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12:20 PM ET, August 3, 2011

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Daily Mail:
Another politician forced to resign after sending naked pictures to woman he had online relationship with  —  A politician who emailed a woman nude photos of himself that were posted on a GOP activist's website has resigned and said he will consider all legal options to have the pictures taken down.
Bloomberg:
Debt Panel Membership to Send Signal on Chances for Tax Overhaul  —  Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) — The push to reduce the U.S. debt is shifting to the makeup of the special congressional panel charged with finding further spending cuts and whether its 12 members can consider rewriting the tax code.
Discussion: The Reaction
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
How Boehner escaped disaster  —  In the midst of a rebellion from his own colleagues, John Boehner faced a big decision.  —  It was 10 p.m. last Thursday, the most stressful moment of his Speakership.  —  Boehner's debt-limit bill was short on votes, and the GOP leadership was forced …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Pelosi: My Deficit Committee Members Will Oppose All Entitlement Benefit Cuts
Paul Ryan / Wall Street Journal:
Where's Your Budget, Mr. President?  —  Ever since they fudged the numbers to pass ObamaCare, Democrats have abandoned credible spending plans.  —  During the negotiations over raising the debt ceiling, President Obama reportedly warned Republican leaders not to call his bluff by sending him a bill without tax increases.
Alan Colmes' Liberaland:
Republicans Attack Obama For Having A Birthday Party  —  Apparently, you're not allowed to do anything other than create jobs, if you're Barack Obama (Mr. Boehner, where are the jobs?).  The right wing is going apoplectic because there is a star-studded Chicago fund-raiser in conjunction with his 50th birthday.
Discussion: The Impolitic and Political Punch
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Political Punch:
President Obama Headed to Chicago for Birthday-Themed Fundraiser
JammieWearingFool:
'Maybe He Hasn't Noticed or Doesn't Care, But the Country is Giving Up On Him'  —  I'm not of the mind that Barack Obama doesn't care about his fortunes in the wake of the debt deal hammered out this week.  He obviously cares since he's now jetting off for his biggest fundraisers of his re-election campaign.
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New York Post:
Scapegoater-in-chief  —  That was fast.  Mounting his shrinking soapbox soon after the Senate passed the debt-ceiling bill, President Obama took less than a minute to lapse into his class-warfare shtick.  —  It's always us-against-them with him, but yesterday was especially off-key.
The Right Scoop:
Palin: If we were terrorists Obama would be wanting to pal around with us  —  Sarah Palin says that she isn't just going to roll over and say to the left “hit me baby one more time, call me a terrorist again, call me a racist”, but rather she's going to call them out on their hypocrisy.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Palin says she has no respect for Romney's debt-ceiling stance  —  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) joined the attacks against Mitt Romney's handling of the debt-ceiling debate, saying she has no respect for how the GOP presidential front-runner handled the issue.
Discussion: Washington Wire and CNN
Lawrence Summers / Washington Post:
Moving forward after the debt deal  —  At last Washington has reached a deal that raises the debt limit and averts a default that would have been a national embarrassment and an economic and geopolitical catastrophe.  The forces shaping the deal are multifaceted and so are reactions.
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Peter Wallsten / Washington Post:
Moderate Senate Dems prepare a balanced budget amendment
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
President Obama signs debt-limit bill into law
Pierre Thomas / ABCNEWS:
D.B. Cooper Mystery: Alleged Niece Comes Forward  —  A woman claiming to be the niece of infamous skyjacker D.B. Cooper has spoken to ABC News in an exclusive interview about her role in the recently re-ignited 40-year-old cold case that has haunted the FBI for years.
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Romney Advisor Robert Bork: Civil Rights Act Is ‘Unsurpassed Ugliness,’ But Contraception and Porn Bans Are Fine  —  Yesterday, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) announced his presidential campaign's “Justice Advisory Committee,” along with its co-chair Robert Bork.
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
McConnell: ‘The debt ceiling will not be clean anymore’  —  (GETTY IMAGES) The most honest man in Washington did some more truth-telling on CNBC last night.  Speaking to Larry Kudlow, Mitch McConnell made perfectly clear that the hostage situation we just went through wasn't a one-shot deal.
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Can the Debt Ceiling Genie Be Put Back in the Bottle?
Michael Joseph Gross / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: Operation Shady rat—Unprecedented Cyber-espionage Campaign and Intellectual-Property Bonanza  —  For at least five years, a high-level hacking campaign—dubbed Operation Shady rat—has infiltrated the computer systems of national governments, global corporations, nonprofits …
