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Wall Street Journal:
As Debt Limit Reached, Agreement Still Far Off — The U.S. government is expected to hit the $14.294 trillion debt ceiling Monday, setting in motion an uncertain, 11-week political scramble to avoid a default. — The Treasury Department plans to announce Monday it will stop issuing …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
America Held Hostage — Six months ago President Obama faced a hostage situation. Republicans threatened to block an extension of middle-class tax cuts unless Mr. Obama gave in and extended tax cuts for the rich too. And the president essentially folded, giving the G.O.P. everything it wanted.
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Washington Monthly, NewsBusters.org, Simply Left BehindThe …, Washington Post and Prairie Weather
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Wonkbook: Happy debt-ceiling day!
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, New York Times, Hot Air and Daily Kos
Elise Foley / The Huffington Post:
Boehner To Obama: Let's Make A Deal On Debt Limit
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Firedoglake
Zachary a. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Treasury to tap pensions to help fund government
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Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Wonk Room, Outside the Beltway, The Hill and Fox News
Kim Willsher / Guardian:
Dominique Strauss-Kahn faces further claim of sexual assault — Socialist party official says her daughter was left traumatised after alleged attack by Strauss-Kahn in 2002 — By this time next year, Dominique Strauss-Kahn might well have been president of France.
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Kim Willsher / Guardian:
Strauss-Kahn faces fresh sex assault complaint — French writer Tristane Banon claims the IMF chief acted like a ‘rutting chimpanzee’ in an attack on her nine years ago — A French writer who claims Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her nine years ago is to file an official complaint, her lawyer has announced.
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Economist, Runnin' Scared, Patterico's Pontifications, FrumForum and New York Times
Mosi Secret / New York Times:
Police Seek Evidence From I.M.F. Chief on Sex Attack
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The Daily Beast, FrumForum, The BLT, Runnin' Scared, Wonkette and New York Magazine
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Gingrich Blasts House GOP's Medicare Plan — Presidential Candidate Calls It ‘Right-Wing Social Engineering,’ Agrees With Obama About Need for Insurance Mandate — White House hopeful Newt Gingrich called the House Republican plan for Medicare “right-wing social engineering,” …
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Jay Newton-Small / Swampland:
Gingrich Was for Ryan's Budget Before He Was Against It — A couple of weeks ago, I spent a day following Newt Gingrich around New Hampshire. After a radio interview in Concord, Gingrich had a lunchtime Guinness at the Barley House in Concord with Thomas Wilhelmsen, the CEO of a local hospital who first met Gingrich in the mid-1990s.
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Gingrich Spokesman: ‘There Is Little Daylight Between Ryan and Gingrich’ on Medicare Reform
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TPMDC, msnbc.com, Talking Points Memo and National Review
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Gay CNN Anchor Sees Risk in Book — Don Lemon, the weekend prime-time anchor for CNN, was on the air on Sunday night this month when the news broke that President Obama would address the nation at the unusual hour of 10:30 p.m. — By the time the news network was confirming the reports …
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
President Obama polls well despite jobs fears — Despite widespread disapproval of Barack Obama's handling of the economy, more than half of Americans approve of the president and are open to reelecting him. — The economy and government spending stand as the dominant issues on the minds …
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The Moderate Voice, CNN, Daily Kos, Don Surber, The Page and Taegan Goddard's …
David Carr / New York Times:
How Drudge Has Stayed on Top — For most big news Web sites, about 60 percent of the traffic is homegrown, people who come directly to the site by dint of a bookmark or typing in www.latimes.com or www.huffingtonpost.com. The other critical 40 percent comes by referrals …
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Don Surber, UrbanGrounds and Pajamas Media, more at Mediagazer »
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Iowa gov says on your marks ... Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad will call on the Republican presidential candidates to pick up the pace of their campaigns in the first-in-the-nation caucus state, using his weekly news conference on Monday to fire a starter's pistol on the 2012 race.
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The Daily Caller:
When it comes to Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann, the Tea Party rhetoric doesn't always match the record. Should she launch a serious bid for president, Bachmann would likely find herself defending a slew of questionable votes and decisions, including on earmarks, pardons and farm subsidies.
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Taegan Goddard's … and Ben Smith's Blog
Paul Krugman:
What's In A Name? — Urk. Politico: … It's not misleading! I know that serious people are supposed to be shocked, shocked at the Democrats calling the Ryan plan a plan to dismantle Medicare — but that's just what it is. If you replace a system that actually pays seniors' medical bills …
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The Politico
John / Power Line:
A Verdict on Obama's “Stimulus” Plan — Economists Timothy Conley and Bill Dupor have studied the effects of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the purported stimulus bill) with great rigor. Earlier this week, they reported their findings in a paper titled “The American Recovery …
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The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
Paul Ryan / Chicago Tribune:
The budget debate we all deserve — Despite Washington coming to grips with the fact that the debt threat is real, policymakers still are not having the debate Americans deserve. — The talk is too often restricted to “shared sacrifice.” This sets up a debate where we are really just arguing …
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Hot Air
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Herman Cain sounds off on race, a debate win, and the need to simplify government — Chief Political Correspondent Follow Him @ByronYork — STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. - Herman Cain's handsome glass-walled office overlooks the first fairway of the Eagle's Landing Country Club in this exurb of Atlanta …
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Precious Life / National Post:
Do no harm: How a Gazan baby's life became tangled in politics — MONTREAL — Raz Somech, director of immunology at Israel's largest pediatric hospital, is trained to save children's lives. But in the Middle East, even a heroic struggle to keep a baby alive can become entangled in the region's politics.
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