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10:05 AM ET, July 19, 2011

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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Road Not Taken  —  Over the past months, Republicans enjoyed enormous advantages.  Opinion polls showed that voters are eager to reduce the federal debt, and they want to do it mostly but not entirely through spending cuts.  —  There was a Democratic president eager to move to the center.
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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Priebus: Obama video may be ‘crime’  —  Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is accusing President Barack Obama of committing “an apparent crime” when he recorded a video in the White House as part of a raffle to raise money for his reelection campaign.
David Rogers / The Politico:
Debt ceiling debate turns ‘scary’  —  Washington's frayed nerves showed through Monday amid tough talk on the right, a White House veto threat, canceled weekend passes and the top Senate Democrat likening default to a “very, very scary” outcome even for those “who believe government should be small enough to drown in a bathtub.”
The Politico:
GOP has no backup plan after vote  —  There's a narrative gaining traction in Washington as a debt crisis looms: House Republican hard-liners might soften their stance once they've gotten a vote on their Cut, Cap and Balance proposal.  —  But if that's the case, the conservatives aren't in on the plan.
Marin Cogan / The Politico:
House frosh head to White House with demands  —  A group of House GOP freshmen will appear at the White House tomorrow morning with a letter demanding the president present a written plan detailing his ideas for deficit reduction.  —  “Because you have not presented any written detailed proposal …
The Hill:   House Republicans seeking an alternative debt-ceiling plan
Jon Cohen / Washington Post:
Poll: Little confidence in leaders to deal with debt issue; Obama has edge
Jonathan Strong / The Daily Caller:
Stress-related condition ‘incapacitates’ Bachmann; heavy pill use alleged  —  In late July 2010, Rep. Michele Bachmann's then-communications director, Dave Dziok, told his boss that he planned to take a new job with the public relations firm Edelman.  —  Dziok had worked for Bachmann …
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Joe Conason / National Memo:
Exclusive Bill Clinton Interview: I Would Use Constitutional Option To Raise Debt Ceiling And “Force The Courts To Stop Me”  —  Former President Bill Clinton says that he would invoke the so-called constitutional option to raise the nation's debt ceiling “without hesitation …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Bill Clinton: I'd use 14th Amendment  —  Former President Bill Clinton would invoke the 14th Amendment - “without hesitation, and force the courts to stop me,” he says - to raise the debt ceiling if he were in President Barack Obama's shoes, with the deadline to raise the limit just two weeks away.
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Public Split Evenly on Urgency of Debt Limit Debate  —  OVERVIEW  —  While administration officials project an economic catastrophe if the debt limit is not raised by Aug. 2, many Americans do not see this deadline as a major problem.  Four-in-ten (40%) say that, from what they've read and heard …
Discussion: The New Republic
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Bachmann Nation: For Republicans and Tea Partyers, there is no imminent crisis
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Americans, Including Republicans, Want Debt Compromise
Discussion: CBS News, Hot Air and The Monkey Cage
Joe Weisenthal / Politics:
Wynn CEO Goes On Epic Anti-Obama Rant On Company Conference Call  —  Who doesn't love a good rant?  —  We certainly do, and as usual, Steve Wynn, the CEO of casino company Wynn Resorts, delivered on his company's quarterly conference call today.  —  Via Seeking Alpha, here's the crux of it:
Wall Street Journal:
Borders Forced to Liquidate, Close All Stores  —  Above, the exterior of a closed store in San Rafael, Calif.  —  Borders Group Inc. said it would liquidate after the second-largest U.S. bookstore chain failed to receive any offers to save it.  —  Borders, which employs about 10,700 people …
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AnnArbor.com News:
Borders plans to liquidate, ending 40-year-old bookstore chain
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog
Howard Portnoy / The Greenroom:
What if the President Told a Joke and Nobody Laughed?  —  Not possible, you say—not for the funniest person alive.  But it's true.  President Obama was on the White House lawn today, introducing former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordary as the new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Bloomberg:
News Corp. Said to Consider Chase Carey as CEO  —  News Corp. is considering elevating Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey to chief executive officer to succeed Rupert Murdoch, people with knowledge of the situation said.  —  A decision hasn't been made and a move depends in part …
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
FAMiLY LEADER's Bob Vander Plaats Erupts In Laughter At Faggot Joke: 'That's Pretty Good'  —  The FAMiLY LEADER's 14-point marriage fidelity pledge has divided the GOP's 2012 presidential field and raised concerns among GOP operatives that the group and its president — three …
Daily Mail:
Climate change sceptics should get less BBC coverage and be challenged ‘more vigorously’, says report on science output  —  Opponents of global warming should be given less coverage by the BBC than the climate change lobby, the corporation will rule.  —  The BBC is set to publish a report tomorrow …
Guardian:
News of the World phone-hacking whistleblower found dead  —  Death of Sean Hoare - who was first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson knew of hacking - not being treated as suspicious  —  Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbusiness reporter who was the first named journalist …
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Justice Department lawyers contradict FBI findings in anthrax case  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has called into question a key pillar of the FBI's case against Bruce Ivins, the Army scientist accused of mailing the anthrax-laced letters that killed five people and terrorized Congress a decade ago.
