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Washington Post:
Boehner abandons efforts to reach comprehensive debt-reduction deal — House Speaker John A. Boehner abandoned efforts Saturday night to cut a far-reaching debt-reduction deal, telling President Obama that a more modest package offers the only politically realistic path to avoiding a default on the mounting national debt.
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New York Times:
The Worst Time to Slow the Economy — It was not surprising to hear the Republican presidential candidates repeat their tiresome claim that excessive government spending and borrowing were behind Friday's terrible unemployment report. It was depressing to hear President Obama sound as if he agreed with them.
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Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Obama to Seek Biggest Deficit Cut Possible, Geithner Says — WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said Sunday that President Obama would continue to press for the largest deficit reduction possible in negotiations with Congressional leaders over raising the government's debt ceiling …
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The Politico:
Under pressure from right, John Boehner steps back on debt deal — House Speaker John Boehner, under pressure from the right and facing resistance from his own deputies, backed away Saturday from a bold $4 trillion deficit-reduction package that he once hoped would resolve the August debt ceiling crisis …
Damian Paletta / Washington Wire:
Top House Leaders Offer Conflicting Views Of Where Debt Talks Go Next — Top House leaders offered markedly different views on the future of the debt talks after Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner said he would no longer pursue a $4 trillion deficit-reduction deal proposed by the White House.
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
John Boehner Wants To Scale Down Debt Talks
John Boehner Wants To Scale Down Debt Talks
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James Pethokoukis:
Like Reagan at Reykjavik, Boehner passes on a bad deal
Like Reagan at Reykjavik, Boehner passes on a bad deal
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Boehner Scales Back Deficit Talks, Citing Tax Increases
Boehner Scales Back Deficit Talks, Citing Tax Increases
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Wall Street Journal:
White House Talks to Focus on Smaller Deficit Deal
White House Talks to Focus on Smaller Deficit Deal
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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Pawlenty: Science ‘In Dispute’ Over Whether Gays ‘Born This Way’ — This morning on Meet The Press, David Gregory pressed GOP presidential candidate Gov. Tim Pawlenty about his recent remarks that he likes Lady Gaga's song “Born This Way,” asking if he believes being gay is a choice.
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Ben Domenech / Coffee & Markets:
Gawker's John Cook Attempts to Out CIA Agent Who Helped Kill Bin Laden — John Cook of Gawker attempted this week to out the CIA staffer who spearheaded the effort to kill Osama bin Laden. — In a post titled “Is This the Guy Who Killed Bin Laden?” Cook attempts to isolate the staffer …
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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
The Sugar Daddy Has Run Out of Sugar; Now We Need New Leaders — Barack Obama's big government policies continue to fail. He should put a link to the national debt clock on his BlackBerry. The gears on that clock have nearly exploded during his administration.
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Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Mayors call on Obama to strengthen enforcement of country's gun laws — A group of more than 600 mayors are calling on President Obama to strengthen and increase enforcement of the nation's gun laws in the wake of a controversial gun tracking operation that may have contributed to the death of at least one federal agent.
Luke Baker / Reuters:
Exclusive: EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks Italy — (Reuters) - European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
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Salena Zito / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Issue could cost Obama his job — Where are the jobs? — Not the stimulus signs, rhetoric about “shovel-ready” economic voodoo or propping-up of an anemic manufacturing sector, but the real jobs? — Polls at the beginning of July showed President Obama in an increasingly hazardous position with voters on jobs and the economy.
The Note:
Newt Gingrich: ‘This is the Obama Depression’ — ABC News' Arlette Saenz reports: — Newt Gingrich labeled the economic situation in the U.S. as the “Obama depression,” just days after a dismal jobs report and signs negotiations on the debt deal are faltering.
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Jonathan S. Tobin / Commentary Magazine:
Stop Obama's Egyptian Tank Sale — While everyone in Washington was concentrating on the debt crisis this week, the Obama administration attempted to slip through a questionable arms deal that requires serious scrutiny. Though it got little attention, the Defense Department officially notified Congress …
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New York Post:
Can jobs news get worse? Just wait and see — If you are an American looking for work — no, make that pleading to be allowed to earn a living — you already know this: the job market is even worse than Washington is telling us. And Washington yesterday told us that the employment situation is just plain ugly.
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Conservative group backtracks on marriage pledge slavery language — A social conservative Iowa group has retracted language regarding slavery from the opening of a presidential candidates' pledge, amid a growing controversy over the document that Michele Bachmann had signed and Rick Santorum committed to.
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