Top Items:
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Democrats Set Drop-Dead Date For Debt Ceiling Backup Plan — President Obama's quest to reach a historic budget agreement with House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) fell into deep doubt Thursday, after a noisy rebellion by Senate Democrats over reports that Obama might hand Republicans the farm …
RELATED:
The Politico:
Latest debt deal under fire — White House debt talks were described at the “fish-or-cut-bait” stage Thursday night, as President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner sought to keep alive an estimated $3 trillion deficit-reduction package already taking fire from the left and right.
Discussion:
AMERICAblog News, USA Today, Hot Air, americanthinker.com, emptywheel, The Page and The Raw Story
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Obama, Boehner pursue a deal as Democrats fume — Sharp cuts, No tax hikes yet Plan to raise debt limit targets $3 trillion in savings — President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner rushed Thursday to strike agreement on a far-reaching plan to reduce the national debt but faced …
Discussion:
Roll Call, DownWithTyranny!, Daily Kos, The Hill, Opinion L.A., AMERICAblog News and TPMDC
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid: 'I'm the Senate majority leader. Why don't I know about this deal?' — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) confronted White House budget director Jack Lew during a Thursday afternoon meeting about secret talks on a deficit-reduction deal between the president and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).
Discussion:
Firedoglake, ThinkProgress, Hot Air, RealClearPolitics Video Log, Pundit & Pundette and Michelle Malkin
The Politico:
John Boehner: House must act by Wednesday — Speaker John Boehner told a closed House Republican meeting Friday morning that the chamber needs to pass legislation to lift the nation's debt ceiling by Wednesday, although he warned that no agreement has been reached with the White House yet.
Discussion:
The Note, Washington Monthly and Politics
The Hill:
Progress seen in debt talks, but outrage from Dems over taxes
Progress seen in debt talks, but outrage from Dems over taxes
Discussion:
The Heritage Foundation
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Debt talks have senators angry about being left out
Debt talks have senators angry about being left out
Discussion:
The Caucus, New York Magazine, Taylor Marsh, Politics, AmSpecBlog, RedState, CNN, Examiner RSS, Sky Dancing, Connecting.the.Dots and Truthdig
Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Prepares Subpoenas in News Corp. Inquiry — The U.S. Justice Department is preparing subpoenas as part of preliminary investigations into News Corp. relating to alleged foreign bribery and alleged hacking of voicemail of Sept. 11 victims, according to a government official.
Discussion:
ThinkProgress, Guardian, MediaFile, Mashable!, The Politico, Outside the Beltway, Mediaite, TVNewser, News Desk, Balloon Juice, The Wire, Gawker and msnbc.com, more at Mediagazer »
Grover G. Norquist / New York Times:
Read My Lips: No New Taxes — THE Taxpayer Protection Pledge has received increased attention as the Aug. 2 deadline for raising the debt ceiling approaches. My organization, Americans for Tax Reform, created the pledge in 1986 as a simple, written commitment by a candidate or elected official …
Discussion:
The Atlantic Online, The Politico, Booman Tribune, Lawyers, Guns & Money and National Review
RELATED:
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
Bachmann: Everybody Should Pay Taxes
Bachmann: Everybody Should Pay Taxes
Discussion:
Power Line and Daily Kos
Douglas Stanglin / USA Today:
Reuters: 8 people injured in Oslo blast at government offices — An explosion knocks out windows in government buildings in downtown Oslo, news agencies reports. Injuries have been reported. — Update at 10:03 a.m. ET: Reuters reports at least 8 people injured in an explosion that knocked …
Discussion:
Michelle Malkin, ThinkProgress, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, Talking Points Memo, Hot Air and Sister Toldjah
RELATED:
Walter Gibbs / Reuters:
Blast rocks central Oslo, Norway PM's office — (Reuters) - A huge explosion wrecked government buildings in central Oslo Friday including Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's office, injuring several people, a Reuters journalist said from the scene.
Discussion:
The Atlantic Online and Aftenposten
CNN:
CNN Poll: Perry near the top in GOP nomination race — Washington (CNN) - As Texas Gov. Rick Perry comes closer and closer to jumping into the race for the White House, he's also close to the top of a new national survey in the battle for the GOP presidential nomination.
