Morning Must Reads: Survey

By Adam Sorensen | @adamsorensen | August 30, 2011 | +

The scope of Obama’s upcoming stimulus proposal remains unclear.
Alan Krueger, the new White House Council of Economic Advisers chair, may be better equipped to offer small bore creativity than a grand design to increase demand.
A quick survey of Krueger’s academic work.
The White House distributes talking points for 9/11′s 10th anniversary.
Peter Kaplan’s New York essay is not a bad place to start the decennial retrospective.
Rick Perry is out front in another national poll.
He’s returned to calling Social Security a “Ponzi scheme” and recommending his book on the trail.
Not a conversation Mitt Romney should be having:

It’s not accurate, Romney said, simply. The application he made, two years ago, was to double the living space by turning one story into two. The “quadrupling’’ was a measurement of added nonliving space, including a basement and garage.

Matt Ygelsias imagines Gore’s presidency.
With some time out of the public eye, health reform becomes less polarizing, but not any more popular.
Kentucky’s Democratic governor brags, “we reduced the number of state workers to the smallest level in almost 40 years.”
And Bachmann’s name fools Jewish donors. (C’mon, double n?)

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