Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/10/03/obama_crony_company_got_special_help_on_loan_264661.html

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Standing before a throng of cameras after his high-profile hearing on Muslim radicalization, Rep. Peter T, King (R-N.Y.) once again attacked major Muslim American organizations and their leaders, whom King described as soft on extremism.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/11/AR2011031105903.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Another week passes in the interminable 2012 presidential campaign, and the GOP faithful continue to resemble a girl in middle school who falls in-and-out of love on a weekly basis.

With apologies to fans of the great Disney Channel program "Phineas and Ferb", it looks like the GOP is coming to grips with the fact that everything is not better with Perry.

And while there wasn't a ton of GOP primary data to mine this week, the data that did get released this week was not pretty for the guy that, less than a month ago, looked like he was going to run away with the race.

In other polling news, the president continued to have weak job numbers...and a lead over the entirety of the Republican field (even Rasmussen said so!). Downballot, it was a pretty data-heavy week, but it was also the kind of week which fails to allow for easy conclusions. Anyone preaching Republican landslide or Democratic resurgence would have a hard time justifying it with this week's set of numbers.

All that (and more!) awaits you across the jump with this "holy crap, it's October, already" edition of the Weekend Digest.

Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/shI9ioeOT8o/-Daily-Kos-Elections-Weekend-Digest:-Busting-the-Perry-bubble

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by Barry Saxifrage, via the Vancouver Observer ?The year 2010 was one the worst years in world history for high-impact floods. But just three weeks into the new year, 2011 has already had an entire year’s worth of mega-floods. ? – Meteorologist Jeff Masters I spend hours a day researching what New York Times columnist [...]

Source: http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/10/02/332364/nasa-rained-so-hard-oceans-fell/

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President Barack Obama criticized Republican presidential candidates Saturday for not defending a gay American soldier who was booed by the crowd at a Republican debate last week.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44744458/ns/politics-white_house/

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Tapper says WH is not doing an 'end zone dance' over death of top terrorist

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Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/10/02/obama_don039t_run_from_class_warfare_264620.html

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Senate leaders delayed until Wednesday consideration of a bill to fund the government through Sept. 30, as Democrats accused Republicans of reneging on an agreement to stage side-by-side votes on two competing plans to cut spending.

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As Harry Reid prepares for a vote on legislation addressing Chinese currency manipulation, the Club for Growth is opposing it?and letting legislators and presidential candidates know that support for the bill will go on their permanent record (in the form of the CfG's legislative scorecard).

"Sherrod Brown?s bill would result in higher costs to American consumers, and would be devastating to economic growth," Club for Growth President Chris Chocola said in a statement. "Starting a trade war with China will have no winners and many losers. The Club for Growth instead urges Congress to pass pro-growth legislation that will reduce the cost of doing business so we can create more jobs here."

I don't know about you, but when it comes down to Sherrod Brown versus the Club for Growth, I know who I side with.

In a recent letter to the Senate, Scott Paul of the Alliance for American Manufacturing (PDF) wrote that "Taking action to remove protectionist market distortions would not result in a 'trade war,' but failing to act will mean that the U.S. has accepted 'trade surrender.'" He also pointed to recent history, which:

...shows that China only acts when presented with the threat of real consequences. Faced with a similar situation in 2005, the U.S. Senate acted decisively and passed bipartisan legislation introduced by Senators Charles Schumer (NY) and Lindsey Graham (SC) by a vote of 67-33. This action prompted China to steadily appreciate its currency by 21 percent until it again resumed its peg to the dollar in July 2008.

Graham is a cosponsor of the current legislation as well, along with Richard Burr, Jeff Sessions, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins and 14 Democrats. According to Politico, the bill also "resembles language in Mitt Romney?s 160-page economic plan."

A poll sponsored by the Alliance for American Manufacturing finds strong support for legislation along these lines. However, the Club for Growth gets a lot of media attention and puts serious money into Republican candidates, and pressure from them could sway some undecided Republican senators.

Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/uYkcyA3S5nk/-Club-for-Growth-opposes-Chinacurrencybill

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