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Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:24:36 -0500 09/07/2010/00/00/00 Balz & Cohen, Washington Post
Republicans are heading into the final weeks of the midterm campaign with the political climate highly in their favor, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Americans are increasingly frustrated by a lack of economic progress, deeply dissatisfied with the federal government and critical of President Obama's leadership.For the first time in more than four years, Republicans run about evenly with Democrats on the basic question of which party they trust to handle the nation's biggest problems. Among registered voters, 40 percent say they have more confidence in Democrats...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/07/gop_makes_gains_ahead_of_midterms_241178.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/07/AR2010090700007.html?hpid=topnewshttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/07/AR2010090700007.html?hpid=topnews 100241178 AM Update Balz & Cohen, Washington Post 38368 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:57:59 -0500 09/07/2010/00/00/00 Peter Orszag, New York Times
The nation faces a nasty dual deficit problem: a painful jobs deficit in the near term and an unsustainable budget deficit over the medium and long term. This month, the Senate will be debating an issue with significant implications for both — what to do about the Bush-era tax cuts scheduled to expire at the end of the year. In the face of the dueling deficits, the best approach is a compromise: extend the tax cuts for two years and then end them altogether. Ideally only the middle-class tax cuts would be continued for now. Getting a deal in Congress, though, may require keeping...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/07/one_nation_two_deficits_241170.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/opinion/07orszag.html?ref=opinionhttp://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/opinion/07orszag.xml?ref=opinion 100241170 AM Update Peter Orszag, New York Times Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:00:23 -0500 09/07/2010/00/00/00 Fred Barnes, WSJ
On June 17, the Obama administration proclaimed "Recovery Summer." This was done with considerable fanfare, including the announcement that President Obama and Vice President Biden would tour Recovery Act sites"”ones funded by the $814 billion "stimulus""”in full expectation the projects would contribute mightily to accelerated economic growth and job creation.At the time, I was in Missouri, reporting on the campaign for the state's open Senate seat. As luck would have it, the candidate I was traveling with, Republican Roy Blunt,...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/07/gap_between_washington_amp_america_has_widened_241176.htmlhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704206804575467900196619676.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTophttp://mobile2.wsj.com/device/article.php?mid=1&CALL_URL=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704206804575467900196619676.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop 100241176 AM Update Fred Barnes, WSJ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:12:29 -0500 09/07/2010/00/00/00 Richard Cohen, Washington Post
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/07/obamas_shrinking_presidency.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/07/obamas_shrinking_presidency.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/07/obamas_undefined_presidency_107030.html 200241164 AM Update Richard Cohen, Washington Post Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:12:07 -0500 09/07/2010/00/00/00 Byron York, Washington Examiner
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/07/too_late_for_dems_to_turn_it_around_241194.htmlhttp://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obama_s-_pivot_-to-the-economy-comes-far-too-late-758971-102304584.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obama_s-_pivot_-to-the-economy-comes-far-too-late-758971-102304584.html 100241194 AM Update Byron York, Washington Examiner Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:34:43 -0500 09/07/2010/00/00/00 John Nichols, The Nation
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/07/smart_stimulus_will_fix_unemployment_241187.htmlhttp://www.thenation.com/blog/154518/right-response-unemployment-smart-stimulus-spendinghttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.thenation.com/blog/154518/right-response-unemployment-smart-stimulus-spending 100241187 AM Update John Nichols, The Nation Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:36:57 -0500 09/07/2010/00/00/00 Monica Davey, New York Times
NAPERVILLE, Ill. — From a tiny booth at a festival here, a radio station host gave Representative Mark Steven Kirk, the Republican candidate for Senate, a moment to make his pitch between plugs for free massages and the corn dogs being sold a few booths away. Representative Mark Kirk, a Republican, is running for the senate seat once held by President Barack Obama. More Photos » The latest on President Obama, his administration and other news from Washington and around the nation. Join the discussion. “I’m the candidate who...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/07/obama039s_old_seat_up_for_grabs_241188.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/us/politics/07illinois.html?ref=politicshttp://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/us/politics/07illinois.xml?ref=politics 100241188 AM Update Monica Davey, New York Times Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:55:36 -0500 09/07/2010/00/00/00 Karen Tumulty, Washington Post
