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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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CNN, Taylor Marsh, Weasel Zippers, Outside the Beltway and The Note
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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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Balloon Juice
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Dems plot the endgame in debt limit fight — So now what? Now that Dems and Republicans have unveiled competing plans for the way forward — and now that both sides have dug in — what happens next? — Here's the game plan, as seen by Senate Dem aides: The next move is to sit tight …
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NationalJournal.com, The Hill, Roll Call, The Caucus, National Review, Daily Kos, Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
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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The Hill
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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nation.foxnews.com, RedState and ThinkProgress
Daniel Stone / Yahoo! News:
Analysis: U.S. credit downgrade ‘inevitable’ — The deadlock over raising the U.S. debt ceiling continued to weigh on stocks ...more — Only seven days stand between the U.S. and the effects of a credit default. But a downgrade of the nation's stellar AAA credit rating seems a lot more likely, and a lot sooner.
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The Gateway Pundit, YID With LID and Hot Air
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.
Jack Lew / White House.gov Blog:
Baseline Basics — The CBO just released its analysis …
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National Review and Politics
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
Discussion:
Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Caucus and Daily Kos
Alicia M.Cohn / The Hill:
Boehner says his plan's deficit committee will not raise taxes
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The Politico, Washington Post, The Hill, The Democratic Daily, The Note, Jared Bernstein, Little Green Footballs and CNN
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
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Boehner's truth allergy
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Crooks and Liars, Washington Post, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, ThinkProgress, The New Republic, CBS News and Daily Kos
CBO's Latest 10 Documents:
ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT ON THE DEFICIT OF THE BUDGET CONTROL ACT OF 2011 AS PROPOSED IN THE HOUSE
Discussion:
Daily Kos and Booman Tribune
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
NOPE! Top House Conservatives Says Boehner Lacks Sufficient GOP Support To Raise Debt Limit
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The New Republic, Firedoglake, Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Discourse.net and The Politico
The Note:
Michele Bachmann Opposes Boehner Debt Plan: ‘The Premise Is Wrong’
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TPMDC, Pajamas Media, Political Punch and HotAirPundit
Nancy Scola / The Atlantic Online:
With Call to Action, Obama Brings Down the House
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The Daily Pulp, Prairie Weather and The Huffington Post
Wall Street Journal:
Big GOP Bloc in House Opposes Boehner's Plan
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Washington Post, Roll Call, Outside the Beltway, Pajamas Media, Taegan Goddard's …, Gretawire and Political Punch
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Cantor: ‘The debt limit vote sucks’
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The Politico, The Note and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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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NBC Chicago and CNN
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
White House's Carney on President's Debt Ceiling Plan: ‘You Need it Written Down?’
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
WH press corps hammers Carney: How come Obama hasn't produced his own debt-ceiling plan?
Discussion:
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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Taegan Goddard's …, ThinkProgress, Booman Tribune, Washington Post, CNN, Politics, The Moderate Voice and Balloon Juice
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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 …
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Taegan Goddard's …, ThinkProgress and Outside the Beltway
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Debt ceiling poll: Voters with Obama
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Washington Monthly
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.
Discussion:
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 …
Discussion:
The Other McCain
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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The Other McCain, WorldNetDaily, Sky Dancing, Mediaite, Pharyngula, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Newshoggers.com and New Atlanticist
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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
David Jackson / USA Today:
Michelle Obama praises McDonald's — First lady Michelle Obama, who has made the fight against childhood obesity a major part of her platform, praised McDonald's today for plans to add apples to Happy Meals and other new nutritional projects. — Obama's statement: … The Associated Press reports:
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Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, The Raw Story and The Lonely Conservative
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Emily York / Los Angeles Times:
McDonald's to make Happy Meals more healthful
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And So it Goes in Shreveport and ThinkProgress
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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The Gateway Pundit, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Weasel Zippers, Atlas Shrugs, Israel Matzav and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
David Dayen / news.firedoglake.com:
British Economy, After Austerity, at Zero Growth in the Past Nine Months — What's amazing about this debt limit debate, and the headlong rush to austerity, is that we have empirical evidence of what can result, in this kind of economy, when you massively roll back spending.
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Hullabaloo and Eschaton
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