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Morning EDition: June 14, 2011

Everyone's hashing and rehashing last night's GOP debate. Well, not everyone. Everyone's either doing that or rerehashing Weiner-gate. Well,

Everyone's hashing and rehashing last night's GOP debate. Well, not everyone. Everyone's either doing that or rerehashing Weiner-gate. Well, not everyone. Some folks are bringing important stuff to light. Here's a sampling of all of the above, and don't forget to check back later for today's Outlook and Underbuzzed.

TODAY

  • Pres. Obama in Puerto Rico, does local-TV interviews.
  • ProgressiveCongress.org and the Congressional Progressive Caucus announce jobs tour.
  • Weiner's wife returns home.

BUDGET

JOBS

REGULATIONS

  • Obama's chief regulator doesn't act like a chief regulator.

UNIONS

  • Sen. Lindsey Graham vows to block Commerce nominee unless White House disavows NLRB's Boeing lawsuit.

WALL ST. / BANKS

  • JP Morgan sees record profits while community it devastated sheds 1,000 jobs.
  • HUD charges Bank of America with hindering probe of its possibly fraudulent foreclosures.

GAS AND FOOD PRICES

LOBBYING

IMMIGRATION

SECURITY STATE

OVERSIGHT OVERSIGHT

  • Leak from Rep. Darrell Issa's committee jeopardizes ongoing law-enforcement investigation.

TEA PARTY

  • Trump rally leaves local Tea Party in debt.
  • Remember how the Tea Party defended Rand Paul's thug? He's been sentenced to probation.

WISCONSIN

  • Emergency rally called for today to protest new move to rush through anti-worker bill.
  • New anti-worker push gives new fuel for recall efforts.
  • GOP's fake-Dem strategy will cost WI taxpayers almost half a million dollars.

GAY RIGHTS

GUN CONTROL

  • Vast majority of guns seized in Mexico come from US.

OBAMA 2012

  • Obama campaign worries most about Romney, Pawlenty and Huntsman.

GOP 2012

  • Fact-checking the debate claims.
  • Another fact-check for the debate.
  • Some of the relatively sane faction have sounded a lot like Obama.
  • Frum says it's Romney vs. Bachmann.
  • First Read: Debate was devoid of serious economic discussion.
  • VIDEO: Dem video mocks the silly-season comments at last night's debate.
  • Analysis: The field is pushing an economic vision sharply to the right of Bush's.
  • Analysis: For a generation, the right has said GOP economic failures justify moving further right.
  • Graphic: A word cloud of last night's debate.

MITT ROMNEY

TIM PAWLENTY

  • Pawlenty actually did awesome last night, according to Pawlenty.

MICHELE BACHMANN

  • Bachmann is in.
  • The jobs she claimed health-care reform will kill? The number is actually people who will be able to retire earlier because they don't have to keep working to cover health-care costs.
  • VIDEO: After announcing her candidacy, Bachmann posts a video announcing her candidacy.

RICK PERRY

  • Perry requests a sit-down with the WSJ, and will address NY Republicans.
  • Perry says the recession is punishment for straying from God's economic policies.

CHRIS CHRISTIE

  • NJ gov. who was once paid to lobby for school privatization is now pursuing it as governor.

ANTHONY WEINER

  • Democrats still talking about the fact that people are still talking about Weiner.
  • NY state Dem chair refuses to join chorus calling for resignation.
  • GOP slams Dems who fall into the GOP trap of returning Weiner cash.
  • Rep. McCarthy passes on rumor Weiner might resign soon.
  • House Democrats meet on the Weiner issue.
  • Dee Dee Myers: Weiner has done more to slow Democratic momentum than Republicans could.

(What I'm reading: Greg Sargent's Plum Line, Think Progress, Matt Yglesias, The Wonk Room, Talking Points MemoTPMDC, Taegan Goddard's Political Wire, the Washington Monthly, the National Journal, Ezra Klein, Politico's Playbook and Huddle, Dave Weigel, Wonkette, Firedoglake, the NYT Caucus, Daily Kos, Crooks and Liars. What Jango has me listening to: Zombie Zoo, by Tom Petty.)

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