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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.
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Toby Young / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
The real story of the US debt deal is not the triumph of the Tea Party but the death of the Socialist Left — For British conservatives, the US debt deal is a thing of beauty. Under the terms of the deal, the federal government will cut spending by $2.4 trillion over the next 10 years …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Dems eat Satan sandwich, GOP looks to next course
Dems eat Satan sandwich, GOP looks to next course
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Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Last Look from Across the Pond: Was This Obama's “Read My Lips” Moment?
Last Look from Across the Pond: Was This Obama's “Read My Lips” Moment?
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The Note:
The Note: The Making Of A ‘Satan Sandwich’
The Note: The Making Of A ‘Satan Sandwich’
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Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
NBC News' Sharpton Airs Lame Segment Calling Tea Party ‘Monster’ that ‘Will Destroy You’
NBC News' Sharpton Airs Lame Segment Calling Tea Party ‘Monster’ that ‘Will Destroy You’
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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.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate Passes Debt Plan to Avert Default — Members of Congress left after casting their votes Monday on the budget agreement. The bill passed 269 to 161, signifying relatively strong support of the plan. More Photos » — WASHINGTON — The Senate put an end to months of partisan impasse …
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The Note:
As Senate Votes, McConnell Declares Tea Party ‘Won,’ Reid says Tea Party ‘Disconcerting’
As Senate Votes, McConnell Declares Tea Party ‘Won,’ Reid says Tea Party ‘Disconcerting’
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Emily Miller / Washington Times:
Obama's grand slam
Obama's grand slam
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The Politico:
Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell and the making of a debt deal
Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell and the making of a debt deal
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Danny Yadron / Washington Wire:
Palin Calls House Debt Vote a (Qualified) Victory for Tea Party
Palin Calls House Debt Vote a (Qualified) Victory for Tea Party
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Bachmann and Palin outraged at Biden's Tea Party ‘terrorist’ jab
Bachmann and Palin outraged at Biden's Tea Party ‘terrorist’ jab
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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 …
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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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Ross Douthat:
The Hawks' Dilemma — There's plenty to be said about the details …
The Hawks' Dilemma — There's plenty to be said about the details …
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
How the Debt Committee Could Turn Republican Against Republican
How the Debt Committee Could Turn Republican Against Republican
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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 …
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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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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.
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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
REPORT: Debt Ceiling Deal Will Cost 1.8 Million Jobs In 2012
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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 …
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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Thomas Lifson / americanthinker.com:
We The Stupid — I stand here in abject stupefaction. The so-called “right” or “Tea Party” in this republic is being so thoroughly rolled and defeated that I am struggling to come up with an adequate violent submission metaphor that does not involve prison rape . . . and they honesty think that they're “winning.”
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney to pick up pace in new phase of 2012 campaign — After a relatively low-key start to his second presidential campaign, Republican front-runner Mitt Romney plans to pick up his pace this month as the 2012 sweepstakes intensifies, with a blitz of appearances in early voting states and a list of policy proposals.
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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 …
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Fitch warns US would endanger AAA rating with even ‘technical’ default — The United States would endanger its coveted AAA credit rating if Congress allows even a short-term “technical default” to occur, according to the Fitch credit rating agency. — Fitch said Wednesday it would put …
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Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:
Egyptians Turn Against Liberal Protesters — CAIRO—Mobs of ordinary Egyptians joined with soldiers to drive pro-democracy protesters from their encampment in Tahrir Square here Monday, showing how far the uprising's early heroes have fallen in the eyes of the public.
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Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Gingrich slams Obama's “Paul Krugman presidency” — Newt Gingrich invokes the liberal economist and New York Times columnist.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
DEMS PLAN PIVOT TO JOBS: Transportation, infrastructure, tax breaks on fall agenda - New Michael Meehan firm - NYT creates Political Desk - Alison Starling, NBC's Peter Alexander engaged —Arizona Republic A1, “Giffords stuns D.C., casts vote,” by Dan Nowicki: “Giffords' decision to come …
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Scott Pelley / CBS News:
Boehner: I got 98 percent of what I wanted — CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley sat down with Speaker of the House John Boehner in his office at the Capitol on Monday. — With a brutal partisan fight over the debt ceiling drawing to an apparent close, Boehner said he understands …
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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.
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Reason:
Obama's Top Four Power Grabs — The president stretches executive power to expand the warfare state and the regulatory state. — Candidates never keep their promises once in office. But even by the unlovely standards of his political peers, President Obama has pulled a rather impressive switcheroo from the anti-Bush to Bush-plus.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Three-Way Race: Romney 34%, Bachmann 27%, Perry 26% — Candidates will fall by the wayside as the primary battle for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination gets under way. If the race were already down to just the three top candidates, Mitt Romney would still be just slightly ahead.
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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.
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