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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
EXCLUSIVE: What Boehner said to the caucus — From a source familiar with the call, this is what House Speaker John Boehner told House Republicans on Sunday: … That suggests to me that the House Republicans will pass a bill, send it to the Senate and let the Democrats decide if they want to send the country into default.
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Don Surber, The Lonely Conservative, Babalú Blog, Taegan Goddard's …, Hot Air, The Right Scoop, Shakesville and The Hill
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John Hayward / Human Events:
Barack the Mad — The American presidency comes off the rails. — On Friday, right after his Democrat colleagues in the Senate used a procedural maneuver to kill the Cut, Cap and Balance Act without a real vote, President Obama held a town hall meeting at the University of Maryland …
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Doug Ross, The Lonely Conservative and The Hill
Rita Nazareth / Bloomberg:
U.S. Stock Futures Decline After Lawmakers Fail to Reach Debt-Ceiling Deal — U.S. stock futures fell, indicating the Standard & Poor's 500 Index will slump after rallying within 1.4 percent of a three-year high, as failure to raise the federal debt limit intensified concern of a default.
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Booman Tribune, odd time signatures and Washington Monthly
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Cantor Opposed Short-Term Debt Ceiling Increase, Now Calls Obama's Opposition to Short-Term Increase ‘Indefensible’ — Today, Speaker John Boehner told the House GOP caucus that he is preparing a short-term bill that would raise the debt ceiling for about six months, despite Obama's pledge to veto such a measure.
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White House.gov Blog, NationalJournal.com and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Washington Wire:
Live Blog: The U.S. Debt Battle
Live Blog: The U.S. Debt Battle
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Washington Monthly, National Review, MarketBeat, RedState, Politics and Wall Street Journal
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
BLACK MONDAY? Obama's Debt-Ceiling Crisis Strategy Could Sink Wall Street
BLACK MONDAY? Obama's Debt-Ceiling Crisis Strategy Could Sink Wall Street
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California_Yankee's blog, Politics and The Hill
Elizabeth Drew / New York Review of Books:
What Were They Thinking? — Someday people will look back and wonder …
What Were They Thinking? — Someday people will look back and wonder …
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Washington Post, Washington Wire, Booman Tribune, The Politico, AMERICAblog News, Daily Kos and Hullabaloo
Susan Crabtree / TPMDC:
Boehner Urges GOPers To ‘Stick Together’ As He Works On A Compromise
David Rogers / The Politico:
Boehner, Reid key to path out of debt crisis
Boehner, Reid key to path out of debt crisis
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Washington Monthly
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
CNN: Reid Working on His Own All-Cuts Debt Limit Proposal
CNN: Reid Working on His Own All-Cuts Debt Limit Proposal
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Associated Press, Taylor Marsh and The Politico
New York Times:
Rival Debt Plans Being Assembled by Party Leaders
Rival Debt Plans Being Assembled by Party Leaders
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The Politico, Sky Dancing, Firedoglake, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Monthly, TalkLeft and The Huffington Post
The Hill:
Boehner expects to have proposal Monday; Reid, Pelosi meet Obama
Boehner expects to have proposal Monday; Reid, Pelosi meet Obama
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Debt-limit compromise elusive as separate strategies take shape in House, Senate
Debt-limit compromise elusive as separate strategies take shape in House, Senate
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Washington Monthly, Politics, The Page, The Heritage Foundation, The New Republic, msnbc.com and naked capitalism
The Politico:
Wu won't resign; Pelosi seeks probe — Embattled Rep. David Wu will not seek reelection in 2012, but he won't resign from office now despite allegations that the Oregon Democrat had an “unwanted sexual encounter” with the teenage daughter of a close friend last Thanksgiving.
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Charles Pope / Oregonian:
Rep. David Wu won't resign, Nancy Pelosi calls for ethics investigation
Rep. David Wu won't resign, Nancy Pelosi calls for ethics investigation
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Power Line, Washington Post and Associated Press
Real Clear Politics:
Rick Perry Eyes Late August Campaign Launch — Texas Gov. Rick Perry is all but certain to launch a presidential campaign and is nearing an announcement set for the second half of August, according to sources familiar with his political team's planning. — For months, Republican activists …
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Newsweek:
The Maid's Tale — She was paid to clean up after the rich and powerful. Then she walked into Dominique Strauss-Kahn's room—and a global scandal. Now she tells her story. — “Hello? Housekeeping.” — The maid hovered in the suite's large living room, just inside the entrance.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Messing With Medicare — At the time of writing, President Obama's hoped-for “Grand Bargain” with Republicans is apparently dead. And I say good riddance. I'm no more eager than other rational people (a category that fails to include many Congressional Republicans) to see what happens if the debt limit isn't raised.
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Kristen Wyatt / Associated Press:
Norway suspect borrowed from Unabomber's manifesto — DENVER (AP) — Parts of the manifesto written by the suspect in Norway's terrorist attack were taken almost word for word from the writings of “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski. — The passages copied by Anders Behring Breivik appear in the first few pages of Kaczynski's manifesto.
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Weasel Zippers
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S.
Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S.
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Tikun Olam
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Michele Bachmann launches scathing attack on Tim Pawlenty — In a statement just released from her presidential campaign, Michele Bachmann delivers a harsh counterattack on her former home-state governor, hitting back at his charge that she lacks the experience to be president and blaming Tim Pawlenty for a …
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Debate Clucker Tim Pawlenty Asks Candy Crowley ‘Is President Obama Chicken?’
Debate Clucker Tim Pawlenty Asks Candy Crowley ‘Is President Obama Chicken?’
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PERRspectives, Crooks and Liars and MN Progressive Project
Daniel Frankel / Yahoo! News:
Palin doc headed for PPV as ticket sales plummet — LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - With its Sarah Palin documentary “The Undefeated” increasing its playdates by 40 percent this weekend, only to watch box office revenue decline by more than 63 percent, distributor Arc Entertainment announced Sunday …
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GOP 12 and Outside the Beltway
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Bill would force Obama to pay Social Security, military if US defaults — Tea Party conservatives hope to make a push on the House floor to force President Obama to avoid a national default if Congress fails to raise the debt limit. — Members of the Senate Tea Party Caucus have met …
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The Gateway Pundit, The Politico and RedState
The Hill:
Obama administration's charm offensive fails to win over business groups — The Obama administration's push to mend its relationship with business has gone cold only six months into the effort. — Complaints abound about the regulations pouring out of federal agencies to implement …
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Right Wing News
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
U.S. trucking funds reach Taliban, military-led investigation concludes — A year-long military-led investigation has concluded that U.S. taxpayer money has been indirectly funneled to the Taliban under a $2.16 billion transportation contract that the United States has funded in part to promote Afghan businesses.
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The Politico and Marine Corps Times
Bloomberg:
Greece Credit Rating Cut Three Levels by Moody's — Greece's credit rating was cut three steps by Moody's Investors Service, which said the European Union's rescue for the debt-laden nation will cause substantial losses for investors and amount to a default.
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americanthinker.com