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3:25 PM ET, July 13, 2011

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Wall Street Journal:
Debt-Limit Harakiri  —  Mitch McConnell isn't selling out Republicans.  —  Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell said yesterday he's concluded that no deal to raise the debt ceiling in return for serious spending restraint is possible with President Obama, and who can blame him?
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
As Easy as ABC  —  Moving on from Mitch McConnell.  —  Mitch McConnell's plan, as Eric Cantor and Jim DeMint said tonight, is “going nowhere.”  Which is where it deserved to go.  It was too clever by half, transparently cynical, probably unconstitutional, and Rube Goldberg-like in its incomprehensibility.
Discussion: JustOneMinute, RedState and The Hill
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House on debt deal: ‘Bigger is better’
Discussion: The Politico
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Can President Obama keep paying Social Security benefits even if the debt ceiling is reached?
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
McConnell's backup plan
Discussion: Fox News, Hot Air and Big Government
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Debt Talk Mired, Leader for G.O.P. Proposes Option
Eric Roper / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
One by one, bars get tapped out  —  Hundreds of bars, restaurants and stores across Minnesota are running out of beer and alcohol and others may soon run out of cigarettes — a subtle and largely unforeseen consequence of a state government shutdown.  —  In the days leading up to the shutdown …
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Eric Roper Updated / Minneapolis Star Tribune:   Shutdown forces MillerCoors to pull beer from shelves
John Hinderaker / Power Line:   Now It's Getting Serious!
The Politico:
Obama and DNC raise $86M, more than doubling GOP field - RNC campaign targets four swing states - Mandel brings in $2.3M for Senate bid - Hahn wins in CA-36 - Barbour camp eyes Perry - One month until  —  (aburns@politico.com) and (jhohmann@politico.com)  —  2012 SIREN - OBAMA'S NUMBER …
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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
President Obama smashes record with $86M haul
Discussion: Ballot Box, CNN and The BLT
NY Daily News:
Body of Leiby Kletzky, missing 8-year-old boy, found dismembered; pieces in Dumpster, refrigerator  —  The body parts of a missing 8-year-old Brooklyn boy were found Wednesday in a Dumpster and the refrigerator of a man suspected in his disappearance, police said.
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BBC:
Mumbai: Explosions shake India's financial hub  —  Police told local media that eight people had been killed and more than 100 wounded.  —  One explosion was reported in the Zaveri Bazaar, another in the Opera House business district and a third in Dadar district.
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New York Times:
3 Bomb Blasts Shake Central Mumbai
Discussion: Telegraph
Fox News:
At Least 10 Reportedly Dead After Explosions Rock Mumbai Markets
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Business community to Congress: Enough  —  It wasn't too long ago that 62 leading U.S. business groups, including the American Gas Association, the Telecommunications Industry Association, and the National Association of Manufacturers, all pleaded with Congress to end the standoff and raise the debt ceiling.
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Jia Lynn Yang / Washington Post:
Congress hears outcry from business lobby on debt ceiling and deficit
Washington Post:
Congress hears outcry from business lobby on debt ceiling and deficit
Discussion: Firedoglake and Booman Tribune
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Mitch McConnell: We Must Rewrite The Constitution Because ‘Elections’ Haven't ‘Worked’  —  Speaking on the Senate floor this morning, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) offered what may be the most concise summary of conservative constitutionalism ever spoken …
New York Post:
Palin nemesis goes nude  —  GOP presidential hopeful Sarah Palin and her family are the subjects of a profile by George Gurley in the September issue of Playboy, according to sources.  Insiders say the story will run next to a four-page nude pictorial of Mercede Johnston, the sister of Bristol Palin's estranged baby daddy, Levi.
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Gracious In Defeat  —  The National Republican Congressional Committee, which is charged with getting Republicans elected to the House and keeping them there, sent out a press email overnight on the results of the CA-36 special election titled “Statement on Janice Hahn's Entry Into Democrats' Swamp of Corruption”:
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Justin Elliott / Salon:
Rick Perry's Confederate past  —  Salon Exclusive: The Texas governor's uncomfortably close ties to groups that glorify the Lost Cause  —  Rick Perry made national headlines in 2009 when, during a speech to a Tea Party group, he floated the possibility that Texas could secede from the union.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Other McCain
Elias Groll / The Politico:
9/11 families call for U.S. probe of Murdoch  —  Angry family members of victims of the 9/11 attacks on Wednesday called for a U.S. investigation into allegations that journalists at the British News of the World tabloid sought to hack the phones of their lost love ones.
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Raise Taxes or Granny Gets It  —  The liberal media's idea of a grown-up.  —  President Obama is pulling out the big guns and pointing them straight at your grandmother.  “Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3” …
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Eliot Spitzer / Slate Magazine:
Prosecute News Corp.  —  The U.S. government should go after Murdoch's media company for its corrupt practices and revoke its TV licenses if it's found guilty.  —  Bribery, illegal wiretapping, interference in a murder investigation, political blackmail, and rampant disregard for both the truth and basic decency.
John Whitesides / Reuters:
Pessimism deepens as economic concerns rise: Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  (Reuters) - Americans are deeply pessimistic about the future as economic concerns rise and White House talks on raising the U.S. debt limit sputter, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday.
Tennessean.com:
Police charge mother in Nashville airport altercation  —  Woman refused to let officers screen daughter  —  A 41-year-old Clarksville woman was arrested after Nashville airport authorities say she was belligerent and verbally abusive to security officers, refusing for her daughter to be patted down at a security checkpoint.
JSOnline:
6 fake Democrats fall, setting stage for GOP recalls  —  Six fake Democratic candidates put up by the Republican Party to buy time for Republican state senators subject to recalls accomplished that job Tuesday, but none of them did the unexpected and knocked off a real Democrat.
BBC:
Austrian driver's religious headgear strains credulity  —  Having received his driving licence, Niko Alm now wants to get pastafarianism officially recognised  —  An Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as “religious headgear”.
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Settled in Albany, Gay Marriage Draws Opposition  —  Laura L. Fotusky, the town clerk in Barker, N.Y., a small community north of Binghamton, looked at the calendar, looked at her Bible and knew what she had to do.  —  She drafted a letter to the Town Board and said she would resign on July 21 …
Adam Serwer / Washington Post:
Laughably bogus poll tries to ‘prove’ Obama is losing Jewish support  —  Republicans are touting yet another poll that purports to predict the end of the Jewish allegiance to the Democratic Party.  Citing a new poll by Republican John McLaughlin and Pat Caddell, the GOP's favorite “Democrat …
Jared Polis / Wall Street Journal:
Raise Revenues, Not Taxes  —  Legalizing Internet gambling and marijuana are two easy ways to cut the deficit.  —  This is a leadership moment for President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner.  The debt limit—an issue both leaders agree must be addressed—is the last best hope …
 
 
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