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Obama says he cannot guarantee Social Security checks will go out on August 3 — President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agreement on reducing the deficit in the coming weeks.
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The Politico:
Senate GOP mulls new debt strategy — Trying to get out of the political box which they have helped to create, Senate Republicans are actively discussing a new plan under which the debt ceiling would grow in three increments over the remainder of this Congress unless lawmakers approve a veto proof resolution of disapproval.
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
The Big Blink? McConnell Proposes Giving Obama Authority To Raise Debt Limit Alone — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has proposed creating an escape hatch for Congressional Republicans, who have put themselves in a box by threatening not to raise the national debt limit …
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Zeke Miller / Politics:
Boehner Says The Debt Limit Increase Is Obama's Problem — Speaker of the House John Boehner introduced a new argument to the debt ceiling and deficit reduction talks Tuesday, saying raising the borrowing limit is Republicans' concession in the negotiations. — “This debt limit increase is [Obama's] problem,” he said.
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Erick Erickson / RedState:
Mitch McConnell Just Proposed the “Pontius Pilate Pass the Buck Act of 2011″ — Editor's note: I decided to make the title less incendiary. — Consider the Associated Press's headline right now: “GOP Leader McConnell proposes giving Obama new power for automatic debt limit increase”
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Erik Wasson / Healthwatch:
Cantor outlines $353B in Medicare, Medicaid savings during debt talks — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on Monday proposed changes to Medicare and Medicaid he said would save $353 billion over the next decade. — Cantor made the proposal in talks at the White House.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
EXCLUSIVE: McConnell to Obama: Eat your own darn peas — At 2 p.m. today, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) is going to make some news. Right Turn has learned from sources familiar with McConnell's thinking that McConnell is going to suggest an alternative to President Obama's “grand bargain.”
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Michelle Malkin:
Another mortifying McConnell head-banging-against-the-wall moment
Another mortifying McConnell head-banging-against-the-wall moment
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Damian Paletta / Washington Wire:
470 Business Leaders Urge Congress, White House to Act on Debt
470 Business Leaders Urge Congress, White House to Act on Debt
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Corey Boles / Wall Street Journal:
McConnell Says ‘Real Deal’ Not Possible With Obama
McConnell Says ‘Real Deal’ Not Possible With Obama
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
New McConnell Plan: We Get Everything We Want On Debt Ceiling, Plus 12 Opportunities To Bash Obama
New McConnell Plan: We Get Everything We Want On Debt Ceiling, Plus 12 Opportunities To Bash Obama
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The Politico:
Angry John Boehner rallies GOP troops on debt limit
Angry John Boehner rallies GOP troops on debt limit
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Rich Lowry / National Review:
McConnell's Contingency Plan
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell fall-back plan leaves debt ceiling hikes to Obama
McConnell fall-back plan leaves debt ceiling hikes to Obama
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
McConnell outlines new proposal on debt ceiling
McConnell outlines new proposal on debt ceiling
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Rich Lowry / National Review:
More Contingency Plan — The initial legislation would authorize …
More Contingency Plan — The initial legislation would authorize …
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Boehner: 'This Debt Limit Increase Is Obama's Problem'
Boehner: 'This Debt Limit Increase Is Obama's Problem'
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Boehner: avoidable economic crash isn't my problem
Boehner: avoidable economic crash isn't my problem
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Boehner's previous pledge to hike debt ceiling goes straight down the memory hole
Boehner's previous pledge to hike debt ceiling goes straight down the memory hole
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama warns Social Security checks might not be sent Aug. 3
Obama warns Social Security checks might not be sent Aug. 3
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Rep. Allen West / Fox News:
Boehner Assures Republicans He Won't Cave on Tax Hikes
Boehner Assures Republicans He Won't Cave on Tax Hikes
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White House Dossier
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Fresh doubt cast on Obama's health care story — During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama often discussed his mother's struggle with cancer. Ann Dunham spent the months before her death in 1995, Obama said, fighting with insurance companies that sought to deny her the coverage she needed to pay for treatment.
