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10:50 AM ET, September 26, 2011

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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama mocks Perry, Republican debates  —  President Obama broadened his attack on Republicans Sunday night, firing an indirect shot at Texas Gov. Rick Perry and condemning audience members at recent Republican debates.  —  At a fundraiser in San Jose, Calif., Obama said that some in the audience might …
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Matt Negrin / The Politico:
Obama mocks Perry, GOP audiences  —  President Obama decided to criticize Rick Perry at a fundraiser in California on Sunday, mocking the governor of Texas for his position on global warming and also the audiences at the Republican debates who have applauded death and jeered a gay soldier.
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Shutdown looms: Spotlight now on Senate after Boehner wrangled House GOP votes  —  With time running out, Congress returns Monday to try to pass a short-term funding measure to avert a government shutdown and avoid yet another market-rattling showdown over the federal budget.
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CNN:
Shutdown looms as Congress debates spending plan  —  (CNN) — The standoff continues Monday between the House and the Senate over emergency funding, which is holding up a short-term spending measure to keep government running into the new fiscal year that begins this weekend.
Discussion: The Jawa Report and The Reaction
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Flood Victims Getting Fed Up With Congress
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Euro Zone Death Trip  —  Is it possible to be both terrified and bored?  That's how I feel about the negotiations now under way over how to respond to Europe's economic crisis, and I suspect other observers share the sentiment.  —  On one side, Europe's situation is really, really scary …
Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:
Videos Show Police Using Pepper Spray at Protest on the Financial System  —  For a few moments on Saturday, the confrontations between the police and the protesters just south of Union Square in Manhattan seemed fairly typical.  People pushed, the police shoved and arrests were made …
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David Graeber / Guardian:
Occupy Wall Street rediscovers the radical imagination | David Graeber
Discussion: Shakesville, Gothamist and Hullabaloo
Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:
Cain nearly quit campaign before Florida straw poll, calls Obama a ‘liar’  —  ORLANDO, Fla. — Not everyone needs to go to Disney World to have fun in central Florida.  —  After one of Herman Cain's strongest showings yet at a Republican presidential debate Thursday, and two days …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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The Politico:
GOP field scrambles in fall cash dash
Discussion: CNN and msnbc.com
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans Express Historic Negativity Toward U.S. Government  —  Several long-term Gallup trends at or near historical lows  —  PRINCETON, NJ — A record-high 81% of Americans are dissatisfied with the way the country is being governed, adding to negativity that has been building over the past 10 years.
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Companies Get Gay-Rights Heat Over Christian Donations  —  The culture war over gay rights has entered the impersonal world of e-commerce.  —  A handful of advocates, armed with nothing more than their keyboards, have put many of the country's largest retailers, including Apple, Microsoft …
Discussion: Joe. My. God.
Rick Perry / The Daily Beast:
Roger's Reality Show  —  First, Ailes dialed back the Tea Party talk.  Now he's turning the GOP race into a political X-Factor—and steering the election agenda one more time.  —  It was part political spectacle, part American Idol, part YouTube extravaganza, a pure Roger Ailes production …
Brad DeLong / The Huffington Post:
Review: Ron Suskind's Confidence Men  —  When I first learned in 2009 that Ron Suskind's next book was going to be about the making of a economic policy in the Obama administration, I looked forward to it.  Previous books about the making of economic policy had degenerated into unseemly hagiography …
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
BBC:
Eurozone rescue plan ‘emerging’ as IMF and Greece talk  —  The plan agreed by leaders reportedly envisages a “haircut”, or writedown, of Greece's sovereign debt  —  The outline of a large and ambitious eurozone rescue plan is taking shape, reports from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington suggest.
Discussion: FT Alphaville
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Wolfgang Munchau / Financial Times:
Zero hour for the euro
Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
Maxine Waters: Obama remarks ‘curious’  —  Rep. Maxine Waters on Monday called President Barack Obama's comments to black Americans that they should stop complaining “a bit curious” and said she doesn't “know who he was talking to.”  —  The California Democrat told CBS's “Early Show” …
The Huffington Post:
Spreading Freedom: Google And The War For The Web … WASHINGTON — You can't swing a dead cat video in Washington lately without hitting a lobbyist, consultant, attorney or adviser on retainer to Google or one of its tech rivals.  Google, whose top executives have long been a bottomless cup …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Politics
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
A Campaign Finance Ruling Turned to Labor's Advantage  —  WASHINGTON — Labor unions are seizing on last year's landmark Supreme Court campaign finance ruling to change how they engage in politics, developing ambitious plans to influence nonunion households in the 2012 election …
Chuck Bennett / New York Post:
Cocaine ‘blow’ to economy  —  Here's another sign of the stalled economy — New Yorkers are ditching their coke habits.  —  Cocaine-related emergency-room admissions, overdoses and requests for rehab have declined since the economy started its 2008 decline, according to data obtained by The Post.
Chris Greenwood / Daily Mail:
Terrorist we can't kick out: Released after half his sentence but still ‘a risk to the public’... the suicide bomb fanatic who's free to stay - thanks to his human rights  — Eritrean-born Ali will not face deportation because judges rule he could face ‘inhumane treatment’
Discussion: Hot Air, Pajamas Media and Jihad Watch
CBS News:
Fighting terrorism in New York City  —  As the top terror target in America, New York City has taken every measure to defend itself from another 9/11.  The New York Police Department's counter-terrorism unit is one of the most sophisticated in the world - complete with sea …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Trump blasts DNC ad, to meet with Romney Monday afternoon  —  Donald Trump slammed an ad by the Democratic National Committee that painted him and Mitt Romney - who Trump will be meeting with Monday afternoon - as elitist and out-of-touch.  —  “I think it's a pretty weak ad,” Trump said on Fox News.
Discussion: CNN
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Revenge of the Jews, or of the economy?  —  The American Jewish Committee's annual survey of its constituents (and this is American Jewish adults, not voters) is out today, and shows the sort of dramatic drop in support for Barack Obama that you've seen in a range of polls.
 
 
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Kevin Dolak / ABCNEWS:
Lady Gaga Attends Obama Fundraising Event
CNN:
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CNN:
Controversy erupts over Campus Republicans bake sale plans
Discussion: The Politico and THEROOT.COM
Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Christie Courted, Still Says No
Discussion: Washington Monthly and msnbc.com
Alexander Burns / Reuters:
Fla. GOP sweats over Social Security
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Associated Press:
Obama Attacks Republicans on West Coast Tour
Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
Fidel Castro: President Obama U.N. speech ‘gibberish’
Discussion: Reuters and Weasel Zippers
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David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Obama administration must make risky healthcare decision
Discussion: Healthwatch
Glen Carey / Bloomberg:
King Abdullah Gives Saudi Women Right to Vote for First Time
Susan Collins / Wall Street Journal:
The Economy Needs a Regulation Time-Out
Discussion: The Politico
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
Geithner Plan for Europe is last chance to avoid global catastrophe
Discussion: Pajamas Media
BBC:
French left captures Senate in setback for Sarkozy
New York Times:
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