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2:50 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.
Mark Tapscott / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL  —  Washington gets $200 billion a month, Social Security costs $50 billion a month, and Obama is threatening to starve Grandma?  —  President Obama told CBS News today that he “cannot guarantee that those [Social Security] checks go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue.
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
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Debt Talk Mired, Leader for G.O.P. Proposes Option
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The McConnell Plan's Pitfalls
Discussion: RedState
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  —  President Barack Obama has shattered first quarter fundraising records for a White House incumbent by raising $86 million for the first quarter - dwarfing the 2012 GOP field's total take and breezing past his own target of $60 million.
Discussion: Ballot Box, CNN and The BLT
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
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.
Discussion: Runnin' Scared and New York Sun
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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 …
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
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.
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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
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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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.
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Bernanke: U.S. default would cause ‘major crisis’  —  By: CNNMoney.com Staff Reporter Annalyn Censky  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney) - How much clearer can Ben Bernanke be?  —  Since February, the Federal Reserve Chairman has issued a stern warning to Congress: if it fails to raise the U.S. debt ceiling …
Discussion: The Note
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Bernanke: Fed May Launch New Round of Stimulus
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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.
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.
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.
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
A Stadium's Costly Legacy Throws Taxpayers for a Loss  —  CINCINNATI—Here in Hamilton County, where one in seven people lives beneath the poverty line and budget cuts have left gaps in the schools and sheriffs department, residents are bracing for more belt-tightening: rollback …
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.
New from the Guttmacher Institute:
States enact record number of abortion restrictions in first half of 2011  —  In the first six months of 2011, states enacted 162 new provisions related to reproductive health and rights.  Fully 49% of these new laws seek to restrict access to abortion services, a sharp increase from 2010, when 26% of new laws restricted abortion.
Los Angeles Times:
Prison doctor gets paid for doing little or nothing  —  A California surgeon has mostly been locked out of his job: on paid leave, fired or fighting his termination.  When he does work, it's reviewing records.  He made $777,000 last year, including back pay.  —  A file photo of San Quentin State Prison.
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 …
 
 
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The Note:
Bachmann on Debt Limit: Obama ‘Holding the Full Faith and Credit of the Country Hostage’
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Top Dem suggests Boehner and Cantor have weak relationship
Discussion: Washington Monthly and The Hill
Jeffrey Simpson / Globe and Mail:
Will Americans ‘do the right thing’ on debt?
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Jospeh Cirincione / The Atlantic Online:
How to Shave a Bundle Off the Deficit: Spend Less on Nukes
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Owen Bowcott / Guardian:
Supreme court bans use of secret evidence to hide torture claims
Discussion: Firedoglake
Kenric Ward / Sunshine State News:
For Rick Scott, a Tough Road to Reform
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