MILWAUKEE - Democrats in Congress are no longer asking themselves whether this is going to be a bad election year for them and their party. They are asking whether it is going to be a disaster. The answer will probably be found in states such as Wisconsin, one of a growing number of spots on the map where Democrats accustomed to winning reelection with ease - including Sen. Russell Feingold - are unexpectedly in trouble. The GOP pushed deep into Democratic-held territory over the summer, to the point where the party is well within range of picking up the 39 seats it would need to take...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/07/wisconsin_an_unlikely_battleground_241179.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/06/AR2010090602580.html?hpid=topnewshttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/06/AR2010090602580.html?hpid=topnews 100241179 AM Update Karen Tumulty, Washington Post Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:43:19 -0500 09/07/2010/00/00/00 Steve Forbes, Forbes
The U.S. has undergone three profound periods of pessimism during the past century--the Great Depression of the 1930s, the terrible inflation of the 1970s and the economic crisis today--when Americans have been weighed down by deep doubts about their future progress and with concerns that the expanding opportunities they've come to expect are receding for themselves and their offspring. Yet, once major policy changes were made after both the Depression and the Great Inflation, the country bounced back vigorously. Government policy mistakes bring on crises; the correction of those...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/07/bad_economic_medicine_begets_bad_economic_times_241192.htmlhttp://www.forbes.com/global/2010/0913/opinions-steve-forbes-fact-comment-bad-medicine-bad-economy.html 100241192 AM Update Steve Forbes, Forbes Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:40:18 -0500 09/07/2010/00/00/00 John Judis, The New Republic
The terms “recession” and “depression” were once used to suggest that a downturn was not as bad as a “panic” or “crisis.” In fact, for the first years of his presidency, Herbert Hoover chose to refer to the downturn as a “depression” in an effort to convey that what the country was experiencing was just a temporary indentation. Only in 1931 did Hoover begin to speak of a “Great Depression.”Our current downturn has also been plagued by word games. Faced with the fear that the...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/07/you_say_recession_i_say_depression_241191.htmlhttp://www.tnr.com/article/economy/77427/economic-crisis-recession-depressionhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.tnr.com/article/economy/77427/economic-crisis-recession-depression 100241191 AM Update John Judis, The New Republic Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:53:44 -0500 09/07/2010/00/00/00 David Brooks, New York Times
Maybe the first decade of the 21st century will come to be known as the great age of headroom. During those years, new houses had great rooms with 20-foot ceilings and entire new art forms had to be invented to fill the acres of empty overhead wall space. David Brooks David Brooks and Gail Collins talk between columns. People bought bulbous vehicles like Hummers and Suburbans. The rule was, The Smaller the Woman, the Bigger the Car — so you would see a 90-pound lady in tennis whites driving a 4-ton truck with enough headroom to allow her to drive with her...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/07/the_gospel_of_wealth_241168.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/opinion/07brooks.html?ref=opinionhttp://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/opinion/07brooks.xml?ref=opinion 100241168 AM Update David Brooks, New York Times Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:20:51 -0500 09/07/2010/00/00/00 Richard Trumka, AOL News
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President Barack Obama boldly proclaims, "The buck stops here!" But, whenever his policies are criticized, he acts as if the buck stopped with George W. Bush. The party line that we are likely to be hearing from now until the November elections is that Obama "inherited" the big federal budget deficits and that he has to "clean up the mess" left in the economy by the Republicans. This may convince those who want to be convinced, but it will not stand up under scrutiny. Receive news alertsNo President of the United States can create either a budget deficit or a...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/07/political_fables_107026.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/07/political_fables_107026.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/printpage/?url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/07/political_fables_107026.html 200241166 AM Update Thomas Sowell, RealClearPolitics Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:56:24 -0500 09/07/2010/00/00/00 Peter Beinart, The Daily Beast
