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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
A Time for Choosing — To govern is to choose. To vote is to choose. To vote against John Boehner on the House floor this week in the biggest showdown of the current Congress is to choose to vote with Nancy Pelosi. To vote against Boehner is to choose to support Barack Obama.
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David Rogers / The Politico:
Reid savings trumps Boehner plan — In the battle of budget scores, the Senate Democrats deficit reduction bill is the clear winner thus far over an alternative by Speaker John Boehner, which has had to be pulled back from a floor vote for retooling. — The Congressional Budget Office released …
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Wall Street Journal:
The GOP's Reality Test — Republicans who oppose Boehner's debt deal are playing into Obama's hands. — The debt-limit debate is heading toward a culmination, with President Obama reduced to pleading for the public to support a tax increase and Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Cat To Emerge from Bag? — There's an interesting possibility, even a likelihood, we may see unfold over the coming days. And if it happens, we might find out quickly whether there's a limit past which consensus opinion, the Wall Street/business interests who hold such a sway over national politics …
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The Politico:
Credit hit worries Obama, Congress more than default — It's not the default that strikes the most fear in the White House and Congress these days. It's the downgrade. — Even Republican leaders say the country can't go into default, and they'll do everything possible to raise the debt limit by Aug. 2.
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The Note:
Debt Debate Continues: What to Expect Wednesday — ABC News' John Parkinson (@JRPabcDC) and Sunlen Miller (@SunlenMiller) report: — Less than six days to an historic U.S. government default and the different legs of power in Washington are each working on their own plans with no clear path to a breakthrough.
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Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
U.S. May Have Way to Cover Bills After Deadline, for Week
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: Boehner to postpone Wednesday vote on debt bill
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USA Today, The Politico and The Hill
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Dems plot the endgame in debt limit fight
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Boehner, Reid scramble to build support for rival debt-limit plans
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The Heritage Foundation, CNN, Daily Kos and The Hill
Marin Cogan / The Politico:
Conservative frosh go opposite ways
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David Rogers / The Politico:
CBO: John Boehner's debt bill comes up short
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Jack Lew / White House.gov Blog:
Baseline Basics — The CBO just released its analysis …
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Daniel Stone / Yahoo! News:
Analysis: U.S. credit downgrade ‘inevitable’
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
White House's Carney on President's Debt Ceiling Plan: ‘You Need it Written Down?’
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
House Republicans Psyche Themselves Up By Watching Ben Affleck Prepare To Beat Some Guys Up — For some reason the Washington Post's reporters decided to sanitize the anecdote, but apparently House GOP leaders are trying to garner support for John Boehner's debt ceiling plan by comparing …
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Washington Post:
House Republicans delay vote on Boehner debt plan — Responding to Obama's appeal in a speech Monday night for Americans to contact their members of Congress to urge them to adopt his “balanced approach” to deficit reduction, callers flooded Capitol telephone circuits Tuesday morning …
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Romney Leads Field of Announced GOP Candidates — Perry would be more competitive with Romney than Palin, Giuliani — PRINCETON, NJ — Mitt Romney is the leader for the GOP nomination among the current field of official candidates, supported by 27% of Republicans, compared with 18% for Michele Bachmann.
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JR Hoeft / Bearing Drift:
Romney-McDonnell 2012? — Former Massachussets governor …
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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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Greg Miller / Washington Post:
U.S. officials believe al-Qaeda on brink of collapse — U.S. counterterrorism officials are increasingly convinced that the killing of Osama bin Laden and the toll of seven years of CIA drone strikes have pushed al-Qaeda to the brink of collapse. — The assessment reflects a widespread view …
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The Jawa Report, Reuters and Top of the Ticket
Ahmad Nadeem / Reuters:
Suicide blast kills mayor of Afghanistan's Kandahar — KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed the mayor of Afghanistan's Kandahar Wednesday, a further blow to stability in the southern city still reeling from the assassination two weeks ago of President Hamid Karzai's powerbroker half-brother.
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Jon Boone / Guardian:
Kandahar mayor killed by suicide bomber with explosives in turban — Taliban suspected, though Karzai ally may have been victim of grudge over destruction of illegally built homes — Afghan insurgents appeared to continue their assassination campaign against key public figures on Wednesday with the killing of the mayor of Kandahar.
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The Jawa Report and The Gateway Pundit
Richard A. Serrano / Los Angeles Times:
FBI report at odds with ATF claim on weapons — A copy of the FBI document shows ballistics tests did not rule out the Fast and Furious guns in the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry. — Reporting from Washington— The claim by senior ATF officials that none of the weapons lost …
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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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Thomas Lifson / americanthinker.com:
Kerry spokesman stripped of Silver Star
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The Other McCain
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Can't We Do This Right? — There is only one thing worse than Republicans and Democrats failing to agree to lift the debt ceiling, and that is lifting the debt ceiling without a well-thought-out plan and with hasty cuts totaling trillions of dollars over a decade.
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O.Kay Henderson:
Bachmann: other House GOPers “will have to come to their own conclusion” (audio) — GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann held a news conference in Ankeny early this afternoon. “I wanted to be able to have just a word with you in response to President Obama's statement last night regarding raising the debt ceiling,” she began.
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Adam Serwer:
Captain America's Faux Integration, Ctd — Alyssa Rosenberg argues that Captain America: The First Avenger lacks any acknowledgement of Armed Forces segregation because The Avengers is about “institutional optimism.” — I'm not buying it. Not just because these kinds of issues …
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