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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 …
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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.
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Debt-limit talks: As Obama, Boehner rush to strike deal, Democrats are left fuming — 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 a revolt from Democrats furious that the accord appeared …
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).
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Debt talks have senators angry about being left out
Debt talks have senators angry about being left out
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama and Boehner Advance Toward Deal to Cut Deficit
Obama and Boehner Advance Toward Deal to Cut Deficit
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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Barack Obama is gutting the core principles of the Democratic party
Barack Obama is gutting the core principles of the Democratic party
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New York Times:
Obama and Boehner Close to Major Deal, Officials Say
Obama and Boehner Close to Major Deal, Officials Say
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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.
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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.
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Michele Bachmann / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Romney, Perry, Bachmann Top 2012 GOP Picks
Fox News Poll: Romney, Perry, Bachmann Top 2012 GOP Picks
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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 …
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Scot Lehigh / Boston Globe:
Playing the pledge game — WHEN THEY first ran for governor, both Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney were asked to sign no-new-tax pledges. — Although opposed to higher taxes, Huntsman refused to put his name on an ironclad vow limiting his options. — Since then, Huntsman told me, he's “maintained the same philosophical approach.”
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
Bachmann: Everybody Should Pay Taxes
Bachmann: Everybody Should Pay Taxes
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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Julian E. Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon to Certify It is Ready to End 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' — Top defense officials plan to certify Friday that the Pentagon is ready to end the ban on gays serving openly in the military, officials said, a landmark moment after almost two decades of controversy.
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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
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Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Military Reportedly Set on Repeal of 'Don't Ask'
Military Reportedly Set on Repeal of 'Don't Ask'
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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 …
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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.
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Adam Harrington / CBS Chicago:
Workers: Heat Lamps Shined On Hyatt Hotel Picket Line
Workers: Heat Lamps Shined On Hyatt Hotel Picket Line
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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.
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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 …
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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)
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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.
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 …
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David S. Cloud / Los Angeles Times:
Pentagon mulls NATO request for more U.S. drones in Libya campaign — A U.S. official says sending more Predator drones would require moving them from war zones, and counter-terrorism operations elsewhere, and that some U.S. officials and commanders oppose the move.
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