Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Debate drama resolved - Bachmann AWOL from NH - Another Palin flap - Perry: I won't embarass you - Connecticut Gov. on Ron Paul: 'He's an idiot'
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Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:51:34 -0600

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DEBATE DRAMA RESOLVED -- 'ANOTHER PARTISAN PIE FIGHT' -- A remarkable day of political gamesmanship and finger-pointing between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner culminated in a late Wednesday evening White House statement ending the standoff surrounding the president's request to address a joint session on the same evening as the Sept. 7 GOP presidential debate. RESOLVED: The president will speak on Sept. 8, avoiding a conflict with the debate (but running up against the first game of the NFL season). "A presidential address to a joint session of Congress is usually one of Washington's more dignified and predictable events - but President Barack Obama's request to deliver a
 Sept. 7 speech quickly devolved into just another partisan pie fight...But this is 2012 Washington, where the comforting little courtesies and old-shoe rituals that once kept bickering Democrats and Republicans from immobilizing the republic have been chucked in the constant quest for news-cycle leverage," reports POLITICO's Glenn Thrush and Jonathan Allen.
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HOW THEY PLAYED IT:

AP: Obama yields to Boehner's Sept. 8 speech timing

New York Times: Obama to Move Jobs Speech After Skirmish With Boehner

Los Angeles Times: Obama, Boehner clash over timing of president's jobs speech

Washington Post: Obama jobs speech creates conflict with GOP

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Obama jobs speech up against Packers

EXCLUSIVE - HAHN GETS L.A. MAYOR'S ENDORSEMENT: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will endorse recent special election winner Rep. Janice Hahn today in her primary against fellow California Democratic Rep. Laura Richardson, providing a boost to the former L.A. city councilwoman in the incumbent vs. incumbent match-up. "Janice Hahn believes that the government can play a key role in helping to get our economy moving again," Villaraigosa says in a statement that will go out later. "That's why it was a no-brainer for me to endorse Janice, because I know she'll fight for more jobs and Los Angeles, in Congress."

***As President Obama takes on the NFL season opener, Rick Perry promises social conservatives he won't embarrass them, and Jon Huntsman offers his jobs plan, here's POLITICO's Morning Score: your daily guide to the permanent campaign.

2012 TALKER - BACHMANN AWOL FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE - POLITICO's Molly Ball reports: "Michele Bachmann's campaign all but confirmed Wednesday what New Hampshire Republicans have suspected for weeks: the Minnesota congresswoman's political calculus no longer includes the first-in-the nation-primary state. She hasn't been back to New Hampshire since her campaign kickoff two months ago. She canceled a planned visit to the Granite State after her Ames straw poll win - and began spending her time in South Carolina, Florida and Iowa instead. In fact, in the two-and-a-half weeks since the straw poll, Bachmann is the only 2012 GOP contender not to visit the Granite State... 'Iowa is our main focus right
 now, secondly is South Carolina,' Bachmann spokeswoman Alice Stewart said in an email. 'We do plan to build on our efforts in New Hampshire in due time.'"
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ANOTHER PALIN EVENT, ANOTHER SCHEDULING FIASCO - After hours of conflicting reports, sourced to Sarah Palin's camp, about whether she was preparing to back out of a weekend Iowa tea party rally, Tuesday concluded with confirmation from rally organizers that Palin would be there. "A day of frenzied confusion over Sarah Palin's upcoming trip to Iowa appeared to end where it began Wednesday: with Palin on the schedule as the keynote of Saturday's tea party rally near Des Moines...Consultants acting on Palin's behalf had threatened to cancel her appearance if Christine O'Donnell, the former Delaware Senate candidate, was also allowed to speak, according to another source involved in the event."
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PERRY TO SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES: I WON'T EMBARRASS YOU - The Texas Tribune, continuing its bid to become one of the most important media outlets in the GOP primary, reports on a gathering of uncommitted social and evangelical conservatives at the Hill Country spread of mega-donor James Leininger. "During one exchange, Perry was asked - politely but directly - to assure the group that nothing embarrassing in his personal life would emerge during the 2012 presidential campaign...I can assure you that there is nothing in my life that will embarrass you if you decide to support me for president,' Perry said."
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CONNECTICUT GOVERNOR ON RON PAUL: "HE'S AN IDIOT" - On CNN's American Morning, Connecticut Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy let it rip when asked to comment on Ron Paul's remark that FEMA gets in the way and wastes money. "'I think he's an idiot... This is a ridiculous conversation. I really don't understand what he is talking about and I'm not sure he does... For someone in Texas to be talking about FEMA being defunded really does rise to idiocy and hypocrisy. This is pure politics playing out across individuals' misery.' See the interview here:
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HUNTSMAN ROLLS OUT JOBS PLAN - 1 WEEK BEFORE OBAMA, ROMNEY - From the AP report: "Jon Huntsman called Wednesday for sweeping tax changes and new trade agreements to help revitalize the nation's manufacturing sector and create jobs... Huntsman called for eliminating taxes on capital gains and reducing the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent...His plan also drastically lowers personal income tax rates, while ending popular tax credits and deductions that affect the middle class, such as the mortgage interest deduction and child tax credit... He also pushed for new trade deals with Japan, India and Taiwan, in addition to those proposed by the Obama administration with Colombia,
 Panama and South Korea. And he called for repealing Obama's health care overhaul, 'dramatically' reining in the Environmental Protection Agency and reforming the Food and Drug Administration's 'ridiculous approval process.'
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BACHMANN ON JOBS -- In Des Moines Wednesday, 'presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann pivoted her focus to jobs and the economy Wednesday during her first campaign appearance in Iowa since winning the leadoff caucus state's Republican straw poll earlier this month...Bachmann urged the federal government to allow companies with cash holdings overseas to reinvest the money at home without paying taxes on those profits. She claims the change could quickly inject billions in investment into the U.S. economy,' writes Tom Beaumont for the AP.

