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Hans Nichols / Bloomberg:
Geithner Said to Consider Leaving Treasury After Debt Debate — Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner has signaled to White House officials that he's considering leaving the administration after President Barack Obama reaches an agreement with Congress to raise the national debt limit …
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Tim Geithner: 14th Amendment Says Debt ‘Shall Not Be Questioned’ … WASHINGTON — At a briefing with reporters on Wednesday, President Obama was asked whether he believed that the debt ceiling was constitutional or whether the 14th Amendment required the government to meet all of its obligations regardless of the debt-limit statute.
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Pajamas Media, FrumForum and Firedoglake
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Wonkbook: The two parties have just begun to fight
Wonkbook: The two parties have just begun to fight
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Slate, Wall Street Journal and ThinkProgress
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Geithner Staying (for Now) — WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary …
Geithner Staying (for Now) — WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary …
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The Politico, TalkLeft, James Pethokoukis, Wall Street Journal and Reuters
Tim Mak / The Politico:
Mark Halperin suspended over Obama remark on Morning Joe (video) — MSNBC senior political analyst Mark Halperin was suspended on Thursday by the cable network after he called President Obama “a dick” on a popular morning show and then quickly apologized. — “I thought he was a dick yesterday …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
MSNBC's suspension of Mark Halperin is way over the top — MSNBC just announced that they have “indefintely” suspended Mark Halperin for claiming that Obama was “kind of a dick” at his presser yesterday. Here's MSNBC's statement: — I'm sorry, but this is crazy.
Alex Pareene / Salon:
Mark Halperin comes up with great excuse to fire Mark Halperin
Mark Halperin comes up with great excuse to fire Mark Halperin
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Washington Monthly, TVNewser, Top of the Ticket, PolitickerNY, Balloon Juice, FishbowlDC and NewsBusters.org blogs
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Axelrod: What Halperin said was ‘stupid and tasteless,’ but ultimately a ‘mistake’
Axelrod: What Halperin said was ‘stupid and tasteless,’ but ultimately a ‘mistake’
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Media Decoder, Weasel Zippers, TPMDC, Hot Air and New York Magazine
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Mark Halperin and the Quote of the Day
Mark Halperin and the Quote of the Day
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Mark Halperin called Obama “a dick” and now he says “I can't explain why I did it.”
Mark Halperin called Obama “a dick” and now he says “I can't explain why I did it.”
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Pajamas Media and The New Republic
Jackie Kucinich / USA Today:
Rep. McCotter to launch presidential bid on July 2 — Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, R-Mich. will launch his presidential campaign on July 2, making him the third sitting member of the House to run for the White House in 2012. — McCotter will make his bid official in his home state of Michigan …
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Mike Murphy / Swampland:
How Michele Bachmann's Surge Reshuffles the GOP Presidential Race
How Michele Bachmann's Surge Reshuffles the GOP Presidential Race
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The New Republic, Democracy in America, Ricochet Conversation Feed and Eunomia
Cristina Marcos / Ballot Box:
FEC rules in favor of Stephen Colbert — The Federal Election Commission ruled Thursday that comedian Stephen Colbert could form his eponymous political action committee with a media exemption. — “I am sorry to say, we won,” Colbert declared to supporters outside the FEC building after the commissioners issued their advisory.
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Chris Good / The Atlantic Online:
Colbert's ‘SuperPAC’ Pushes the Limits of Election Law
Colbert's ‘SuperPAC’ Pushes the Limits of Election Law
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CBS News and New York Magazine
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Stephen Colbert's running PAC shtick creates sticky mess
Stephen Colbert's running PAC shtick creates sticky mess
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WDBJ-TV, NationalJournal.com, CNN, The Note, Washington Post, ThinkProgress, Politics, Hit & Run and Prairie Weather
Scott Wong / The Politico:
Chuck Schumer unveils jobs plan — A bill to create construction jobs and fund new highway infrastructure. A clean-energy jobs program. Reforming the immigration system for high-skilled workers. And a variety of tax cuts and credits. — None of them are new ideas …
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The Lonely Conservative, Weasel Zippers and Taylor Marsh
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The Hill:
White House rejects McConnell invitation for Obama to meet Senate GOP
White House rejects McConnell invitation for Obama to meet Senate GOP
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Washington Monthly, msnbc.com, FrumForum, The Hill and Washington Post
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Battle lines harden between Obama, Senate GOP as time runs short
Battle lines harden between Obama, Senate GOP as time runs short
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The Politico
Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
An Open Letter To Jeff Bezos On Terminating The Amazon Affiliate Program In California — Dear Jeff- — Thank you for your letter today, informing me that after seven years of being one of your affiliates — and having earned for you about $150,000 in that time — that you “deeply regret” …
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John Cook / Gawker:
Roger Ailes' Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox News — Republican media strategist Roger Ailes launched Fox News Channel in 1996, ostensibly as a “fair and balanced” counterpoint to what he regarded as the liberal establishment media. But according to a remarkable document buried deep within …
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Against the constitutional option, cont'd — Jonathan Chait and David Dayen both think that the breakdown of debt-ceiling negotiations strengthens the case for the Obama administration to attempt the “constitutional option,” in which they simply declare the debt limit unconstitutional and hope the Supreme Court agrees.
