• John Amato, creator of CrooksAndLiars.com, calls in at 11:30am ET / 8:30am PT to talk about his new book, “Over the Cliff: How the Obama Election Drove the American Right Insane”
• Vice President Joe Biden urged Dems on Wednesday not to underestimate Tea Party candidates, saying that if progressives didn’t get energized for the November election, there would be serious consequences for “the things we care most about.”
• Former New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte narrowly won her state’s Republican Senate primary, to the relief of party officials in Washington who were struggling to adjust to the demise of their preferred candidate in another big race in Delaware.
• House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer yesterday did not rule out a possible compromise with the GOP on extending the Bush tax cuts on high-income earners for one to two years.
• The White House will name Wall Street critic Elizabeth Warren to a special advisory role in setting up the new Consumer Protection Agency called for by the financial regulatory overhaul. The announcement will come this week.
• Stocks overcame an early slide Wednesday and closed higher as investors tried to keep a September rally alive. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 46.24, or 0.4 percent, to close at 10,572.73.