Discussion: ProPublica and MiamiHerald.com
Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Fox, CNN And MSNBC To Cover Murdoch Hearing  —  The widely anticipated testimony by Rupert Murdoch in the British Parliament will be covered live extensively on American television Tuesday morning.  —  All three of the all-news cable channels in the United States plan to carry the appearances …
Discussion: Mediaite
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New York Post:
Uncle Sam, sugar daddy  —  Forget all the numbers being tossed around in Washington — the millions and billions and trillions of dollars being taxed, borrowed, printed and spent as the country approaches the Aug. 2 debt-ceiling deadline.  —  Forget the political jockeying for position between …
Haaretz:
Israel Navy intercepts sole remnant of flotilla heading for Gaza  —  Dignite-Al Karame ignores call to change course from Gaza; IDF chief orders take over of vessel; video shows Israel Navy's interception of the Karame.  —  The Israel Navy intercepted the French yacht Dignite-Al Karame …
George Packer / New Yorker:
EMPTY WALLETS  —  In the midst of the debt crisis in Washington, D.C., Danny Hartzell backed a Budget rental truck up to a no-frills apartment building that is on a strip of motels and pawnshops in Tampa, Florida.  He had been laid off by a packaging plant during the financial crisis of 2008 …
Discussion: Daily Kos and News Desk
MyFOX8.com:
Hacked DOT Road Sign Reads “Impeach Obama”  —  UNION COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP)— An electronic DOT road sign was apparently hacked when a displayed message read “Impeach Obama.”  —  DOT officials told WSOC they had not heard of the display when first contacted on Sunday night, but sent an engineer to correct the sign afterward.
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
BREAKING: Senate confirms first out gay male to federal bench  —  J. Paul Oetken (Blade file photo by Michael Key)  —  The U.S. Senate made history on Monday by confirming for the first time ever an openly gay male to serve as a federal judge.  —  By a vote of 80-13, the Senate confirmed J. Paul Oetken …
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Tom Coburn unveils $9 trillion plan  —  Sen. Tom Coburn has returned to his roots, unveiling a politically volatile package that would take an ax to federal agencies, dramatically overhaul entitlement programs and raise tax revenues — slicing a staggering $9 trillion from the national debt over 10 years.
Discussion: CNN, Gretawire, Hot Air and ThinkProgress
Amelia Hill / Guardian:
Police examine bag found in bin near Rebekah Brooks's home  —  Former NI chief executive's husband denies bag - containing computer, paperwork and phone - belonged to his wife  —  Detectives are examining a computer, paperwork and a phone found in a bin near the riverside London home of Rebekah Brooks …
Molly Ball / The Politico:
Sarah Palin film to get wider release  —  The producers of the pro-Sarah Palin documentary “The Undefeated” say they are following up a better-than-expected opening weekend with plans to expand to more cities soon.  —  Details weren't yet available Monday, but the movie's distributor …
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
Debt Worries Roil Markets
Discussion: The Page
Chris Geidner / Poliglot:
DOJ Argues to Keep DADT Repeal In Executive Branch's Control, Out of the Courts
JSOnline:
The Wisconsin Voter  —  The Journal Sentinel's Craig Gilbert …
Discussion: TPMDC and Althouse
Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
The scramble for South Carolina
Discussion: Iowa Caucuses, msnbc.com and The Page
BBC:
Kinnock: Murdoch facing his ‘nemesis’
Amir Mir / Asia Times:
US drones target white jihadis
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CBS News:
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Discussion: Booman Tribune and Gothamist
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Did ethics staff taint Waters probe?
Discussion: Washington Post and TPMDC