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David Rogers / The Politico:
CBO: John Boehner's debt bill comes up short — On the eve of a House vote, new cost estimates from the Congressional Budget Office could pose a problem for Speaker John Boehner as he tries to rally conservative support for his two-step plan to raise the federal debt ceiling and avert default next week.
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
New polls confirm Obama's Democratic base crumbles — With all of the spotlights on the high-stakes debt maneuverings by President Obama and Speaker John Boehner the last few days, few people noticed what Vermont's Sen. Bernie Sanders said: — “I think it would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition.”
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Boehner to rework his debt-ceiling bill — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) will rework his two-step plan to raise the debt ceiling after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found the bill would not cut as much spending as promised. — “We're here to change Washington - no more smoke-and-mirrors …
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ThinkProgress, nation.foxnews.com and RedState
The Hill:
Cantor tells GOP to ‘stop whining’ about Boehner debt-ceiling plan — Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on Tuesday bluntly told House Republicans to stop “grumbling and whining” about Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) new proposal for a limited debt-limit increase.
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ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT ON THE DEFICIT OF THE BUDGET CONTROL ACT OF 2011 AS PROPOSED IN THE HOUSE — The Congressional Budget Office has estimated the impact on the deficit of the Budget Control Act of 2011, as posted on the Web site of the Committee on Rules on July 25, 2011. The legislation would:
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National Review, Daily Kos and Booman Tribune
Alicia M.Cohn / The Hill:
Boehner says his plan's deficit committee will not raise taxes
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Washington Post, The Hill, The Note, The Democratic Daily, Little Green Footballs, CNN and Jared Bernstein
Washington Times:
House GOP revolts against Boehner plan
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Weasel Zippers, Red Dog Report and Associated Press
Charles Babington / Associated Press:
House GOP to rework budget plan after new estimate
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Daily Kos and The Caucus
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Boehner's truth allergy
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Washington Post, The New Republic, ThinkProgress, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Daily Kos
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Cantor to GOP: Quit whining and vote
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The Note:
Michele Bachmann Opposes Boehner Debt Plan: ‘The Premise Is Wrong’
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Pajamas Media, TPMDC, Political Punch, HotAirPundit and The Hill
Nancy Scola / The Atlantic Online:
With Call to Action, Obama Brings Down the House
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The Daily Pulp, The Huffington Post and Prairie Weather
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Oof: CBO says Boehner's bill would save less than $1T over 10 years …
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National Review and Weasel Zippers
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Dems plot the endgame in debt limit fight
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NationalJournal.com, Daily Kos, The Hill, Roll Call, National Review, The Caucus, The New Republic and Hot Air
Daniel Stone / Yahoo! News:
Analysis: U.S. credit downgrade ‘inevitable’
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YID With LID and Hot Air
Wall Street Journal:
Big GOP Bloc in House Opposes Boehner's Plan
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Pajamas Media, Gretawire and Political Punch
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
TRENDNG: Cantor: ‘The debt limit vote sucks’
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The Politico, The Atlantic Online and The Note
Fred Thompson / National Review:
An Open Letter to the GOP — As someone who understands the pressures and difficulties you have been going through, I want to say, “Congratulations.” You won, and so did the country. — Absent some major miscalculations, within the next few days there will be official acknowledgement of what has already happened.
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Outside the Beltway and Shakesville
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Not Leveling with Viewers — It's been said many times. But it's never enough: the conventions of journalistic ‘objectivity’, as currently defined, frequently make journalists violate their biggest duty, which is honesty with readers. The top headline running now on CNN reads …
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Foreign Policy
Christina Marcos / The Hill:
Rep. Gutierrez arrested outside White House for second time
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CNN
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
White House's Carney on President's Debt Ceiling Plan: ‘You Need it Written Down?’
Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Guy Benson White House: Asking for Obama's Specific Debt Plan is a “Republican Talking Point”
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Pirate's Cove and The Daily Caller
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
WH press corps hammers Carney: How come Obama hasn't produced his own debt-ceiling plan?
