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9:05 AM ET, September 28, 2011

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Jbfrank / Raleigh News & Observer:
Perdue suggests suspending Congressional elections for two years — was she serious?  —  UPDATED: File this in the random-things-politicians-say file.  —  Speaking to a Cary rotary club today, N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue suggested suspending Congressional elections for two years so that Congress …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Democrats Emerge From Closet, Oppose Democracy  —  How many Democrats are National Socialists at heart?  Quite a few, I suspect, and every now and then the Democrats' totalitarian urges break through to the surface.  Thus, we have the Governor of North Carolina, Bev Perdue, suggesting that we …
Discussion: Instapundit
New York Times:
Gov. Chris Christie Keeps Political Fans Guessing  —  Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey failed to address intense speculation about his presidential ambitions Tuesday night as he delivered a foreign policy speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California.
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Jason Linkins / The Huffington Post:
Chris Christie Presidential Speculation Ends Just As Quickly As It Spiked
Discussion: Politics, Salon and AlterNet
Fox News:
Sources: Christie Definitely a ‘No’ for 2012
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
Germany slams ‘stupid’ US plans to boost EU rescue fund  —  Germany and America were on a collision course on Tuesday night over the handling of Europe's debt crisis after Berlin savaged plans to boost the EU rescue fund as a “stupid idea” and told the White House to sort out its own mess before giving gratuitous advice to others.
Discussion: Business Insider
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Daniel Howes / Detroit News:
Ford pulls its ad on bailouts  —  'Didn't take the money' boast ruffles feathers  —  For the only Detroit automaker that “didn't take the money” of the federal auto bailouts, Ford Motor Co. keeps paying a price for its comparative success and self-reliant turnaround.
Dick Morris / The Hill:
Blacks leave Obama  —  Behind the president's whining to the Black Caucus, begging them to “quit grumbling,” is a decline in his personal popularity among African-American voters that could portend catastrophe for his fading reelection chances.  —  According to a Washington Post/ABC News survey …
Kevin Gosztola / Firedoglake:
Why Establishment Media & the Power Elite Loathe Occupy Wall Street  —  Straw Poll on Direct Action (photo: Collin David Anderson)  —  Over the past ten days, hundreds of people have occupied Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan in New York as part of Occupy Wall Street.
Discussion: NPR, Jesus' General and The Raw Story
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Edward Schumacher-Matos / NPR:
Newsworthy? Determining the Importance of Protests on Wall Street
Discussion: Wonkette and Concurring Opinions
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
O-bummer!  MTV tunes out prez campaign  —  President Obama's re-election campaign wants to connect with young Americans and reached out recently to MTV for help — but the cable network turned them down, sources tell The Post.  —  The president's Get Out the Vote campaign, run by Buffy Wicks …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Mediaite and Don Surber
Financial Times:
Split opens over Greek bail-out terms  —  By Peter Spiegel in Brussels and Quentin Peel in Berlin  —  A split has opened in the eurozone over the terms of Greece's second €109bn bail-out with as many as seven of the bloc's 17 members arguing for private creditors to swallow a bigger writedown …
Timothy R. Homan / Bloomberg:
Obama Jobs Plan May Prevent 2012 Recession  —  President Barack Obama's $447 billion jobs plan would help avoid a return to recession by maintaining growth and pushing down the unemployment rate next year, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg News.  —  The legislation …
Discussion: The Politico
America Live / Fox News Insider:
Megyn Kelly Responds to ‘The View’ Co-Host Joy Behar's Interview With VP Joe Biden on “Boo-ing” in Fox News/Google Debate After Gay Soldier Asks Question  —  On Tuesday's episode of the talk show “The View,” co-host Joy Behar asked guest Vice President Joe Biden about “booing” …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid playing for leverage with jobs bill  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has made it clear that he will not schedule a vote on President Obama's jobs package until after the upper chamber moves a China currency bill that the administration does not support.
Jason Horowitz / Washington Post:
For David Plouffe, a top Obama adviser, a new strategy and old doubts  —  View Photo Gallery —  President Obama's reelection campaign and DNC together raised $86 million in the second quarter of 2011.  Outside of fundraising, the president is ramping up support for his reelection …
Discussion: Eschaton and The Page
Beth Reinhard / NationalJournal.com:
