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3:55 AM ET, July 15, 2011

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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Go Ahead, GOP, Make Obama's Day  —  So how can the GOP get something it wants out of the sodden mess of our debt negotiations?  Here's my answer: pass a short-term debt-ceiling increase.  It seems pretty clear to me that there's no time or common ground for a grand bargain before August 2nd, so pass a short-term increase.
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Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
GOP Senator: Maybe We Shouldn't Have Tied Debt Vote To Deficit Deal (VIDEO) … WASHINGTON — Some Republicans are starting to have buyer's remorse over their party's insistence that a vote to raise the debt limit be tied to a long-term deficit reduction package.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Wall Street Journal:
Plan B Emerges on Debt  —  Sens. Reid, McConnell Quietly Discuss Way to Keep Government From Default  —  A backup plan to cut the federal deficit and keep the U.S. government from default gained momentum Thursday on Capitol Hill as President Barack Obama and congressional leaders took a break …
New York Times:
‘Decision Time’ on Budget, Obama Tells Leaders
Discussion: FrumForum
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
House GOP plans meeting to talk faltering talks over debt deal
Discussion: The Politico
Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
Reid: Cantor acted ‘childish’ and shouldn't be at the negotiation table
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
John McCain turns ‘pea’ shooter on Obama
Discussion: TPMDC, JustOneMinute, GOP 12 and FrumForum
Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Guy Benson Paul Ryan on Debt Negotiations: “Grand Deal” …
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Harry Reid And Mitch McConnell: ‘Hybrid’ Solution To Debt Standoff
Bloomberg:
Obama May Call Lawmakers to Camp David
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and FrumForum
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
“Republican Candidate” Extends Lead vs. Obama to 47% to 39%  —  Margin marks first statistically significant lead among registered voters  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Registered voters by a significant margin now say they are more likely to vote for the “Republican Party's candidate for president” …
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Katie Glueck / Washington Wire:
Gallup Poll: ‘Generic Republican’ Leads Obama by 8 Points
Bruce Orwall / Wall Street Journal:
In Interview, Murdoch Defends News Corp.  —  In his first significant public comments on the tabloid newspaper scandal that has engulfed his media empire, News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch vigorously defended the company's handling of the crisis but said it would establish …
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Wall Street Journal:
Murdoch Defiant as FBI Acts
Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
FBI opens inquiry after report that News Corp. tried to hack phones of 9/11 victims
Discussion: CNN and AMERICAblog News
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Debt Ceiling: What's the End Game For Republicans?  —  Jonathan Podhoretz reads a Quinnipiac poll showing that by a margin of 48-34, the public is going to blame Republicans and not Obama if we don't raise the debt ceiling, and joins the ranks of the Washington sellouts:
Discussion: Daniel W. Drezner and Instapundit
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
The White House's case for a big deficit deal  —  (Andrew Harrer - BLOOMBERG) A lot of Democrats took one look at the McConnell plan, which would raise the debt ceiling without substantive fiscal concessions, and saw their way out of this mess.  But not the White House.
Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:
Bin Laden Plotted to Attack U.S. on 9/11 Anniversary  —  Osama bin Laden was working to assemble a team of militants to attack the U.S. on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 hijackings, according to communications that Navy SEALs seized from his Pakistani hideout when they killed the al Qaeda leader this spring.
Mark Joyella / Mediaite:
Eric Bolling: 'I'll Never Forget 9/11, But Thank You, Liberals, For Reminding Me How Petty You Can Be'  —  In an emotional statement on Fox's The Five Thursday, Eric Bolling shot back at the “radical liberal left” that “pounced” on him after he said on the program Wednesday that “America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Wonkette
Judicial Watch:
Documents Show Obama White House Attacked, Excluded Fox News Channel  —  White House Emails Detail anti Fox Bias inside Obama White House: “I'm putting some dead fish in the fox cubby — just cause” “[FNC Anchor] Bret Baier...is a lunatic”  —  Judicial Watch, the public interest group …
Washington Post:
S&P warns that chance of downgrading U.S. credit rating is 50 percent  —  Standard & Poor's said late Thursday that it could downgrade the U.S. credit rating as soon as this month, and there is a 50 percent chance it will do so within three months, if Washington fails to come to an agreement over the nation's debt.
