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3:50 PM ET, July 10, 2011

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Washington Post:
Boehner abandons efforts to reach comprehensive debt-reduction deal  —  House Speaker John A. Boehner abandoned efforts Saturday night to cut a far-reaching debt-reduction deal, telling President Obama that a more modest package offers the only politically realistic path to avoiding a default on the mounting national debt.
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New York Times:
The Worst Time to Slow the Economy  —  It was not surprising to hear the Republican presidential candidates repeat their tiresome claim that excessive government spending and borrowing were behind Friday's terrible unemployment report.  It was depressing to hear President Obama sound as if he agreed with them.
Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Geithner Says Obama to Seek Biggest Deficit Cut Possible  —  WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said Sunday that President Obama would continue to press for the largest deficit reduction possible in negotiations with Congressional leaders over raising the government's debt ceiling …
The Politico:
Under pressure from right, John Boehner steps back on debt deal  —  House Speaker John Boehner, under pressure from the right and facing resistance from his own deputies, backed away Saturday from a bold $4 trillion deficit-reduction package that he once hoped would resolve the August debt ceiling crisis …
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
John Boehner Wants To Scale Down Debt Talks  —  The collapse of negotiations around $4 trillion in debt reduction and House Speaker John Boehner's preference to scale the scope of discussion back to $2 trillion in hopes that will somehow generate a deal with no tax increases isn't surprising.
msnbc.com:   Geithner urges GOP not to ‘walk away’ on debt talks
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House says Boehner balked over taxes, not entitlements
Discussion: CNN, Reuters and FrumForum
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner backing away from grand compromise on debt
Discussion: Hot Air
Reuters:
Boehner says debt talks scaled back over tax rift
Discussion: CNBC and Poor Richard's News
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Pawlenty: Science ‘In Dispute’ Over Whether Gays ‘Born This Way’  —  This morning on Meet The Press, David Gregory pressed GOP presidential candidate Gov. Tim Pawlenty about his recent remarks that he likes Lady Gaga's song “Born This Way,” asking if he believes being gay is a choice.
Sarah Palin / Facebook:
The Sugar Daddy Has Run Out of Sugar; Now We Need New Leaders  —  Barack Obama's big government policies continue to fail.  He should put a link to the national debt clock on his BlackBerry.  The gears on that clock have nearly exploded during his administration.
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Conservative group backtracks on marriage pledge slavery language  —  A social conservative Iowa group has retracted language regarding slavery from the opening of a presidential candidates' pledge, amid a growing controversy over the document that Michele Bachmann had signed and Rick Santorum committed to.
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Don Surber:   Latest plan to save O in 2012
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
FAMiLY LEADER Statement Suggests Pledge, Signed By Bachmann, Requires Her To Prosecute Essentially All Porn
Ben Domenech / Coffee & Markets:
Gawker's John Cook Attempts to Out CIA Agent Who Helped Kill Bin Laden  —  John Cook of Gawker attempted this week to out the CIA staffer who spearheaded the effort to kill Osama bin Laden.  —  In a post titled “Is This the Guy Who Killed Bin Laden?”  Cook attempts to isolate the staffer …
Salena Zito / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Issue could cost Obama his job  —  Where are the jobs?  —  Not the stimulus signs, rhetoric about “shovel-ready” economic voodoo or propping-up of an anemic manufacturing sector, but the real jobs?  —  Polls at the beginning of July showed President Obama in an increasingly hazardous position with voters on jobs and the economy.
Luke Baker / Reuters:
Exclusive: EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks Italy  —  (Reuters) - European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
The Note:
Newt Gingrich: ‘This is the Obama Depression’  —  ABC News' Arlette Saenz reports:  —  Newt Gingrich labeled the economic situation in the U.S. as the “Obama depression,” just days after a dismal jobs report and signs negotiations on the debt deal are faltering.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
Somehow, the Unemployed Became Invisible  —  GRIM number of the week: 14,087,000.  —  Fourteen million, in round numbers — that is how many Americans are now officially out of work.  —  Word came Friday from the Labor Department that, despite all the optimistic talk of an economic recovery, unemployment is going up, not down.
New York Post:
Can jobs news get worse?  Just wait and see  —  If you are an American looking for work — no, make that pleading to be allowed to earn a living — you already know this: the job market is even worse than Washington is telling us.  And Washington yesterday told us that the employment situation is just plain ugly.
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The Politico:
Daley: U.S. suspending military aid to Pakistan  —  President Barack Obama's chief of staff on Sunday confirmed that the U.S. is suspending $800 million in military aid to Pakistan.  —  Bill Daley said the U.S. relationship with Pakistan is “difficult” and must be made “to work over time.”
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
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