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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Impressions of Tonight's Debate — The GOP presidential debate is coming to a close. Here are some random thoughts: — * I doubt that many people saw it. My wife wasn't able to find it on television, and finally tracked it down on the internet, when it was half done. So the impact is likely to be slight.
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Michelle Malkin and CBS News
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Datechguy / Datechguy's Blog:
Dartmouth Debate blog — The Take away line from the night comes from Herman Cain's man in the spin room. Herman Cain is driving the debate! — My take: Romney Wins Cain close second, Bachmann 3rd. Perry in trouble. Santorum didn't break out. — 9:52 p.m. Paul ignores question …
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The Politico:
Herman Cain: 'I'm going after Romney' at debate — In a radio interview just now, Herman Cain previewed his Tuesday night debate plan: “I'm going after Romney.” — “I'm not going after Perry. I don't need to go after Perry,” Cain said, per POLITICO's Juana Summers.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Cain leads in Iowa
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Fox News:
Christie to Endorse Romney Ahead of GOP Debate
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Christie slaps Perry over Jeffress Mormon comments
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Hot Air, Political Mojo, Pajamas Media, Business Insider, National Review, CNN and Daily Kos
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Tonight in New Hampshire — The latest in a series of debates …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Jim Messina broaches a provocative line — There's been at least some discussion this year about the “sabotage” question — whether Republicans are deliberately hurting the country, holding back the economy on purpose, for the express purpose of undermining the Obama presidency.
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Daily Kos, The New Republic, No More Mister Nice Blog, Booman Tribune and Political Mojo
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Associated Press:
GOP senators vote to defeat Obama's jobs bill — WASHINGTON (AP) — United against Barack Obama, Senate Republicans voted Tuesday night to kill the jobs package the president had spent weeks campaigning for across the country, a stinging loss at the hands of lawmakers opposed to stimulus-style spending …
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Balloon Juice, Booman Tribune and US Politics
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Obama's $447 billion jobs plan blocked with 50-49 Senate vote — President Obama received a slap from members of his own party Tuesday as the Senate voted 50-49 to block his $447 billion jobs package. — The jobs plan, which the president has spent much of the last month touting on a cross-country tour …
Robert Pear / New York Times:
President's Jobs Measure Is Turned Back in Key Senate Test
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Scott Wong / The Politico:
Senate passes China currency bill
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The Hill, Washington Post, Pat Dollard and CNN
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama says Senate defeat of jobs bill ‘by no means the end of this fight’
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Alan Silverleib / CNN:
Obama jobs bill loses Senate vote
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PolitickerNY, Hot Air and This Just In
ABCNEWS:
U.S. Says Iran-Tied Terror Plot in Washington, D.C. Disrupted — FBI and DEA agents have disrupted a plot to commit a “significant terrorist act in the United States” tied to Iran, federal officials told ABC News today. — The officials said the plot included the assassination …
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The United States Department of Justice:
Two Men Charged in Alleged Plot to Assassinate Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States — WASHINGTON - Two individuals have been charged in New York for their alleged participation in a plot directed by elements of the Iranian government to murder the Saudi Ambassador to the United States …
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presstv.ir:
Iran rejects US plotting accusations — Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast (file photo) — Iran has categorically rejected the US accusations that the Islamic Republic was involved in a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington, calling it a ‘prefabricated scenario.’
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Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Max Fisher / The Atlantic Online:
Would Iran Really Want to Blow Up the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S.?
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emptywheel, Global Public Square, democracyarsenal.org and Foreign Policy
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Left's Nervous Breakdown — Obama has failed, and his supporters are turning to nihilism. — The White House is “bracing for the defeat of President Obama's jobs bill,” the Hill reports. That's hardly surprising, since Republicans control the House—except that it is the Senate …
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Ari Rabin-Havt / Media Matters for America:
We Need a New System — In the Spring of 2000, my friend and former colleague Zack Exley arrived in Washington, DC, to observe the protests that had engulfed the city during the World Bank's annual meeting. Driving into Washington from the airport, out the window of his taxi he saw …
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The Huffington Post, Philly.com and Eschaton
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
About those ‘53 percent’
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Riehl World View, Daily Kos and Economix
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Cantor shifts tone on Wall Street protesters, calls frustration ‘justified’
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ThinkProgress, The Politico, Firedoglake, Sky Dancing, CNN, ABCNEWS, Connecting.the.Dots and The Hill
Adam Serwer / Political Mojo:
Conservative Pundit Says, “Get a Job Hippies!”
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Ethan Bronner / New York Times:
Israel Reaches Deal With Hamas to Free Gilad Shalit — JERUSALEM — Israel and Hamas announced an agreement on Tuesday to exchange more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli soldier held captive in Gaza for five years, a deal brokered by Egypt that seemed likely to shake …
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Boston Globe:
Police arrest scores of Occupy Boston protesters — Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino today defended the arrests of scores of Occupy Boston protesters in a section of the city's Greenway park, saying he agrees with them on the issues but they couldn't be allowed to “tie up the city.”
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Money & Company, Salon.com, Occupy Boston, The Lede, The Daily Caller and Runnin' Scared
Zombie / Pajamas Media:
Occupy L.A. Speaker: Violence will be Necessary to Achieve Our Goals — Citizen journalist Ringo captured this speaker at the Occupy Los Angeles camp a few days ago letting the cat out of the bag: After dismissing nonviolence as a dead end, he admits that for the Occupiers to achieve their goals …
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Michelle Malkin, The Gateway Pundit, The Crawdad Hole, Sister Toldjah, Urban Infidel and The Daily Caller
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Voters share blame for gridlock in Congress, Dem leader says — House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) suggested Tuesday that voters are to blame for the partisan bickering and standoffs that have defined Congress this year. — The Maryland Democrat said voters are “absolutely right” …
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Weasel Zippers and The Lonely Conservative
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama ‘heartbroken’ NBA season will be delayed — President Obama said Tuesday that he's “a little heartbroken that the NBA season is getting delayed” at a fundraiser in Orlando with Magic star Dwight Howard. — NBA commissioner David Stern announced Monday that at least the first two weeks …
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Neil W. McCabe / Human Events:
SunPower: Twice As Bad As Solyndra, Twice As Bad For Obama — Congressman's son lobbied for failing solar panel company … How did a failing California solar company, buffeted by short sellers and shareholder lawsuits, receive a $1.2 billion federal loan guarantee for a photovoltaic …
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