memeorandum: Moderate voters are a myth (Ezra Klein/Vox)

10:00 AM ET, July 10, 2014

Top Items:

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, NBC News, Washington Post, USA Today, The Week, Fox News, Politico, Power Line, NewsBusters and Weekly Standard

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

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

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

Caroline May / BREITBART.COM:
TOP DEM: U.S. ‘CANNOT BE EXPECTED TO GIVE SANCTUARY TO EVERY SINGLE CHILD IN THE WORLD’

Discussion: Rush Limbaugh and Right Wing News

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: ThinkProgress, New York Times, Bloomberg View and Prairie Weather

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.

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: Israel Matzav, Informed Comment, Reuters and Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 …

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: Guardian, Reuters and The Hugh Hewitt Show

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: Politico and Washington Post

Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:

Media Ignorance Is Becoming A Serious Problem — Last week, conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt interviewed Zach Carter, who is The Huffington Post's senior political economy reporter. The interview's purpose was to discuss Carter's negative response to Hewitt's previous interview of former Vice President Dick Cheney.

Discussion: Ed Driscoll

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

Cristina Marcos / The Hill:

Boehner says no to impeachment — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Wednesday said he doesn't support calls from members of his party to impeach President Obama. — Asked about former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's comments that Obama should be impeached over the influx …

Meredith Shiner / Yahoo! News:
Joni Ernst: Boehner should pursue Obama impeachment if he has evidence Yahoo News 22 mins ago

Discussion: The Daily Beast, RedState, Weekly Standard, Talking Points Memo, Real Clear Politics and Washington Post

Lauren French / Politico:
John Boehner: Immigration could be in suit

Discussion: CNN, Washington Post, Hot Air and NationalJournal.com

Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:

Legal Experts: National Marriage Equality Could Happen Within A Year — Suddenly it's a possibility that experts are contemplating: marriage equality could be the law of the land all across the United States within one year. — On Wednesday, Utah asked the Supreme Court to resolve its dispute …

Discussion: Gay Marriage ProCon.org and Hot Air

Mark Murray / NBC News:

Enough! Most Say They're Over Sarah Palin, Poll Shows — 54% percent want to hear less from the former vice-presidential nominee, including a majority of independents and even nearly four-in-10 Republicans.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Politico, Washington Post and OnPolitics