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• Dems want Obama's job speech to contrast with GOP (AP)
• Palin fuels presidential fire, but at what cost? (AP)
• Huntsman sets high expectations amid turbulence (AP)
• GOP's Bachmann touts jobs policy on return to Iowa (AP)
• NH GOP leaders ready to vote on ousting chairman (AP)
• Huntsman offers tax, trade plan to create jobs (AP)
• W.H. furious over speech delay (Politico)
• W.H.: Send us your petitions (Politico)
• 9 companies recall fuel gel for firepots (AP)
• A list of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims (AP)
• White House sharply cuts growth forecast (Reuters)
• Curds, Brats, Beer, Polka, Unions! The Homegrown Revolution in Wisconsin (The Nation)
• Nader proposes new model to challenge Obama, threatens to throw primary process into chaos (Daily Caller)
• Buddy Roemer threatens China with bear-killing analogy (Daily Caller)
• Bachmann to Perry: I’m the ‘honest conservative’ in the race (The Ticket)
• Did Rep. Andre Carson's Tea Party Racism Quote Speak the Truth? (ContributorNetwork)

Dems want Obama's job speech to contrast with GOP (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 03:01 PM PDT AP - The tiff over the timing of President Barack Obama's jobs speech to Congress offers little hope that Republicans and the White House will now find common ground on how to reduce the nation's painfully high unemployment. In fact, some Democrats say it's time Obama stopped trying so hard to negotiate.

Palin fuels presidential fire, but at what cost? (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:14 AM PDT AP - Sarah Palin soon will end the will-she-or-won't-she presidential speculation that has trailed her for two years — and that she has fueled with abandon, perhaps to the detriment of her potential candidacy.

Huntsman sets high expectations amid turbulence (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 11:17 AM PDT AP - Brushing off bad poll numbers, presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman on Thursday predicted that he'll win New Hampshire's Republican primary — even as he acknowledged that his campaign manager for the state had been fired.

GOP's Bachmann touts jobs policy on return to Iowa (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 07:07 PM PDT AP - Presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann pivoted her focus to jobs and the economy Wednesday during her first campaign appearance in Iowa since winning the leadoff caucus state's Republican straw poll earlier this month.

NH GOP leaders ready to vote on ousting chairman (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 11:22 AM PDT AP - New Hampshire Republicans are getting ready to vote on removing their state party chairman.

Huntsman offers tax, trade plan to create jobs (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 07:02 PM PDT AP - Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman called Wednesday for sweeping tax changes and new trade agreements to help revitalize the nation's manufacturing sector and create jobs.

W.H. furious over speech delay (Politico) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 01:42 PM PDT Politico - Simon says: White House says GOP will do anything “to muck us up.”

W.H.: Send us your petitions (Politico) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:41 PM PDT Politico - The administration promises to consider online petitions that get at least 5,000 supporters.

9 companies recall fuel gel for firepots (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 07:56 AM PDT AP - Nine companies are recalling about 2 million bottles and jugs of the gel fuel used in outdoor patio decorations known as firepots because of the risk of serious burns.

A list of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:06 PM PDT AP - Gregory Kamal Bruno Wachtler, 25, New York City, Fred Alger Management, Inc., World Trade Center.

White House sharply cuts growth forecast (Reuters) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 02:48 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama sharply cut estimates on Thursday for U.S. economic growth, underscoring the difficult challenge he faces in spurring a stronger recovery and creating more jobs.

Curds, Brats, Beer, Polka, Unions! The Homegrown Revolution in Wisconsin (The Nation) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 11:31 AM PDT The Nation - The Nation --    “My family comes from Oconomowoc and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, my dad from the tradition of    Joseph McCarthy and my mom from that of Robert La Follette, so I have been well educated    in the tensions between reactionary and progressive populism, the poles of our politics down    to thepresent.

Nader proposes new model to challenge Obama, threatens to throw primary process into chaos (Daily Caller) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 01:45 PM PDT Daily Caller - Consumer advocate Ralph Nader, whose third-party presidential candidacy some Democrats credited with handing the 2000 election to George W. Bush, has a new model for challenging President Obama from the left in 2012.Â

Buddy Roemer threatens China with bear-killing analogy (Daily Caller) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 01:00 PM PDT Daily Caller - On Thursday, former Louisiana governor and long-shot Republican presidential contender Buddy Roemer warned about the economic threat to America from China — while standing in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Bachmann to Perry: I’m the ‘honest conservative’ in the race (The Ticket) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 02:29 PM PDT The Ticket - Michele Bachmann's allies are telling South Carolina voters that Rick Perry is not an "honest conservative." A super PAC connected to Bachmann, the Republican presidential candidate and representative from Minnesota, has announced its plans to air an ad in the the second-in-the-nation primary state of South Carolina that questions the tea party credentials of Perry, [...]

Did Rep. Andre Carson's Tea Party Racism Quote Speak the Truth? (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:32 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.) made some incendiary remarks about the tea party in Congress. Specifically, he said ultra-conservatives want disadvantaged Americans "hanging on a tree." Carson is an African American and the reference was to the brutal way whites killed blacks by lynching them.

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