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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Romney Support Up; Widens Advantage in 2012 Preferences  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Republicans' support for Mitt Romney as their party's 2012 presidential nominee has increased significantly to 24%, compared with 17% in late May.  As a result, Romney has widened his advantage over Sarah Palin …
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Z. Byron Wolf / ABCNEWS:
GOP Debate: What to Watch for in New Hampshire
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Will T-Paw's Radical Tax Plan Become The GOP Gold Standard?
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Republican Debate Prep: What to Watch For in New Hampshire
Discussion: Connecting.the.Dots
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Obama Seeks to Win Back Wall St. Cash  —  WASHINGTON — A few weeks before announcing his re-election campaign, President Obama convened two dozen Wall Street executives, many of them longtime donors, in the White House's Blue Room.  —  The guests were asked for their thoughts on how to speed …
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Mitt Romney Polls Pretty Well
City Room:
In Reversal, 3 Democratic Senators Will Back Gay Marriage  —  ALBANY — Three wavering Democratic lawmakers in the State Senate have agreed to support legislation legalizing same-sex marriage in New York, several people with knowledge of the negotiations said on Monday, marking a potential turning point for the long-debated measure.
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New York Post:
GOP swings both ways on gay-marriage bill  —  Seven or more Senate Republicans have signaled Gov. Cuomo that they're ready to legalize same-sex marriage, more than enough to put the controversial and historic measure over the top this week, The Post has learned.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
RNC chair struggles to defend double standard  —  NBC's “Meet the Press” hosted a discussion between the two major party chairs — the DNC's Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the RNC's Reince Priebus — and right off the bat, host David Gregory wanted to talk at length about Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.).
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Matt Schneider / Mediaite:
Joe Scarborough To RNC Chairman: ‘Shut Up’ With ‘Cheap Shots’ On Rep. Weiner
Discussion: Salon
Paul Richter / Los Angeles Times:
Missing Iraq money may have been stolen, auditors say  —  U.S. Defense officials still cannot say what happened to $6.6 billion, sent by the planeload in cash and intended for Iraq's reconstruction after the start of the war.  —  Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Beverly Hills, pictured last month, has held hearings on waste and fraud in Iraq.
Thomas Ferraro / Reuters:
White House calls Weiner's sex scandal a “distraction”  —  (Reuters) - The White House Monday ramped up pressure on Democratic lawmaker Anthony Weiner to resign, calling his Internet sex scandal a distraction from the work that needs to be done in Washington.
Discussion: AMERICAN DIGEST and Shakesville
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Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
Gov. Perry: Economic Crisis Is Part of God's Plan To Return Us To Biblical Principles  —  For the past week, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) has been roundly criticized by religious and LGBT groups alike for inviting other governors to join him at an anti-gay prayer event hosted by stridently bigoted American Family Association.
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Democratic source: Weiner ‘on the fence’ about resigning, in state of ‘despair’  —  Washington (CNN) - A Democratic source who spoke to Anthony Weiner after Democratic leaders called on him to resign Saturday told CNN that even with that public hammer dropped on him, Weiner made clear he was still …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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Russell Berman / The Hill:   Cantor: Dems should strip Weiner of committee posts
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
F.B.I. Agents Get Leeway to Push Privacy Bounds  —  WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance teams to scrutinize the lives of people who have attracted their attention.
