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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
If Boehner prioritizes blame over success — The House went through the motions earlier this week, passing a radical “Cut, Cap, and Balance” debt-reduction plan that Republicans knew would fail. They did this as a sort of vanity exercise, intended to make GOP lawmakers and their activist base feel better about themselves.
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The Note:
Obama and Boehner Back at the Altar? — ABC's Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) reports: — With the opening of Asian markets now hours away and talks between Congressional leaders at a stand-still, ABC News has learned of a new high-stakes turn in the debt ceiling drama.
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Congress ditches Obama on debt talks — First came the Biden talks. When those blew up, the Obama-Boehner talks took center stage. And when that failed, the McConnell-Reid talks looked promising. And after they faltered, the Obama-Boehner talks tried to find a new life.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — GOP readies new debt ceiling plan; bill set for Sunday — House Republicans are finishing work on a new proposal to resolve the standoff over the debt ceiling. The proposal, set to be finished and crafted into the form of a bill by Sunday, will be in two parts.
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Speaker Boehner: President Obama ‘worried about his next election’ — With his self-imposed deadline for releasing a deficit plan before overseas markets open just a few hours away, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said both sides were “not there yet” and pushed for a two-stage debt-limit vote.
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Boehner hints at a unilateral debt plan; Geithner shoots down short-term options
Boehner hints at a unilateral debt plan; Geithner shoots down short-term options
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The Hill:
Geithner: Deal must remove default threat through 2012 election
Geithner: Deal must remove default threat through 2012 election
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
‘Super Congress’: Debt Ceiling Negotiators Aim To Create New Legislative Body
‘Super Congress’: Debt Ceiling Negotiators Aim To Create New Legislative Body
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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Boehner paints two-step deal as only option
Boehner paints two-step deal as only option
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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Boehner prepared to move debt plan by himself
Steve Clemons / The Atlantic Online:
Boehner's Market Signals? Did August 2nd Just Become Tomorrow?
Boehner's Market Signals? Did August 2nd Just Become Tomorrow?
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Boehner Set To Call Obama's Bluff In Push For Short-Term Debt Ceiling Deal
Boehner Set To Call Obama's Bluff In Push For Short-Term Debt Ceiling Deal
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Boehner aims to release new debt plan by Sunday afternoon
Boehner aims to release new debt plan by Sunday afternoon
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The Hill:
Responsibility for debt talks shifts to Congress and away from Obama
Responsibility for debt talks shifts to Congress and away from Obama
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Pelosi says leaders looking at two-tiered debt approach
Pelosi says leaders looking at two-tiered debt approach
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Hot Air and National Review
Jamie Klatell / The Hill:
Reid: ‘I hope GOP leaders will reconsider their intransigence’ in negotiations
Reid: ‘I hope GOP leaders will reconsider their intransigence’ in negotiations
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Make Way for the Radical Center — DID I mention that I've signed a pledge — just like those Republican congressmen who have signed written promises to different political enforcers not to raise taxes or permit same-sex marriage? My pledge is to never vote for anyone stupid enough to sign a pledge …
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New York Times:
Police Say Oslo Suspect Admits ‘Facts’ in Massacre — OSLO — The Norwegian man charged with attacks in and near Oslo, killing over 90 people, has admitted “to the facts” of the case, the police and his lawyer said on Sunday, and claims to have acted alone in a strike eerily foretold …
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Nicholas Kulish / New York Times:
Norway Attacks Put Spotlight on Rise of Right-Wing Sentiment in Europe — BERLIN — The attacks in Oslo on Friday have riveted new attention on right-wing extremists not just in Norway but across Europe, where opposition to Muslim immigrants, globalization, the power of the European Union …
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Breaking News:
Taliban hang 8-year-old boy in southern Afghanistan — KABUL (BNO NEWS) — Suspected members of the Taliban on Friday hung the 8-year-old son of a local police commander in southern Afghanistan after ordering his father to surrender, according to a news report on Saturday.
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David Ariosto / CNN:
Militants hang 8-year-old boy in southern Afghanistan — Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — An 8 year-old boy was hanged by militants in Afghanistan's Helmand province after the boy's father — a police officer in the southern city of Gereshk — refused to comply with militants' demands to provide them with a police vehicle, officials said.
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Paul Krugman:
President Pushover — The redoubtable Elizabeth Drew has a forthcoming article in the New York Review of Books — not yet online — that confirms all our worst fears. She tells us that past concessions have … Even more alarming, however, is her window on what the White House is thinking:
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Republicans, Zealots and Our Security — IF China or Iran threatened our national credit rating and tried to drive up our interest rates, or if they sought to damage our education system, we would erupt in outrage. — Well, wake up to the national security threat.
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Mark Bittman / New York Times:
Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables — Mark Bittman writes about food for the opinion section. — WHAT will it take to get Americans to change our eating habits? The need is indisputable, since heart disease, diabetes and cancer are all in large part caused by the Standard American Diet.
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Oregonian:
Oregon Rep. David Wu hears calls to resign after revelations of unwanted sexual encounter — BY CHARLES POPE, BETH SLOVIC and HARRY ESTEVE — Pressure on Democratic Rep. David Wu to resign intensified Saturday as leaders in his own party began confronting the embattled Oregon lawmaker …
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Troubled David Wu reaches out to Nancy Pelosi
Troubled David Wu reaches out to Nancy Pelosi
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Margaret Sullivan / Buffalo News:
Same-sex couples rush to say ‘I do’ — NIAGARA FALLS — At the very moment the state extended the right to marry to same-sex couples, Kitty Lambert and Cheryle Rudd — surrounded by hundreds of friends and well-wishers in a historic ceremony against the backdrop of the rainbow-lit Falls — said, “I do.”
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Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
After Long Wait, Gay Couples Marry in New York
After Long Wait, Gay Couples Marry in New York
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