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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Minority leader Boehner to call for mass firing of Obama's economic team — CLEVELAND — House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) will call Tuesday for the mass firing of the Obama administration's economic team, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and White House adviser Larry Summers …
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Dan Pfeiffer / White House.gov Blog Feed:
Their Economic Policies Haven't Changed, So They Won't Bring the Change We Need — Later today, House Minority Leader John Boehner is slated to give a speech at the City Club of Cleveland laying out the major planks of his party's economic agenda. Unfortunately, families in Ohio and across …
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Jake Sherman / The Politico:
John Boehner: Fire Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers — CLEVELAND — The rollout of John Boehner's campaign for speaker of the House went public Tuesday morning here in his home state, as he outlined an economic agenda that combined old GOP economic ideas with a few new ones …
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Ed Hornick / CNN:
10 things Republicans must do in 10 weeks — Members of the Republican House leadership introduce the party's “America Speaking Out” campaign in May. House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio is at far right. — Washington (CNN) — With the midterm elections just 10 weeks away, analysts expect big wins for Republicans.
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Don Surber and Right Wing News
gopleader.gov:
Full Text: Boehner Delivers Remarks on Jobs & The Economy in Cleveland, OH — Follow @GOPLeader for updates on Leader Boehner's remarks — Remarks by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) on Jobs & The Economy — As Prepared for Delivery — The City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Boehner to Blast Obama on Economy
Boehner to Blast Obama on Economy
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realtor.org:
July Existing-Home Sales Fall as Expected but Prices Rise — Existing-home sales were sharply lower in July following expiration of the home buyer tax credit but home prices continued to gain, according to the National Association of Realtors®. — Existing-home sales1 …
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Existing Home Sales lowest since 1996, 12.5 months of supply
Existing Home Sales lowest since 1996, 12.5 months of supply
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Free exchange, Vox Popoli and Bloomberg
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
U.S. Home Sales at Lowest Level in More Than a Decade
U.S. Home Sales at Lowest Level in More Than a Decade
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Balloon Juice, Commentary and Clusterstock
Daniel Indiviglio / The Atlantic Online:
How Bad Was July's Plummet in Home Sales?
How Bad Was July's Plummet in Home Sales?
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Karen Hughes: I don't remember any of my work with Imam — As you may have heard, former Bush senior adviser Karen Hughes came out against Cordoba House over the weekend. Hughes called on Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to move the project in order to “provide a path toward the peaceful relationships …
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
The “Ground Zero mosque” debate is about tolerance—and a whole lot more. … - The Florida Congressman Showing Democrats How To Beat the Tea Party- So What if the Islamic Community Center's Location Is “Insensitive”? - The NYT's Bogus Story About Technology Endangering National Park Visitors- What Ever Happened to Quicksand?
Dina Temple-Raston / NPR:
Rancor Over Mosque Could Fuel Islamic Extremists
Rancor Over Mosque Could Fuel Islamic Extremists
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Rubio back on top — Democrats will get their stronger candidate if Kendrick Meek wins the Florida Senate primary tonight as expected- but the biggest winner coming out of the primary may be Marco Rubio. PPP finds he would begin the general election in the lead at 40%, followed by Charlie Crist at 32%, and Meek at 17%.
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Jon Hilsenrath / Wall Street Journal:
Fed Split on Move to Bolster Sluggish Economy — WASHINGTON—The Aug. 10 meeting of top Federal Reserve officials was among the most contentious in Ben Bernanke's four-and-a-half year tenure as central bank chairman. — With the economic outlook unexpectedly darkening …
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Paul Krugman:
Hangover Theory At The Fed — This Jon Hilsenrath piece on the Fed is an impressive piece of reporting; it seems that somebody is talking out of school. And as Tim Duy says, it's also depressing for anyone believing, as I do, that we're sliding steadily into a long-run low-growth …
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Federal Eye:
Shirley Sherrod declines USDA job — Ousted Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod said Tuesday that she will not return to the department in the new role. — “I need to take a break from some of all I've had to deal with in the last few weeks,” Sherrod said at a hastily arranged news conference at USDA headquarters.
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Sherrod declines USDA job offer
Sherrod declines USDA job offer
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Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
Ousted worker Sherrod rejects return to Ag agency
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Shirley Sherrod turns down job offer at Agriculture Dept.
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Rangel on the Hot Seat in Debate — It was a gentle but unmistakable nudge President Obama gave Representative Charles B. Rangel recently, suggesting in an interview three weeks ago that Mr. Rangel, 80, should retire to “end his career with dignity.” — At a tense and sometimes fiery …
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Primary Day — Five states — Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Oklahoma and Vermont — go to the polls today “but only three of them can point to primary elections that are being closely monitored by a national audience,” Politico reports. — “In Alaska and Arizona, Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) …
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John Fund / Wall Street Journal:
Palin Hunts a Momma Grizzly
Palin Hunts a Momma Grizzly
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David Brooks / New York Times:
A Case of Mental Courage — In 1811, the popular novelist Fanny Burney learned she had breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy without anesthesia. She lay down on an old mattress, and a piece of thin linen was placed over her face, allowing her to make out the movements of the surgeons above her.
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The Future of Capitalism, Hit & Run and Shakesville
Hart Van Denburg / The Blotter:
Zombies scare Minneapolis into cash settlement — Seven zombies accused of carrying weapons of mass destruction will be staggering to the bank shortly with a bundle of cash, courtesy of a legal settlement with the City of Minneapolis. — The seven were arrested in 2006 during Aquatennial …
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Hit & Run
Sasha Issenberg / Boston Globe:
A 25-state midterm swing for Romney — Former governor positioned for '12 — WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney, having met last weekend in New Hampshire with the staff of his 2008 presidential campaign, is preparing to embark on an aggressive schedule that will take him to more than 25 states …
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Ballot Box, Freedom's Lighthouse and GOP 12
Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Fox Shareholder Prince Alwaleed Meets With News Corp Execs To Discuss How To ‘Strengthen The Alliance’ — Yesterday morning on Fox & Friends, Fox News contributor Dan Senor observed that The Kingdom Foundation, whose chairman Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal (Fox News-parent company News …
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Rasmussen Reports:
48% Say Obama's Views Are Extreme; 51% Say Hillary Is Mainstream — Forty-eight percent (48%) of U.S. voters now regard President Obama's political views as extreme. Forty-two percent (42%) place his views in the mainstream, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
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Zaid Jilani / Think Progress:
Pickens Laments That He Failed To Convince Bush And Obama To Take Iraq's Oil — Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens made headlines late last year as he openly advocated to members of Congress that the United States seize the oil fields of Iraq and use them for its own benefit, arguing that our country is “entitled” to the oil.
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Is Obama ‘American Enough’? — Suddenly, it's not “racist” to criticize the president. — The good news for President Obama is that this week is likely to be better for him than last week was. The bad news? Last week! A week so bad, as we observed Friday, that the president ended …
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NewsBusters.org and Commentary
Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
U.S. Judge Rules Against Obama's Stem Cell Policy — WASHINGTON — A federal district judge on Monday blocked President Obama's 2009 executive order that expanded embryonic stem cell research, saying it violated a ban on federal money being used to destroy embryos.
Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
GOP Targets Obama's ‘Recovery Summer’ Amid Economic Gloom — Republicans Poised to Hammer Democrats on Jobs Promises Ahead of November — After months of withering job losses and weak economic growth, summer was going to be the season of recovery, the Obama administration heralded in June.
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