EXPLAINING AMERICA TO TEXAS - "Perry's rugged Texan image can send conflicting message" - "Today's Texas has a 61-year-old face, set with long, Marlboro Man wrinkles snaking south from the eyes and north from the jawline. Up top is a full head of impossibly dark hair - Ronald Reagan dark - salted ever so slightly with gray. In many ways, Gov. Rick Perry is the iconic Texan, a self-made man whose rugged individualism has come to define his public life, for better or worse... A man with one foot propped on a hay bale, for example, may read self-sufficiency and independence to some and right-wing hick to others. One image can be endowed with different, even contradictory, meanings," writes the
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INSIDE HUNTSMAN'S HORIZON PAC FILING - The Salt Lake Tribune looks at Jon Huntsman's pre-presidential PAC and finds that supporters were raising money as early as January to lay the groundwork for a possible bid, months before Huntsman officially resigned from his job as U.S. ambassador to China. The Utah-based PAC "took in more than $2 million from January through July and spent all but $20,000 on research, raising money and consultants, many of whom went on to work for Huntsman's White House campaign...[John] Weaver, the strategist, took in $216,575 for his Network Companies. South Carolina strategist Richard Quinn pocketed $100,000."
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THE FOX PRIMARY - Fox News antagonist Media Matters tallies the stats on GOP presidential candidate appearances on Fox since June 1. The numbers for announced candidates: Paul (33); Cain (28); Bachmann (21); Santorum (20); Gingrich (19); Johnson (15); McCotter (12); Romney (7); Huntsman (7); Perry (4).

WHAT THE CANDIDATES ARE UP TO - Jon Huntsman speaks to the 'Politics and Eggs' breakfast in Bedford, NH, Rick Perry holds several Texas fundraisers and Ron Paul holds a town hall meeting at New England College. Buddy Roemer plans to roll out his jobs plan--in front of the embassy of the People's Republic of China in Washington.

PRO-BACHMANN SUPER PAC WHACKS PERRY - It's unclear if there's a real buy behind this, but 'Keep Conservatives United' says it's airing an anti-Rick Perry ad in South Carolina that takes aim at the Texas governor's spending record and hits him with this: 'He's supposed to be the Tea Party guy?' See the ad here:
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HANDICAPPING THE SENATE - The University of Virginia's Larry Sabato and Kyle Kondik: "[T]here are 23 Democratic-held Senate seats up for grabs this year, versus only 10 Republican-held seats.

Realistically, only two of those 10 Republicans seats will be competitive next year: Nevada...and Massachusetts...From the perspective of Labor Day 2011, the GOP has a strong chance to win the Senate next year. Indeed, given the volume of ripe pickup opportunities, it appears that the Senate is the Republicans' to lose. But with some bad decisions by GOP primary voters, and a revival of Democratic fortunes in 2012 if the economy takes a significant upturn, they could still forfeit this opportunity."
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MORE SENATE HANDICAPPING - POLITICO's Dave Catanese writes his new Senate Monthly 10, ranking the most competitive contests in the country. Number 1 in the August rankings? The Virginia open Senate race: "Allen has thus far navigated a potential primary challenge with relative ease -- something that was an open question at the year's outset."
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OUT THIS MORNING - DCCC PUSHES TOWNHALL "BACKLASH": The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is releasing a web video this morning that highlights video footage and news reports from town halls and protests this recess to support their message that Republicans are facing unruly town halls that compare to the ones their members faced two summers ago. The video, "Backlash," is part of a project called "Accountability August" that links vulnerable Republican incumbents to controversial plans to reform Medicare. Watch the two-minute video:
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SHORT MEMORY: GOP GLOCK GIVEAWAY IN GABRIELLE GIFFORDS' DISTRICT -Fundraiser for Arizona's Pima County GOP: "For just $10, readers can purchase a raffle ticket (out of 125 offered) for a chance to win a brand new handgun. Not just any handgun, but a Glock 23."
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CODA -- The remarks "aren't directed towards any individual" -- an unconvincing Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, after delivering sharp criticism Wednesday about labor policy and education in Texas.
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