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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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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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The Politico:
Biden: Tea partiers like ‘terrorists’ — Vice President Joe Biden joined House Democrats in lashing tea party Republicans Monday, accusing them of having “acted like terrorists” in the fight over raising the nation's debt limit. — Biden was agreeing with a line of argument made by Rep. Mike Doyle …
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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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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Debt-ceiling bill passes the House
Debt-ceiling bill passes the House
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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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Wall Street Journal:
Boehner Repeals Murphy's Law
Boehner Repeals Murphy's Law
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Kevin Drawbaugh / Reuters:
Analysis: Storms ahead as debt deal sets up tax fight
Analysis: Storms ahead as debt deal sets up tax fight
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
The moderate middle wins the day
The moderate middle wins the day
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The Note:
The Note: The Making Of A ‘Satan Sandwich’ — By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) and AMY WALTER (@amyewalter) — It was messy, it was complicated and, in the end, it was simply unpalatable to some lawmakers. — But the budget plan that one liberal Democrat now famously called a …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Dems eat Satan sandwich, GOP looks to next course — There's nothing like a vote on federal spending cuts to make one of the most liberal lawmakers on Capitol Hill sound like a Tea Partier. — “We're going to read this document,” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, said Monday …
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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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Arthur Delaney / The Huffington Post:
Unemployed Ignored In Debt Ceiling Deal
Unemployed Ignored In Debt Ceiling Deal
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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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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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John Cook / Gawker:
Most of Newt Gingrich's Twitter Followers Are Fake — Yesterday Newt Gingrich laid out a new argument for why he should be the GOP presidential nominee: He's got the most Twitter followers. But according to a former Gingrich staffer, he bought them. — Gingrich complained yesterday …
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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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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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Thomas M. Defrank / NY Daily News:
Pols all ‘look like idiots’ during debt crisis, but President Obama takes biggest hit of them all — WASHINGTON - There are no real winners in the debt-crisis debacle, and in such moments the leader of the country absorbs a larger hit than most. — The tawdry spectacle of governmental paralysis …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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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Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Rep. West to screen controversial film on ‘Ground Zero mosque’ — Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) is planning to screen a controversial film on Capitol Hill about attempts to build an Islamic center near Ground Zero in Manhattan. — The film, “Sacrificed Survivors: The Untold Story of the Ground Zero Mosque …
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Shobhana Chandra / Bloomberg:
Consumer Spending in U.S. Unexpectedly Fell in June — Consumer spending in the U.S. unexpectedly dropped in June for the first time in almost two years as a slump in hiring caused households to retrench. — Purchases decreased 0.2 percent, after a 0.1 percent gain the prior month …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Dysfunction obscures the more meaningful problem — It's awfully difficult to defend the American political system right now. I suspect if a pollster asked a representative sample, “Do you believe the political process in the United States is effective or badly broken?” the results would be entirely one-sided.
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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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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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The Politico
The Politico:
Expiring gas tax may be next battle on the Hill — In normal times, renewing the federal excise tax on gasoline would be another routine vote in Congress. — But as the past month of rancorous and intensely partisan debate about raising the debt ceiling has shown, the times are anything but normal.
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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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Anne Barnard / New York Times:
Developers of Islamic Center Try a New Strategy — A year after controversy engulfed plans to build a Muslim community center and mosque in Lower Manhattan, the project's developers are quietly moving ahead: In recent months they have hired a paid staff, started fund-raising drives …
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Joe Weisenthal / Politics:
Bill Gross: This Deal Does Nothing, And We Still Have An “Unfathomable” $66 Trillion In Liabilities To Deal With — Bill Gross's big bet against US Treasuries didn't work out well (latest yield on the 10-year is 2.70%), but nevertheless, as a gigantic bond investor his opinion …
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