HERMAN CAIN Takes On Entire MSNBC Roundtable After Debate.

MSNBC, 0; Herman Cain, 10.

THE JOBS SPEECH: Long on promises; weak on substance.

DEBATES MATTER: The Washington Examiner's Conn Carroll collects pundit reaction to last night's Republican debate at the Reagan Presidential Library. While the pundits were generally supportive, I think the missed the mark on their Perry comments about Social Security and global warming. But then I'm a raging, right-wing Tea Party extremist -- who votes.

LET'S CREATE SOME NEW JOBS -- overseas. Contributions to all the wrong places?

NASA PLANNING for the possibility of an unmanned International Space Station.

IS INTEGRITY the most important quality to look for in a President?

HOUSE REPUBLICANS have a new strategy: Lay off of President Barack Obama.

Might work.

RECOVERY DOESN'T NEED TO BE IMPOSSIBLE. But it is impossible before President Obama leaves office.

HERE'S THE WHITE HOUSE SPIN on tonight's jobs speech.

• It is based on bi-partisan ideas.

• It is fully paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes and asking the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share.

• It will have an impact on job and economic growth NOW — just as soon as Congress acts.

• Every day, people in this country are working hard to meet their responsibilities. The question now is whether Washington will meet theirs.

• The time for obstruction and gridlock is over. Congress needs to put country ahead of politics.

• The American people know that the economic crisis and the deep recession weren’t created overnight and won’t be solved overnight. The economic security of the American middle class has been under attack for decades.

• That’s why President Obama believes we need to do more than just recover from this economic crisis.

• The President is rebuilding the economy the American way — based on balance, fairness and the same set of rules for everyone from Wall Street to Main Street where hard work and responsibility pay and gaming the system is penalized;

• It’s an American economy that’s built to last and creates the jobs of the future, by forcing Washington to live within its means so we can invest in small business entrepreneurs, education, and making things the world buys, not outsourcing, loopholes and reckless financial deals that put middle class security at risk.

It will be called "The American Jobs Act."

NEED ENERGY? Go fly a kite.

PLAN WOULD KEEP SMALL FORCE IN IRAQ. But why? Three thousand troops is barely enough to protect themselves.

THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE IN 4 PARTS: part 1; part 2; part 3; part 4.

WASHINGTON POST: 'Denial' is a river in Egypt.


Tom Toles cartoon (9/8/2011).

WHEN YOU'VE LOST INSTAPUNDIT, you've lost the Presidency. "I can’t find the link now, but somebody was criticizing this feature [HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA?] a while back as “juvenile.” Well, I am quite deliberately rubbing it in, as the ridiculously inflated expectations for Obama are regularly and repeatedly exposed as . . . ridiculously inflated. But what’s really juvenile is expecting that an inexperienced former community organizer could successfully execute the office of President of the United States. And if I’m peeing all over the wave of hope-and-change hype that got him into office despite his obvious unsuitability, it’s to help ensure that nothing this disastrous happens again in my lifetime. I realize that it’s painful for those who fell victim to the mass hysteria to constantly be reminded of their foolishness, but I hope it’ll be the kind of pain that results in learning. . . ."

OBAMA HAS BEEN REDUCED to a pre-game show before a football game. The game will have to be good to be worth the price of admission.

THOMAS SOWELL: Should something as serious as life and death medical issues be discussed in terms of misleading talking points?

UNCLE SAM'S IOUs can't save Social Security. Unicorns don't exist, and there isn't a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

EXCELLENT QUESTION: Why do we need a Department of Education, anyway?

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