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9:05 AM ET, September 7, 2011

Top Items:

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.

Discussion: Power Line, Rolling Stone, Outside the Beltway, ThinkProgress, Maggie's Notebook, americanthinker.com and Don Surber

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 …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Los Angeles Times, Hullabaloo, The Politico, The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers

Tim Mak / The Politico:

Obama plan: 100s of billions for jobs — With the economy struggling and his re-election campaign gearing up, President Barack Obama plans to propose a jobs package worth several hundred billion dollars, mostly in tax cuts, infrastructure spending, and direct aid to state and local governments, according to reports on Wednesday.

Discussion: New York Times, Bloomberg, Washington Post and Pirate's Cove

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 …

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, The Politico, Weasel Zippers, iOwnTheWorld.com, This ain't Hell … and JammieWearingFool

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats fear it's too late

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

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 …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, No More Mister Nice Blog, Verum Serum, Power Line, Patterico's Pontifications, The Daily Caller, The Right Scoop, Somewhat Reasonable, Proof Positive and The Lonely Conservative

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.

Discussion: Wizbang, The Other McCain, Big Journalism, Scared Monkeys, Pajamas Media, Big Hollywood and Right Wing News

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
New online game: “Tea Party Zombies Must Die”

Discussion: The Jawa Report and Pajamas Media

David White / International Brotherhood of Teamsters:

HOFFA: CORPORATE-FUNDED CONSERVATIVE POLITICIANS OUT TO DESTROY MIDDLE CLASS — 'This Fight Is About The Economy, It's About Jobs And It's About Rebuilding America' — Press Contact — dwhite@teamster.org — 202-624-6911 — (WASHINGTON) - Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa today …

Discussion: Reuters, Fox News and The Gateway Pundit

Detroit Free Press:
Transcript: Teamsters Jim Hoffa's speech on Labor Day

Discussion: Media Matters for America, Bluestem Prairie and Angry Black Lady Chronicles

Victor Davis Hanson / National Review: Credibility on the Decline — Jimmy Hoffa, in his introduction …

Penny Nance / National Review:
The End of Civility?

Discussion: Joe. My. God.

Tom Perry / Reuters:

Palestinians deploy Obama speech in U.N. campaign — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is an unlikely participant in a Palestinian campaign to drum up support for a bid to win U.N. recognition of their statehood — a diplomatic move opposed by both his administration and Israel.

Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:

Obama ‘star’ of Palestinian ad — President Barack Obama is the unlikely star of a new Palestinian media campaign. — Part of a speech Obama gave in 2010 to the United Nations General Assembly is featured in an ad aimed to rally support for the Palestinians upcoming bid for statehood …

Discussion: Pirate's Cove

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.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The Lonely Conservative and JammieWearingFool

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: ABCNEWS, Mediaite, TheBlaze.com, Raw Replay, Wonkette, Hit & Run, Balloon Juice and Gawker

Forbes.com:
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Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog, Instapundit and AmSpecBlog

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 …

Discussion: Hot Air, Betsy's Page, The Huffington Post, Washington Post, Yahoo! News, Firedoglake, ThinkProgress, TPMDC, Mediaite, Raw Replay, RedState, Business Insider, The Western Experience and Maggie's Notebook

New York Times:
Panetta Said to Back Troops in Iraq Past Withdrawal Deadline

Discussion: The Politico and Campaign 2012

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 …

Discussion: Connecting.the.Dots, DownWithTyranny!, And So it Goes in Shreveport, AMERICAblog News and Booman Tribune

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: EconLog and Marginal Revolution

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.

Discussion: theblogprof, Doug Ross, UrbanGrounds and JammieWearingFool

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 …

Discussion: YID With LID, Media Matters for America, Mediaite, Pajamas Media and National Review

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.

Discussion: The Lonely Conservative, The Daily Caller and Pirate's Cove

Wall Street Journal:

Mitt Romney's 59 Economic Flavors — A jobs plan that shrinks from some of the biggest issues. — Mitt Romney rolled out a major chunk of his economic agenda yesterday, and we'll say this for it: His ideas are better than President Obama's. Yet the 160 pages and 59 proposals also strike us …

Discussion: Business Insider, Hot Air, BizzyBlog and The Lonely Conservative

The Politico:

POLITICO-NBC News Republican Candidates Debate details — WHEN: Begins at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on Wednesday, Sept. 7. — WHERE TO WATCH: POLITICO will be livestreaming the debate online - with a pre-debate show from the Library beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET and post-debate analysis immediately following.

Discussion: Iowa Caucuses

Jeffrey H. Anderson / Investor's Business Daily:

Obama's Recovery A Flop Of Historical Proportions — As President Obama prepares to deliver yet another speech about stimulating the economy — this one to a joint-session of Congress (with or without the NFL game on the monitors) — it's worth reviewing the results of his efforts to date.

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: Mediaite, Washington Post, The Right Scoop and HotAirPundit

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: Sky Dancing and Firedoglake

The Right Scoop:

Ann Coulter to Sarah Palin: Fish or cut bait — Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter took this segment to basically dismiss Sarah Palin as a serious potential candidate, suggesting that she really hasn't dug deep into policy because she really isn't that interested in it.

Discussion: Hot Air, Mediaite and RedState

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.