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No yelling at Obama today — Carney reminded journalists, “I used to be where you are, and I used to ask questions.” — AP Photo — A long-running tiff between the White House press corps and the West Wing over presidential access flared anew today when press secretary Jay Carney faced off …
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Balloon Juice, The Camp Of The Saints, Pajamas Media, JammieWearingFool, Weasel Zippers and Say Anything
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President Obama abruptly walks out of talks — President Barack Obama abruptly walked out of a stormy debt-limit meeting with congressional leaders Wednesday, a dramatic setback to the already shaky negotiations, according to GOP sources. — “He shoved back and said 'I'll see you tomorrow' and walked out …
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Reuters, Politics, Weasel Zippers, White House Dossier, Outside the Beltway and The Page
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Boehner: Dealing With the White House ‘Has Been Like Dealing With Jell-o’ — In a meeting with a small group of reporters in his Capitol Hill office this morning, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, criticized President Obama and White House officials for their lack of resolve in negotiations.
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The Hill:
Obama warns Cantor: 'Don't call my bluff' in debt talks — Republicans said a tense negotiation over raising the $14.3 trillion debt limit at the White House ended when President Obama stormed out of the meeting with a stern warning to Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.): “Don't call my bluff.”
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The Right Scoop and Balloon Juice
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
McConnell Warns of Risk to Party, and Country, of Default — WASHINGTON — The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, warned Wednesday that allowing a federal default could have disastrous political consequences for his party and “destroy” the Republican brand.
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The Note, Balloon Juice and Balkinization
First Read / msnbc.com:
Can order emerge from chaos on the debt deal?
Can order emerge from chaos on the debt deal?
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The Note, The Atlantic Online, National Review, Hot Air and Taegan Goddard's …
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Harry Reid commends Mitch McConnell's debt plan — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Wednesday praised Republican Leader Mitch McConnell for putting forth a plan to raise the debt ceiling, calling it a “serious proposal” that he's continuing to study. — “He spent a great deal of time working on this.
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Clive Crook / The Atlantic Online:
Mitch McConnell's Good Idea
Mitch McConnell's Good Idea
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The Huffington Post, Washington Post and Grasping Reality …
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
McConnell: GOP won't take ‘co-ownership of a bad economy’
McConnell: GOP won't take ‘co-ownership of a bad economy’
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The Politico and Washington Monthly
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
McConnell Debt Ceiling Strategy: ‘I Refuse To Help Obama Reelection’
McConnell Debt Ceiling Strategy: ‘I Refuse To Help Obama Reelection’
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The Monkey Cage, The New Republic, James Pethokoukis and Washington Monthly
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate conservatives withhold support from McConnell debt plan
Senate conservatives withhold support from McConnell debt plan
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Daily Kos
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
As Easy as ABC — Moving on from Mitch McConnell.
As Easy as ABC — Moving on from Mitch McConnell.
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The TrogloPundit, msnbc.com, Associated Press, JustOneMinute, The Hill, RedState and Wall Street Journal
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One by one, bars get tapped out — Hundreds of bars, restaurants and stores across Minnesota are running out of beer and alcohol and others may soon run out of cigarettes — a subtle and largely unforeseen consequence of a state government shutdown. — In the days leading up to the shutdown …
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Eric Roper Updated / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Shutdown forces MillerCoors to pull beer from shelves
Shutdown forces MillerCoors to pull beer from shelves
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The Moderate Voice, Top of the Ticket, The Consumerist and Say Anything
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Debt ceiling: Moody's puts U.S. on notice — By: CNNMoney.com Senior Writer Jeanne Sahadi — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) - The public pressure on lawmakers to raise the debt ceiling was ratcheted up Wednesday when a major rating agency said it would put the sterling bond rating of the United States on review for possible downgrade.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Note, Taylor Marsh and Reuters
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John Detrixhe / Bloomberg:
Moody's Places U.S. on Review for Downgrade As Debt Talks Stall
Moody's Places U.S. on Review for Downgrade As Debt Talks Stall
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Weasel Zippers, Politics and Pajamas Media
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
When there's no method to the madness — The New York Times' Ross Douthat argued this week that the congressional Republicans' debt-ceiling hostage strategy only seems crazy. … There's a fair amount to Douthat's pitch, but to summarize, GOP officials are really just shrewd negotiators, pushing for the best possible deal.
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The Republican Crazy Is Not An Act
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New York Times, Washington Monthly, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and Balloon Juice
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
DNC chairwoman: Republicans acting almost like ‘spoiled children’ on debt ceiling
DNC chairwoman: Republicans acting almost like ‘spoiled children’ on debt ceiling
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Mediaite, Hot Air and Jack & Jill Politics
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Austrian driver's religious headgear strains credulity — Having received his driving licence, Niko Alm now wants to get pastafarianism officially recognised — An Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as “religious headgear”.
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Weasel Zippers, Lean Left, Pharyngula, Boing Boing and Mediaite
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Mitch McConnell: We Must Rewrite The Constitution Because ‘Elections’ Haven't ‘Worked’ — Speaking on the Senate floor this morning, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) offered what may be the most concise summary of conservative constitutionalism ever spoken …
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Washington Monthly, ACS Blog, The Impolitic and Booman Tribune
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GOPer wants FBI probe of Rupert Murdoch — New York Republican Pete King is calling on the FBI to investigate whether Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation hacked into the voicemail accounts of Sept. 11 victims, calling the allegations of the scandal “disgraceful.”
