memeorandum: McCain favors immigration reform that would deport ‘many’ illegals (Michael O'Brien/The Hill)

7:05 PM ET, July 6, 2010

Top Items:

Justice Dept. expected to sue Ariz. on immigration, citing ‘preemption’ grounds — The Justice Department has decided to file suit against Arizona on the grounds that the state's new immigration law illegally intrudes on federal prerogatives, law enforcement sources said Monday.

Josh Gerstein / The Politico:

DoJ sues over Ariz. immigration law — The federal government filed a lawsuit Tuesday aimed at blocking a controversial Arizona law that gives local police and sheriffs the authority to question and arrest anyone suspected of being in the country illegally.

Discussion: CNN, Associated Press, The Washington Independent, The New Republic and TalkLeft

Michelle Malkin:
DOJ vs. Arizona: The battle over preemption; Updated with complaint link

Discussion: ABCNEWS, Weekly Standard, KABC-TV, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, American Power, Doug Ross, Crooks and Liars, The Corner on National …, Right Wing News, The Hill, AmSpecBlog and Swampland

Bob Christie / Associated Press:
Feds sue to block Arizona illegal immigrant law

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Page

William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Feds Sue Arizona - Complaint Here

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications and PoliPundit.com

David Brooks / New York Times:

A Little Economic Realism — Let's say you're the leader of the free world. The economy is stuck in the doldrums. Naturally, you want to do something. — Many economists say we need another stimulus bill. They debate about whether the stimulus should take the form of tax cuts or spending increases …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Ezra Klein, The New Republic, Grasping Reality …, The Atlantic Online, Balloon Juice, Swampland, The Moderate Voice and Vox Popoli

Paul Krugman:

Arguments From Authority — A quick note on David Brooks's column today. I have no idea what he's talking about when he says, … Funny, I thought we had a perfectly good explanation: severe downturn in demand from the financial crisis, and a stimulus which we warned from the beginning wasn't nearly big enough.

Discussion: driftglass

Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Productivity and the Recession — David Brooks, writing skeptically …

Discussion: The American Scene and Econbrowser

CEPR:
The Arrogant David Brooks Tells Readers That Stimulus Will Risk National Insolvency

Discussion: Firedoglake, Washington Monthly, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Hullabaloo and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*

Mitt Romney / Washington Post:

Obama's worst foreign-policy mistake — Given President Obama's glaring domestic policy missteps, it is understandable that the public has largely been blinded to his foreign policy failings. In fact, these may have been even more damaging to America's future.

Discussion: Wonk Room, The Atlantic Online, CNN, Gawker, The Hill, Eunomia, Moonbattery, Newshoggers.com, The Caucus, The Foundry, Riehl World View, Conservatives4Palin.com, Taylor Marsh, New York Times and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog

Mike Allen / The Politico:
Biden, on President's Iraq policy: 'We told you what we were going …

Discussion: msnbc.com, The Confluence, The Caucus, MyDD, iOwnTheWorld.com and White House.gov Blog Feed

Paul Krugman:

Confidence Fairies Have Infiltrated The White House — I was on Good Morning America this not-so-good morning, doing what I could. But I was struck by something that George Stephanopoulos said: he claimed to have been speaking to an administration official who asserted that what we need …

Discussion: Shakesville, The Moderate Voice, Grasping Reality …, TalkLeft, AMERICAblog News and Eschaton

Michael O'Brien / The Hill:

McCain favors immigration reform that would deport ‘many’ illegals — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said on Tuesday he would favor immigration reform that would deport most of the residents of the U.S. who are here illegally. — McCain, who at one point had been the top Republican advocate …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Washington Monthly, Democratic Strategist, Wonkette, Online NewsHour, Pat Dollard, Gawker, Weasel Zippers and TPMDC

Ed Barnes / Fox News:
Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. $113 Billion a Year, Study Finds

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

Thomas M. Defrank / NY Daily News:

Bad news for Obama: Conservative Justice Kennedy tells pals he's in no rush to leave Supreme Court — WASHINGTON - President Obama may get liberal Elena Kagan on the Supreme Court, but conservative swing-voter Anthony Kennedy says he's not going anywhere anytime soon.

Discussion: Hot Air, Weekly Standard, Sister Toldjah, Left Coast Rebel, No More Mister Nice Blog, Wonkette, The Hill, The Political Carnival, New York Magazine, No Runny Eggs, Wake up America, Outside the Beltway and JammieWearingFool

David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Obama and Supreme Court may be on collision course

Discussion: SCOTUSblog, Questions and Observations and Patterico's Pontifications

Chris Cillizza / The Fix:

Tea Party = Republican party? — The scads of media coverage about the burgeoning “tea party” effort has focused heavily on the idea that those who identify themselves as part of the movement are political free agents — dismissive of both parties and Washington in general.

