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1:25 PM ET, July 15, 2011

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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
McConnell proposal would force major review of entitlements  —  Larry Kudlow, who's plugged in with Congressional Republicans, scoops a key new detail about the emerging Mitch McConnell proposal to transfer control of the debt ceiling to the president:
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Call Obama's bluff  —  President Obama is demanding a big long-term budget deal.  He won't sign anything less, he warns, asking, “If not now, when?”  —  How about last December, when he ignored his own debt commission's recommendations?  How about February, when he presented a budget …
The Hill:
Republican leaders embrace ‘Cut, Cap and Balance’ plan; vote set for next week  —  House Republican leaders have thrown their support behind the “Cut, Cap and Balance” plan that conservatives are demanding in return for an increase in the federal debt ceiling.
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Obama: Public is ‘sold’ on tax increases in a debt-ceiling deal  —  President Obama on Friday kept up the pressure on Republicans to agree to revenue increases in a deal to raise the debt ceiling, claiming 80 percent of the public supports Democrats' demand for tax increases.
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
DeMint pledges to stop McConnell plan  —  Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) on Friday said he would use “every tool” available to stop Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) fall-back proposal for the debt-ceiling negotiations.  —  “I'll use every tool in Senate to stop passage …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
Wall Street Journal:
Plan B Emerges on Debt  —  Sens. Reid, McConnell Quietly Discuss Way to Keep Government From Default  —  A backup plan to cut the federal deficit and keep the U.S. government from default gained momentum Thursday even as President Barack Obama and congressional leaders paused their negotiations to determine if they can reach a deal.
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Obama sees time for a ‘big deal’
Discussion: AmSpecBlog
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Kaine: Cantor shouldn't be pushed out of debt negotiations
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The Hill and TPMDC
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:   GOP rejects trading one tax cut for another
Larry Kudlow / National Review:
McConnell's Uber-Clever Debt-Deal Stratagem
Discussion: The New Republic and Taylor Marsh
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Go Ahead, GOP, Make Obama's Day
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Sarah Palin Movie Debuts to Empty Theater in Orange County  —  “Why aren't you seeing Harry Potter?” an usher said to the reporter sitting alone in the audience  —  When the clock struck 12:01 am today, AMC theaters in select cities were permitted to start showing “The Undefeated,” a feature length documentary about Sarah Palin.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Getting to Crazy  —  There aren't many positive aspects to the looming possibility of a U.S. debt default.  But there has been, I have to admit, an element of comic relief — of the black-humor variety — in the spectacle of so many people who have been in denial suddenly waking up and smelling the crazy.
Tony Kennedy / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Marcus Bachmann says his clinics not anti-gay  —  Therapists will oblige if patients ask for counseling to become heterosexual, but they don't force treatment, he said.  —  The husband of Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann has come forward to defend his family-owned Christian …
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June Thomas / Slate:
Dan Savage, Bully
John Bingham / Telegraph:
Phone Hacking: Rupert Murdoch's daughter in ‘furious’ attack on Rebekah Brooks  —  Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth has made a “furious” attack on Rebekah Brooks's handling of the phone hacking scandal at News International, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.  —  Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of Rupert
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New York Times:
U.S. Recognizes Rebels in Libya  —  ISTANBUL, Turkey — The United States formally recognized the rebel leadership in Libya as the country's legitimate government on Friday, news agencies reported.  The move ratcheted up the diplomatic pressure on Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi amid …
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William Wan / Washington Post:
U.S. to recognize Libyan rebels as legitimate government
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Obama administration asks court to lift ban on 'don't ask, don't tell,' again  —  The Obama administration asked a federal appeals court Thursday to lift an order it recently issued re-imposing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the “don't ask, don't tell” policy banning openly gay servicemembers.
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation, SCOTUSblog and FrumForum
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Walter Shapiro / The New Republic:
The Tragedy of Tim Pawlenty  —  He did everything right.  And that was the problem.  —  At almost precisely the minute that Michele Bachmann was declaring her presidential candidacy in Iowa at the end of June, I was interviewing Tim Pawlenty in a borrowed conference room in a midtown Manhattan financial firm.
Discussion: The Note and Swampland
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Patrick O'Connor / Washington Wire:
Pawlenty Ends Quarter With $1.4 Million
Robert Reich / Wall Street Journal:
Can Obama Pull a ‘Clinton’ on the GOP?  —  He's following the budget-showdown script Bill Clinton used to win re-election.  But the economy added 434,000 new jobs in February 1996.  —  After a bruising midterm election, the president moves to the political center.  He distances himself from his Democratic base.
Martha Raddatz / ABCNEWS:
Osama Hit List: President Obama, Petraeus, Major U.S. Sporting Event  —  President Barack Obama boards Air Force One after arriving at Andrews Air Force Base Md., June 28, 2011.  Officials say that Osama bin Laden, still obsessed with attacking airplanes, was trying to hatch a plan to kill Obama …
The Daily Beast:
GOP's Debt Kamikazes  —  In preferring default to a deal, the populist wing of the Republican party has demonstrated its new nihilistic streak.  John Avlon on the politicians only too happy to take us off a cliff.  —  Call them Debt Ceiling Deniers.  Believers in faith-based fiscal policy.
Rasmussen Reports:
67% Oppose Upcoming ‘Ban’ on Traditional Light Bulbs  —  One-in-five Americans (20%) say they or someone they know has bought large quantities of traditional light bulbs to use when those bulbs disappear off store shelves next year under new federal light bulb regulations.
David Brooks / New York Times:
Death and Budgets  —  I hope you had the chance to read and reread Dudley Clendinen's splendid essay, “The Good Short Life,” in The Times's Sunday Review section.  Clendinen is dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or A.L.S. If he uses all the available medical technology, it will leave him …
 
 
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Discussion: The Politico and New York Magazine
Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
Dear House Republicans, This is Your “Time For Choosing”
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Carmageddon: LA's Billion-Dollar Car-Pool Lane
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The Politico:
GOP threatens to bolt on McConnell's plan
Discussion: Firedoglake
Martin Peretz / The New Republic:
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Planned Monument for Mecca Goers Leaves Eilat Residents Shocked
Mark Joyella / Mediaite:
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Discussion: Wonkette and ThinkProgress