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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Cat To Emerge from Bag? — There's an interesting possibility, even a likelihood, we may see unfold over the coming days. And if it happens, we might find out quickly whether there's a limit past which consensus opinion, the Wall Street/business interests who hold such a sway over national politics …
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Hullabaloo, Whiskey Fire and Balloon Juice
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David Rogers / The Politico:
CBO: John Boehner's debt bill comes up short — On the eve of a House vote, new cost estimates from the Congressional Budget Office could pose a problem for Speaker John Boehner as he tries to rally conservative support for his two-step plan to raise the federal debt ceiling and avert default next week.
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Hot Air, USA Today, Taylor Marsh, Weasel Zippers, CNN, Hullabaloo, Outside the Beltway, The Note and The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
The GOP's Reality Test — Republicans who oppose Boehner's debt deal are playing into Obama's hands. — The debt-limit debate is heading toward a culmination, with President Obama reduced to pleading for the public to support a tax increase and Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority …
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The Hill
The Politico:
Credit hit worries Obama, Congress more than default — It's not the default that strikes the most fear in the White House and Congress these days. It's the downgrade. — Even Republican leaders say the country can't go into default, and they'll do everything possible to raise the debt limit by Aug. 2.
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Taegan Goddard's …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Dems plot the endgame in debt limit fight — So now what? Now that Dems and Republicans have unveiled competing plans for the way forward — and now that both sides have dug in — what happens next? — Here's the game plan, as seen by Senate Dem aides: The next move is to sit tight …
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CBS News, NationalJournal.com, Riehl World View, Daily Kos, The Hill, Roll Call, National Review, The Caucus and Club for Growth
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Boehner to rework his debt-ceiling bill — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) will rework his two-step plan to raise the debt ceiling after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found the bill would not cut as much spending as promised. — “We're here to change Washington - no more smoke-and-mirrors …
Jack Lew / White House.gov Blog:
Baseline Basics — The CBO just released its analysis of the debt ceiling extension and deficit reduction plan that the House of Representatives is considering. We have been clear in our opposition to this bill, and the President explained why last night.
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Politics and National Review
David Jackson / USA Today:
Obama team threatens to veto Boehner debt plan
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The Lonely Conservative, The Gateway Pundit and Political Punch
Daniel Stone / Yahoo! News:
Analysis: U.S. credit downgrade ‘inevitable’
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The Gateway Pundit, YID With LID and Hot Air
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Oof: CBO says Boehner's bill would save less than $1T over 10 years …
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The Politico, Weasel Zippers and National Review
Washington Times:
House GOP revolts against Boehner plan
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Wall Street Journal, Crooks and Liars, Weasel Zippers, CNN, Red Dog Report and The Politico
CBO's Latest 10 Documents:
ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT ON THE DEFICIT OF THE BUDGET CONTROL ACT OF 2011 AS PROPOSED IN THE HOUSE
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The Hill, RedState, Daily Kos and Booman Tribune
New York Times:
Vote on Boehner Plan Delayed Amid Opposition
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Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress, Prairie Weather, Washington Post, Hullabaloo and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
NOPE! Top House Conservatives Says Boehner Lacks Sufficient GOP Support To Raise Debt Limit
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Swampland, The Hill, The Politico, The New Republic, Discourse.net, Firedoglake, Washington Monthly, Daily Kos and Washington Post
Alicia M.Cohn / The Hill:
Boehner says his plan's deficit committee will not raise taxes
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CNN, The Politico, The Hill, Washington Post, The Note, The Democratic Daily, Jared Bernstein and Little Green Footballs
Paul Krugman:
The Cult That Is Destroying America — Watching our system deal with the debt ceiling crisis — a wholly self-inflicted crisis, which may nonetheless have disastrous consequences — it's increasingly obvious that what we're looking at is the destructive influence of a cult that has really poisoned our political system.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Balloon Juice, Hullabaloo and Pajamas Media
Washington Post:
House Republicans delay vote on Boehner debt plan — Responding to Obama's appeal in a speech Monday night for Americans to contact their members of Congress to urge them to adopt his “balanced approach” to deficit reduction, callers flooded Capitol telephone circuits Tuesday morning …
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Mediaite, Taegan Goddard's …, Talking Points Memo, Outside the Beltway and ThinkProgress
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Public Wants a Debt Ceiling Compromise, Expects a Deal Before Deadline
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Taegan Goddard's …, ThinkProgress, Washington Post, CNN, Booman Tribune, Politics, Balloon Juice and The Moderate Voice
Charles Babington / Associated Press:
House GOP to rework budget plan after new estimate
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Caucus and Daily Kos
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Not Leveling with Viewers — It's been said many times. But it's never enough: the conventions of journalistic ‘objectivity’, as currently defined, frequently make journalists violate their biggest duty, which is honesty with readers. The top headline running now on CNN reads …
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Foreign Policy
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Fred Thompson / National Review:
An Open Letter to the GOP
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Outside the Beltway and Shakesville
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
White House's Carney on President's Debt Ceiling Plan: ‘You Need it Written Down?’
