memeorandum: Perry: Obama's Katrina (Justin Sink/The Hill)

11:40 AM ET, July 10, 2014

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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:

CNN Host Confronts Rick Perry On His Obama ‘Conspiracy’ Theory (VIDEO) — CNN host Kate Bolduan confronted Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) in an interview that aired Thursday about his suggestion that President Barack Obama may have engineered the current immigration crisis at the Texas border.

Discussion: Liberaland and New York Times

Amie Parnes / The Hill:

Gov. Perry: The face of GOP opposition — Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican who has seen thousands of unaccompanied children flood across his state's border, has seized the spotlight in recent days to become the national face of opposition to President Obama's immigration policies.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Washington Post and Talking Points Memo

Dana Milbank / Washington Post:

Dana Milbank: In border crisis, Obama is accused of ‘lawlessness’ for following law — A querulous quartet of conservatives took to the Senate floor Wednesday to condemn President Obama for his latest atrocity against the American way of life. — The Republican foursome …

Discussion: ABC News and Twitchy

New York Times:

Obama Presses Perry to Rally Support for Border Funds — DALLAS — President Obama on Wednesday directly challenged Gov. Rick Perry of Texas to rally Republicans in support of a $3.7 billion emergency measure aimed at solving the humanitarian crisis caused as thousands of Central American children have crossed the Mexican border.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Fox News, USA Today, NBC News, Politico, Power Line, The Week, NewsBusters, The Huffington Post and Weekly Standard

James Oliphant / NationalJournal.com:

Obama's Texas Two-Step — Instead of focusing on the plight of children massed at the border, the president seems more intent on shifting blame and scoring political points against the GOP. — President Obama was 500 miles from the Mexican border when he spoke about the child-migrant …

Discussion: Fox News and RedState

Justin Sink / The Hill:
Perry: Obama's Katrina

Discussion: Washington Post and ABC News

Newt Gingrich / CNN: Obama's absurd and expensive border strategy

Katie Glueck / Politico:
Rick Perry greets Obama on Dallas tarmac

Discussion: The Raw Story, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Power Line, ABC News and Mediaite

Jonathan Chait Follow / New York Magazine:

Libertarian Accidentally Shows How Obamacare Is Succeeding — Reading months of doomsaying all at once tells a different story. — The Commonwealth Fund has a new survey showing that the proportion of adults lacking health insurance has fallen by a quarter, from 20 percent of the population to 15 percent.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, The New Republic and New York Times

The Commonwealth Fund:

Gaining Ground: Americans' Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care After the Affordable Care Act's First Open Enrollment Period — A new Commonwealth Fund survey finds that in the wake of the Affordable Care Act's first open enrollment period, significantly fewer working-age adults …

Discussion: Bloomberg View and Prairie Weather

Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
Newest Health Insurance Customers Are Generally Happy

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Mediaite and The Incidental Economist

Ann Coulter / The Clarion-Ledger:

McDaniel backers killing his political future — By continuing the fight over the primary, Chris McDaniel and his supporters are risking a Republican majority in the U.S. Senate, not to mention McDaniel's own political future. — CONNECT — Chris McDaniel, candidate for the U.S. Senate …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Politico, OnPolitics and Washington Post

New York Times:

Chinese Hackers Pursue Key Data on U.S. Workers — WASHINGTON — Chinese hackers in March broke into the computer networks of the United States government agency that houses the personal information of all federal employees, according to senior American officials.

