Reid alters debt plan to win GOP support  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has revised his plan to raise the debt limit in a last-ditch bid to attract Republican support.  —  The biggest change is that Reid would give the president almost unilateral power to raise the debt limit …

Obama demands plan by Tuesday  —  Just days ahead of the Aug. 2 debt ceiling deadline and as partisan rankling continued on Capitol Hill, President Barack Obama urged Congress to show him a plan that would divert the country from national default by Tuesday.

The Corrosion of the Conservative Economic Mind  —  First Michael Boskin, now John Taylor: there seems be an epidemic of politically conservative economists who used to be technically competent repeating the obviously wrong falsehood that Reagan ushered in an era of “unprecedented” growth.

Boehner: ‘I stuck my neck out a mile’ for debt-ceiling deal with White House  —  A defiant House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) late Friday defended his debt-ceiling plan by saying it is the only viable plan on paper so far.  —  The Speaker said he'd risked political capital and stuck his neck …

The Truth About Federal Spending  —  Whenever someone like me or Bruce Bartlett points out how little Obama resembles the right's portrait of a raging leftist, someone is sure to come back with the assertion that Obama has presided over a vast expansion of federal spending.

Behind the D.C. Slugfest  —  About 50 percent of taxpayers don't pay federal income taxes.  Almost half of American adults receive either the majority of or all of their income in some form from government.  They are naturally desirous of even more entitlements, in the sense that even higher taxes …

Charles Krauthammer Scolds Margaret Carlson for Saying Tea Party ‘Strapped Explosives to the Capitol’  —  Bloomberg's Margaret Carlson on Friday accused the Tea Party of wanting “to burn the place down” and having figuratively “strapped explosives to the Capitol” during debt ceiling negotiations.