- Some Senate Dems join GOP threats to vote against the debt limit increase without accompanying deficit reduction measures.
- Those with reelection campaigns looming are talking about it a lot.
- Obama visits storm ravaged south.
- Pawlenty, who needs the profile boost, confirms he’ll attend the emptying first presidential debate.
- The Nevada special election to fill Dean Heller’s House seat could be an interesting bellwether.
- Ex-Obama staffers Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney launch twin outside money groups based on the model of American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS — one will accept uncapped donations from undisclosed donors. They’re shooting for $100 million raised this cycle and stepping all over Dem complaints last year that Citizens United undermines democracy.
- Overshadowed a bit by yesterday’s GDP news, but unemployment filings for the week hit a three-month high.
- The U.S. is spending relatively little on infrastructure.
- How Trump got out of Vietnam service.
- Peter Orszag gets Ben Stein fired.
- And Condi Rice does 30 Rock.