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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans Back Budget Deal but Declare No Winner — Split on whether next year's budget should further cut domestic spending — PRINCETON, NJ — Six in 10 Americans approve of the 11th-hour federal budget agreement that congressional leaders reached in time to avert a government shutdown.
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The Moderate Voice, Outside the Beltway and Hot Air
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Ben White / The Politico:
Wall Street executives warn John Boehner on debt limit — NEW YORK — Republicans are growing increasingly concerned about the impact a bruising fight over raising the nation's $14.29 trillion debt ceiling could have on U.S. financial markets. — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) …
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Riehl World View
Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Budget deal wins support, but Americans wary
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Washington Monthly, Taegan Goddard's … and The Daily Caller
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Left's angst grows over Obama's shift to the political center — Anxiety over President Obama's shift to the political center is threatening to alienate the White House's liberal base. — As Obama prepares Wednesday to outline his deficit reduction strategy, liberals worry he'll embrace Medicare …
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Taylor Marsh, msnbc.com, Prairie Weather and JammieWearingFool
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Progressive Group To Supporters: Withhold Donations To Obama If He Cuts Medicare, Medicaid … WASHINGTON — One of the thorniest progressive groups in the side of the Obama administration is launching a new campaign against the president on Tuesday, this time targeting the president's vaunted grassroots donor base.
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Weasel Zippers and The Politico
Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
Mitt Romney to birthers: Barack Obama was born here. Period. — Mitt Romney forcefully said Tuesday night that he believes President Barack Obama was born in America and that “the citizenship test has been passed.” — “I think the citizenship test has been passed.
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The Reaction, CNN, Outside the Beltway, GOP 12, Oliver Willis, Daily Kos and AMERICAblog Elections
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Lauraklairmont / CNN:
CNN Poll: Trump tied for first in GOP horserace
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FiveThirtyEight, AMERICAblog Elections, GOP 12, Daily Kos, Washington Post, Salon, This Just In, Taylor Marsh, Oliver Willis, The Hill, Ben Smith's Blog, The Huffington Post, Political Punch, Washington Wire, Right Wing Watch, Conservatives4Palin, Weigel, No More Mister Nice Blog, Crooks and Liars, Outside the Beltway, Hot Air, msnbc.com, Balloon Juice, Little Green Footballs, Swampland, Washington Monthly, National Review, The Politico, USA Today and Indecision Forever
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Pawlenty: 'I'm running for president'
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Associated Press, Derek Wallbank, Gawker and InvestmentWatch
Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
What Donald Trump's Birther Investigators Will Find in Hawaii
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Prairie Weather
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Do-Nothing Congress as a Cure — A trick question: If Congress takes no action in coming years, what will happen to the budget deficit? — It will shrink — and shrink a lot. This simple fact may offer the best hope for deficit reduction. — As federal law currently stands …
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Prairie Weather, Associated Press, Washington Post and Eschaton
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Robert Borosage / The Politico:
President Obama doesn't need to be an accountant in chief
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CNN
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Lobbyists Won Key Concessions in Budget Deal — WASHINGTON — At a quarter till midnight last Friday, with a deal to avert a government shutdown barely an hour old, Senator Harry Reid phoned a fellow Democratic senator, Ron Wyden, at home and startled him with some bad news.
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Firedoglake, The Note, ThinkProgress and No More Mister Nice Blog
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Justin Bieber / Haaretz:
Netanyahu cancels Bieber date over refusal to meet kids affected by Gaza rockets — PM was scheduled to host pop star at his Jerusalem office; taking advantage of the PR situation, Netanyahu's advisers invited group of kids from communities near Gaza border to attend.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Israel Matzav and Religion Dispatches
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Isabel Kershner / New York Times:
Diplomatic Breakdown Amid Bieber Fever in Israel — JERUSALEM — The teenage pop idol Justin Bieber became embroiled in a diplomatic imbroglio on Tuesday when it emerged that plans for a meeting between the singer and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel had been called off, with the sides differing over why.
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Global Public Square
Annie Lowrey / Slate:
How Congress can balance the budget in eight years by literally doing nothing. This is not a joke. — The Simpson-Bowles blue-ribbon deficit commission longs to slash Social Security and defense spending. The Bipartisan Policy Center's Alice Rivlin and Peter Domenici yearn for a value-added tax.
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The Atlantic Online, Capital Gains and Games blogs and The New Republic
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
The Real Housewives of Wall Street — Why is the Federal Reserve forking over $220 million in bailout money to the wives of two Morgan Stanley bigwigs? — By — America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial. The official budget is public record and hotly debated …
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Zandar Versus The Stupid and The Moderate Voice
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Ex-Governor Apologizes for Using Song in Ad — Some days Charlie Crist is an ally of rock stars, and some days he is their adversary. — On Monday, Mr. Crist, the former governor of Florida who, before he left office, helped champion a posthumous pardon for Jim Morrison, the front man of the Doors …
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Hotline On Call, Hot Air, Rolling Stone and Balkinization
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Holly Bailey / Yahoo! News:
David Byrne forces Charlie Crist to record embarrassing apology for stealing Talking Heads song
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Swampland, Scared Monkeys, GOOD, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Wonkette
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Wisconsin previews 2012 chaos — Here we go again. — Wisconsin's contested Supreme Court race has set in motion a drama that's by now almost painfully familiar. It goes something like this: A hard-fought election comes down to a few troublesome precincts.
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Tea Party group warns GOP members: Shape up or face primaries — One of the nation's largest Tea Party groups is warning congressional Republicans to watch their right flanks ahead of a final vote this week on the long-term budget deal that averted a government shutdown.
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers
Igor Volsky / Wonk Room:
ThinkProgress Leaves Bachmann Speechless: Doesn't ‘Have An Answer’ On Whether Homosexuality Is A Public Health Hazard — Yesterday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) — who is seriously considering launching a campaign for the presidency — appeared before the FAMiLY Leader, an anti-gay social conservative group in Iowa.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Towleroad News #gay, Pam's House Blend and Good As You
Steven Edwards / canada.com:
UN document would give ‘Mother Earth’ same rights as humans — PHOTOS ( 1 ) — Bolivia is planning to table a draft United Nations treaty giving “Mother Earth” the same rights as humans. — UNITED NATIONS — Bolivia will this month table a draft United Nations treaty giving “Mother Earth” …
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Wall Street Journal:
Old Enough to Fight, Old Enough to Drink — Republicans can make up for a Reagan-era error by returning this issue to the states. — 'If you get shot at, you can have a shot. " That's the rationale behind Alaska State Representative—and Vietnam veteran—Bob Lynn's effort to establish …
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Pajamas Media and The Volokh Conspiracy
John Melloy / Fast Money:
Inflation Actually Near 10% Using Older Measure — After former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker was appointed in 1979, the consumer price index surged into the double digits, causing the now revered Fed Chief to double the benchmark interest rate in order to break the back of inflation.
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Doug Ross
Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Quotes: Michele Bachmann in her own words on marriage, judges, a stolen election — Here are some quotes from U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, a Republican potential presidential contender, during a 40-minute speech in Pella today: — ON A ‘STOLEN ELECTION’: “That's why an election …
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ACS Blog and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Michele Bachmann Calls For Stripping Judges' Power To Enforce Parts Of The Constitution She Doesn't Like
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Wonk Room and Sky Dancing
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