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12:45 PM ET, July 13, 2011

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Wall Street Journal:
Debt-Limit Harakiri  —  Mitch McConnell isn't selling out Republicans.  —  Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell said yesterday he's concluded that no deal to raise the debt ceiling in return for serious spending restraint is possible with President Obama, and who can blame him?
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
As Easy as ABC  —  Moving on from Mitch McConnell.  —  Mitch McConnell's plan, as Eric Cantor and Jim DeMint said tonight, is “going nowhere.”  Which is where it deserved to go.  It was too clever by half, transparently cynical, probably unconstitutional, and Rube Goldberg-like in its incomprehensibility.
Scott Wong / The Politico:
Harry Reid commends Mitch McConnell's debt plan
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The McConnell Plan's Pitfalls
Discussion: RedState
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
U.S. Debt Ceiling Increase Remains Unpopular With Americans
The Politico:
Obama and DNC raise $86M, more than doubling GOP field - RNC campaign targets four swing states - Mandel brings in $2.3M for Senate bid - Hahn wins in CA-36 - Barbour camp eyes Perry - One month until  —  (aburns@politico.com) and (jhohmann@politico.com)  —  2012 SIREN - OBAMA'S NUMBER …
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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
President Obama smashes record with $86M haul  —  President Barack Obama has shattered first quarter fundraising records for a White House incumbent by raising $86 million for the first quarter - dwarfing the 2012 GOP field's total take and breezing past his own target of $60 million.
Discussion: CNN and The BLT
Sam Youngman / Ballot Box:
Obama is winning on debt debate, but there's no room for moral victories
Discussion: driftglass
BBC:
Mumbai: Explosions shake India's financial hub  —  Police told local media that eight people had been killed and more than 100 wounded.  —  One explosion was reported in the Zaveri Bazaar, another in the Opera House business district and a third in Dadar district.
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Fox News:
At Least 10 Reportedly Dead After Explosions Rock Mumbai Markets
msnbc.com:
Official: 13 dead, 81 hurt in Mumbai terror attack
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Times of India:
Three bomb blasts rock Mumbai
Discussion: Reuters, ThinkProgress and UN Dispatch
Eliot Spitzer / Slate Magazine:
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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Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress:
The News Corp. Bid for BSkyB Is Over — For Now
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Gracious In Defeat  —  The National Republican Congressional Committee, which is charged with getting Republicans elected to the House and keeping them there, sent out a press email overnight on the results of the CA-36 special election titled “Statement on Janice Hahn's Entry Into Democrats' Swamp of Corruption”:
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Eric Roper / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
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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Reid J. Epstein / Reuters:
Shutdown could leave Minnesota dry
Discussion: KSTP-TV and Marginal Revolution
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Top Dem suggests Boehner and Cantor have weak relationship  —  A House Democratic leader on Wednesday suggested House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) don't enjoy a good relationship.  —  “If they've got a good relationship, I don't want to see a bad one …
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Washington Post:   McConnell outlines new proposal on debt ceiling
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
GOP Co-Chair of Deficit Commission Decries Inability of Washington to Find Common Ground …
Discussion: Hot Air and Politics
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Business community to Congress: Enough  —  It wasn't too long ago that 62 leading U.S. business groups, including the American Gas Association, the Telecommunications Industry Association, and the National Association of Manufacturers, all pleaded with Congress to end the standoff and raise the debt ceiling.
Discussion: Connecting.the.Dots
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Jia Lynn Yang / Washington Post:
Congress hears outcry from business lobby on debt ceiling and deficit
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Raise Taxes or Granny Gets It  —  The liberal media's idea of a grown-up.  —  President Obama is pulling out the big guns and pointing them straight at your grandmother.  “Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3” …
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New York Post:
Missing 9-year-old B'klyn boy found dead: sources  —  The dismembered body of a missing 9-year-old Hasidic boy was found at two locations in Brooklyn and police this morning arrested a suspect in the slaying — who had the child's severed feet in his freezer, sources told The Post.
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Associated Press:
Man Is Questioned in Death of Brooklyn Boy
New York Post:
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.
JSOnline:
6 fake Democrats fall, setting stage for GOP recalls  —  Six fake Democratic candidates put up by the Republican Party to buy time for Republican state senators subject to recalls accomplished that job Tuesday, but none of them did the unexpected and knocked off a real Democrat.
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Settled in Albany, Gay Marriage Draws Opposition  —  Laura L. Fotusky, the town clerk in Barker, N.Y., a small community north of Binghamton, looked at the calendar, looked at her Bible and knew what she had to do.  —  She drafted a letter to the Town Board and said she would resign on July 21 …
Tennessean.com:
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.
Los Angeles Times:
Prison doctor gets paid for doing little or nothing  —  A California surgeon has mostly been locked out of his job: on paid leave, fired or fighting his termination.  When he does work, it's reviewing records.  He made $777,000 last year, including back pay.  —  A file photo of San Quentin State Prison.
Jospeh Cirincione / The Atlantic Online:
How to Shave a Bundle Off the Deficit: Spend Less on Nukes  —  We're planning to spend as much on nuclear weapons in the next decade as we did in the last on the Iraq War.  But toward what end?  —  Congress is in the midst of an intense debate over a massive defense spending bill …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
 
 
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Will Americans ‘do the right thing’ on debt?
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