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9:00 PM ET, July 29, 2011

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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama Approval Drops to New Low of 40%  —  Similar to his approval rating for handling the debt ceiling negotiations  —  PRINCETON, NJ — President Obama's job approval rating is at a new low, averaging 40% in July 26-28 Gallup Daily tracking.  His prior low rating of 41% occurred several times, the last of which was in April.
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The Politico:
The no votes: 22 GOPers who balked Boehner  —  Speaker John Boehner pushed his debt-ceiling bill through the House Friday night with the support of 218 Republicans.  Here are the 22 no votes: Mick Mulvaney (S.C.)  —  CORRECTED: Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) voted YES on the Boehner bill.
The Note:
Boehner gets standing ovation from Senate Rs  —  ABC News' Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) reports:  —  Speaker of the House John Boehner just quietly ventured over to the Senate side and dropped in on a closed lunch of Senate Republicans.  —  The lunch - pizza, again - was in the Strom Thurmond room.
The Hill:
Support shifts as Boehner adds balanced-budget amendment  —  House Republicans will attach a balanced-budget amendment to Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) last-ditch debt-ceiling plan, which GOP lawmakers said would move the measure to passage in a high-stakes vote later on Friday.
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Boehner's problem: His party doesn't like compromise  —  (Getty Images) John Boehner has a problem.  He likes being Speaker of the House of Representatives.  He would like to continue to be Speaker of the House of Representatives.  But being Speaker of the House of Representatives means …
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Tea Party groups target ‘defectors’ on debt vote  —  Several Tea Party organizations are working to punish conservative Republicans who plan to vote yes on Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) debt ceiling proposal.  —  Tea Party leaders announced Thursday they are targeting Republican Reps. James Lankford …
The Politico:
Boehner builds momentum  —  House Republican leaders will tie a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution to their two-step debt-ceiling bill — a move that is all but certain to clinch the necessary votes to pass Speaker John Boehner's proposal a day after it stalled.
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Scott Brown may support Reid plan  —  Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts told a radio station Friday that he may vote for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's plan to raise the debt ceiling.  —  “Sen. Brown tells WBUR parties need to work across the aisle to resolve debt-ceiling impasse …
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Democrats Threaten Saturday Night Debt Fever  —  Get ready for Mr. Smith meets the debt ceiling.  —  Senate Democrats said Friday that they were prepared for an all-night battle on the Senate floor that could go into the wee hours of Sunday morning unless Republicans began negotiating on a bipartisan plan to raise the debt ceiling.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
The Note:
Senate Democrats Blast Revised Boehner Debt Bill as ‘Absurd’  —  ABC News' Sunlen Miller(@sunlenmiller) reports:  —  After meeting with his caucus today for nearly two hours, Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, D-NV., declared , “the only compromise that there is —is mine” …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
How big is the House GOP's sane contingent?
Discussion: rubber hose and Washington Post
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Boehner Still Controls The GOP (Updated)
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Gut Check Time for John Boehner
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:   John Boehner's no-confidence vote
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Why no vote tonight  —  A House aide just e-mailed me: “Buckets of crazy.”
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
What Boehner Should Do Now  —  Last night, Speaker Boehner toyed …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Intense talks under way between Senate Dems, GOP on debt deal
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Daily Kos
Washington Post:
Obama urges Senate to forge compromise on debt limit, rejects House efforts
Jon Bershad / Mediaite:
Barack Obama Twitter Spams The Nation, Loses 10,000 Followers And Counting  —  You know that friend of yours who's always the first to get in on the hottest social media trends?  The one who had a Tumblr before everyone?  The one who first sent you a Google+ invite?
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Leary / nation.foxnews.com:   Obama Declares Twitter War on Republicans
Yvonne Wenger / The Post and Courier, Charleston SC:
Democrats criticize Haley's checking of ‘white’ on voter registration application  —  COLUMBIA — What box should Gov. Nikki Haley check when it comes to her race?  —  The South Carolina Democratic Party tried Thursday to make Haley out as a liar for checking “white” as her race …
Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
Weak growth raises concerns on economy  —  (Reuters) - The U.S. economy came perilously close to flat-lining in the first quarter and grew at a meager 1.3 percent annual rate in the April-June period as consumer spending barely rose.  —  The Commerce Department data on Friday also showed …
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Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Rep. Paul Ryan Destroys Reid Bill in Blistering Speech; 'Let's Cover the Moon with Yogurt!'  —  With a brilliant use of comical analogies, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) exposes the true nature of the “savings” in the Reid Debt Plan that President Obama was so quick to embrace.
Discussion: Hot Air and Mediaite
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Laura Ingraham pushes back on Sarah Palin primary threat  —  Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, one of the high-profile certified non-moderates urging the GOP to support John Boehner's debt ceiling bill, leveled criticism at Sarah Palin during today's show for raising the prospect of 2012 primary challenges to House Republicans.
Discussion: GOP 12 and The Lonely Conservative
Little Green Footballs:
Pamela Geller Edits Post to Conceal Violent Rhetoric in ‘Email from Norway’  —  In June 2007, “counter-jihad” blogger Pamela Geller posted the following Email from Norway, from a reader who sounds a lot like the Oslo terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik.  —  This is what the post looks like today:
Andrew Harmon / Advocate:
Pelosi to Bachmann: Address the Teen Suicides in Your District  —  Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann's failure to address a disturbing trend of teen suicides within her own congressional district does not reflect well on her White House ambitions, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told The Advocate Thursday.
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi declines to endorse the 14th Amendment solution
Discussion: The Politico
Matt Lewis / The Daily Caller:
According to official letters obtained by The Daily Caller, the gay conservative group GOProud and the ultraconservative John Birch Society won't be co-sponsoring the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2012.  —  The decision was reached by a full vote of the American Conservative Union's …
Financial Post:
U.S. balance now less than Apple cash  —  Steve Jobs is now more liquid than Uncle Sam.  —  While it's highly unlikely that President Barack Obama is looking to ask the founder and chief executive of Apple Inc. for a loan, it became a fact as of Thursday afternoon — the world's largest technology company …
 
 
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Robinson / nation.foxnews.com:
New York Times Downplays Muslim Fort Hood Terror Plotter
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BBC:
Turkey: Military chiefs resign en masse
CNN:
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Marin Cogan / The Politico:
Republican Rep. Rooney rips RSC
Discussion: Swampland
Chloe Hayward / Reuters:
Biographer sees News Corp minus Murdochs in 60 days
Discussion: Guardian and War in Context
Robert Weisman / Boston Globe:
Boston Scientific to lay off 1,200-plus
Discussion: Hot Air and Verum Serum
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
Global slump warnings if US triggers ‘insane’ default
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
‘A self-inflicted wound of monumental stupidity’
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The History Of The Racial Wealth Gap
David Lat / Above the Law:
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Eli Lake / The New Republic:
All Over the Map  —  The Republican foreign policy consensus has collapsed.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, AmSpecBlog and Hit & Run
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Even Good Government Has Unintended Consequences
Discussion: The Politico
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Centrist Cop-Out  —  The facts of the crisis over the debt ceiling aren't complicated.
 

 
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