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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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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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CNN, The Atlantic Online and Prairie Weather
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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The Moderate Voice, Rasmussen Reports, Questions and Observations, Don Surber, Pirate's Cove and AlterNet
Damian Paletta / Washington Wire:
Top House Leaders Offer Conflicting Views Of Where Debt Talks Go Next
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
John Boehner Wants To Scale Down Debt Talks
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A plain blog about politics and Eschaton
James Pethokoukis:
Like Reagan at Reykjavik, Boehner passes on a bad deal
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BizzyBlog, Patterico's Pontifications, Outside the Beltway, The Politico, Power Line and Poor Richard's News
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner backing away from grand compromise on debt
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Biased BBC, Hot Air and James Pethokoukis
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Boehner Scales Back Deficit Talks, Citing Tax Increases
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The Politico, Angry Bear, CNN, JustOneMinute, Balloon Juice, Prairie Weather, Firedoglake, The Hill, Daily Kos and TalkLeft
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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Gawker, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Raw Replay and Towleroad News #gay
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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Mish's Global Economic …, americanthinker.com and Calculated Risk
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Stephen Castle / New York Times:
Italy Becoming a Bigger Priority for Euro Zone — LONDON — With fears growing that Italy could become the latest victim of the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis, and with plans for a second Greek bailout deadlocked, top European officials are to meet on Monday to wrestle with the mounting threats to the currency union.
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New York Magazine and Outside the Beltway
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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The Gateway Pundit and American Power
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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Maggie's Notebook, UNCOVERAGE.net, Weasel Zippers, americanthinker.com and Israel Matzav
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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NewsBusters.org, Wizbang, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Conservatives4Palin and National Review
Matt Schneider / Mediaite:
Sen. McConnell: ‘Nobody Is Talking About Not Raising The Debt Ceiling’ In Congress — Senate Minority Leader Republican Mitch McConnell discussed the debt ceiling negotiations with Bret Baier on Fox News Sunday. McConnell was in agreement with Speaker John Boehner's decision not to support …
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Doug Ross and Hullabaloo
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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The Gateway Pundit
Tonya Mosley / KING-TV:
Kirkland 6-year-old patted down by TSA agents — A Kirkland family has filed a complaint claiming their 6-year-old son was singled out by TSA for a hand-search. KING 5's Tonya Mosley has the story.
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Raw Replay and Scared Monkeys
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.
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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The Gateway Pundit, The Lonely Conservative, Cold Fury and Daily Pundit
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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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Guardian, Iowa Caucuses, ThinkProgress, Dump Michele Bachmann, Weasel Zippers, Daily Pundit and Little Green Footballs
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