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5:30 PM ET, August 2, 2011

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Joe Nocera / New York Times:
Tea Party's War on America  —  You know what they say: Never negotiate with terrorists.  It only encourages them.  —  These last few months, much of the country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people.  Their intransigent demands …
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
To Hell with You People  —  Look, I am past exhausted talking about liberal media bias.  It's real, we all know it, and people who deny it aren't even fooling themselves.  But some things just have to be pointed out.  This morning I watched the first 15 minutes of the Today Show.
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Last Look from Across the Pond: Was This Obama's “Read My Lips” Moment?  —  I understand why Tea Partiers and even conservatives who drink decaf might think the debt ceiling deal isn't very good, even allowing for the current strength of forces on the political chess board.
Discussion: The Independent
Michael Lind / Salon:
The Tea Party, the debt ceiling, and white Southern extremism
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Dems eat Satan sandwich, GOP looks to next course
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Bachmann and Palin outraged at Biden's Tea Party ‘terrorist’ jab
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Pelosi: My Deficit Committee Members Will Oppose All Entitlement Benefit Cuts  —  The debt limit fight is over, but the fight over entitlement programs will continue for months.  In the weeks ahead, the leaders of both parties in both the House and Senate will name three members each …
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David Rogers / The Politico:
Obama signs debt bill into law  —  Treasury won an immediate reprieve of $400 billion in new borrowing authority Tuesday, as the Senate gave final approval to a hotly contested debt and deficit-reduction agreement hammered out with the White House Sunday night.
Discussion: Truthdig and Bankrupting America
Emily Miller / Washington Times:
Obama's grand slam
Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Who gains from debt deal?  The Pentagon, for one  —  WASHINGTON — The last-minute deal that Congress is considering to raise the federal debt limit probably will mean trillions of dollars in government spending reductions for most agencies.  But one department stands to gain: the Pentagon.
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Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
Debt deal could cut defense $900B over next decade
Discussion: ThinkProgress and CSBA
Jsimoncnn / CNN:
CNN/ORC Poll: Most Americans dislike debt deal, think lawmakers acted like ‘spoiled children’  —  (CNN) - A majority of Americans disapprove of the deal struck Sunday by President Barack Obama and congressional leaders that will raise the country's legal borrowing limit …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:   Poll: 77 percent say Obama, Congress acted like ‘spoiled children’ in debt fight
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Virginia Republican Numbers  —In another sign of his strength as he prepares to enter the Presidential race Rick Perry leads the Republican field in Virginia, pointing to the possibility for him to be a very strong candidate particularly in the South.  He gets 20% to 16% for Mitt Romney …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Three-Way Race: Romney 34%, Bachmann 27%, Perry 26%
Discussion: Salon and GOP 12
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney to pick up pace in new phase of 2012 campaign
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Fiscal Conservatives Barred from Supercommittee  —  Will Senate Republicans be able to prevent tax hikes?  —  The debt ceiling deal will pass the Senate early this afternoon.  No suspense there.  But the vote will be worth watching for another reason: Three Republican Senate sources tell TWS …
Kristin Fisher / wusa9.com:
Woodpecker-Saving Daughter Costs Mom $500, Possible Jail Time  —  “I've just always loved animals,” said Skylar Capo.  “I couldn't stand to watch it be eaten.”  —  Skylar couldn't find the woodpecker's mother, so she brought it to her own mother, Alison Capo, who agreed to take it home.
Don Surber:
Saving Matt Damon  —  Many conservatives think of Matt Damon as another stuck-on-himself multi-millionaire liberal in Hollywood who says one thing but lives otherwise.  —  But I think of him as a friend of Ben Affleck, who is married to Jennifer Garner, who grew up in Charleston, West Virginia …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
GOP winning the larger argument over government  —  In recent days, the debt ceiling deal — which just passed the Senate and is about to be signed by the President — has sparked a fair amount of handwringing among liberals who worry that the fight shows the left has lost the larger argument …
Michael O'Brien / Ballot Box:
Presidential candidates make competing shows of strength in Iowa  —  Republican presidential contenders outlined new endorsements and backers in Iowa Tuesday ahead of the state's influential straw poll next weekend in Ames.  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Rep. Michele Bachmann …
Discussion: CNN
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Craig Robinson / The Iowa Republican:
Interest Group With Ties to Pawlenty Campaign Featured In Latest TV Ad.  Campaign Says It's All Just A Coincidence
Discussion: The Note and Iowa Caucuses
John S. Irons / epi.org:
What's missing from the debt ceiling debate?  Jobs  —  The unemployment rate, currently above 9 percent, is projected to remain high for a long time.  For example, the current Blue Chip Economic Indicators consensus forecast puts the average unemployment rate for 2012 at 8.3 percent.
