoning Age of Technology," as Graydon Carter puts it.

Discussion: FishbowlDC and Hullabaloo, more at Mediagazer »

George Bennett / Palm Beach Post:

FEMA'S use of term ‘federal family’ for government expands under Obama — Posted: 6:17 p.m. Wednesday, Augt. 31, 2011 — Don't think of it as the federal government but as your “federal family.” — In a Category 4 torrent of official communications during the approach and aftermath …

Discussion: Cafe Hayek, Weasel Zippers, No Left Turns, Pajamas Media and LewRockwell.com Blog

Brian Beutler / TPMDC:

White House: Unemployment Will Average 9 Percent In Election Year — President Obama's mid-session budget review confirms what most private and government projections have recently concluded — that the economy is considerably weaker than earlier forecasts held, and won't fully recover from the Great Recession for years.

Discussion: Swampland and Outside the Beltway

New York Post:

Deputy mayor quit after being busted for domestic violence — The blizzard didn't bury him — roughing up his wife did. — Former Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith — who drew sharp criticism for bungling the Christmas storm that shut down the city — actually resigned in disgrace after his wife …

Discussion: The Empire, CBS New York, City Room, Metropolis, New York Magazine, Gawker, Gothamist and New York Times

Matthew Schofield / McClatchy Washington Bureau:

WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head, U.N. says — This cell phone photo was shot by a resident of Ishaqi on March 15, 2006, of bodies Iraqi police said were of children executed by U.S. troops after a night raid there. A State Department cable obtained by WikiLeaks quotes …

Discussion: Firedoglake and The Raw Story

Carrie Johnson / NPR:

Justice Department Tougher On Abortion Protesters … The Obama Justice Department has been taking a more aggressive approach against people who block access to abortion clinics, using a 1994 law to bring cases in greater numbers than its predecessor. — The numbers are most stark when it comes …

Discussion: Shakesville, The American Independent, Little Green Footballs and ThinkProgress

Arshad Mohammed / Reuters:

Exclusive: Condoleezza Rice fires back at Cheney memoir — (Reuters) - Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday she resented what she viewed as an attack on her integrity by former Vice President Dick Cheney in his just-published memoir. — Speaking in an interview with Reuters …

Discussion: The Politico, Wonkette, Washington Post, The Hill, New York Magazine, The Moderate Voice and msnbc.com

Jordy Yager / The Hill:

Lieberman: Obama's concern with offending Muslims hurts war effort — The Obama administration's fear of offending Muslims will hurt the U.S. war against terrorism, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Thursday in a speech blasting the president's new counterterrorism strategy.

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Todd J. Gillman / Salt Lake Tribune:

Perry has plenty of ideas on Supreme Court, including term limits — One solution the governor embraces is to end lifetime tenure — a cornerstone of the Constitution, whose drafters worried far less about activist or senile judges than about meddling tyrants and political pressure.

Discussion: The Western Experience, Little Green Footballs, Balkinization, The New Republic and Ben Smith's Blog

Shelby Steele / Wall Street Journal:

Obama and the Burden of Exceptionalism — Post-'60s liberals, with the president as their standard bearer, seek to make a virtue of decline. — If I've heard it once, I've heard it a hundred times: President Obama is destroying the country. Some say this destructiveness is intended …

Discussion: The New Republic

Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:

Another Republican Rebukes Cantor: Chris Christie Demands Hurricane Aid Without Offsetting Cuts — Last week, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) shockingly said that Congress should not approve emergency aid to states battered by Hurricane Irene unless it makes offsetting budget cuts elsewhere first.

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, New Jersey Online, Pennsylvania Ave. and Daily Kos

Sara Horowitz / The Atlantic Online:

The Freelance Surge Is the Industrial Revolution of Our Time — Welcome to the Gig Life. The boom in independent work is changing the way we think about jobs and careers. Does Washington get it? — REUTERS — It's been called the Gig Economy, Freelance Nation, the Rise of the Creative Class …

Discussion: Prairie Weather

Paul Krugman:

Iceland Exits — Iceland is no longer under an IMF program; here's the IMF report (pdf) pronouncing the adjustment program successful. Indeed. Iceland still has high unemployment and is a long way from a full recovery; but it's no longer in crisis, it has regained access to international capital markets …

Discussion: The Agonist

CNET News:

Apple loses another unreleased iPhone (exclusive) — Cava22, the San Francisco bar where another unreleased iPhone apparently went missing. — In a bizarre repeat of a high-profile incident last year, an Apple employee once again appears to have lost an unreleased iPhone in a bar, CNET has learned.

Discussion: msnbc.com, Digits, Guardian, TPM Idea Lab, GigaOM, Washington Post and New York Magazine, more at Techmeme »

Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:

S.C. Gov. supports crippling ‘un-American’ NLRB, including resignation of lone GOP member — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announced Thursday that she supports calling for the National Labor Relations Board's only Republican member to resign. If Brian Hayes steps down immediately …

Discussion: Politics and New York Times

Matthew J. Slaughter / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:

The crucial connection between potholes and U.S. jobs — Have more to add? News tip? Tell us — Today in Dallas, the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness will convene a Listening and Action Session with local businesses. This session will focus on how American infrastructure supports American jobs.

Discussion: ThinkProgress and MyDD

Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:

Howard Dean: Right On Foreign Medical Students — Justin Elliott has a kind of exposé piece in Salon about Howard Dean's post-DNC work as a de facto lobbyist and PR man for McKenna Long & Aldridge. Elliott's interest in the topic stems, I believe, from Dean's advocacy on behalf …

Discussion: Salon and Eschaton