memeorandum: House Republicans Vote To Sue Obama (Josh Israel/ThinkProgress)

1:50 AM ET, July 31, 2014

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Democrats Are Way More Obsessed With Impeachment Than Republicans — House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that Republicans have no plans to impeach President Obama, and that all the impeachment talk was driven by Democrats hoping to stir up their base. — Boehner's statement isn't literally true …

Discussion: The New Republic, Taylor Marsh, Washington Post, Hot Air, Bloomberg View, PJ Media, OnPolitics, National Review, Independent Journal Review, Los Angeles Times, CNN and Yahoo! News

Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:

House Republicans Vote To Sue Obama — The U.S. House of Representatives voted 225 to 201 on Wednesday to authorize Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) to sue President Barack Obama and others in his administration for failure to fully implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare.

Discussion: Daily Kos, Hinterland Gazette and Associated Press

Politico:

House GOP in border-crisis chaos — House Republicans will vote to rein in the Obama administration's power to halt deportation for undocumented immigrants — a surprise move that comes as they struggle to attract support for their bill to address the crisis at the border.

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Lauren French / Politico:
House votes to sue Obama

Discussion: Little Green Footballs

CNN:
GOP-led House authorizes lawsuit against Obama

Discussion: VentureBeat

Todd Gaziano / National Review:
Top Ten Myths about the House's Proposed Suit Against Obama

Discussion: Washington Post

Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama to GOP: Stop hating

Discussion: Politico and Taegan Goddard's …

Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Cruz whipping tonight against Boehner border bill

Discussion: CNN, Talking Points Memo, Hot Air and The Lonely Conservative

Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi: Lawsuit first step down ‘road to impeachment’

Discussion: Roll Call and Real Clear Politics

Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
House Republican Insists He's Not Considering Impeaching Obama, Then Admits He Is, All In Less Than 60 Seconds

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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker: No to Obama lawsuit

Discussion: Politico, Liberal Values, The PJ Tatler and Talking Points Memo

Nathan Schacht / Media Trackers:

Secretive Leftwing Network Discovered through WI Records Law — A low-profile Google Group used by over 1,000 state and national leftwing leaders and activists has been discovered thanks to Wisconsin's open records law. A Media Trackers inquiry into the actions of a University …

Discussion: The Mahablog, RedState and Vox Popoli

ABC News:

US Condemns Shelling of UN School in Gaza — The White House condemned the shelling Wednesday of a U.N. school in the Gaza Strip that was sheltering Palestinians displaced by the fighting between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza. — The U.S. didn't assign responsibility for the shelling …

Discussion: Rush Limbaugh and Gawker

Washington Post:
Israel presses attack; 20 killed at U.N. school

Discussion: Hot Air, Outside the Beltway and Guardian

Christopher Gunness / UNRWA:
UNRWA STRONGLY CONDEMNS ISRAELI SHELLING OF ITS SCHOOL IN GAZA AS A SERIOUS VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

Discussion: Reuters, Global Voices, New York Times, emptywheel, Mondoweiss, Israellycool, Guardian, The Huffington Post, ThinkProgress and Pressing Issues

David Frum / The Atlantic Online:

An Apology: On Images From Gaza — I questioned the authenticity of a photo from Khan Younis hospital. It was a mistake. — I made a mistake earlier this week in a series of Twitter posts. It's not a mistake to which Atlantic editors were party in any way.

Discussion: Thomas Wictor, Firedoglake, VICE, Mediaite, The Dish, Politico, The Huffington Post and BAGnewsNotes

Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed:

We Never Tried To Impeach Bush, Says Democratic Lawmaker Who Co-Sponsored Bush Impeachment Bill — “We did not seek an impeachment of President Bush, because as an executive, he had his authority.” — View Video › — Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee argued Wednesday …

Discussion: Mediaite

David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online:

21 Emails From the Democratic Party About Impeachment — President Obama's supporters are using fringe threats as a potent fundraising tool. Here's what it looks like. — By almost every indication, President Obama is not going to be impeached. — Sure, there are rabble-rousers …

Discussion: CNN, RedState, Mediaite, Hot Air, New York Times, Politico and Talking Points Memo

David Wasserman / Washington Post:

The most frightening candidate I've met in seven years interviewing congressional hopefuls — As a House analyst for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, I've personally interviewed over 300 congressional candidates over the course of seven years, both to get to know them and evaluate their chances of winning.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, No More Mister Nice Blog, Liberaland, Business Insider, Washington Monthly and The Raw Story

David Dayen / Salon:

Rick Perlstein: “Ronald Reagan absolved America almost in a priestly role not to have to contend with sin. The consequences are all around us today" — From climate change to foreign affairs, Reagan pushed America toward easy lies, just as reckoning seemed possible

Discussion: Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality

Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:

PROBE EXPOSES FLAWS BEHIND HEALTHCARE.GOV ROLLOUT — FILE - This Nov. 5, 2013 file photo shows Medicare chief Marilyn Tavenner testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. Management failures by the Obama administration set the stage for the computer woes that paralyzed the president's …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Mediaite and The PJ Tatler

Paul Rolly / Salt Lake Tribune:

Blogger fired from language school over ‘homophonia’ — Homophones, as any English grammarian can tell you, are words that sound the same but have different meanings and often different spellings — such as be and bee, through and threw, which and witch, their and there.

Discussion: Washington Post, The Raw Story and Joe. My. God.

NBC News:

Analysis: Impeachment Talk Becomes a Cynical Game — So both sides are playing this cynical game, turning the midterms into a base election that will be decided by who best motivates their base rather than by trying to fix the country's problems. (Republicans: “This President is breaking the law!”

Discussion: New York Times, msnbc.com and Real Clear Politics

Sean Kennedy / CNN:
Climate group attacks Ernst on tax pledge, not climate

Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Hill and Washington Free Beacon

Mitch Ginsburg / The Times of Israel:

3 IDF soldiers killed in booby-trapped UNRWA clinic — Forces were trying to safeguard building before demolishing a tunnel there when device exploded, also injuring 15 other troops — Three IDF soldiers were killed on Wednesday in an explosion at a booby-trapped UNRWA health clinic that housed the opening of a tunnel.

Discussion: Israel Matzav, Business Insider and The Gateway Pundit

Sam R. Hall / The Clarion-Ledger:

Hood calls out ‘political blogger’ in pay-to-lie scheme — PHILADELPHIA — Attorney General Jim Hood said his office is investigating whether a “political blogger” paid a Meridian man to lie about a vote-buying scheme. — During his speech at the Neshoba County Fair …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and Little Green Footballs

Associated Press:

Bush 43 writing about Bush 41 — NEW YORK — His paintings made news worldwide, but it turns out that former President George W. Bush has been working on another, highly personal project since leaving the White House: He has quietly completed a biography of his father, former President George H.W. Bush.