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Townhall.com and The Other McCain
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Public Wants a Debt Ceiling Compromise, Expects a Deal Before Deadline — GOP Widely Viewed as ‘More Extreme in Its Positions’ — OVERVIEW — The public overwhelmingly favors a compromise in the debt ceiling standoff. And even as negotiations aimed at resolving the issue show little progress …
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ThinkProgress, The Moderate Voice, CNN, Booman Tribune and Politics
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Reuters:
Americans back mixed solution for debt crisis: Reuters/Ipsos poll — (Reuters) - Americans are overwhelmingly concerned about the U.S. debt crisis and a majority back the type of compromise pushed by President Barack Obama to end the impasse, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found on Tuesday.
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Debt ceiling poll: Voters with Obama
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Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Public Wants Compromise in Debt Ceiling Debate
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Hullabaloo and Balloon Juice
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
SwiftVets revenge — The Navy Times (no link) reported last week that Navy Secretary Ray Mabus stripped the Silver Star from a Vietnam swift boat veteran, Capt. Wade Sanders: — “Had the subsequently determined facts and evidence surrounding both the incident for which the award …
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Weasel Zippers and Pajamas Media
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Thomas Lifson / americanthinker.com:
Kerry spokesman stripped of Silver Star — John F. Kerry almost became president running on the basis of his alleged heroism in Vietnam. Thanks to the efforts of a group of truth-tellers, the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, the serious holes in the fantasy narrative propounded …
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The Other McCain
Andy Kroll / Mother Jones:
Michele Bachmann's $4,700 Hair and Makeup Bill — Considering Rep. Michele Bachmann's crusade against government spending and her demand that America live within its means, you wouldn't figure her for a conspicuous spender. But after launching her bid for the White House …
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The Blotter, Taylor Marsh, National Review, Big Journalism, The Raw Story, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Shakesville
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WQAD-TV:
Bachmann walks away from WQAD
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Truth Wins Out, ThinkProgress, The Note, Towleroad News #gay and The Washington Independent
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Bachmann has skipped 37 percent of votes since launching bid
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The Politico, Wonkette, Outside the Beltway, ThinkProgress, msnbc.com, TPMDC and GOP 12
Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Pat Buchanan: Norwegian Right-Wing Terrorist ‘Breivik May Be Right’ — Today, in a World Net Daily op-ed, failed presidential candidate and conservative pundit Pat Buchanan offers an example of the ethnic bigotry and racial insensitivity that has come to define him.
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WorldNetDaily, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Newshoggers.com, Sky Dancing, Mediaite, Pharyngula, New Atlanticist and New York Times
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Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. / The Jawa Report:
On Islamophobia and Right Wing Extremism
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AmSpecBlog, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and Jihad Watch
Paul Krugman:
The Cult That Is Destroying America — Watching our system deal with the debt ceiling crisis — a wholly self-inflicted crisis, which may nonetheless have disastrous consequences — it's increasingly obvious that what we're looking at is the destructive influence of a cult that has really poisoned our political system.
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Balloon Juice
David Brooks / New York Times:
Congress In the Lead — Some of us like to think big. We thought at the beginning of this debt crisis that it might be possible to reach a Grand Bargain. This deal would make a serious dent in the country's awful debt problem. It would begin to reform entitlements.
Dan Bilefsky / New York Times:
A Revenge Plot So Intricate, the Prosecutors Were Pawns — Soon after Seemona Sumasar started dating Jerry Ramrattan, she had an inkling that something might be wrong. — He said he was a police detective, but never seemed to go to work. He seemed obsessed with “C.S.I.,” “Law & Order” and other television police dramas.
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Gawker, Hit & Run, Shakesville, Gothamist and Althouse
JTA:
Envoy contrasts terror in Israel, Norway — JERUSALEM (JTA) — Norway's ambassador to Israel drew distinctions between the Oslo and Utoya massacres and Palestinian terrorism. — Svein Sevje said in an Israeli newspaper interview Tuesday that while the Norwergian bomb and gun rampages …
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Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, Atlas Shrugs, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Israel Matzav and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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