Discussion:
GOP 12, Office Of The Governor, The Politico, Ballot Box, No More Mister Nice Blog, Iowa Caucuses, The Note and Fox News
RELATED:
Michele Bachmann / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Romney, Perry, Bachmann Top 2012 GOP Picks
Fox News Poll: Romney, Perry, Bachmann Top 2012 GOP Picks
Discussion:
Red Dog Report, The Politico, Weasel Zippers, National Review and Taegan Goddard's …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Lesser Depression — These are interesting times — and I mean that in the worst way. Right now we're looking at not one but two looming crises, either of which could produce a global disaster. In the United States, right-wing fanatics in Congress may block a necessary rise in the debt ceiling …
Discussion:
Shakesville, Northern Reflections and Prairie Weather
New York Post:
Weiner in therapy; says hard part will be convincing Hillary Clinton he's recovered — Forget his wife — Anthony Weiner has an even bigger problem on his hands: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. — The horndog ex-House member from Queens is telling friends that while he's finally started therapy …
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers
Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
Don't miss it: John Kerry backs gay marriage — What if John Kerry came out for gay marriage and nobody noticed? — That's essentially what the Boston Globe revealed on Friday when it reported that the Massachusetts Democrat and 2004 Democratic presidential nominee first told the paper …
Discussion:
Towleroad News #gay
RELATED:
Julian E. Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon to Certify It is Ready to End 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
Pentagon to Certify It is Ready to End 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Military leaders to certify end of 'don't ask, don't tell' Friday
Military leaders to certify end of 'don't ask, don't tell' Friday
Discussion:
Online NewsHour, Box Turtle Bulletin and Pam's House Blend
Mike Klonsky / Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog:
Pritzker turns heat lamps on striking Hyatt workers — It was already approaching 100° at 8 a.m. when I arrived at the Park Hyatt where, after 22 months of stalled negotiations, hotel workers were staging a one-day picket to protest the hotel chain's intolerable treatment of their housekeeping staff.
Discussion:
AMERICAblog News, Outside the Beltway, Firedoglake and Daily Kos
RELATED:
Adam Harrington / CBS Chicago:
Workers: Heat Lamps Shined On Hyatt Hotel Picket Line
Workers: Heat Lamps Shined On Hyatt Hotel Picket Line
Discussion:
nation.foxnews.com
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
A Goodbye To Borders — When I was growing up, the kind of people who today are lamenting the decline of physical books in the face of e-reading were busy bemoaning the decline of independent bookstores in the face of ruthless national chains. As it happens, where I grew …
Discussion:
Dave Weigel and Eschaton
Aaron Task / Yahoo! Finance:
Return of Mass Layoffs a Grim Sign for U.S. Workers — Putting pressure on an already lousy job market, the mass layoff is making a comeback. In the past week, Cisco, Lockheed Martin and Borders announced a combined 23,000 in job cuts. (See: Another Retailer Bites the Dust: Borders Doomed by Amazon Deal, Davidowitz Says)
Discussion:
Hot Air
Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Rove: Palin advisers push non-traditional campaign — Karl Rove, on whether Sarah Palin can wage a non-conventional campaign. … Rove then said she was ignoring the “niceties” at “her own peril”. — Again, I link to Scott Conroy's piece on Iowa today, where he notes that the old niceties might not mean as much in Iowa anymore.
Discussion:
Real Clear Politics and The Note
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Obama could be comeback kid if he mimics Clinton — Here's a scary exercise for Republicans. First, make a graph of Bill Clinton's job approval ratings for the nine months following November 1994, when Republicans dealt him a crushing defeat in midterm elections.
Discussion:
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Oh my: CCB bill gets 2-1 approval among adults in CNN poll — Tina touched on this in the previous post, but it's important enough to look into the numbers. Harry Reid might consider the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act the worst piece of legislation in the history of, well, legislation …
Discussion:
RedState, Examiner RSS, americanthinker.com, Poor Richard's News and The Gateway Pundit
Felix Salmon:
Greece defaults — The latest Greek bailout is done — the official statement is here — and it involves Greece going into “selective default,” which is, yes, a kind of default. — I can't remember a major financial story which has been covered so inadequately by the financial press.
Caroline Baum / Bloomberg:
About Caroline Baum — Baum: Ailing U.S. Economy Seeks Jobs Doc — Looking beyond the debt-limit shenanigans preoccupying Washington, the big issue for the U.S. economy is long-term unemployment and what to do about it. — President Barack Obama is always hawking some kind of jobs plan …