memeorandum: After the Crash? Or Before the Deluge? (Steven Hayward/Power Line)

9:50 AM ET, July 30, 2011

Top Items:

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.

Discussion: Right Wing News

The Politico:

The no votes: 22 GOPers who balked Boehner — Speaker John Boehner pushed his debt-ceiling bill through the House Friday night with the support of 218 Republicans. Here are the 22 no votes: Mick Mulvaney (S.C.) — CORRECTED: Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) voted YES on the Boehner bill.

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Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:

Obama: House Republicans wasted ‘precious days’ with Boehner plan — President Obama used his his weekly address to call out House Republicans for holding up the process of getting “our fiscal house in order.” — “Republicans in the House of Representatives just spent precious days trying …

Discussion: The Hill

Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:

Senate Tables Boehner Bill — The United States Senate quickly dispatched the debt ceiling bill passed by the House Friday evening, tabling the Republican bill indefinitely and moving quickly to start consideration of a Democratic plan that would avoid default on Tuesday.

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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:

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 …

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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Boehner's Last Word as Debate Crosses Capitol

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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Boehner's problem: His party doesn't like compromise

Discussion: Political Punch, The New Republic, A plain blog about politics, Democracy in America and The Daily Dish

CNN:
Huntsman makes his pitch to college students

Discussion: The Politico, The Note and Daily Kos

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
How big is the House GOP's sane contingent?

Discussion: American Power, rubber hose and Mother Jones

The Note:
Boehner gets standing ovation from Senate Rs

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Jamie Klatell / The Hill:

Kyl: Dems using debt debate for ‘much broader tax increases’ — Republicans have tried to work with Democrats to solve the debt crisis, but “behind the scenes” Democrats insisted on hug tax increases, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz) said Saturday. — “Unfortunately, after weeks of negotiations …

The Hill:

The Senate's turn: Reid alters debt plan to attract 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 …

Discussion: Crooks and Liars

The Hill:

Senate quickly tables Boehner debt plan — The Senate on Friday evening rejected House Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) plan to raise the debt limit, upping the ante in the game of chicken between House and Senate. — The 59 to 41 vote, on a motion to table the resolution passed by the House less …

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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:

Obama Approval Drops to New Low of 40% — Similar to his approval rating for handling the debt ceiling negotiations — PRINCETON, NJ — President Obama's job approval rating is at a new low, averaging 40% in July 26-28 Gallup Daily tracking. His prior low rating of 41% occurred several times, the last of which was in April.

John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Over to You, Harry — Thankfully, the House passed Boehner 3 tonight, 218-210.

Discussion: Viking Pundit and The Hill

Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Whom will the public blame for debtageddon?

Discussion: Althouse, No More Mister Nice Blog, Hullabaloo and Pajamas Media

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Intense talks under way between Senate Dems, GOP on debt deal

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Daily Kos

The Note: Senate Democrats Blast Revised Boehner Debt Bill as ‘Absurd’

Manu Raju / The Politico:
Scott Brown may support Reid plan

Discussion: CNN, Washington Post, Hot Air and Weasel Zippers

Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Democrats Threaten Saturday Night Debt Fever

Discussion: Prairie Weather

Anjali Mullany / NY Daily News:

President Barack Obama takes debt battle to Twitter, loses more than 40,000 followers in one day — President Obama brought his debt battle to Twitter and he lost - more than 40,000 Twitter followers. — Obama asked Americans Friday to call, email, and tweet Congressional leaders to …

Discussion: NationalJournal.com, Hot Air, The Atlantic Wire and Weasel Zippers, more at Techmeme »

Jon Bershad / Mediaite:
Barack Obama Twitter Spams The Nation, Loses 10,000 Followers And Counting

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, nation.foxnews.com, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and Michelle Malkin

Steven Hayward / Power Line:

After the Crash? Or Before the Deluge? — I'm anchored for the day in calm waters off the southern Irish coast near Waterford, so the smoke-signal Internet system is working a little bit. The debt ceiling controversy is on people's minds even over here, too.

Paul Krugman:

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.

Discussion: The Big Picture, Balloon Juice and Firedoglake

Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:

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 …

Dan Amira / New York Magazine:

Bill Maher on the Controversial Ground Zero Cross: Remember Norway? — A cross of steel beams that remained among the rubble of the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks, and which became a beacon of hope for Christian rescue workers and mourners, has now become a symbol of controversy …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Guardian, How Appealing and Don Surber

Little Green Footballs:

Pamela Geller Edits Post to Conceal Violent Rhetoric in ‘Email from Norway’ — In June 2007, “counter-jihad” blogger Pamela Geller posted the following Email from Norway, from a reader who sounds a lot like the Oslo terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik. — This is what the post looks like today:

Discussion: American Power

Yvonne Wenger / The Post and Courier, Charleston SC:

Democrats criticize Haley's checking of ‘white’ on voter registration application — COLUMBIA — What box should Gov. Nikki Haley check when it comes to her race? — The South Carolina Democratic Party tried Thursday to make Haley out as a liar for checking “white” as her race …

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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:

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.

Discussion: Don Surber and The Gateway Pundit