memeorandum: VIDEO: Paul Ryan Wants Boehner To Bring Immigration Reform To A Vote Even If Most GOPers Don't Support It (Scott Keyes/ThinkProgress)

8:55 PM ET, July 31, 2013

Top Items:

Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:

Whither the GOP? Republicans Want Change, But Split over Party's Direction — Ryan Has Broader Appeal in GOP than Paul, Rubio or Christie — OVERVIEW — Coming off of two consecutive presidential election defeats, most Republican voters believe that their party must address major problems to be more competitive in the future.

Discussion: New Republic, The Moderate Voice, Politico, CNN, Washington Monthly, Weasel Zippers, Rush Limbaugh, msnbc.com, Taking Note, The Caucus, TheBlaze.com, Hot Air, Mediaite and Taegan Goddard's …

Politico:

Ted Cruz taunts fellow Republicans in Obamacare fight — Ted Cruz is taking his hardball tactics to a whole new level. — The Texas freshman senator and his senior aides are unleashing a barrage of attacks on their fellow Republicans for refusing to support their plan to choke off Obamacare as a condition for funding the government.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Post Politics, Trail Blazers Blog, USA Today, No More Mister Nice Blog, Wonkblog, Power Line, Booman Tribune, FreedomWorks blogs and The Raw Story

Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
VIDEO: Paul Ryan Wants Boehner To Bring Immigration Reform To A Vote Even If Most GOPers Don't Support It

Discussion: Daily Kos and ThinkProgress

Tal Kopan / Politico:
Ted Cruz: I didn't say ‘surrender caucus’

Discussion: Mediaite and Hot Air

Jake Sherman / Politico:
John Boehner outlines new House Obamacare votes

Discussion: CNN and Daily Kos

Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

XKeyscore: NSA tool collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet’ — • XKeyscore gives ‘widest-reaching’ collection of online data — • NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches — • Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history

Charlie Savage / New York Times:
U.S. Outlines N.S.A.'s Culling of Data for All Domestic Calls

Discussion: Hillicon Valley, Washington Post, Guardian, Reuters, The Democratic Daily, ViralRead, Lawfare, Yahoo! News, NYT Bits, The Verge, Business Insider and Crooks and Liars, more at Mediagazer »

Lisa Desjardins / CNN:

Source: Obama was ‘rude and dismissive’ in exchange with Democrat — Washington (CNN) - During a question and answer session Wednesday with Democrats on Capitol Hill, President Barack Obama offered what Democratic sources said was a testy response to a question about a federal loan guarantee program …

Discussion: Reuters, Politico, Wonkblog, Weasel Zippers and The Daily Caller

Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Obama defends Summers, tells Dems 'Don't believe HuffPost'

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Raw Story

Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama's no-Congress strategy

Discussion: CNN, American Prospect, Talking Points Memo, Firedoglake, Right Wing News, Roll Call, NationalJournal.com, Taylor Marsh, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Post, Wonkblog and Wall Street Journal

New York Times:
Weighing Choice for Fed, Obama Offers His Party a Defense of Summers

Discussion: Yahoo! News, Shakesville, Politico and The Daily Caller

Richard McGregor / Financial Times:
Obama defends Larry Summers to Democrats

Discussion: Business Insider and Guardian

TMZ.com:

George Zimmerman DASHCAM VIDEO — Stopped By Cops for Speeding ... Gun in Car — DASHCAM VIDEO — Stopped By Cops, Packing Heat — EXCLUSIVE DETAILS — 1:55 PM PT — We've obtained the police dashcam video of the stop ... in which George Zimmerman informs the cop he has a firearm in his glove box.

Discussion: Hot Air, Gawker, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, National Review and The Hinterland Gazette

Ktvtdeborah / CBS Dallas:
George Zimmerman Stopped For Speeding In North Texas

Discussion: TalkLeft, The Raw Story, The Black Sphere and Gawker

Erik Wasson / The Hill:

Republican fiscal splits erupt; Rogers rips party leadership — Long-running Republican tensions over the Ryan budget's deep spending cuts boiled over Wednesday as the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee accused his party of being unable to support them.

Discussion: Politico and PoliticusUSA

David Rogers / Politico:

THUD pulled as GOP budget frays — With support collapsing, a $44.1 billion transportation and housing bill was pulled abruptly from the House floor Wednesday, and top Republicans conceded it was a further sign that the party's budget strategy is unraveling.

Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Daily Kos

Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Student loan bill passes House, heads to Obama

Discussion: Politico

Isaac Chotiner / New Republic:

John McCain, Undecided 2016 Voter — Interview: McCain on Fox News Schizophrenia, Tea Party Nihilism, and Choosing Between Hillary Clinton and Rand Paul in 2016 — It has been difficult to follow politics over the past several months without sensing the presence of a new John McCain. (Again.)

Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
McCain strolls into Dem caucus meeting

Discussion: Tampa Bay Times, Weasel Zippers and Ricochet Conversations Feed

Dorsey Shaw / BuzzFeed:

Glenn Beck: “I Was Diane Sawyer's Little Bitch” — Beck's radio program goes off the rails and his co-host Stu is left almost speechless. “Don't even think about what you're saying. Just go with it.” — Watch as Beck's radio program descends into chaos. — View Video ›

Discussion: Mediaite, The Raw Story and The Hinterland Gazette

The Hill:

The Hill's 50 Most Beautiful People — Welcome to The Hill's annual 50 Most Beautiful list! — This year marks the 10th anniversary of the list and brings in a slew of new faces as, for the first time, White House and executive branch employees were eligible for consideration.

Discussion: Hit & Run, Yahoo! News, msnbc.com, Jammie Wearing Fools and The BLT

Benny Johnson / BuzzFeed:
The Hill Reacts To The Hill's 50 Most Beautiful People List

Discussion: Texas on the Potomac, PostPartisan and FishbowlDC

James Arkin / Politico:

Rick Scott: Jesse Jackson owes Fla. an apology — Republican Gov. Rick Scott wants an apology from the Rev. Jesse Jackson for calling Florida “the Apartheid state,” and the “Selma of our time,” according to reports. — Jackson made the comments Tuesday while on a visit to the Florida Capitol …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Mediaite

MiamiHerald.com:
Rev. Jesse Jackson calls Florida ‘Selma of our time’; Gov. Rick Scott calls for apology

Discussion: The Hinterland Gazette and theGrio

Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:

CNN: We Were Able to Interview Lead Benghazi Suspect for 2 Hours — John King reported this morning that a reporter from CNN was able to interview a lead suspect in the Benghazi terror attack for two hours: — The FBI has reportedly not been able to track-down the suspect, but CNN had no problem talking to him for two hours.

Discussion: Hot Air, The Jawa Report, Washington Free Beacon and American Glob

CNN:
New outrage over Benghazi

Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Free Beacon

RADAR:

Secret Sex Tape: Monica Lewinsky Caught On Explicit Recording Telling Bill Clinton, ‘I Could Take My Clothes Off...’ — A sex tape that Monica Lewinsky recorded for Bill Clinton at the height of their scandalous affair has leaked, during which the former White House intern is heard planning …

Discussion: Althouse, Weasel Zippers, The Hinterland Gazette, The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit

NY Daily News:

Sydney Leathers in talks to create porn flick based on e-fling with Anthony Weiner — Leathers met with Steven Hirsch, co-chairman of Vivid Entertainment, who offered Weiner's former paramour an opportunity to make an X-rated parody of the sexting affair. When shock jock Howard Stern asked Leathers …

Discussion: msnbc.com, The Raw Story, Algemeiner.com, American Power, Business Insider and Hot Air

Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Huma Abedin to take break from job with Hillary Clinton

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Quit Is the Way to Roll — The cruelly misunderstood Anthony Weiner …

Discussion: Politico, Politicker, msnbc.com and Connecting.the.Dots

Bob Nightengale / USA Today:

MLB prepared to ban A-Rod for life, suspend eight others — Commissioner Bud Selig is prepared to levy a lifetime suspension on New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, while suspending about eight others before the weekend, two people with knowledge of the negotiations told USA TODAY Sports.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Outside the Beltway and SI Wire

Katherine Heintzelman / PARADE Magazine:

Oprah Winfrey, Forest Whitaker Talk Lee Daniels' The Butler, Racism, and the N-word — “People need to see this movie,” says Oprah of Lee Daniels' The Butler, which raises questions about race in America — In this weekend's issue, Parade features a very personal conversation with Forest Whitaker …

Discussion: Politico, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, The Hinterland Gazette and TMZ.com

Steve Coll / News Desk:

How Egypt Will Shake the World — In late 1991, amid the worldwide wave of elections that followed the end of the Cold War, Algeria's military-backed government held a national vote and very reluctantly invited a coalition of previously repressed Islamists to take part.

Discussion: Washington Monthly and Daniel Pipes

Ramsey Cox / The Hill:

Sen. Heitkamp flying back to Washington to cast decisive vote on ATF nominee — The Senate is waiting for Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) to cast the deciding vote on whether to end debate on President Obama's nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

Discussion: CNN and Politico

BuzzFeed:

23 Libertarian Problems — Yes, I do sleep on a copy of Atlas Shrugged . — When someone tells you your “crazy views will never win an election.” — “Is this like your bible?” — When you get a fundraising text from the RNC. — Source: blog.asiantown.net — View Entire List ›