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Nicholas Ballasy / CNSNews:
Sebelius: Obamacare's Penalty on Small Businesses a ‘Great Incentive’ for Growth — (CNSNews.com) - Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius told CNSNews.com on Monday that a provision in President Barack Obama's health-care law that requires small businesses …
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John Tompkins / Brazosport Facts:
Ron Paul won't seek congressional term in 2012 — LAKE JACKSON — After serving almost 24 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Ron Paul told The Facts this morning he will not be seeking another term for the District 14 seat. — Paul, 75, will instead focus on his quest for the presidency in 2012.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Rep. Ron Paul won't seek reelection
Rep. Ron Paul won't seek reelection
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Wonkbook: Why liberals should thank Eric Cantor — (KAREN BLEIER - AFP/GETTY IMAGES) I knew the White House wanted a compromise on the debt ceiling. I just didn't expect them to do quite so much, well, compromising. — Here's what appears to have been in the $4 trillion deal they offered …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Magic Lever — The world economy is a complex, unknowable organism. Most of us try to diversify our investments and balance risk and security to protect against the unexpected. — But a few years ago a group of bankers thought they had the magic tool to help them master financial trends and predict the future.
New York Times:
Half Brother of Afghan President Is Killed in Kandahar — By ALISSA J. RUBIN, CARLOTTA GALL and RUHULLAH KHAPALWAK — KABUL, Afghanistan — The powerful half brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai was shot dead on Tuesday by a close family associate, according to Karzai family friends who were nearby.
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Mirwais Khan / Associated Press:
Afghan president's half brother killed in south
Afghan president's half brother killed in south
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Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of Afghan president, killed by trusted confidant
Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of Afghan president, killed by trusted confidant
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Bachmann: I'm ‘Very Proud’ Of Husband's Ex-Gay Therapy Clinics — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) refused to comment on her husband's Christian counseling clinics, dodging a question from a local ABC News reporter in Iowa about new video evidence showing one counselor telling a gay patient …
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Blow against O in Weiner race — In “a shot across President Obama's bow,” Democratic former Mayor Ed Koch yesterday urged voters in Queens and Brooklyn to make “history” by voting for the Republican candidate to replace randy ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner in the Sept. 13 special election …
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A.Killough / CNN:
Ed Koch hopes GOP will capture Weiner's seat
Ed Koch hopes GOP will capture Weiner's seat
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Marc Caputo / MiamiHerald.com:
Police reports show different side of Michele Bachmann — From complaining about her house being egged to filing a report that she was being held “against my will” in a public restroom, Michele Bachmann has left a trail of police reports showing a seldom-seen side of a presidential candidate.
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Justin Fenton / Baltimore Sun:
Pair tried to steal historical documents worth millions, police say — Presidential historian and collector held without bond — Barry H. Landau has rubbed elbows with presidents, helped plan inaugurations, and claims one of the largest collections of Oval Office memorabilia outside museums and presidential libraries.
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Samantha Stamler / CNN:
Presidential historian accused of stealing Maryland museum documents
Presidential historian accused of stealing Maryland museum documents
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Jeremy Scahill / The Nation:
The CIA's Secret Sites in Somalia — Nestled in a back corner of Mogadishu's Aden Adde International Airport is a sprawling walled compound run by the Central Intelligence Agency. Set on the coast of the Indian Ocean, the facility looks like a small gated community, with more than a dozen …
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Jonathon M. Seidl / Breaking news and opinion …:
Education Omaha Schools Spend $130,000 in Stimulus Money to Buy 8,000 ‘Social Justice’ Diversity Manuals — If I told you that your tax dollars (130,000 of them) went to buying a “diversity” manual that asserts the government and other institutions create advantages that …
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Thinks We're Still in the Bush Era — Another day, another chart from the “non-partisan” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on what “accounts” for the public debt. At some level, these exercises are silly: all prior legislation could be equally said to …
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Anita Gates / New York Times:
Sherwood Schwartz, Creator of Gilligan and the Bradys, Dies at 94 — Sherwood Schwartz, who created “Gilligan's Island” and “The Brady Bunch,” two of the most affectionately ridiculed and enduring television sitcoms of the 1960s and '70s, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 94.
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