memeorandum: Lois Lerner's price for testimony: Immunity (Politico)

1:55 PM ET, July 3, 2013

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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:

Obamacare's employer mandate shouldn't be delayed. It should be repealed. — Delaying Obamacare's employer mandate is the right thing to do. Frankly, eliminating it — or at least utterly overhauling it — is probably the right thing to do. But the administration executing …

Discussion: JustOneMinute, Washington Monthly, Hot Air, The Dish, Marginal Revolution, Yahoo! News and The Daily Caller

Yuval Levin / National Review:

Delaying Obamacare — Until yesterday, the administration had basically put on a brave face about the difficulties arising in its implementation of Obamacare. With a few minor exceptions (now especially notable among them the one-year delay of key requirements for the new small-business exchanges) …

Discussion: Power Line, Weekly Standard and Yahoo! News

Mark J. Mazur / U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Continuing to Implement the ACA in a Careful, Thoughtful Manner

Valerie B. Jarrett / White House.gov Blog:
We're Listening to Businesses about the Health Care Law

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Yahoo! News, The Hill, theGrio, The Daily Caller, The Other McCain, Politico, NPR and Detroit Free Press

Josh Barro / Business Insider:
The Obama Administration's Excuse For Delaying The Obamacare Mandate Is Either Lame Or Fake

Discussion: Yahoo! News, Politico, The Hill, msnbc.com and Los Angeles Times

Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
The politics of delaying Obamacare

Discussion: American Prospect and Politico

Jared Bernstein / Economix:
Putting Off the Employer Mandate

Discussion: Politico and The Raw Story

Bloomberg:
Health-Law Employer Mandate Said to Be Delayed to 2015

John Gregory / KABC-TV:

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi under house arrest - Al Hayat TV — CAIRO (KABC) — Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is reportedly under house arrest after the military ultimatum expired Wednesday, reports Al Hayat TV. — Morsi's spokesman denied the report, according to ABC News …

Discussion: Hot Air, The Hinterland Gazette and Questions and Observations

New York Times:

Morsi and Egyptian Generals Edge Closer to Conflict — By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, BEN HUBBARD and ALAN COWELL — CAIRO — Egypt's top generals summoned civilian political leaders to an emergency meeting Wednesday just hours before the deadline they have set for President Mohamed Morsi to leave power.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Yahoo! News, The Hugh Hewitt Show, NBC Politics, The Big Picture, The Lede, Mediaite and Wall Street Journal

Reuters:

Mursi, Egypt army ready to die in ‘Final Hours’ showdown — (Reuters) - Egypt's army commander and Islamist President Mohamed Mursi each pledged to die for his cause as a deadline neared on Wednesday that will trigger a military takeover backed by protesters.

Discussion: The Jawa Report, Firedoglake, Washington Monthly and Gawker

Abigail Hauslohner / Washington Post:
Egypt's Morsi defiant under pressure as deadline looms

Discussion: Hot Air, Scared Monkeys, Althouse, The Reaction and Lawfare

New York Times:
Depth of Discontent Threatens Muslim Brotherhood and Its Leader

Discussion: Guardian, Booman Tribune and Balloon Juice

Jeffrey Goldberg / Bloomberg:
How Did the U.S. Lose the Egyptian People?

Discussion: The Daily Beast, PolicyMic, Facebook, The Investigative Project …, Power Line, Guardian, Hot Air, The Hill and CNN

Ron Nixon / New York Times:

U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement — WASHINGTON — Leslie James Pickering noticed something odd in his mail last September: A handwritten card, apparently delivered by mistake, with instructions for postal workers to pay special attention to the letters and packages sent to his home.

Discussion: The Verge, Weasel Zippers, Consumerist, Blue Mass Group and Balloon Juice

Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:

White House Memo Shows Obama Administration's Painful Efforts To Defend Valerie Jarrett — “Valerie is someone here who other people inside the building know they can trust. (need examples.)” As reported in the forthcoming book This Town . — Via: PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP / Getty Images

Discussion: American Prospect, The Hill, The PJ Tatler and Washington Free Beacon

Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:

Rubio to Introduce Senate Bill to Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks — Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today agreed to be the lead sponsor of a Senate bill to ban abortion after an unborn child is 20 weeks old. A similar measure passed the House last month and a state version is now being debated …

Discussion: Politico, CNN, Yahoo! News, The Hill, The Week, Riehl World News, LifeNews.com, Booman Tribune and Business Insider

Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:

Rubio Plans To Introduce Texas-Style Abortion Ban In The Senate — Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) is planning to introduce a bill in the Senate that would ban abortion after 20 weeks, the Weekly Standard reported on Wednesday. The bill is meant to mirror anti-abortion legislation passed last month by the House of Representatives.