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Jon Walker / Firedoglake:
Social Security Benefits Cuts Are in the Mix in Debt Ceiling Negotiations
Social Security Benefits Cuts Are in the Mix in Debt Ceiling Negotiations
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alicublog, The Politico and CNN
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Defusing The Debt Ceiling Bomb
Defusing The Debt Ceiling Bomb
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The TrogloPundit and Washington Post
First Read / msnbc.com:
Romney backtracks on argument that Obama made economy worse — Over the last few weeks, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has argued that President Obama's policies have made the economy worse. — Here was Romney in New Hampshire on Monday:
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New York Times:
Strauss-Kahn Case Seen as in Jeopardy — The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on the verge of collapse as investigators have uncovered major holes in the credibility of the housekeeper who charged that he attacked her in his Manhattan hotel suite in May, according to two well-placed law enforcement officials.
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Talking Points Memo, Politics and naked capitalism
Project Syndicate:
Confessions of a Financial Deregulator — print recommend Send link clip secure rights — BERKELEY - Back in the late 1990's, in America at least, two schools of thought pushed for more financial deregulation - that is, for repealing the legal separation of investment banking …
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Hullabaloo
Paul Bedard / US News:
Harvard: July 4th Parades Are Right-Wing — Democratic political candidates can skip this weekend's July 4th parades. A new Harvard University study finds that July 4th parades energize only Republicans, turn kids into Republicans, and help to boost the GOP turnout of adults on Election Day.
Kate Sheppard / Mother Jones:
Kansas To Shut Down All but One Abortion Clinic Friday — It's official. Every abortion provider in the state of Kansas has been denied a license to continue operating as of July 1. As we reported last week, strict new state laws put in place this month threatened to close the remaining three abortion clinics in Kansas.
Mark Oppenheimer / New York Times:
Married, With Infidelities — Last month, when the New York congressman Anthony Weiner finally admitted that he had lied, that his Twitter account had not been hacked, that he in fact had sent a picture of his thinly clad undercarriage to a stranger in Seattle, I asked my wife of six years …
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New York Times:
Ballad of the Long Shot — Before you announced your campaign, you said that the liberal establishment is scared that “a real black man might run against Barack Obama.” Are you suggesting Obama isn't really black? — A real black man is not timid about making the right decisions, that's what I meant.
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
New law could free 12K drug users — On the heels of a law signed last year by President Barack Obama limiting sentences for crack cocaine offenses, thousands of prisoners for crimes related to the drug will be eligible for early release, the U.S. Sentencing Commission ruled Thursday.
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Shani O. Hilton / Colorlines:
Justice Revisited! Crack Sentencing Reform Applies to Old Convictions
Justice Revisited! Crack Sentencing Reform Applies to Old Convictions
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TalkLeft and Feministing
Brian Palmer / New York Times:
Fire Up the Grill, Not the Atmosphere — FOOD is responsible for 10 to 30 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. By many estimates, cooking represents more of a meal's carbon footprint than transport. For certain vegetables, it accounts for more emissions than agriculture, transport and disposal combined.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
How health care rulings are covered — Regular readers may recall an item from February, in which I compared coverage of health care court rulings from several major media outlets. Given yesterday's developments, it's time to revisit the subject. — To briefly review …
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ThinkProgress, The New Republic, Daily Kos and AMERICAblog News
Thomas Burr / Salt Lake Tribune:
In Utah, Huntsman's son hits Romney rally — • Will Huntsman, son of presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, attended a rally on Friday for rival White House hopeful Mitt Romney and posed for a photo with the former Massachusetts governor. — In a photo obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune …
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