Discussion: Mashable, Guardian, Reuters, Washington Free Beacon and The Hugh Hewitt Show

Fairleft / Firedoglake:

53 Palestinians, 0 Israelis Die in Air and Missile Strikes ... Is the US media biased in its reports on Israeli airstrikes? — And yet still we get obscene propaganda from the mainstream ‘news’ masquerading as a headline: — Gaza rockets land deep in Israel as it bombards Palestinian enclave

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Israel Matzav, Informed Comment and Guardian

Jerusalem Post:
Hamas: We attempted to hit the nuclear reactor in Dimona

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, RT, The Gateway Pundit, Power Line, Roger L. Simon, National Review, Israel Matzav, The Times of Israel, The Daily Caller and Arutz Sheva

Gail Collins / New York Times:

The Rant Agenda — So little time, so much bad behavior to complain about. — Congress is back! Thank heavens, because there's a crisis at the border, and the Highway Trust Fund is about to expire. Plus, the Export-Import Bank is teetering on the brink of disaster.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and CNN

Politico:

Todd Akin's only regret — “Doubt me? Google 'stress and infertility,” Akin writes of his rape comments. AP Photo — Close — Todd Akin takes it back. — He's not sorry. — Two years after the Missouri Republican's comments on rape, pregnancy and abortion doomed his campaign and fueled a …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, OnPolitics, Daily Kos and Washington Post

Michelle Nichols / Reuters:

Exclusive: Iraq tells U.N. that ‘terrorist groups’ seized nuclear materials — (Reuters) - Insurgents in Iraq have seized nuclear materials used for scientific research at a university in the country's north, Iraq told the United Nations in a letter appealing for help to …

Discussion: RT, The Daily Caller, Israel Matzav, addictinginfo.org and The Gateway Pundit

Journalism.org:

America's Shifting Statehouse Press — Can New Players Compensate for Lost Legacy Reporters? — Within America's 50 state capitol buildings, 1,592 journalists inform the public about the actions and issues of state government, according to new data from the Pew Research Center.

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »

Jordan Steffen / Denver Post:

ADAMS JUDGE TOSSES COLORADO GAY MARRIAGE BAN BUT STAYS RULING — An Adams County District Court judge on Wednesday declared Colorado's ban on same-sex marriages unconstitutional, but he immediately stayed his ruling. — Judge C. Scott Crabtree pulled no punches in his 49-page ruling …

Discussion: Liberaland, Talking Points Memo, Shakesville, Associated Press and Towleroad News #gay

Ezra Klein / Vox:

Moderate voters are a myth — TWEET SHARE +1 LINKEDIN EMAIL PRINT — There is no creature more revered in American politics than the moderate voter. Unlike the ideologues and partisans destroying politics, the moderate is free of cant and independent of party.

Discussion: Booman Tribune

Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:

Democrats push race issues, revving up their voters — Democrats are injecting race into the 2014 midterm elections amid fears that a drop-off in minority voters could severely cost them at the polls this fall. — Democratic leaders in Congress and administration officials …

Lanny Davis / The Hill:

Hillary Clinton's ‘Hard Choices’ shows who she is — The reviews are in on Hard Choices, Hillary Clinton's history of her four-year tenure as U.S. secretary of State. They are almost all positive. Her book sales are strong — No. 1 on The New York Times best sellers list for three weeks in a row.

Jake Sherman / Politico:

Spill closes House side of Capitol — Most of the House side of the U.S. Capitol has been re-opened, after an asbestos scare. — The East Grand Staircase, a major staircase in the Capitol, remains closed. — Capitol Police and the Architect of the Capitol were investigating whether there was a …

Discussion: Daily Kos

Sasha Goldstein / NY Daily News:

Washington man first to buy legal weed in Spokane is fired after spotted on news — Mike Boyer, 30, was canned Tuesday after waiting 20 hours to buy pot and immediately going home to smoke. He was called up for urine analysis after he was spotted on TV buying the pot. Boyer told The News he ‘regrets nothing.’

Discussion: Liberaland and The Raw Story

KHOU-TV:

4 children, 2 adults shot dead in Spring; prompts hours-long standoff — SPRING, Texas - Six people were shot dead, including four children, Wednesday afternoon in north Harris County, according to Harris County Pct. 4 deputies. — The incident happened at a home in the 700 block of Leaflet in the Enchanted Oaks subdivision.

Discussion: USA Today and Hinterland Gazette