John Garvey / Wall Street Journal:
Why We're Going Back to Single-Sex Dorms  —  Student housing has became a hotbed of reckless drinking and hooking up.  —  My wife and I have sent five children to college and our youngest just graduated.  Like many parents, we encouraged them to study hard and spend time in a country where people don't speak English.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
ucsusa.org:
Scientific Consensus on Global Warming  —  Scientific societies and scientists have released statements and studies showing the growing consensus on climate change science.  A common objection to taking action to reduce our heat-trapping emissions has been uncertainty within the scientific community …
Alison Gendar / NY Daily News:
Rep. Anthony Weiner's Nissan Pathfinder is unregistered, DMV says  —  Lying about sexting apparently isn't Rep. Anthony Weiner's only gray area.  —  When Weiner (D-Queens, Brooklyn) was photographed by the Daily News fleeing the Capitol in his Nissan Pathfinder, it was clear …
Lawrence Summers / Washington Post:
How to avoid a lost decade  —  Even with the massive 2008-09 policy effort that prevented financial collapse and depression, the United States is now halfway to a lost economic decade.  From the first quarter of 2006 to the first quarter of 2011, the U.S. economy's growth rate averaged less …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Medicare Saves Money  —  Every once in a while a politician comes up with an idea that's so bad, so wrongheaded, that you're almost grateful.  For really bad ideas can help illustrate the extent to which policy discourse has gone off the rails.  —  And so it was with Senator Joseph Lieberman's proposal …
Sarah Laskow / TAPPED:
The Campaign to Cut Government Waste: Efficiency Theater  —  Ah, waste, fraud, and abuse.  Nobody likes those, do they?  Of course not!  That's why the Obama administration is going to eliminate it.  A lot of it.  Just don't ask exactly what.  Or how.  —  The White House rolled …
Neda Semnani / Roll Call:
Heard on the Hill: West Intern Fired Over Retweet  —  It's not Monday without a Member of Congress making a very public faux pas the week before ... and on the social networking site Twitter, no less.  (Members, never stop tweeting.  Politics and Twitter paint the rest of our lives with a bit of Technicolor.)
Henry Chu / Los Angeles Times:
British fear ‘American-style’ healthcare system  —  As leaders debate ways to reform healthcare, politicians repeatedly tell a worried public that Britain will not turn the National Health Service into an ‘American-style’ private system.  —  British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks …
Discussion: Firedoglake
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Obama pushes to extend payroll tax cut  —  DURHAM, N.C. - President Barack Obama signaled Monday that a deficit-cutting package should include an extension of the one-year payroll tax cut for workers, saying any effort to slash government spending must be coupled with targeted investments.
Justin Elliott / Salon:
Neocon flak: Weiner may have converted to Islam  —  A neoconservative public relations operative argues the Jewish congressman may have converted to Islam  —  We thought everything that could be said about Anthony Weiner's lewd photo scandal had been said.
Discussion: TPMDC and Gawker
Dana Hedgpeth / Washington Post:
McLean woman ‘involuntarily committed’ in alleged Red Line bomb threat  —  [This story was originally posted at 8:39 a.m. with updates at 12:15 p.m., 1:50 p.m. and 2:33 p.m. Stay with PostLocal.com as more information becomes available.]  —  A 51-year-old Mclean woman was “involuntarily committed” …
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
US Is in Even Worse Shape Financially Than Greece: Gross  —  When adding in all of the money owed to cover future liabilities in entitlement programs the US is actually in worse financial shape than Greece and other debt-laden European countries, Pimco's Bill Gross told CNBC Monday.
David Weigel / Weigel:
Pawlenty: Bush Tax Cuts “Didn't Fully Serve Their Intended Purposes”  —  DERRY, N.H. — Addressing a packed, boisterous room at Halligan Tavern here, accompanied by half a dozen state legislators (not all had endorsed him), Tim Pawlenty made a mostly economics, competence-based case against the Obama administration.
 
 
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Kaine: It's a ‘major problem’ that Senate Dems haven't passed a 2012 budget
Discussion: National Review
Peter Beinart / The Daily Beast:
Why Anthony Weiner Shouldn't Quit
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Tim Pawlenty Attempts To Rebut Allegations Of Dullness With Lame Joke, Bad Timing
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The Daily Caller:
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Shobhana Chandra / Bloomberg:
Surging Corporate Profits Should Feed U.S. Job Growth
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Meg Heckman / Concord Monitor:
Rick Santorum vs. the internet
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John Ziegler / The Daily Caller:
‘The Sarah Palin I Know’  —  For more on Ziegler's Palin-related …