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10:35 AM ET, September 6, 2011

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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Fox Doctors Hoffa Speech To Fabricate Call For Violence  —  Right-wing bloggers misled by dishonest Fox News video editing are attacking Teamsters President James Hoffa, Jr. for supposedly urging violence against Tea Party activists during a Labor Day speech.
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Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
Wasserman Schultz attacks Fox, ducks Hoffa  —  In a heated exchanged, Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz repeatedly ducked questions on “Fox and Friends” Tuesday about Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa's call for workers to combat the tea party and “take these son-of-a-bitches out.”
Mary Bruce / Politics:
White House Declines To Comment On Union Leader's Anti-Tea Party Rhetoric At Labor Day Rally  —  Despite President Obama's repeated claims to change the tone in Washington, the White House had no comment this afternoon after Teamsters Union leader James Hoffa, speaking at an event before President Obama …
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Hoffa Threatens GOP At Obama Event: “Take These Son Of Bitches Out”  —  Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa had some profane, combative words for Republicans while warming up the crowd for President Obama in Detroit, Michigan on Monday.  “We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers.
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Teamsters President: ‘No Regrets’ After Fiery Speech Draws Right-Wing Criticism  —  Teamsters union president James Hoffa would say it all again if he could, he told TPM Monday.  —  Hoffa riled up Fox News and the right wing Monday with a Labor Day speech in Detroit in which he called Republican members …
Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Welcome, Union Brothers and Sisters  —  In my speech on Saturday in Iowa, I said: “Between bailouts for Wall Street cronies and stimulus projects for union bosses' security and ‘green energy’ giveaways, [Barack Obama] took care of his friends.  And now they're on course to raise a billion dollars …
Toby Harnden / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Will Barack Obama condemn Joe Biden and Jimmy Hoffa for calling Republicans ‘barbarians’ and ‘son of a bitches’
Robert Costa / National Review:
For Bachmann, Rollins ‘Kind of a Yoda’  —  Columbia, S.C. — Sources close to Rep. Michele Bachmann tell National Review Online that the Minnesota Republican has known for days that Ed Rollins, her campaign manager, would be stepping down from that post.  Rollins reportedly spoke with Bachmann …
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Bachmann turnover drives questions
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The Monday Fix  —  Michele Bachmann struggles to maintain momentum …
Jon Cohen / Washington Post:
Obama ratings sink to new lows as hope fades  —  Public pessimism about the direction of the country has jumped to its highest level in nearly three years, erasing the sense of hope that followed President Obama's inauguration and pushing his approval ratings to a record low, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
World Ends Today; Markets to Close Early?  —  The news out of Europe yesterday and this morning somehow puts me in mind of the long opening sequence in the John Landis feature film rendering of The Twilight Zone, in which Dan Ackroyd says to Albert Brooks, “You want to see something really scary?”
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Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml:
Bring Out Your Dead - UBS Quantifies Costs Of Euro Break Up, Warns Of Collapse Of Banking System And Civil War
Discussion: Reuters and Business Insider
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Battleground Poll: Obama approval rating down amid deep economic fears  —  The debt-limit showdown and the stalled economy have tarnished President Barack Obama's standing with voters and dampened their optimism about America's future, with nearly three out of four voters now saying the country …
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Jonathan Weisman / Wall Street Journal:
Voter Discontent Deepens Ahead of Obama Jobs Plan
Discussion: MarketBeat
JSOnline:
Tammy Baldwin enters race for open Senate seat  —  By Bill Glauber of the Journal Sentinel  —  Madison - U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin of Madison announced Tuesday that she is entering the 2012 race to succeed retiring Democratic U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl.  —  Baldwin is the first Democrat in the field …
Discussion: The Politico
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Michael O'Brien / Ballot Box:
Rep. Baldwin running for Senate in Wis.
Discussion: CNN
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
In Jobs Data, “Surprises” Mean Bad News  —  Friday's jobs report was suggestive of an economy at stall speed.  The United States neither added or subtracted jobs in August, according to the initial estimates from government's establishment survey.  The numbers hadn't been good before …
Discussion: Business Insider
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Leak Offers Look at Efforts by U.S. to Spy on Israel  —  WASHINGTON — When Shamai K. Leibowitz, an F.B.I. translator, was sentenced to 20 months in prison last year for leaking classified information to a blogger, prosecutors revealed little about the case.  They identified the blogger in court papers only as “Recipient A.”
Shawn Millerick / New Hampshire Journal:
EXCLUSIVE: Palin's surprise visit delights bride and groom  —  On the eve of Sarah Palin's speech before the Tea Party Express in New Hampshire, the former Alaska Governor shocked diners and delighted wedding guests by making an unannounced visit to The Puritan Backroom restaurant for some of their famous chicken fingers.
Discussion: Don Surber
Dan Hirschhorn / The Politico:
Ron Paul to attack Rick Perry in new ad  —  Ron Paul is taking on Rick Perry in a new television ad blasting the Texas governor for for supporting Al Gore's 1988 presidential campaign, POLITICO has learned.  —  The 60-second spot, backed by a six-figure ad buy — the first negative ad attacking Perry …
Discussion: GOP 12 and TPMDC
A. G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
Courts Put the Brakes on Agenda of G.O.P.  —  KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Ever since the elections last fall, the few surviving Democrats in Kansas hardly qualify as speed bumps for conservative legislation.  The new governor, Sam Brownback, is a Republican and, even if he were not …
Larry J. Sabato / Wall Street Journal:
The 2012 Election Will Come Down to Seven States  —  National polls are nice, but Electoral College math is what matters.  —  Straw polls, real polls, debates, caucuses, primaries—that's the public side of presidential campaigns 14 months before Election Day.
Discussion: American Power and National Review
 
 
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