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Mike Allen / The Politico:
Biden: No Dem ‘debacle’ in November

Discussion: CNN, Don Surber, Questions and Observations and Beltway Confidential

Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Tea Partiers' concerns are virtually identical to those of Republicans, poll shows

Discussion: Think Progress, Weasel Zippers, The Hill, Daily Kos and Hot Air

Fox News:

NASA Official Softens Claim Muslim Outreach Is ‘Foremost’ Mission — NASA Administrator Charles Bolden testifies before the House Science and Technology committee on Capitol Hill in Washington May 26. (Reuters Photo) — A NASA official on Tuesday stood by Administrator Charles Bolden's statement …

Discussion: Gateway Pundit, Washington Examiner, The Corner on National …, Jules Crittenden, The Other McCain, Weasel Zippers, Fausta's Blog, Weekly Standard, Pajamas Media, NASA Watch and NewsBusters.org

John Derbyshire / The Corner on National Review Online:
NASA's True Mission — By: John Derbyshire

Discussion: NASA Watch, Grim's Hall, Cold Fury and ParaPundit

Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call:

GOP Moves Toward West Virginia Suit — Top GOP strategists are plotting ways to force WV to hold a special election this year, in hopes of giving the party a better chance to pick off the seat of the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV), according to several party sources.

Discussion: The Eye, Swing State Project, TPMDC and SENATUS

Patricia Murphy / Politics Daily:
Sen. Robert Byrd Laid to Rest

Discussion: Parkersburg and The Caucus

Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:

Kentucky Senate race knotted — Kentucky voters don't think much of Rand Paul and as a result the race to replace Jim Bunning in the Senate is tied. Paul and Jack Conway are getting 43% each. — The more Kentucky voters get to know Rand Paul, the less they like him.

Discussion: TPMDC, Ballot Box, RedState and Daily Kos

Metro.co.uk:

Rare 1970s BP board game promises oil ‘thrills’ comes back to haunt them — A rare 1970s BP game - yes, that's the company badge on the box - promises all the ‘thrills of drilling’ offshore, with the first player to earn $120million being crowned the winner. — BP - Beyond Parody: The game's cover has an ‘overall sense of doom’.

Discussion: Climate Progress, Think Progress, Swampland and JammieWearingFool

Zombie / Pajamas Media:

Did Huffington Post crop AP photo to give Netanyahu devil horns? — Photo of Netanyahu as it appeared on Huffington Post. — The picture of Benjamin Netanyahu shown to the left appears on the front page of today's Huffington Post, illustrating a story about Israel easing its blockade of Gaza.

Discussion: Wonkette, Gateway Pundit and The Jawa Report

Rep. Barney Frank / The Huffington Post:

Why We Must Reduce Military Spending — As members of opposing political parties, we disagree on a number of important issues. But we must not allow honest disagreement over some issues interfere with our ability to work together when we do agree. — By far the single most important …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The Glittering Eye and TPMCafe

New York Times:

Are Profits Hurting Capitalism? — A STREAM of disheartening economic news last week, including flagging consumer confidence and meager private-sector job growth, is leading experts to worry that the recession is coming back. At the same time, many policymakers, particularly in Europe …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, naked capitalism, The Atlantic Online, Rortybomb, EconLog, The Glittering Eye, MyDD and Right Wing News

David Carr / New York Times:

Outspoken Is Great, Till It's Not — Wanted: Political blogger covering the conservative movement. Must be provocative and write with a strong point of view although not in a way that would reveal bias or offend any of your potential subjects. Social media a plus until it's not.

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money, FAIR Blog and Hullabaloo

Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
A Hypothetical — David Carr makes an excellent point …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Balloon Juice

San Francisco Chronicle:

Sugary-drink ban starts to affect S.F. sites — Coca-Cola is out, and soy milk is now part of San Francisco's official city policy. — Under an executive order from Mayor Gavin Newsom, Coke, Pepsi and Fanta Orange are no longer allowed in vending machines on city property, although their diet counterparts are - up to a point.

Discussion: Newsalert, Hit & Run, Hot Air, Creative Minority Report and NewsBusters.org

Brian Moylan / Gawker:

Priest Stole $1.3 Million to Spend on Male Escorts, Designer Clothes, Other Stereotypically Gay Things — Kevin Gray, a priest at Sacred Heart Church in Waterbury, Connecticut, is expected to turn himself in after being charged with siphoning $1.3 million from church coffers to pay for his secret gay lifestyle.

Discussion: Waterbury Republican American, The Other McCain and New York Magazine

Jonathan Allen / The Politico:

Police probe Leahy, DiFi death hoaxes — At least two Democratic senators have been subjects of false reports of their deaths in the past two days, prompting the U.S. Capitol Police to open an investigation into the matter. — Several news outlets received a hoax e-mail news release …

Tim Duy / Tim Duy's Fed Watch:

Why is the American Jobs Machine Broken? — The June employment report was decidedly weak, and serves as the latest blow to the V-shapers - if any are even left. It once again left me feeling that something is very, very wrong at the heart of the American economy, something that is much more structural than cyclical.

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias, Economist's View and Modeled Behavior

Kimberly Kindy / Washington Post:

Recovery effort falls vastly short of BP's promises — In the 77 days since oil from the ruptured Deepwater Horizon began to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, BP has skimmed or burned about 60 percent of the amount it promised regulators it could remove in a single day.