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Hot Air, Townhall.com and The Other McCain
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
SwiftVets revenge — The Navy Times (no link) reported last week that Navy Secretary Ray Mabus stripped the Silver Star from a Vietnam swift boat veteran, Capt. Wade Sanders: — “Had the subsequently determined facts and evidence surrounding both the incident for which the award …
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Weasel Zippers and Pajamas Media
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Thomas Lifson / americanthinker.com:
Kerry spokesman stripped of Silver Star
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The Other McCain
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:25 minutes ago
Romney Leads Field of Announced GOP Candidates — Perry would be more competitive with Romney than Palin, Giuliani — PRINCETON, NJ — Mitt Romney is the leader for the GOP nomination among the current field of official candidates, supported by 27% of Republicans, compared with 18% for Michele Bachmann.
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The Hill and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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The Politico:
Romney's swing-state rollout - RNC unveils new ‘Change Direction’ ad - Ted Strickland's next act - 2012ers dodge Boehner plan - Huntsman 2.0 - Warren v. Brown — POPPING IN OHIO — ROMNEY'S SWING-STATE ROLLOUT: Mitt Romney will take his 2012 campaign to the general-election battleground of Ohio today …
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Gallup, Washington Post and Taegan Goddard's …
Christina Rexrode / Associated Press:
McDonald's: Apple slices in every Happy Meal — McDonald's to put apples in every Happy Meal as part of broader health push — Companies: — Related Quotes — SymbolPriceChange — MCD — 88.02 — NEW YORK (AP) — An apple a day may keep the doctor away.
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Hot Air and The Lonely Conservative
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David Jackson / USA Today:
Michelle Obama praises McDonald's
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Michelle Malkin and The Raw Story
Emily York / Los Angeles Times:
McDonald's to make Happy Meals more healthful
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ThinkProgress
Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. / The Jawa Report:
On Islamophobia and Right Wing Extremism — Since I am constantly accused of being an ‘Islamaphobe’ let me, once again and for the record, explain my position on Islam, Islamophobia, and right-wing extremism. I'll start at the latter and work my way to the former. — 1) Right-wing extremism is real.
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Atlas Shrugs, AmSpecBlog, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and Jihad Watch
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Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Pat Buchanan: Norwegian Right-Wing Terrorist ‘Breivik May Be Right’
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The Other McCain, Sky Dancing, Mediaite, Pharyngula, WorldNetDaily, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Newshoggers.com
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
U.S. officials believe al-Qaeda on brink of collapse — U.S. counterterrorism officials are increasingly convinced that the killing of Osama bin Laden and the toll of seven years of CIA drone strikes have pushed al-Qaeda to the brink of collapse. — The assessment reflects a widespread view …
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Reuters and Top of the Ticket
Suzanne Goldenberg / Guardian:
US eco-activist jailed for two years — Campaigners denounce sentence of ‘hero’ Tim DeChristopher for disrupting oil and gas industry auction as excessive — An activist who became a hero to campaigners for disrupting a Bush administration auction for the oil and gas industry with $1.8m …
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JammieWearingFool, Marginal Revolution and AMERICAblog News
O.Kay Henderson:
Bachmann: other House GOPers “will have to come to their own conclusion” (audio) — GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann held a news conference in Ankeny early this afternoon. “I wanted to be able to have just a word with you in response to President Obama's statement last night regarding raising the debt ceiling,” she began.
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GOP 12, FrumForum, Radio Iowa, Ballot Box and The Hill
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
‘We Get The Sacrifice, They Get The Wealth’: A Fired-Up Pelosi Tears Into GOP Deficit Plan — Speaking to a crowd of union workers on Capitol Hill today, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi unloaded on Republican plans to lower the deficit through deep cuts to government services in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.
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Indecision Forever, nation.foxnews.com and Sister Toldjah
JTA:
Envoy contrasts terror in Israel, Norway — JERUSALEM (JTA) — Norway's ambassador to Israel drew distinctions between the Oslo and Utoya massacres and Palestinian terrorism. — Svein Sevje said in an Israeli newspaper interview Tuesday that while the Norwergian bomb and gun rampages …
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The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, Atlas Shrugs, Israel Matzav and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