Perry's Not the Only GOP Star to Support Tuition Breaks for Illegal Immigrants' Kids  —  GOP immigration debate shows rift between party establishment and conservative grassroots.  —  Ex-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush defended Texas Gov. Rick Perry's policy for children of illegal immigrants.
Wall Street Journal:
As Federal Crime List Grows, Threshold of Guilt Declines  —  For centuries, a bedrock principle of criminal law has held that people must know they are doing something wrong before they can be found guilty.  The concept is known as mens rea, Latin for a “guilty mind.”
Kevinliptak / CNN:
CNN Poll: Trust in government at all time low  —  Washington (CNN) - The public's trust in the federal government has dropped to an all-time low, according to a new national survey.  —  A CNN/ORC International Poll released Wednesday morning indicates that only 15 percent of Americans …
Discussion: The Politico
Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Palin sends more mixed signals  —  Sarah Palin, as often, sent ambivalent signals in her interview on Fox News last night.  —  The clip that everyone is buzzing about last night and this morning as a sign that she's leaning against a run: … I say “ambivalent signals” because …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Even Those Cleared of Crimes Can Stay on F.B.I.'s Watch List  —  WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is permitted to include people on the government's terrorist watch list even if they have been acquitted of terrorism-related offenses or the charges are dropped, according to newly released documents.
Discussion: The Politico
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House GOP wants to cash out dollar bill  —  Several House Republicans have introduced legislation to retire the dollar bill and replace it with a mandated dollar coin.  A couple of senators, however, have introduced a competing measure to protect the paper dollar from, as they say, the “unpopular one dollar coin.”
Mary Clare Jalonick / The Huffington Post:
Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak Is The Deadliest In A Decade; 16 Dead So Far … WASHINGTON — Health officials say as many as 16 people have died from possible listeria illnesses traced to Colorado cantaloupes, the deadliest food outbreak in more than a decade.
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Rights Collide as Town Clerk Sidesteps Role in Gay Marriages  —  LEDYARD, N.Y. — Rose Marie Belforti is a 57-year-old cheese maker, the elected town clerk in this sprawling Finger Lakes farming community and a self-described Bible-believing Christian.  She believes that God has condemned homosexuality …
Discussion: Joe. My. God.
WCVB-TV:
Protesters Greet Former Defense Secretary  —  1 Arrest Made At Old Meeting House Event  —  BOSTON — Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld got a rude welcome in Boston Monday night as he promoted his new book.  —  Several protesters tried to disrupt a forum with Rumsfeld …
Discussion: Examiner and Crooks and Liars
Brad Friedman / Salon:
Diebold voting machines can be hacked by remote control  —  Exclusive: A laboratory shows how an e-voting machine used by a third of all voters can be easily manipulated  —  It could be one of the most disturbing e-voting machine hacks to date.  —  Voting machines used by as many as a quarter …
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Europe Nears Accord on Bailout That May Be Inadequate  —  PARIS — Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, finds herself once again in the politically perilous position of balancing the future of Europe and the common currency against a German public that is unhappy at the price their country will have to pay.
Discussion: AMERICAN FUTURE
 
 
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Julian Pecquet / Healthwatch:
Insurance costs spike, opening new Republican attacks on health law
Paul Krugman:
Does Economics Still Progress?
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Al Goodman / CNN:
Police in Spain arrest 5 suspected of financing terrorists
Discussion: Jihad Watch and The Jawa Report
Los Angeles Times:
‘Ben-Hur’ to get belated 50th-anniversary release on disc
Discussion: Power Line and Big Hollywood
Martin Crutsinger / Associated Press:
Report: Consumers spent less, earned less in 2010
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Perry's phony attack ad on changes to Romney's book
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and GOP 12
David Nir / Daily Kos:
Daily Kos/SEIU State of the Nation Poll: Huge support for Buffett Rule
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
The NRA's self-parody  —  It can't be easy for the National Rifle Association right now.
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Mother Jones
Blue Texan / Firedoglake:
Billionaire Owner of Washington Wizards Wants Obama to Stop Calling Him Rich
Roger Ailes / The Daily Beast:
Why Herman Cain Is Angry
Reason:
Elizabeth Warren's Voodoo Economics
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Hoover Institution:
Obama's Jobs Bill: Read It and Weep
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Rick Perry's Revisionist Take On The Original Tea Party
 

 
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