Isaiah J. Poole, "Message to Obama: Go Bold on Jobs or Go Down In Defeat", Campaign for America's Future, yesterday.
....Obama is failing to communicate a compelling economic agenda for change. The Tuesday night town hall debate may be the president's last chance to position himself as the change agent that the voters demand. And the key to doing that is convincing voters that it is he, not Republican challenger Mitt Romney, who will move the country toward a full-employment economy.
Toward the end, when his opponent's adrenaline rush seemed to ebb a little, Ryan scored some more points. In a closing statement that was clearly better than Biden's, Ryan succinctly laid out the Republicans' central message: "This is not what a real recovery looks like. You deserve better. Mitt Romney and I want to earn your support."
Once the Bush tax cuts expire, there's no more bargain to be made. In objective budget terms, that's not a bad thing—there's no actual problem that a grand bargain would solve. But the pursuit of the grand bargain for its own sake has become very important to a lot of people and Peterson's succeeded in turning it into a mid-sized industry in DC. So the pursuit will continue.
Today’s job numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that 114,000 jobs were added in September and the unemployment rate dropped significantly to 7.8 percent.
“I’m going to do the same strategy that Obama took,” Stewart said in a live appearance today on “Good Morning America.” “It’s the rope-a-dope but instead of letting your opponent punch himself out, you just get beat up.”
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“When I’m done with O’Reilly, he’ll convert to Judaism,” Stewart said. “I will shut him down. This guy is going down.”
Eric Wasson and Bernie Becker, The Hill, last night and updated this morning.
Democratic and Republican leaders in the Senate on Tuesday sought to distance themselves from deficit talks being held by a small, bipartisan group of lawmakers [Gang of Eight].
The swift pushback, delivered by aides, came after The New York Times reported in a front-page, above-the-fold story that Senate leaders were closing in on a deal to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff.”
Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News, The Ticket, about an hour ago
Tim Pawlenty quit as co-chair of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign on Thursday to become one of Wall Street's top lobbyists in Washington. Pawlenty, a former governor of Minnesota, will lead the Financial Services Roundtable.
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"While I regret he cannot continue as co-chair of my campaign, his new position advancing the integrity of our financial system is vital to the future of our country," Romney said. "I congratulate him."
Nobody's really talking about this slice of the pie, but Mitt Romney's "47%" who pay no federal income tax include several thousand of the highest-income households in the country.
Dana Hughes, ABC OTUS News, 15 hours ago. She has Hillary saying the following:
Secretary Clinton delivered a powerful and personal speech about religion at an Eid ul-Fitr reception, marking the end of the Muslim holiday of Ramadan. The speech, at times, was a direct response to the attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions in the Middle East, and the deaths of four diplomats at the hands of militants in Libya.
Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future blogsite, yesterday.
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With a few selected phrases, President Obama and former President Clinton appeared to endorse this tiny faction's recovery-crushing austerity approach last week in Charlotte. But the rest of their speeches, along with others given at the convention, were a strong rejection of the privately-authored set of policy proposals known as "Simpson-Bowles."
Published today at Democracy Corps' website. A graph and lots of links to data at this article and site for those interested.
This is a close presidential race where President Obama and the Democrats still need a good convention to get momentum and define the choice in the election to lock in their 3- or 4-point lead. In our view, that is very likely.
