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6:30 PM ET, October 5, 2011

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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Russ Feingold endorses Occupy Wall Street: “This will make the Tea Party look like ... a tea party.”  —  “I'm really encouraged by what I'm seeing.  People around the country are finally organizing to stand up to the huge influence of corporations on government and our lives.
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Chuck Sudo / Chicagoist:
Board of Trade has a message for Occupy Chicago  —  Someone at the Board of Trade is getting cheeky with the Occupy Chicago protests.  This photo was taken by someone at the protests.  It shows offices at the Board of Trade Building eight stories up with “We Are The 1%” taped to the windows.
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
The four habits of highly successful social movements  —  (On Monday, I asked Rich Yeselson for his thoughts on Occupy Wall Street.  Yeselson, a research coordinator at Change to Win, is a skilled organizer and a thoughtful historian of social movements in America and Europe.
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Herman Cain On Occupy Wall Street: 'If You Don't Have A Job And You're Not Rich, Blame Yourself!'  —  Asked about the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that posted today, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain said he suspected that they were “orchestrated” to help President Obama.
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Dems rally behind ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest movement  —  Democrats are rallying behind the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, with several lawmakers endorsing the protests in New York City that have begun to spread to other cities.  —  Several liberal House lawmakers endorsed the protests Wednesday …
Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
Chicago Traders Respond To Protesters With Signs Reading ‘We Are The 1%’  —  The Occupy Wall Street movement spread to Chicago this week, where protesters have gathered outside the Chicago Board of Trade, the world's oldest options and futures trading center.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Justin Sink / Ballot Box:
Cain to protesters: 'If you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself'
Kevin Gosztola / Firedoglake:
Live Blog for #OccupyWallStreet: Day 19 — The Big March, Late Afternoon/Evening Edition
David Freedlander / PolitickerNY:
Occupy Wall Street Protesters More Popular Than Congress: Poll
Discussion: Gothamist and New York Magazine
Sarah B. Boxer / NationalJournal.com:
Romney: Wall Street Protests ‘Class Warfare’
The Politico:
Has Obama found his inner populist?
The Hill:
Dem unity, minus Obama  —  After months of squabbling, Democrats on Capitol Hill have united in recent weeks.  And in an unusual twist, they have done it in spite of President Obama.  —  House Democrats, who have helped the GOP pass controversial bills this year, drew the line on a stopgap spending bill last month.
Discussion: CNN
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Erica Werner / Associated Press:
Senate Democrats rewrite Obama's jobs bill  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are scrambling to rewrite portions of President Barack Obama's jobs bill, even as Obama tries to blame Republicans for Congress' failure to act.  —  Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell moved to call …
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Howard Dean: Tea Party ‘Not Playing With Full Deck’
Discussion: Hot Air and Mediaite
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Democrats buck Obama on jobs proposal by changing ‘pay-fors’
Discussion: ABCNEWS, CNN, TPMDC and Washington Monthly
Frazier Moore / The Huffington Post:
Roger Ailes: I Hired Sarah Palin Because She Was ‘Hot And Got Ratings’ … Fox News , Sarah Palin , Roger Ailes , Cable News , Fox News 15th Anniversary , Fox News Anniversary , Roger Ailes Sarah Palin , Roger Ailes Wolf Blitzer , Media News  —  NEW YORK — As the most powerful man in the universe …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Rep. Louie Gohmert Warns Supreme Court Justices: ‘Any President’ Could Access Your Health Records Under Reform  —  A group of Republican senators and representatives convened on the Senate Swamp this morning to present 1.6 million petition signatures “from American citizens who are urging Congress to immediately repeal Obamacare.”
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Michael W. McConnell / Wall Street Journal:
Washington Wants a Say Over Your Minister
Mj Lee / The Politico:
West to Jackson: ‘Take two!’  —  Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) has just one piece of advice for Samuel L. Jackson - focus on your film career and stop talking about politics.  —  “I think Samuel Jackson needs to pay more attention to the upcoming release of the movie ‘Avengers’ next summer and not …
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Michelle Obama jokes daughters fight over Secret Service  —  By: CNN White House Producer Alexander Mooney  —  (CNN) - Turns out the Secret Service doesn't just protect the Obamas, they also are the root of a bit of tension between the younger members of the first family.
Discussion: The Politico
Pete Kennedy / Food Freedom:
Wisconsin Judge Rules No Right to Own a Cow or Drink Its Milk  —  WI Judge to Zinniker, FTCLDF: No “Fundamental Right to Own a Cow, or Consume Its Milk... Am I Making Myself Clear?”  —  ~ David Gumpert  —  FTCLDF  —  In a decision denying basic property rights and even exceeding …
Quinnipiac University:
With Christie Out, Romney Is Back On Top Of Gop Pack, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Perry Fades As Cain Surges  —  With New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie out of the Republican presidential race, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney jumps to a 22 percent lead …
Brian Powell / Political Correction RSS:
Rep. Steve King Daydreams About The Good Ol' Days When Only Property Owners Voted  —  In a Judiciary Committee hearing on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) used his allotted time to daydream out loud about an era of American history when only male property owners were allowed to vote.
Mikerobinsonpc / RedState:
Washington Post Staff Writer Who Wrote Rick Perry Attack Piece Has Criminal Past  —  On October 1, 2011, the Washington Post's Stephanie McCrummen authored a story for publication in the Post concerning Texas Governor Perry's lease of a hunting spot with an offensive name.
Discussion: FishbowlDC and New York Magazine
Reuters:
Hungry Muppet to appear on “Sesame Street”  —  (Reuters) - A new poverty-stricken Muppet will highlight the issue of hunger struggles on an episode of “Sesame Street”, the show said in a statement on Tuesday.  —  Pink-faced Muppet Lily, whose family deals with food insecurity, will join Big Bird …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Man in the Mirror  —  The unlikely femme fatale from Jersey sashayed into a Trenton news conference and broke a lot of hearts.  (Not Snooki's or Barry's, of course.)  —  Watching Chris Christie hold forth for an hour, it's hard to know whether you want to hug him or slap him.
Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
Is CBS News Silencing Fast and Furious Reporter?  —  Yesterday, CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson told radio show host Laura Ingraham that the White House yelled and swore at her over her reporting on the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal tied to the deaths of two U.S. law enforcement agents.
Kirk Johnson / New York Times:
Farmers Strain to Hire American Workers in Place of Migrant Labor  —  OLATHE, Colo. — How can there be a labor shortage when nearly one out of every 11 people in the nation are unemployed?  —  That's the question John Harold asked himself last winter when he was trying to figure out how much help …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Hit & Run
Emily Schultheis / Ben Smith's Blog:
O'Reilly: Romney as Eisenhower  —  Many people on the right have been giving Mitt Romney a new look lately, especially in the wake of Christie's decision not to run.  —  Count Fox host Bill O'Reilly among those warming to Romney, as told last night to an incredulous Glenn Beck:
 
 
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Discussion: Hot Air and Pajamas Media
Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
The 2012 Primary's Missing Domino
The White House:
President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts
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