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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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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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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.
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Michael Lind / Salon:
The Tea Party, the debt ceiling, and white Southern extremism — The Tea Party movement takes its name from the Boston Tea Party of 1773, when American patriots dumped British tea into Boston Harbor to protest British imperial power. But while New England was the center of resistance to the British empire …
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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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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.
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Emily Miller / Washington Times:
Obama's grand slam — Republicans fold as U.S. continues on path toward economic disaster — President Obama wanted three things from the debt-ceiling fight: trillions in new borrowing authority, status quo on spending and no more drama before his shot at re-election. He got everything.
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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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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
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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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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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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
Debt deal could cut defense $900B over next decade
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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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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 …
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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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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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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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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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 …
Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Stocks Slump More Than 2% Despite Debt Vote — A Senate vote to pass the debt ceiling plan on Tuesday may have averted the potential for the United States to default on its obligations, but it failed to lift investors' spirits. The Dow Jones industrial average slumped 266 points by the close of trading …
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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 …
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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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.
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Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
Perfect Timing: Pamela Geller's New WND Book Echoes Oslo Terrorist's Book — With impeccable timing, today Pamela Geller is hyping the release of her new book, published by the far right's craziest pseudo-news and Birther site, World Net Daily: Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.
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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.
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Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
Al Gore: ‘Our system of government itself, is in real trouble’ — On his Monday program, Keith Olbermann offered his Current TV platform to his network's chairman, former Vice President Al Gore. According to Gore, both sides of the aisle finally hammering out a debt ceiling agreement …
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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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