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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Wonkbook: Boehner failed. Now what? — Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill July 28. (JOSHUA ROBERTS - REUTERS) The lengths John Boehner went to ensure his bill failed in the Senate rather than the House were impressive, but ultimately, insufficient.
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Joe Klein / Swampland:
Republicans' Debt Ceiling Charade Is Downright Dangerous — Let us not put too fine a point on it: Thursday's House vote on Speaker John Boehner's debt ceiling proposal is a joke. If it passes the House, Harry Reid has said it is dead on arrival in the Senate.
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Mother Jones
Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
Reid: The House is ‘having trouble’ conducting its work — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) tweaked his House counterparts for failing to send the upper chamber the material it needs to work before he adjourned the Senate just before 11 p.m. Thursday.
The Politico:
As clock ticks, default or deal? — Washington awoke Friday morning to a possibility that has been widely shrugged off for weeks, but suddenly seems chillingly real: Could the government actually default? — The delay and disintegration of a House vote on the debt limit late Thursday …
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The Heritage Foundation, Politics, Taegan Goddard's …, The Moderate Voice and PERRspectives
The Hill:
GOP postpones debt vote — House Republican leaders have postponed indefinitely a vote on Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) debt-limit bill after they could not persuade enough Republicans to support the measure. — “No vote tonight,” the third-ranking House Republican, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy …
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Dems suggest compromise on debt
Dems suggest compromise on debt
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
What Tonight's House Vote Means
What Tonight's House Vote Means
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National Review, theblogprof, Hot Air and AlterNet
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
What the final deal is likely to look like
What the final deal is likely to look like
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Outside the Beltway, TalkLeft, The Politico, A plain blog about politics and Washington Monthly
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
House GOP leaders delay vote on debt plan
House GOP leaders delay vote on debt plan
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Washington Monthly, The Hill, Ballot Box, Boston Globe, NY Daily News, The Hill and Roll Call
Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
The Worst Negotiators — I cannot decide who the worst negotiators …
The Worst Negotiators — I cannot decide who the worst negotiators …
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RedState
Seung Min Kim / The Politico:
Nancy Pelosi: Kiss your Medicare goodbye
Nancy Pelosi: Kiss your Medicare goodbye
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USA Today, Washington Post, Michelle Malkin, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller and The Lonely Conservative
Joe Hallett / The Columbus Dispatch:
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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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Conservatives angry over Pell Grant funding in Boehner debt bill — House conservatives who have stalled legislation to raise the national debt limit are angry that it includes $17 billion in supplemental spending for Pell Grants, which some compare to welfare.
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The Politico, ThinkProgress, The Hill, Washington Monthly, Hullabaloo and Open Congress
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Bachmann: Debt impasse is not an emergency
Bachmann: Debt impasse is not an emergency
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The Politico, The Note, The Talking Dog, USA Today, GOP 12, The Hill and Washington Monthly
Chris Edwards / Cato @ Liberty:
Boehner's New Plan Doesn't Cut Spending
Boehner's New Plan Doesn't Cut Spending
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Michelle Malkin, americanthinker.com, FreedomWorks blogs, ThinkProgress, The Daily Dish and Hot Air
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Centrist Cop-Out — The facts of the crisis over the debt ceiling aren't complicated. Republicans have, in effect, taken America hostage, threatening to undermine the economy and disrupt the essential business of government unless they get policy concessions they would never have been able to enact through legislation.
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Daily Kos, Weasel Zippers and Prairie Weather
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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Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
Weak growth raises concerns on economy — (Reuters) - The U.S. economy came perilously close to flat-lining in the first quarter and grew at a meager 1.3 percent annual rate in the April-June period as consumer spending barely rose. — The Commerce Department data on Friday also showed …
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Greg Robb / MarketWatch:
U.S. GDP up 1.3% in second quarter from weak Q1 — Front Page - News Viewer - Commentary - Markets - Investing - Personal Finance - Community - Games — WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Gross domestic product expanded at a 1.3% annual rate in the second quarter, the Commerce Department said …
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JammieWearingFool, ThinkProgress, The Gateway Pundit and Grasping Reality …
Donald Marron:
Why Do Half of Americans Pay No Federal Income Tax? — You may have heard the claim that about half of Americans pay no federal income tax. That's a true fact. My Tax Policy Center colleagues estimate, for example, that 46% of households either will pay no federal income tax in 2011 …
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Crooks and Liars, Hullabaloo, The Incidental Economist, Democracy in America, The Daily Dish and Mother Jones
Elissa Gootman / New York Times:
Atheists Sue to Block Display of Cross-Shaped Beam in 9/11 Museum — In the days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, some workers and mourners at the World Trade Center site seized upon a cross-shaped steel beam found amid the rubble as a symbol of faith and hope.
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Don Surber, The Gateway Pundit, 911memorial.org and How Appealing
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
National Income and Product Accounts — Gross Domestic Product: Second Quarter 2011 (Advance Estimate) — Revised Estimates: 2003 through First Quarter 2011 — Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States …
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ThinkProgress, FT Alphaville and Daily Kos
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Oh, by the way, the U.S. just accused Iran of working with Al Qaeda — A little something light to tide you over while we wait for the next chapter in the debt-ceiling saga. I've been around blogs long enough to remember when claiming that Shiite nuts might collaborate with Sunni nuts …
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americanthinker.com, FP Passport, The Note and The Politico
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Anne Bayefsky / Fox News:
U.N. Busy Deciding How to Slam Israel — Member states of the U.N. General Assembly are busy hammering out how to slam Israel and restrict human rights like free speech at “Durban III” - the racist “anti-racism” event to be held in New York on Sept. 22. — With the recent pull-outs …
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americanthinker.com and Israel Matzav
Kathy Kiely / NationalJournal.com:
Culture Clash — Sen. Jim DeMint wants to change the way Washington does business and then “go home and rock on my front porch.” — Two-termer: Jim DeMint — In his new book, The Great American Awakening, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., recalls how he was ostracized for two years by fellow Republicans for his unbending conservatism.
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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Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
LGBT Leaders Slam Sen. Brown For Refusing To Participate In ‘It Gets Better’ Video — On a conference call today, prominent LGBT leaders from Massachusetts roundly condemned Sen. Scott Brown's (R-MA) decision not to participate in a video for the It Gets Better project.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
NRSC blasts ‘lewd, violent, anti-Christian’ Dan Savage
NRSC blasts ‘lewd, violent, anti-Christian’ Dan Savage
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Breaking Boston News …, ThinkProgress and Joe. My. God.