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Felix Salmon:
The damage already done by the debt ceiling debate
Monica Davey / New York Times:
Deal Is Made for Ending Shutdown in Minnesota  —  The governor of Minnesota and the state's Republican lawmakers announced on Thursday that they had, at last, reached a deal on the state's budget, bringing what is expected to be a swift reopening of government services.
Discussion: The Atlantic Online and FrumForum
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Benjy Sarlin / TPMDC:
GOP Demand Obama Protect Seniors From Default, Won't Name What To Cut Instead  —  Republican lawmakers are pushing President Obama to put seniors, troops, and bondholders at the front of the line should Congress fail to raise the debt ceiling.  The rest?  Well, that's up to him.
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Merrill Matthews / Right Directions:
What Happened to the $2.6 Trillion Social Security Trust Fund?
Discussion: AARP and Right Wing News
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Palin political committee spent tens of thousands on bus trip  —  Sarah Palin's political action committee spent tens of thousands of dollars covering the costs of the former Alaska governor's “One Nation” East Coast bus tour this spring — a trip that Palin (R) has repeatedly characterized as a “family vacation.”
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Wall Street Journal:
The Obama Downgrade  —  The real reason the U.S. could lose its AAA rating.  —  So the credit-rating agencies that helped to create the financial crisis that led to a deep recession are now warning that the U.S. could lose the AAA rating it has had since 1917.
Robert Costa / National Review:
McCain on the Debt Limit  —  As rain splatters the windows of Sen. John McCain's second-floor office on Capitol Hill, the 74-year-old Arizona Republican leans back, clasps his hands, and recalls the Nineties.  Brinksmanship, he says, cost the party then, and it could cripple Republicans this summer …
Forrest Wilder / The Texas Observer:
Rick Perry's Army of God  —  A little-known movement of radical Christians and self-proclaimed prophets wants to infiltrate government, and Rick Perry might be their man.  —  photo illustration by EmDash , LLC  —  On September 28, 2009, at 1:40 p.m., God's messengers visited Rick Perry.
New York Times:
Hackers Gained Access to Sensitive Military Files  —  WASHINGTON — The Defense Department suffered one of its worst digital attacks in history in March, when foreign hackers broke into the computers of a corporate contractor and obtained 24,000 sensitive Pentagon files during a single intrusion, senior officials said on Thursday.
Discussion: Gawker and FrumForum
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Jason Ukman / Washington Post:
24,000 Pentagon files stolen in major cyber breach, official says
Oregonian:
The new normal: Once trailing, Oregon a leader in economic recovery  —  By Jack Roberts  —  The report last week of anemic job growth for the past two months — just 18,000 new jobs in June and a downward revision of May's new jobs number to just 25,000, less than half the initial estimate …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Patrick O'Connor / Washington Wire:
Pawlenty Ends Quarter With $1.4 Million  —  Tim Pawlenty ended June with $1.4 million to spend on his bid for the Republican presidential nomination as his campaign dumps money into Iowa ahead of a crucial August straw poll.  —  The former Minnesota governor raised $4.5 million during …
 
 
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Indiana $1.2 Billion In Black, Auditor Says
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Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Cain Rewrites History: I Said I Would Not Be Comfortable With ‘A Terrorist In My Cabinet’
Mike / Rortybomb:
The FCIC Investigation, Wallison on the GSEs and the Conservative Echo Chamber
Discussion: Mother Jones and Firedoglake
Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Missouri Governor Allows Ban On Late-Term Abortions To Become Law
Discussion: Associated Press
Rick Perry / Washington Post:
Break the spend-and-borrow cycle
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The Note:
Sarah Palin Paid Almost $14,000 to Decorate Her Tour Bus and More From SarahPAC's FEC Report
Discussion: blogs.abcnews.com, The Hill and TPMDC
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
John Edwards trial set for October
Discussion: Associated Press and CNN
Patrick McGreevy / PolitiCal:
Gov. Brown signs bill requiring teaching of gay accomplishments [Updated]
The Note:
Mitt Romney Breaks Silence on Debt Ceiling
Bloomberg:
Reinhart and Rogoff: The Economy Can't Grow
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
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