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The Huffington Post, Gothamist, Swampland, Mediaite and Indecision Forever
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
On Deficit, Americans Prefer Spending Cuts; Open to Tax Hikes — Twenty percent favor deficit reduction by cutting spending only — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' preferences for deficit reduction clearly favor spending cuts to tax increases, but most Americans favor a mix of the two approaches.
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Michele Bachmann's Church Says the Pope Is the Antichrist — The Iowa front-runner for the GOP nomination was a longstanding member of a strict Lutheran synod with controversial views of Catholicism — Michele Bachmann is practically synonymous with political controversy …
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The Daily Dish, New York Magazine and TPMDC
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
The Kenneth Gladney Charade Collapses — It took a St. Louis County jury less than 50 minutes to return a not guilty verdict in the assault trial featuring Kenneth Gladney and two union members who were charged with attacking him outside a two hall event during the tumultuous summer of 2009.
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St. Louis Activist Hub, Big Journalism and TBogg
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Kevin Killeen / CBS St. Louis:
Health Care Reform Fistfight Results in Not Guilty Verdict
Health Care Reform Fistfight Results in Not Guilty Verdict
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Crooks and Liars, Big Government, St. Louis Activist Hub, Daily RFT and St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
US more unpopular in the Arab world than under Bush — I've written numerous times over the last year about rapidly worsening perceptions of the U.S. in the Muslim world, including a Pew poll from April finding that Egyptians view the U.S. more unfavorably now than they did during the Bush presidency.
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Say Anything and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
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Jason Ukman / Washington Post:
Arab world's views of U.S., President Obama increasingly negative, new poll finds
Arab world's views of U.S., President Obama increasingly negative, new poll finds
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Adam Serwer and Eunomia
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Palin nemesis goes nude — GOP presidential hopeful Sarah Palin and her family are the subjects of a profile by George Gurley in the September issue of Playboy, according to sources. Insiders say the story will run next to a four-page nude pictorial of Mercede Johnston, the sister of Bristol Palin's estranged baby daddy, Levi.
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Liberal Values, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Outside the Beltway and New York Magazine
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Pawlenty says no to marriage pledge — (CNN) - Add Tim Pawlenty to the list of Republican presidential candidates who will not sign the controversial marriage pledge from The Family Leader, a socially conservative group in Iowa. — The former Minnesota governor said he is a strong advocate …
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The Politico, The American Independent and American Power
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Romney Campaign Slams ‘Undignified And Inappropriate’ Marriage Pledge From Iowa Group
Romney Campaign Slams ‘Undignified And Inappropriate’ Marriage Pledge From Iowa Group
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Hot Air, Mediaite, Outside the Beltway, ACS Blog, Iowa Caucuses, Associated Press and Daily Kos
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Maid's ‘Fiancé’ Speaks — A call with an Arizona inmate tarnished the case of Strauss-Kahn's accuser. The man, who says he's the maid's fiancé, gives his side of the story to The Daily Beast. — One of the most important and controversial characters in the complicated …
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TalkLeft, Law Blog, Runnin' Scared, Jezebel, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine, Gothamist and Reuters
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Rick Perry's Confederate past — Rick Perry made national headlines in 2009 when, during a speech to a Tea Party group, he floated the possibility that Texas could secede from the union. But the governor's substantive ties to the neo-Confederate movement may be deeper than previously known.
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The Politico, Taylor Marsh, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Other McCain, ThinkProgress and Right Wing Watch
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Police charge mother in Nashville airport altercation — Woman refused to let officers screen daughter — A 41-year-old Clarksville woman was arrested after Nashville airport authorities say she was belligerent and verbally abusive to security officers, refusing for her daughter to be patted down at a security checkpoint.
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LewRockwell.com Blog, Moe Lane, The Raw Story, National Review, Say Anything and Hit & Run
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Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Revealed — A little more than a year ago, Wired.com published excerpts from instant messenger chats between accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning and Adrian Lamo, the ex-hacker in whom he confided and who reported him to the authorities.
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Firedoglake, The Nation, Guardian, TalkLeft and Boing Boing
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Prosecute News Corp. — The U.S. government should go after Murdoch's media company for its corrupt practices and revoke its TV licenses if it's found guilty. — Bribery, illegal wiretapping, interference in a murder investigation, political blackmail, and rampant disregard for both the truth and basic decency.
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Hullabaloo, ThinkProgress, AMERICAblog News, Balloon Juice, No More Mister Nice Blog and Guardian
Caroline May / The Daily Caller:
So much for the obesity epidemic — Despite the obesity epidemic, North Carolina Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan, Wisconsin Democratic Rep. Tammy Baldwin, and Academy Award-winning actress Geena Davis are pushing legislation to encourage the media to produce healthier images of women.
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Hot Air
Adam Serwer / Washington Post:
Laughably bogus poll tries to ‘prove’ Obama is losing Jewish support — Republicans are touting yet another poll that purports to predict the end of the Jewish allegiance to the Democratic Party. Citing a new poll by Republican John McLaughlin and Pat Caddell, the GOP's favorite “Democrat …
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Body of Leiby Kletzky, missing 8-year-old boy, found dismembered; pieces in Dumpster, refrigerator — The body parts of a missing 8-year-old Brooklyn boy were found Wednesday in a Dumpster and the refrigerator of a man suspected in his disappearance, police said.
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Runnin' Scared, Gothamist, New York Sun and Israel Matzav