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Douglas Elmendorf / Director's Blog:
The Long-Term Budget Outlook — Today I had the opportunity to testify before the Senate Budget Committee about CBO's most recent analysis of the long-term budget outlook. — Under current law, the federal budget is on an unsustainable path, because federal debt will continue to grow much faster than the economy over the long run.
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Washington Post:
Budget Analyst Assails Cost of Congress's Health-Care Proposals — CBO Chief Says Democrats' Proposals Lack Necessary Controls on Spending — Congress's chief budget analyst delivered a devastating assessment yesterday of the health-care proposals drafted by congressional Democrats …
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Jeffrey Young / The Hill:
Doctors lift healthcare — The American Medical Association (AMA), which helped torpedo the Clinton administration's effort to revamp the nation's healthcare system 15 years ago, endorsed the House Democrats' health bill on Thursday. — President Obama touted the physician group's move …
Ezra Klein:
Rules For Commenting On The CBO's Judgments
Rules For Commenting On The CBO's Judgments
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
House Committee Approves Health Care Bill
House Committee Approves Health Care Bill
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Chris / TVNewser:
Susan Roesgen Out at CNN — Breaking: TVNewser has learned CNN correspondent Susan Roesgen's contract will not be renewed and she will be leaving the network. — Roesgen, you'll recall, was criticized for her coverage at the tax day tea parties in April, when she said the event she was covering …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Heart-ache: Tea-party-hating superhack out at CNN
Heart-ache: Tea-party-hating superhack out at CNN
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No Sheeples Here!
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Joy of Sachs — The American economy remains in dire straits, with one worker in six unemployed or underemployed. Yet Goldman Sachs just reported record quarterly profits — and it's preparing to hand out huge bonuses, comparable to what it was paying before the crisis. What does this contrast tell us?
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Matt Taibbi / Taibblog:
The real price of Goldman's giganto-profits
The real price of Goldman's giganto-profits
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Exclusive: Conservative group offers to sell endorsement for $2M — The American Conservative Union asked FedEx for a $2 million check in return for the group's endorsement in a bitter legislative dispute, then flipped and sided with UPS after FedEx refused to pay.
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Sanford flies high on taxpayers' dime — Aside from the damage done to his standing as a social conservative, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's recent admission of an extramarital affair may end up tarnishing another of his political credentials—his carefully-honed reputation as a tight-fisted steward of taxpayer money.
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Washington Post:
Sen. Graham's Exchanges With Sotomayor Among Most Anticipated of Judiciary Panel — S.C. Conservative Is Considered Pivotal Character in Sotomayor Hearings — Perhaps it is because Sen. Lindsey O. Graham is the only Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee who said openly that he was considering supporting Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
Rosen Was Right — After two days of Sotomayor testimony …
Rosen Was Right — After two days of Sotomayor testimony …
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Penny Starr / CNSNews:
Joe Biden: ‘We Have to Go Spend Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt’ — (CNSNews.com) - Vice President Joe Biden told people attending an AARP town hall meeting that unless the Democrat-supported health care plan becomes law the nation will go bankrupt and that the only way to avoid that fate is for the government to spend more money.
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Washington Post:
At NAACP Convention, Obama Speaks of Progress and Continued Struggle — In his first speech before the nation's oldest civil rights organization since taking office, President Obama paid tribute Thursday to the NAACP as it celebrated its centennial, delivering what the group's chief executive called his most …
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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
RNC Web site promoting anti-Semitic, anti-Latino, and pornographic literature — (UPDATE: I understand the Latino book is not anti-Latino, but in fact debunks anti-Latino prejudice. Fair enough. But I'm still looking forward to the RNC's explanation for including “bondage,” “anal,” and “clitoris.” )
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Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Democrats Drop Key Part of Bill to Assist Unions — A half-dozen senators friendly to labor have decided to drop a central provision of a bill that would have made it easier to organize workers. — The so-called card-check provision — which senators decided to scrap to help secure …
Michael O'Brien / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Black Chamber head slams Boxer words as ‘racial,’ ‘condescending’ and ‘God awful’ — The President and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) tore into Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) Thursday for what he said were “condescending” and “God awful” racial statements at a hearing.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Witness rips Boxer for racial condescension
Video: Witness rips Boxer for racial condescension
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Anthony Deutsch / Associated Press:
Blasts at Jakarta Ritz, Marriott kill 9, wound 50 — JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Bombs minutes apart ripped through two luxury hotels in Jakarta Friday, killing nine and wounding at least 50 more, ending a four-year lull in terror attacks in the world's most populous Muslim nation.
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Pickering's wife sues alleged mistress — The estranged wife of former Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.), who served 12 years in Congress before retiring in January, has filed a lawsuit against his alleged mistress, claiming their adulterous relationship ruined the Pickerings' marriage and his political career.
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Political Punch:
President Obama Continues Questionable “You Can Keep Your Health Care” Promise — ABC News' Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller report: — At a rally in Holmdel, New Jersey, today, President Obama continued making a promise about health care reform that he has acknowledged isn't literally true.
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
40 Years After Apollo 11, America's Retreat From the Moon — Michael Crichton once wrote that if you told a physicist in 1899 that within a hundred years humankind would, among other wonders (nukes, commercial airlines), “travel to the moon, and then lose interest . . . the physicist would almost certainly pronounce you mad.”
CNBC.com:
Roubini: Views on Economy Unchanged Despite Reports — Nouriel Roubini, the economist whose dire forecasts earned him the nickname “Doctor Doom,” said after markets closed Thursday that earlier reports claiming he sees an end to the recession this year were “taken out of context.”
Wall Street Journal:
Sotomayor Hearing Escapes Gravity — They put a man on the moon, and a comedian in the Senate. — Printer — Friendly — Everyone is noting the 40th anniversary, on July 20, of the moon landing. Good. It was an epic moment in history, though its memory is accompanied by an unsatisfied feeling …
Not Larry Sabato:
REPUBLICANS BECOMING UNHINGED — VA-GOP CANDIDATE JUST SAID: “IF WE LOSE AT THE BALLOT BOX, WE WILL HAVE TO TURN TO THE BULLET BOX.” VIDEO TO COME!! — UPDATE: Quote corrected (it's actually worse):"We have the chance to fight this battle at the ballot box before we have to resort to the bullet box …