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

2:40 PM ET, July 3, 2013

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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 …

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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.

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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.

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World News:
Supporters of Egyptian president say military coup is underway

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

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

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Ernesto Londoño / Washington Post:
Egypt's political turmoil puts Obama administration in precarious position

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The Daily Beast:
Obama Offers a Revisionist History of His Administration's Approach To Egypt

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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 It should be repealed.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 …

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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) …

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

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

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

Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
The politics of delaying Obamacare

Discussion: American Prospect and Politico

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.

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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 …

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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.

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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 …

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

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

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

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

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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

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 …

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

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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.

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 …

Megan McCloskey / Stars & Stripes:

US Marines in Spain, Italy remain on heightened alert — WASHINGTON — About 500 crisis-response Marines who recently deployed to Italy and Spain are positioned to respond to the brewing chaos in Egypt. — Pentagon spokesman George Little wouldn't speak about Egypt or the U.S. Embassy …

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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 …