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9:45 AM ET, June 28, 2011

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The Hill:
Bush rates are kept safe in debt-limit talks  —  The White House, seeking an agreement to raise the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling by Aug. 2, on Monday said it would not insist that any deal include an end to former President George W. Bush's controversial tax rates on the wealthy.
Discussion: The Politico and FrumForum
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
House Democrats feel jilted by the president in budget, debt talks  —  House Democrats feel like jilted lovers.  —  They're looking down Pennsylvania Avenue for some sign of affection from President Obama in the White House.  But all they feel they're getting in return is the back of his hand.
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Political Use of the White House ‘Just Got More Interesting’  —  Was the below campaign video filmed in the White House?  It certainly appears so, although it's hard to say with certainty.  —  We all remember President Bill Clinton using the Oval Office for fundraising events in 1996.
Peter Wallsten / Washington Post:
Obama pushing behind scenes to win over big-dollar donors
Discussion: The Note and Prairie Weather
Wall Street Journal:
Negotiators Wrangle on Taxes
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
The wrong John Wayne  —  Rep. Michele Bachmann kicked off her presidential campaign on Monday in Waterloo, Iowa, and in one interview surrounding the official event she promised to mimic the spirit of Waterloo's own John Wayne.  —  The only problem, as one eagle-eyed reader notes …
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
John Wayne's Waterloo connection
Discussion: TPMDC and Weigel
Carl Cameron / Fox News:
Bachmann Misspeaks While Noting Her Hawkeye Roots
Discussion: CNN and Fox Nation
The Politico:
Michele Bachmann's thin legislative résumé  —  Rep. Michele Bachmann is surging in the GOP presidential polls and barnstorming Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, but as she sprints toward the front of the Republican pack, there's a major hole in her political résumé: legislation.
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Michael O'Brien / Ballot Box:
Bachmann: Obama ‘is afraid of my candidacy’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Bachmann's unique understanding of history
Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:
Supreme Court strikes down ban on sale of violent video games to minors  —  The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a California law that banned the sale of violent video games to minors, ruling video games are protected under the First Amendment as free speech.
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court strikes Arizona's ‘matching funds’ for publicly financed candidates
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Strike Down Arizona Campaign Finance Law
Discussion: New York Times
CNN:
Two top Herman Cain staffers resign  —  Washington (CNN) - Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain's New Hampshire state director, his only staffer in the state, as well as a Cain campaign regional director have both resigned.  —  Matt Murphy is the former state director and Jim Zeiler is the former regional director.
Discussion: GOP 12 and Outside the Beltway
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
President, GOP hopefuls descend on Iowa as pivotal straw poll draws near  —  With a key test of the GOP presidential field just over a month and a half away, candidates are descending on Iowa this week to sharpen their appeal to voters in the first caucus state.
Discussion: The Note and Don Surber
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The Politico:
Bachmann to launch with Iowa momentum - House Majority PAC goes up vs. 8 targets - S.C. primary in peril - Mass. Dems swat Brown on gay marriage - DeMint rules out Huntsman  —  (jhohmann@politico.com) and (aburns@politico.com)  —  POPPING THIS MORNING - HOUSE MAJORITY PAC BLITZES 8 …
New York Post:
Weiner horning in on successor race  —  His ego has no bounds.  —  In a dazzling display of arrogance, disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner is trying to insert himself back into politics — calling power brokers and would-be candidates for his old seat, hoping they'll let him play …
Chicago Tribune:
Blagojevich guilty on 17 counts  —  A federal jury today convicted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich on 17 of 20 counts, finding he brazenly abused the powers of his office in a series of attempted shakedowns captured on undercover government recordings.  —  Blagojevich showed no reaction as the jury announced their decisions.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
On Obama, Wall St. Shows a Reluctance to Commit  —  President Obama's $35,800-a-plate fund-raising dinner was the talk of Wall Street last week.  —  Held at Daniel, the Michelin three-star restaurant of Daniel Boulud on the Upper East Side, the event was seen as a test of the president's popularity among …
Discussion: Iowa Caucuses and Vox Popoli
JSOnline:
Two probes opened into Bradley claim  —  By Patrick Marley, Jason Stein and Don Walker of the Journal Sentinel  —  Madison - Two agencies are investigating a claim by Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley that Justice David Prosser put her in a chokehold earlier this month.
The Hill:
Lobbyists took $100K cut in pay to work for members of Congress  —  Some lobbyists who went to work on Capitol Hill this year took a pay cut of about $100,000, an analysis by The Hill shows.  —  A review of financial disclosure reports for lobbyists who were hired as congressional aides …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Bristol Palin says her mom has decided whether to run for president  —  The daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said Tuesday that her mother had made up her mind already about whether to run for president in 2012.  —  Bristol Palin, the eldest daughter of the 2008 Republican vice …
Gina Sunseri / ABCNEWS:
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Appears, Stands Before Houston Crowd  —  This, most recent photo of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords since she was shot, was posted to her public Facebook page by her aides Sunday morning June 12, 2011.  The photo was taken May 17, 2011 at TIRR Memorial Hermann Hospital …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Anti-Mormon bias persists, notably among Democrats  —  Ever since Mitt Romney's unsuccessful run for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, there's been much discussion of whether GOP voters would accept a Mormon candidate.  Would evangelical conservatives, in particular …
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Money Was The Key Ingredient In New York's Gay Marriage Bill … Gay Marriage , Gay Rights , Same Sex Marriage , Ken Mehlman , New York Gay Rights , New York Same Sex Marriage , Paul Singer , Cuomo Gay Rights , Lgbt Gay Rights , Lgbt Money , Republican Donors Gay Rights , Same Sex Marriage Money , Same Sex New York , Politics News
 
 
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The Hill:
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Washington Post:
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Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

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