Discussion: Hullabaloo and FiveThirtyEight

Peter Hamby / CNN:
Could Perry be a player in 2016? — (CNN) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry …

Discussion: Riehl World News, Post Politics, The Week, Washington Monthly and Trail Blazers Blog

Cahnman / Cahnman's Musings:

Texas Capital Abortion Supporters chant “Hail Satan” — It's been a very interesting day at the Texas State Capitol. Cahnman's Musings hasn't been following the hearing. Instead, we've been participating in the surrounding events. LetTexasSpeak has been doing a live broadcast …

Discussion: protein wisdom, The PJ Tatler, Twitchy, Patterico's Pontifications, LifeNews.com, Hot Air, Ed Driscoll and The Lonely Conservative

Justin Sink / The Hill:
Texas committee advances abortion bill, as poll shows opposition

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Associated Press, Politico and alicublog

Jason Howerton / TheBlaze.com:
WATCH: ABORTION SUPPORTERS CHANT ‘HAIL SATAN!’ WHILE PRO-LIFE ACTIVISTS SING ‘AMAZING GRACE’ OUTSIDE TEXAS CAPITOL

Discussion: Ricochet Conversations Feed

Theresa Clift / wisconsinrapidstribune.com:

Walker endorses path to citizenship — WAUSAU — Gov. Scott Walker distanced himself from House Republicans debating a new immigration bill Tuesday by endorsing a path to citizenship for immigrant workers. — In a meeting with the Daily Herald Media Editorial Board, Walker acknowledged …

Discussion: Politico, Washington Wire, The Hill and First Read

William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
The House GOP's July Agenda: Discredit and Delay Obamacare, Ignore Immigration

Discussion: Business Insider

Russell Berman / The Hill: No pressure on House Republicans to tackle immigration reform

Michal Conger / Washington Examiner:

State Department bureau spent $630,000 on Facebook ‘likes’ — State Department officials spent $630,000 to get more Facebook “likes,” prompting employees to complain to a government watchdog that the bureau was “buying fans” in social media, the agency's inspector general says.

Discussion: The Lonely Conservative, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and Patterico's Pontifications

John Hudson / Foreign Policy:
OMG! State Department Dropped $630,000 on Facebook “Likes”

Discussion: International Liberty, Gawker, Yahoo! News, Quartz, Hit & Run and The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »

Dan Roberts / Guardian:

Bolivian president's jet rerouted amid suspicions Edward Snowden on board — France and Portugal accused of refusing entry to their airspace, while plane lands in Vienna with no sign of Snowden — • Read live updates on the diplomatic crisis — Bolivia reacted with fury …

Discussion: bigstory.ap.org, Atlas Shrugs, Taylor Marsh, LLC, The Verge, Mediaite, Informed Comment, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, NPR and RT

Angelika Gruber / Reuters:
Austrian plane search for leaker Snowden enrages Bolivia

Discussion: ViralRead and Riehl World News

Mark Binker / @NCCapitol:

Senate tacks sweeping abortion legislation onto Sharia law bill — RALEIGH, N.C. — Senators tacked a suite of new restrictions and regulations pertaining to abortion clinics onto a bill dealing with the application of foreign laws in North Carolina family courts Tuesday.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Raleigh News & Observer, The Huffington Post, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Raw Story, ThinkProgress, Shakesville, The Mahablog, No More Mister Nice Blog, Mediaite, Crooks and Liars, PoliticusUSA, PolicyMic, Daily Kos, The Week, RH Reality Check, The Maddow Blog and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Hadas Gold / Politico:

Rush Limbaugh: Fox News wouldn't discuss state of GOP — Rush Limbaugh says Fox News did not want him to talk about the state of the Republican Party on the network and he called the move “quite telling.” — “They asked me, what do you want to talk about, I didn't want to talk about Egypt …

Politico:

Lois Lerner's price for testimony: Immunity — Embattled IRS official Lois Lerner will not testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee unless she's given immunity from prosecution, her lawyer told POLITICO Tuesday. — “They can obtain her testimony tomorrow by doing …