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Report on ‘Operation Shady RAT’ identifies widespread cyber-spying
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Stalemate in Senate Leaves 4,000 Out of Work at F.A.A.  —  WASHINGTON — After dealing with the debt crisis, Senate negotiators tried and failed on Tuesday to end a stalemate over temporary financing for the Federal Aviation Administration, leaving 4,000 agency employees out of work and relying …
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Bill Chappell / NPR:
Reid Says FAA Shutdown Will Continue; Blames House, Delta Airlines
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
How Clinton Foiled Debt Ceiling Extortion  —  If you haven't already read Kara Brandeisky's story about how the Clinton administration handled the debt ceiling in 1995, you should definitely do it.  As she notes, the circumstances were different in 1995.  Republicans were somewhat less fixated …
Discussion: Marbury and cbpp.org
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Kara Brandeisky / The New Republic:
How Clinton Handled His Debt Ceiling Crisis Better Than Obama
Reuters:
Private sector added 114,000 jobs in July  —  (Reuters) - Private employers added more jobs than expected in July, though less than in June, but planned layoffs rose to a 16-month high, according to separate surveys on Wednesday.  —  The data comes ahead of the U.S. government's key jobs report on Friday …
Anna Palmer / The Politico:
K Street eyes super committee  —  K Street wasted little time putting clients on notice about the next phase of the debt ceiling debate with a simple message: Nobody is safe from the super committee.  —  Lobby shops say a much-broader-than-expected range of budget cuts and tax provisions could be in play …
Daniel Markovits / Los Angeles Times:
How the GOP lost on the debt deal  —  The deal reached by Congress eliminates the leverage that would have been created by another imminent default until after the next election, where it will be exercised by new and possibly differently constituted players.
Discussion: normblog
Voice of Russia, News:
Russia's Post issues stamps to mark Obama's 50th birthday  —  Russia's Post Office has issued a collection of stamps and envelopes to mark the 50th jubilee of the US President Barack Obama.  —  The US leader is celebrating his birthday on the 4th of August.
Discussion: americanthinker.com and Doug Ross
New York Times:
Syria Sends In Tanks to Storm Center of a Rebellious City  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon — Ignoring global condemnation, Syria ordered its military to storm through the rebellious city of Hama on Wednesday after three days of shelling.  Activists and residents there said that tanks …
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
One shot on taxes: Don't blow it, Democrats  —  There are now two sides in the American tax debate: the Republican Party, which refuses to have a serious conversation about taxes, and the Democratic Party, which . . . refuses to have a serious conversation about taxes.
Discussion: UrbanGrounds and Daily Kos
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
MSNBC Exec Says the Network Is Beginning to ‘Chip Away’ at Fox … BEVERLY HILLS - MSNBC president Phil Griffin has his sights set on Fox News.  Griffin opened the network's presentation at the Television Critics Association press tour here by noting that this year, MSNBC …
Richard Lawson / Gawker:
Matt Damon Gives Libertarian Reporter a Satisfying Smackdown  —  A reporter from libertarian rag Reason interviewed notorious Massachusetts liberal actor Matt Damon at this year's Save Our Schools March and she tried to throw some business at him about teacher tenure and Ayn Randy incentive stuff and he wasn't having it.
Discussion: Sky Dancing and The Wire
Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
GOP Rep. Steve King: Free Birth Control Will Make America ‘A Dying Civilization’  —  Conservatives are lashing out at the Obama administration's decision to listen to the experts at the Institute of Medicine and approve their recommendation to require new health insurance plans to cover birth control with no co-pays.
 
 
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New York Times:
A Crisis Merely Postponed
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Christine Haughney / New York Times:
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Washington Chain Saw Massacre
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New York Times:
Hiding Behind the Budget Act
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Jonathan Weisman / Wall Street Journal:
Mormons Duck Political Duel
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Scott Wong / The Politico:
Senate blocking recess appointments
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Lawmakers say Palin donations came without any notice
Discussion: GOP 12
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Senate Panel Keeps ‘Secret Patriot Act’ Under Wraps
Richard Heinberg / Energy Bulletin:
Who killed economic growth? - Animated Video
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Steven Levingston / Washington Post:
Beware of dangerous politicians
Discussion: Don Surber
John Detrixhe / Bloomberg:
Moody's, Fitch Affirm U.S. Ratings While Warning of Downgrades
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
White House Calls Use of the Word ‘Terrorists’ …
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

 
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