memeorandum: ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT ON THE DEFICIT OF THE BUDGET CONTROL ACT OF 2011 AS PROPOSED IN THE SENATE (CBO's Latest 10 Documents)

3:24 AM ET, July 28, 2011

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Mike Allen / The Politico:

Debbie Wasserman Schultz says GOP seeks ‘dictatorship ... spark panic’ — 'This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship, said Debbie Wasserman Schultz. AP Photo — Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), chair of the Democratic National Committee, said Wednesday …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Moe Lane, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit, CNN, The Lonely Conservative and Daily Kos

Julie Mason / The Politico:

Carney makes an accusation — Jay Carney took on Fox News's Ed Henry. — John Shinkle/POLITICO — The day after White House press secretary Jay Carney and Fox News reporter Ed Henry tangled over Henry's request for specifics on Obama's plan on debt limit and deficit reduction, Carney and Henry were back at it again on Wednesday.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, nation.foxnews.com and Pajamas Media

The Politico:

GOPers chant ‘fire him’ at Paul Teller — House Republicans on Wednesday morning were calling for the firing of the Republican Study Committee top staffer after he was caught sending e-mails to conservative groups urging them to pressure GOP lawmakers to vote against a debt proposal from Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).

Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:

Outcome is referendum on Boehner — Thursday's vote on the House Republican debt-limit bill has quickly become a referendum on Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). — It is, without question, the biggest vote of Boehner's reign. Some are even speculating that Boehner's Speakership is on the line.

Discussion: Booman Tribune and New York Times

Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:

Ben Affleck Reacts To House GOP Using Clip From ‘The Town’ In Debt Debate … WASHINGTON — Heads turned a bit on Tuesday night when the Washington Post reported that House Republicans were using a scene from the movie “The Town” as a motivational vignette to encourage members to back Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) debt ceiling plan.

Discussion: TPMDC, Mediaite, The Hill, The Caucus, Big Hollywood, Weigel, ThinkProgress, Washington Post, CNN, National Review, USA Today, The Note and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*

Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:

McCain vs. the Tea Party — Is the old John McCain back? — The fiery, independent version of the Republican senator from Arizona took to the floor of the Senate Wednesday morning. Demanding “straight talk,” Mr. McCain accused conservative opponents of the House Republican leader's plan of abandoning reason in the debt fight.

The Note:

McCain Blasts Tea Party for ‘Foolish’ Demands in Debt Debate — ABC News' Sunlen Miller (@sunlenmiller) reports: — As Speaker of the House John Boehner is looking for votes on his House debt bill, one Senate Republican sent a strong message to the Tea Party block in the House and Senate …

Discussion: blogs.abcnews.com, The Hill, CNN, The Politico, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, TPMDC, Politics, Washington Monthly and Outside the Beltway

Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
The Clearest Sign Yet That Boehner's Bill Will Pass the House

Discussion: Slate Magazine, Taylor Marsh, Prairie Weather and msnbc.com

Marin Cogan / The Politico:
Tea party rally on Capitol Hill draws thin crowd

Discussion: NationalJournal.com, Mediaite, Hot Air, Daily Kos, The Hill and Outside the Beltway

David Mark / The Politico:
Grover Norquist backs John Boehner's debt bill

Discussion: TPMDC, Hullabaloo, Crooks and Liars, Pajamas Media and Weekly Standard

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
WSJ: Tea Party “hobbits” need to go back to Middle Earth, or something

Discussion: John Boehner, ProfessorBainbridge.com, The Other McCain, AmSpecBlog, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and Outside the Beltway

Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Boehner: ‘A Lot’ Of Republicans Want To Force Default, Create ‘Enough Chaos’ To Pass Balanced Budget Amendment

Discussion: Balloon Juice and ProfessorBainbridge.com

The Politico:
Boehner quells rebellion on the right

Discussion: The TrogloPundit, The Daily Caller, Pajamas Media, The Hill, Hotline On Call, JustOneMinute, Los Angeles Times, CNN, Gothamist, Politics, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, Firedoglake, Washington Monthly, The Caucus, Associated Press, HotAirPundit and New York Times

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Quote of the Day — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) …

Discussion: The Hill, The Hill, Washington Post, The Moderate Voice, Associated Press, A plain blog about politics and Daily Kos

Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Dem lawmaker: ‘Nobody I know’ has seen Reid plan

Discussion: The Politico, nation.foxnews.com, The Daily Caller and The Sundries Shack

Marin Cogan / The Politico:
Freshmen coalesce around Boehner plan

Discussion: The New Republic, Decide America and Hot Air

Scott Conroy / Real Clear Politics:

Palin to Keynote Tea Party Rally in Iowa — In the latest indication that her sights are still set on a presidential run, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has accepted an invitation to keynote a Tea Party rally in Waukee, Iowa, on Sept. 3, RealClearPolitics has learned.

