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President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

Enough with the deficit talk -- what about jobs?!

Robert Reich
A trader strides across the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the closing bell, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011. The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 429.92 points. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) (AP)

Pan Pylas
London residents wait to be allowed through a police cordon to help council workers with the clear up after rioting in Battersea, London, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011

Michael Goldfarb - GlobalPost
Mitt Romney during his 2002 run for governor of Massachusetts

Steve Kornacki
FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011 file photo, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at a national prayer rally in Houston. A nationally televised debate, a test vote in Iowa and a candidacy by Perry ó should he decide to seek the GOP nomination as many insiders, activists and party leaders expect ó could shake up the Republican presidential race in the coming days. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File) (Pat Sullivan)

Justin Elliott
Lebanese intellectuals and journalists protest during a vigil sit-in to show their support to the Syrian protesters who demonstrate against the Syrian President Bashar Assad, at the Martyrs square, in downtown of Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday Aug. 8, 2011. Despite five months of blistering attacks on dissent, the Syrian regime has yet to score a decisive victory against a pro-democracy uprising determined to bring down the country's brutal dictatorship. President Bashar Assad still has the military muscle to level pockets of resistance, but the conflict has robbed him of almost all international support. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

Elizabeth A. Kennedy, Suzan Fraser
Riot police patrol Manchester city centre after trouble on Market street in Manchester city centre, England, Tuesday Aug. 9, 2011. Britain began flooding London's streets with 16,000 police officers Tuesday, nearly tripling their presence as the nation feared its worst rioting in a generation would stretch into a fourth night. The violence has turned buildings into burnt out carcasses, triggered massive looting and spread to other U.K. cities. (AP Photo / Dave Thompson / PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE (AP)

Raphael G. Satter, David Stringer
(© Matt Sullivan / Reuters)

Joan Walsh
FILE - In this April 1, 2011 file photo, David Buerger, an elections specialist with the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, inspects recall petitions filed against Sen. Dan Kapanke, R-LaCrosse, in his Madison, Wis. office. Tuesday's election targeting Buerger and five other Republicans could swing majority control of the state Senate to the Democrats, giving them the power to block the GOP agenda. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, John Hart, File) (AP)

Scott Bauer

Salon Staff
Gloria Steinem

Joan Walsh
The Bank of America building is shown at the Bank of America Plaza in downtown Los Angeles on Friday Oct.8,2010. Bank of America Corp., the nation's largest bank, said Friday it would stop sales of foreclosed homes in all 50 states as it reviews potential flaws in foreclosure documents. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) (Richard Vogel)

Glenn Greenwald
Joe Scarborough

Alex Pareene
A voter in Glendale, Wis., casts a ballot in a Democratic primary on Thursday, July 12, 2011, as part of recall efforts against Republican state Sen. Alberta Darling. Darling is one of six Republican state senators being targeted for recall for supporting Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s budget-repair bill this winter. Three Democratic state senators are also being targeted for recall for fleeing the state to stall action on the bill. (AP Photo/Dinesh Ramde) (AP)

Natasha Lennard
Bambi Lynn of Fairlawn, Ohio, wipes away tears during a prayer vigil at Copley Community Park in Copley Township, Ohio, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011. A man gunned down two people outside an Ohio home and two more in a car Sunday morning, then shot his girlfriend in a rampage that left eight dead including the gunman, who was shot by police, authorities and witnesses said. Lynn is fearful that one of the victims is a co-worker. (AP Photo/Phil Long) (AP)

Salon Staff
Rep. Michele Bachmann on the cover of Newsweek. Right: Then Democratic presidential hopeful, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean addresses supporters during his caucus night party in West Des Moines, Iowa on Monday, Jan. 19, 2004.

Joan Walsh
FILE - In this June 18, 2011 file photo, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans. Should Perry conclude that voter discontent has left him an opening to enter the presidential race, the longtime Texas governor would be among the GOP field's most conservative candidates. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) (AP)

Perry opposes federal payments he once received

Natasha Lennard
A scene of American poverty. (DenisTangneyJr/Getty )

Barbara Ehrenreich
A property is on fire near Reeves Corner in Croydon, south London Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011. A wave of violence and looting raged across London and spread to three other major British cities on Tuesday, as authorities struggled to contain the country's worst unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in the 1980s. (AP Photo/PA, Lewis Whyld) UNITED KINGDOM OUT, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVE (AP)

Glenn Greenwald
Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama

Alex Pareene
A shop is set on fire as rioters gathered in Croydon, south London, Monday, Aug. 8, 2011. Violence and looting spread across some of London's most impoverished neighborhoods on Monday, with youths setting fire to shops and vehicles, during a third day of rioting in the city that will host next summer's Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Sang Tan) (AP)

Michael Goldfarb - GlobalPost
Trader Andrew Stavros reacts after the close of trading in the NASDAQ, 100 Index pit, on the floor of The CME Group Monday, Aug. 8, 2011, in Chicago. Stocks plummeted at the close after anxiety overtook investors on the first trading day since Standard & Poor's downgraded American debt. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) (M. Spencer Green)

The hopeless politics of 2011

Steve Kornacki
Lebanese intellectuals and journalists protest during a vigil sit-in to show their support to the Syrian protesters who demonstrate against the Syrian President Bashar Assad, at the Martyrs square, in downtown of Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday Aug. 8, 2011. Despite five months of blistering attacks on dissent, the Syrian regime has yet to score a decisive victory against a pro-democracy uprising determined to bring down the country's brutal dictatorship. President Bashar Assad still has the military muscle to level pockets of resistance, but the conflict has robbed him of almost all international support. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

Elizabeth A. Kennedy
(AP)

Associated Press
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