by Peter Beinart Info Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, is now available from HarperCollins. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.Enter your email address:Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas:Message:Enter your email address:Enter the...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/07/obama039s_foreign_policy_has_failed_241193.htmlhttp://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-09-06/obamas-foreign-policy-fails-on-afghanistan-israel/?cid=bs:archive11http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-09-06/obamas-foreign-policy-fails-on-afghanistan-israel/?cid=bs:archive11 100241193 AM Update Peter Beinart, The Daily Beast Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:46:59 -0500 09/07/2010/00/00/00 Anne Applebaum, Slate
AGIOS NIKOLAOS, CRETE, Greece"”A handful of Estonians and a Pole are sitting around a Greek taverna, telling stories. There are some jokes about the good life the Greeks lead"”all that vacation time, and the Germans pay for it! There are some anecdotes about the way time seems to work differently here, about how things take longer. One regales the others with tales of the Greek real-estate market. The thing to remember, he says, is that all houses have two prices: the "official" price and the "real" price. You pay taxes on the official...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/07/a_tale_of_two_europes_241177.htmlhttp://www.slate.com/id/2266155/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.slate.com/id/2266155/ 100241177 AM Update Anne Applebaum, Slate Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:17:31 -0500 09/07/2010/00/00/00 Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/07/time_to_sweep_economists_off_thrones_241195.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/93d9ff2a-b9e1-11df-8804-00144feabdc0.htmlhttp://m.ft.com/cms/s/0/93d9ff2a-b9e1-11df-8804-00144feabdc0.html 100241195 AM Update Gideon Rachman, Financial Times Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:27:00 -0500 09/07/2010/00/00/00 Hugh Hewitt, DC Examiner
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/07/interests_of_younger_older_teachers_clash_241186.htmlhttp://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Interests-of-younger_-older-teachers-clash-in-November-752897-102298454.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Interests-of-younger_-older-teachers-clash-in-November-752897-102298454.html 100241186 AM Update Hugh Hewitt, DC Examiner http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/07/obama039s_economic_proposals_have_flopped_241175.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703444804575071281687927918.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop http://mobile2.wsj.com/device/article.php?mid=1&CALL_URL=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703444804575071281687927918.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop 100241175 Editorials Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:45:06 -0500 Wall Street Journal http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/07/a_necessary_moratorium_241171.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/opinion/07tue1.html?ref=opinion http://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/opinion/07tue1.xml?ref=opinion 100241171 Editorials Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:58:40 -0500 New York Times http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/07/a_labor_day_marked_by_public_discontent_241182.html http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/sep/06/a-labor-day-marked-by-public-discontent/ http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/sep/06/a-labor-day-marked-by-public-discontent/ 100241182 Editorials Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:16:08 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/07/vladimir_putin039s_valdai_vision_241196.html http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2010/09/putin_valdai http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2010/09/putin_valdai 100241196 Editorials Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:20:14 -0500 The Economist http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/06/boehner_balances_gop_factions_241159.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/politics/2010/Sep/06/speaker_in_waiting_boehner_balances_gop_factions.html http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/politics/2010/Sep/06/speaker_in_waiting_boehner_balances_gop_factions.html 100241159 Politics and Election News Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:53:14 -0500 Associated Press http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/06/house_democrats_urged_to_aid_colleagues_241158.html http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/41797.html http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/41797.html 100241158 Politics and Election News Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:52:32 -0500 Politico http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/06/large_war_chests_not_enough_to_win_this_year_241161.html http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/117295-large-campaign-war-chests-dont-mean-as-much-as-they-used-to http://mobile.thehill.com/homenews/campaign/117295-large-campaign-war-chests-dont-mean-as-much-as-they-used-to 100241161 Politics and Election News Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:54:33 -0500 The Hill http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/06/congressional_charities_pulling_in_corporate_cash_241160.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/06/us/politics/06charity.html http://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/09/06/us/politics/06charity.xml 100241160 Politics and Election News Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:53:51 -0500 New York Times