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Weasel Zippers, The Note, Hot Air, Conservatives4Palin and GOP 12

Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Palin: American Ideals Are ‘Foreign To Our President’ Because Of ‘His Background’

Discussion: Top of the Ticket and Arizona Republic

Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
George Lopez: If Sarah Palin Becomes President ‘I Will Move to Canada’

Discussion: Mediaite, nation.foxnews.com, The Daily Caller and Moonbattery

Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:

Herman Cain Apologizes To Muslims — Herman Cain had his much-ballyhooed meeting with Muslims Wednesday, and he emerged, he said in a campaign statement “humble and contrite for any statements I have made that might have caused offense to Muslim Americans and their friends.”

Discussion: The Democratic Daily, Daily Kos, ThinkProgress, Booman Tribune and The Right Scoop

Juana Summers / The Politico:
Herman Cain hosts meeting with Muslim leaders

Discussion: The Raw Story

Jim Spencer / Minneapolis Star Tribune:

Franken's SNL moment on the Senate floor — For a moment Wednesday, Al Franken looked like he was back on the set of Saturday Night Live and not on the floor of the U.S. Senate. In a speech explaining that there would be no money to pay for military and security personnel if Congress …

Discussion: Pajamas Media, AmSpecBlog and The Radio Equalizer

Kris Kitto / The Hill:

50 Most Beautiful People for 2011 — It's no accident that Amy Cheng exhibits model-like poise in front of a camera. Growing up, her family would spend time outside their Chinese restaurant taking photos of one another in a park, and later on, Cheng would pose for her younger sister …

Discussion: FishbowlDC, Wonkette, Washington Post, FamousDC and The Daily Caller

Penny Starr / CNSNews:

Jackson Lee at Radical Islam Hearing: Let's ‘Have a Hearing on Right-Wing Extremists, Ideologues’ — (CNSNews.com) - At a hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security today about the radicalization of young Somali American Muslims by the al-Shabaab terrorist group, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee …

Discussion: YID With LID, Weasel Zippers and Mediaite

Devin Henry / MinnPost:
Ellison denied request to testify at Al-Shabaab hearing

Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Politico and Daily Kos

Jackie Calmes / New York Times:

President on Sidelines in Critical Battle Over Debt Ceiling — WASHINGTON — For an hour on Wednesday the White House press secretary, Jay Carney, fielded questions about what, if anything, President Obama was doing to help end the impasse in Congress over the imminent need to raise the nation's borrowing limit.

The Note:

Rep. Barney Frank: ‘Gender Bias’ Contributed to Warren Downfall — ABC News' Michael Ono reports: — Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., blames an unconscious culture of sexism for the failed appointment of Elizabeth Warren to the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Taylor Marsh

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

It's All Over but the Face-Saving? — It remains unclear whether the House will pass a bill by the speaker, John A. Boehner, to raise the debt ceiling, though prospects appear to be significantly better today than they did yesterday. Still, the math looks to be pretty close.

Discussion: Washington Post, A plain blog about politics, The New Republic, Hullabaloo and TPMDC

Barbarossa / The Jawa Report:

Norway mass murderer an equal opportunity plagiarist? So-called “manifesto” a cut-and-paste job — The 1500+ page “manifesto” that is alleged to have been written by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has the Left and their establishment media allies doing circle jerks and kept …

Discussion: Danger Room and loonwatch.com

John Hooper / Guardian:
Ex-Berlusconi minister defends Anders Behring Breivik

Discussion: ABCNEWS

Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:

Report: Obama And Boehner Agreed To Raise Medicare Eligibilty Age Before Debt Talks Broke Down — In what may be one of the most under-reported stories of the debt ceiling talks, Politico's Jen Haberkorn notes that before negotiations broke down on Friday evening, President Obama and Speaker …

Discussion: Red Dog Report, BuzzFlash.org, Hullabaloo and Daily Kos

Kbh / Keith Hennessey:

Why I support the Boehner bill — If you'd like a quick summary of the Boehner plan, please read my earlier post. — I support the Boehner bill and hope House Republicans will vote to pass it. — First I'll flag what I like about the substance of the bill.

Nicholas Ballasy / CNSNews:

Dem. Lawmaker: 'We Don't Have a Deficit Problem Right Now' — The way to get out of “unemployment crisis is to spend money,” Rep. Nadler says. — (CNSNews.com) - Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) argued at a news conference with the Congressional Out of Poverty Caucus that the United States does not currently have a budget crisis.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, YID With LID and The Lonely Conservative

Danny Gallagher / courier-gazette.com:

Planned Parenthood clinic attacked with Molotov cocktail — MCKINNEY - Officials with Planned Parenthood confirmed that their McKinney clinic was the target of violence sometime last night. — Holly Morgan, director of media relations and communications for Planned Parenthood in Dallas …

Discussion: ThinkProgress

Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:

Clyburn: Invoke the 14th Amendment — Rep. James Clyburn and a group of House Democrats are urging President Barack Obama to invoke the 14th Amendment to raise the debt ceiling if Congress can't come up with a satisfactory plan before the Tuesday deadline. — Clyburn, the third-ranking …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Weasel Zippers and Taylor Marsh