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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 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 …
Erick Erickson / RedState:
The Worst Negotiators — I cannot decide who the worst negotiators are, Republican leaders or House conservatives. — John Boehner's plan couldn't get the votes last night so Boehner had to agree to add language conditioning a vote on a balanced budget amendment — an amendment House Republicans …
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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The Politico:
As clock ticks, default or deal?
As clock ticks, default or deal?
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The Heritage Foundation, Politics, The Moderate Voice, Taegan Goddard's … and PERRspectives
Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
Reid: The House is ‘having trouble’ conducting its work
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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The Politico, ThinkProgress, The Hill, Washington Monthly, Hullabaloo and Open Congress
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Dems suggest compromise on debt
Dems suggest compromise on debt
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CNN, RedState, Crooks and Liars, Bearing Drift, The Hill, The Right Scoop and Weasel Zippers
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
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
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
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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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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Washington Monthly, Hot Air, americanthinker.com and The Right Scoop
Greg Robb / MarketWatch:
U.S. GDP up 1.3% in second quarter from weak Q1
U.S. GDP up 1.3% in second quarter from weak Q1
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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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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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Scott Clement / Washington Post:
Americans split on New York gay marriage law — As New York gears up for its second weekend of same-sex nuptials, a Washington Post-ABC News poll finds Americans split 50 to 46 percent over whether the state's law legalizing such unions is a positive or negative outcome.
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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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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
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.
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 Politico and The Note
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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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Financial Post:
U.S. balance now less than Apple cash — Steve Jobs is now more liquid than Uncle Sam. — While it's highly unlikely that President Barack Obama is looking to ask the founder and chief executive of Apple Inc. for a loan, it became a fact as of Thursday afternoon — the world's largest technology company …
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William Yeomans / The Politico:
The tea party's terrorist tactics — It has become commonplace to call the tea party faction in the House “hostage takers.” But they have now become full-blown terrorists. — They have joined the villains of American history who have been sufficiently craven to inflict massive harm …
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Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Hoyer Backs Obama Using 14th Amendment To Resolve Debt Crisis … WASHINGTON — House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Wednesday night became the highest ranking Democratic leader to throw his support behind the idea of President Barack Obama using the 14th Amendment of the Constitution to raise the debt ceiling on his own.
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Wall Street Journal:
They've Lost That Lovin' Feeling — Obama still has supporters, but theirs is a grim support. — The Republican establishment reasserted itself this week, and good thing, too, because the establishment was right. It said Republicans in the House should back and pass the Boehner bill …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The great divide — We're in the midst of a great four-year national debate on the size and reach of government, the future of the welfare state, indeed, the nature of the social contract between citizen and state. The distinctive visions of the two parties — social-democratic vs. limited-government …
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Wall Street Journal:
Lending Markets Feeling the Strain — Rising signs of strain emerged across financial markets on Thursday as investors pulled out billions of cash out of money-market funds, in turn driving the funds to rein in lending in short-term markets. — Financial markets have become increasingly alarmed …
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