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Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
REPORT: Debt Ceiling Deal Will Cost 1.8 Million Jobs In 2012
Allan Chernoff / CNNMoney.com:
Debt ceiling cost to taxpayers: $1.7 billion  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The debt ceiling debacle has just cost U.S. taxpayers more than $1.7 billion.  —  That's the amount of additional interest the government had to pay investors Monday to sell Treasury bills that finance its operations.
Wall Street Journal:
The Obama Downgrade, Alphabetically  —  H is for Hillary, who would have made a better president.  —  Snapshots from President Obama's efforts to improve America's standing in the world, 923 days into his administration:  —  A is for the Arab world, and our standing in it: This year …
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Russ Buettner / New York Times:
Reaping Millions in Nonprofit Care for Disabled  —  Medicaid money created quite a nice life for the Levy brothers from Flatbush, Brooklyn.  —  The brothers, Philip and Joel, earned close to $1 million a year each as the two top executives running a Medicaid-financed nonprofit organization serving the developmentally disabled.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Gretawire
Spengler / Asia Times:
The collapse of America's middle class  —  People seem to act irrationally when they have nothing to lose.  Often we observe in wars that the losing side expends more blood and treasure after its position becomes hopeless.  —  The American South sustained most of its casualties in the Civil War …
Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Gingrich slams Obama's “Paul Krugman presidency”  —  Newt Gingrich invokes the liberal economist and New York Times columnist.
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Rachel Maddow Extends MSNBC Contract (Exclusive) … MSNBC has extended Rachel Maddow's contract in a new multi-year deal that will keep the primetime host at the cable news network well beyond the 2012 presidential election.  —  The announcement is expected to come Tuesday at the network's portion …
Bill Roggio / The Long War Journal:
US ‘drones’ kill 15 al Qaeda fighters in southern Yemen  —  Unmanned US Predator or Reaper strike aircraft killed 15 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters yesterday in an attack in a village outside the terrorist-controlled city of Zinjibar in southern Yemen.
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Weasel Zippers
Financial Times:
Spain and Italy rush to quell fresh crisis  —  By Richard Milne in London and Victor Mallet in Madrid  —  Spanish and Italian politicians rushed to formulate a fresh response to the debt crisis engulfing their two countries as their borrowing costs hit new euro-era highs on Tuesday.
Discussion: Paul Krugman and AMERICAN FUTURE
Rolling Stone:
Debt Ceiling Deal: The Democrats Take a Dive  —  So the debt deal has finally been reached.  As expected, the agreement arrives in a form that right-thinking people everywhere can feel terrible about with great confidence.  —  The general consensus is that for the second time in three years …
Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Joe Lieberman Says U.S. Should Cut Social Security To Pay For Fighting ‘The Islamist Extremists’  —  This past April, right-wing war hawk John Bolton suggested during an interview on Fox News that the United States should cut Social Security and Medicare to finance the defense budget.
New York Times:
Debt Bill Becomes Law, Averting Default  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama signed into law on Tuesday legislation raising the government's debt ceiling and cutting trillions of dollars in spending, finally ending a fractious partisan battle just hours before the government's borrowing authority was set to run out.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Huntsman: GOP foes showed ‘little leadership’ in debt fight  —  Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman (R) criticized his opponents for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday for showing “very little leadership” in the debt-ceiling fight.  —  Huntsman, in a thinly veiled barb directed …
Discussion: Orlando Sentinel
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Will Interest Groups Ride To The Rescue?  —  Back in 2008, my understanding of the thinking around health reform was that health insurers would so fear the prospect of liberals imposing a public option that they would induce Republicans to come to the table and strike a bargain to remove it.
 
 
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Cheri Jacobus / Pundits Blog:
Obama, Pelosi et al failed at job creation
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
DEMS PLAN PIVOT TO JOBS: Transportation, infrastructure, tax breaks on fall agenda …
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