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7:15 PM ET, July 28, 2011

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Payback may be coming for congressman's ‘disloyalty’ — U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan's open defiance of Speaker John Boehner's efforts to solve the debt-ceiling crisis could cost the Urbana Republican his safe seat in next year's election. — Two Republican sources deeply involved in configuring …

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The Politico:

Vote on Boehner plan delayed — House Republican leaders have delayed a vote on Speaker John Boehner's package to lift the nation's debt ceiling, at the tail end of a long day of vote counting. — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's (R-Va.) office says the vote will still be held Thursday evening …

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ThinkProgress:

ThinkProgress Vote Count: 23 House Republicans Publicly Oppose Boehner Plan — Tonight at around 6 p.m., the House of Representatives will vote on the Boehner plan, which would create another debt ceiling crisis in less than six months and likely lead to a downgrade in U.S. credit.

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Chris Edwards / Cato @ Liberty:

Boehner's New Plan Doesn't Cut Spending — House Speaker John Boehner has revised his budget plan in response to an unfavorable analysis by the CBO. The CBO has examined Boehner's new plan and finds that it would cut spending by $917 billion over 10 years. Of the total, only $761 billion would be cuts to programs.

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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:

Bachmann: Debt impasse is not an emergency — Washington (CNN) - Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann again brushed off warnings from leaders in both parties that the country would face disastrous economic consequences if the government fails to raise the debt ceiling by next Tuesday.

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Seung Min Kim / The Politico:
Nancy Pelosi: Kiss your Medicare goodbye

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David Rogers / The Politico:
Biden, McConnell look for way out

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Dan Friedman / NationalJournal.com:
Reid Says Senate Will Vote On Boehner Plan After House Thursday Night

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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Cantor to Reid: Pass House bill or default is your responsibility

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New York Times:
Boehner Delays House Vote on Plan to Raise Debt Ceiling

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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Five Reasons the House GOP Is to Blame

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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
House Republicans Unprepared For Senate Rejection Of Boehner Debt Limit Plan

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Thomas Sowell / Real Clear Politics:
Ideals vs. Realities

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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
House to cast vote on Boehner debt-ceiling bill after markets close

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Suzy Khimm / Washington Post:
If Boehner's bill passes, what happens next?

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James Taylor / Yahoo! News:

New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism — NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth's atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing.

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Becky Bohrer / Yahoo! News:

APNewsBreak: Arctic scientist under investigation — JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal wildlife biologist whose observation in 2004 of presumably drowned polar bears in the Arctic helped to galvanize the global warming movement has been placed on administrative leave and is being investigated …

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Rpielke / Climate Science:
New Paper “On the Misdiagnosis Of Surface Temperature Feedbacks From Variations In Earth's …

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Jimijams / Media Matters for America: Fox News Watch's Scott: “Maybe it's time for the granola-crunching press to change its doom …

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:

Obama Loses Ground in 2012 Reelection Bid — In GOP, Romney Leads, Attentive Like Perry, Bachmann Most Visible — OVERVIEW — The sizeable lead Barack Obama held over a generic Republican opponent in polls conducted earlier this year has vanished as his support among independent voters has fallen off.

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First Read / msnbc.com:

First Thoughts: In retreat — Dems in retreat... They draw another line in the sand, but will we see another concession?... Democrats reply: They might be losing this negotiating battle, but they could end up winning the larger war... Today's House vote on the Boehner bill is expected early this evening …

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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Perry Is Top GOP Pick in South, Romney in West

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The Politico:

Rand Paul: 'I'd rather be a hobbit than a troll' — The “Lord of the Rings” metaphors crept into the debt-limit fight on Thursday, as tea-party heroes fired back at Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) who mocked members of the conservative grassroots movement as “tea-party hobbits.”

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Judson Phillips / Washington Post:
Why the Tea Party is unyielding on the debt ceiling

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Peter Cook / Bloomberg:
U.S. Contingency Plan Gives Bondholders Priority

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Catalina Camia / USA Today:
Tea Party favorite blasts McCain for ‘hobbit’ rebuke

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Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:

Rep. Joe Walsh Defends Not Paying $117,000 In Child Support: ‘This Is Where Real America Is’ — Last night the Chicago Sun-Times broke the story that Tea Party freshman Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL), who has spent months lecturing President Obama and Democrats on fiscal responsibility …

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Jack M. Balkin / CNN:

3 ways Obama could bypass Congress — Editor's note: Jack M. Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale Law School. His latest book is “Constitutional Redemption: Political Faith in an Unjust World” (Harvard University Press 2011). — New Haven, Connecticut (CNN) — Very soon, Congress will raise the debt ceiling.

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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress: The Platinum Coin Option

Sarah Palin / Facebook:

Congressional Freshmen - For Such A Time As This — Out here in proverbial politico flyover country, we little folk are watching the debt ceiling debate with great interest and concern. Today I re-read the open letter I wrote to Republican Freshman Members of Congress in November 2010 …

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FRC Blog:

Texas Gov. Rick Perry: “Obviously gay marriage is not fine with me...” — Last week in Aspen, Colorado, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas addressed New York's new same-sex marriage law by saying “That's New York, and that's their business, and that's fine with me...”

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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:

BREAKING: Boehner postpones vote | Official word sent to House members: — **Members are advised that the House GOP Leadership has postponed the votes on the motion to recommit and final passage of S. 627 - Speaker Boehner's Short Term Default Act (amending the Faster FOIA Act of 2011).

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Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:

GOP aims to gut Christmas, White House alleges — House Speaker and national grinch John Boehner is planing to spoil Christmas, White House officials are claiming, as they try to head off passage of Boehner's two-stage debt ceiling bill. — “Happy Holidays America: Boehner plan …

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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
New White House talking point: House GOP plan will ruin your Christmas

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Fox News:

EXCLUSIVE: AWOL Soldier Arrested Over Concerns of Possible Second Attack On Fort Hood — At least one U.S. military serviceman has been arrested after raising concerns over another possible attack on Fort Hood, Fox News has learned exclusively. — Pvt. Nasser Jason Abdo …

New York Times:

New Hacking Case Outrages Britain — LONDON — Britain was awash in a new surge of outrage over the phone hacking scandal on Thursday, as news emerged that Scotland Yard had added to the list of probable victims a woman whose 8-year-old daughter was murdered by a repeat sex offender in 2000.

Guardian:
News of the World targeted phone of Sarah Payne's mother

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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:

NRSC blasts ‘lewd, violent, anti-Christian’ Dan Savage — With the Massachusetts Democratic Party attacking Senator Scott Brown for refusing to film a video for the “It Gets Better Project,” which offers moral support to gay teens, the National Republican Senatorial Committee came …

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