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5:30 AM ET, September 7, 2011

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Stephen Gutowski / MRCTV:
Video Game Allows Players to Slaughter “Tea Party Zombies” Like Sarah Palin and Bill O'Reilly  —  Have you ever fantasized about beating Bill O'Reilly to death with a crowbar or shooting up the offices of Americans for Prosperity with an Uzi?  Well, the folks at StarvingEyes Advergaming apparently …
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Daniel Foster / National Review:
Tea Party Zombies Must Die  —  Hey kids, hear about the latest rage?  It's “Tea Party Zombies Must Die” an exciting new first-person shooter “Advergame.”  Here's how it's described: … Don't believe the hype?  I took the game for a whirl and managed to snag some choice screenshots.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Tea Party's ridiculous hissy fit over Jimmy Hoffa  —  As you may have heard, Tea Party conservatives and right-wing bloggers are having a grand old time faking outrage over James Hoffa's Labor Day speech, in which he said of Tea Partyers: “Let's take these son of bitches out.”
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
New online game: “Tea Party Zombies Must Die”
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Pajamas Media
Penny Nance / National Review:
The End of Civility?
Discussion: Joe. My. God.
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
It's no longer Obama-land in the Hamptons  —  Barack Obama has lost the Hamptons.  —  That sentence is a fat target for ridicule, I know, since the Hamptons are often reviled as the playground of the ridiculously rich and the promiscuously silly — hardly the working-class Democratic base.
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David Espo / Associated Press:
Obama to propose $300 billion to jump-start jobs  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The economy weak and the public seething, President Barack Obama is expected to propose $300 billion in tax cuts and federal spending Thursday night to get Americans working again.  Republicans offered Tuesday to compromise …
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Carney blames low poll numbers on frustration toward Washington  —  White House officials said Tuesday that President Obama's approval ratings are dropping because Americans are furious with Washington in general.  —  But even as White House press secretary Jay Carney blasted political obstruction …
Wall Street Journal:
The President's Speech Impediment
Discussion: Pajamas Media, Hot Air and The Politico
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Scarborough: ‘No Way’ Perry Can Beat Obama  —  Looks like Joe Scarborough aims to single-handedly winnow the Republican presidential field.  A few weeks ago, the Morning Joe host dismissed Michele Bachmann as “a joke.”  Today, Scarborough proclaimed that there is “no way” Rick Perry could beat Barack Obama.
Discussion: The Right Scoop and HotAirPundit
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Texas Is On Fire
Molly Ball / The Politico:
Rick Perry: The reluctant debater
Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:
More Republicans skipping Obama's jobs speech  —  When President Obama delivers his address on a new job-creation plan to a joint session of Congress on Thursday, he won't be speaking to a sold-out crowd.  Several lawmakers are still determining whether it is worth their time to stay …
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Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:   Credibility on the Decline  —  Jimmy Hoffa, in his introduction …
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Janet Napolitano: Drudge is ‘just wrong’ on privacy  —  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is calling out web news aggregator Matt Drudge for suggesting that she's an ogre eager to invade the privacy of Americans and in particular those who travel by air.
Discussion: Mediaite, TheBlaze.com and Raw Replay
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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Janet Napolitano: Shoes-on flight in sight
Rachel Gordon / SFGate:
Message to nudists: At least be sanitary  —  The naked truth, it seems, is that San Francisco is once again going to emerge as a city ripe for ridicule — or a beacon of free expression — depending on your point of view.  The latest issue?  Public nudity.
Fox News:
Sources: Obama Administration to Drop Troop Levels in Iraq to 3,000  —  The Obama administration has decided to drop the number of U.S. troops in Iraq at the end of the year down to 3,000, marking a major downgrade in force strength, multiple sources familiar with the inner workings and decisions …
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Joshua Hersh / The Huffington Post:
Iraq Troop Withdrawal: Obama Administration Supports Reducing U.S. Forces To 3,000 By End Of 2011
Discussion: Hot Air
Brad Friedman / MoJo Articles:
Exclusive Audio: Inside the Koch Brothers' Secret Seminar  —  Check back tomorrow for Part 2 of this report, on the GOP superstar who rocked the Koch seminar crowd.  —  “We have Saddam Hussein,” declared billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, apparently referring to President Barack Obama …
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NBC Chicago:
Quinn to Lay off Thousands  —  A decision made by Gov. Pat Quinn may leave thousands of state workers without a job by the end of the week.  —  The cuts are coming in the face of a budget deficit that doesn't leave enough money to pay the workers, the governor says.
P.J. Salvatore / Big Journalism:
VIDEO: ‘Sons of Bitches’ Ask David Brock For Media Matters' Tax Filings  —  Earlier today, a few of us Tea Party “sons of bitches” decided to call on the “debunked” progressive propagandists at Media Matters for America (MMFA) to ask them to produce their latest IRS 990 form-the tax document …
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Super Committee Democrats Want More Deficit Reduction  —  The key dilemma facing President Obama and Congressional Democrats is that Republicans are wholly unwilling to support any new job-creating spending projects — even projects with bipartisan support — unless they're offset with spending cuts or savings elsewhere in the budget.
Discussion: Firedoglake
Evan Perez / Wall Street Journal:
Grenades Case Hits Justice  —  Blunders After U.S. Arrest of Suspected Supplier Had a Part in High-Level Ousters  —  Federal authorities are probing why the U.S. in 2010 let go an Arizona man accused of supplying grenades to a Mexican drug cartel, a case that played a role in the ouster …
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Tim Morse Named Interim CEO  —  According to sources at the company, Yahoo's Carol Bartz is no longer CEO of Yahoo.  CFO Tim Morse has been named interim CEO.  —  The situation around what is clearly an ouster is uncertain, but Bartz has had a very rocky tenure in her 32 months at the company.
Jake Tapper / Politics:
Infrastructure Spending, Public Disapproval of the President, and the New “Hoffa Standard”: Today's Q's for O's WH - 9/6/20112  —  TAPPER: The president's talked about — I know there's a lot in the speech that we don't know about, but it does seem like infrastructure spending's going to be part of it.
Paul Krugman:
Treasuries, TIPS, and Gold (Wonkish)  —  (Yes, it's 4:30 AM where I am.  I found myself wide awake, thinking about gold prices.  You got a problem with that?)  —  In assessing economic prospects since the financial crisis of 2008, there have been two kinds of people: inflationistas and deflationistas.
Discussion: Marginal Revolution
 
 
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Amanda Covarrubias / L.A. NOW:
Prop. 8 backers seem likely to win right to appeal its rejection
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
For Obama, a Familiar Labor Day Theme
Paul Osterman / New York Times:
Yes, We Need Jobs. But What Kind?
Wall Street Journal:
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Why did the GOP turn against stimulus? Ask a psychologist.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
Did A Top GOP Staffer For Sen. Grassley Cover Up Evidence Of News Corp Hacking In The U.S.?
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Shane Goldmacher / Los Angeles Times:
Poll illustrates California voters' anger
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi drops the word ‘stimulus’