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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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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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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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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
What the final deal is likely to look like — Traders watch prices in the Ten-Year Treasury Note options pit. (Scott Olson - Getty Images) The big question today is whether Boehner's bill passes in the House. But the answer — which is probably, though not certainly, “yes” — doesn't matter that much.
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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 …
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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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Dems suggest compromise on debt — Democrats are aiming for a debt-limit compromise similar to the House Republican plan, with at least one major difference: The second vote on raising the debt ceiling would not depend on Congress passing a broader deficit-reduction package.
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Palin's Well-Timed Reminder to Freshmen — Sarah Palin has impeccable timing. — The former Republican vice presidential nominee took to her Facebook page Thursday afternoon to warn freshman Republicans in the House that they just might face primary opposition if they cave in to demands by their party to raise the debt ceiling.
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Conservatives4Palin, The POH Diaries, National Review and The Daily Dish
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Conservatives angry over Pell Grant funding in Boehner debt bill
Conservatives angry over Pell Grant funding in Boehner debt bill
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Open Congress and ThinkProgress
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Bachmann: Debt impasse is not an emergency
Bachmann: Debt impasse is not an emergency
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The Politico:
Debt ceiling vote postponed by Boehner, who will try again Friday
Debt ceiling vote postponed by Boehner, who will try again Friday
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ThinkProgress:
ThinkProgress Vote Count: 23 House Republicans Publicly Oppose Boehner Plan
ThinkProgress Vote Count: 23 House Republicans Publicly Oppose Boehner Plan
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
House Puts Off Debt Vote as Press by Boehner Fails
House Puts Off Debt Vote as Press by Boehner Fails
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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Five Reasons the House GOP Is to Blame
Five Reasons the House GOP Is to Blame
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
New White House talking point: House GOP plan will ruin your Christmas
New White House talking point: House GOP plan will ruin your Christmas
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Seung Min Kim / The Politico:
Nancy Pelosi: Kiss your Medicare goodbye
Nancy Pelosi: Kiss your Medicare goodbye
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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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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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Weasel Zippers
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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The Politico:
Rand Paul: 'I'd rather be a hobbit than a troll'
Rand Paul: 'I'd rather be a hobbit than a troll'
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Perry Is Top GOP Pick in South, Romney in West
Perry Is Top GOP Pick in South, Romney in West
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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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Benjy Sarlin / TPMDC:
Rick Perry Flip Flops On Gay Marriage, Backs Federal Ban
Rick Perry Flip Flops On Gay Marriage, Backs Federal Ban
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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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Box Turtle Bulletin, AMERICAblog Gay, ThinkProgress, Joe. My. God. and Towleroad News #gay
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Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
LGBT Leaders Slam Sen. Brown For Refusing To Participate In ‘It Gets Better’ Video
LGBT Leaders Slam Sen. Brown For Refusing To Participate In ‘It Gets Better’ Video
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The Huffington Post, Towleroad News #gay and Box Turtle Bulletin
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
The Platinum Coin Option — I keep hesitating to write about this because it sounds insane, but Jack Balkin's a professor at Yale Law School so I'll let him say it: … It's right here in 31 USC § 5112 “Denominations, specifications, and design of coins.”
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Grasping Reality … and rubber hose
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Jack M. Balkin / CNN:
3 ways Obama could bypass Congress
3 ways Obama could bypass Congress
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The Impolitic, The New Republic, The Moderate Voice and Taylor Marsh
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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CNN:
Official: Soldier said he wanted to attack Fort Hood troops — Killeen, Texas (CNN) — An AWOL Muslim American Army private arrested near Fort Hood has told investigators that he wanted to attack fellow soldiers at the military base, the police chief in Killeen, Texas, said Thursday.
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Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: AWOL Soldier Arrested Over Concerns of Possible Second Attack On Fort Hood
EXCLUSIVE: AWOL Soldier Arrested Over Concerns of Possible Second Attack On Fort Hood
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Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
Bachmann Defends Using Federal Loans She Denounced: 'It's Almost Impossible To Buy A Home' Without Them — GOP presidential contender Michele Bachmann (R) has been in hot water in recent weeks for personally taking advantage of hundreds of thousands of dollars in government aid while denouncing the very programs she benefited from.
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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 …