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2:45 PM ET, August 2, 2011

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Joe Nocera / New York Times:
Tea Party's War on America  —  You know what they say: Never negotiate with terrorists.  It only encourages them.  —  These last few months, much of the country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people.  Their intransigent demands …
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
To Hell with You People  —  Look, I am past exhausted talking about liberal media bias.  It's real, we all know it, and people who deny it aren't even fooling themselves.  But some things just have to be pointed out.  This morning I watched the first 15 minutes of the Today Show.
Toby Young / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
The real story of the US debt deal is not the triumph of the Tea Party but the death of the Socialist Left  —  For British conservatives, the US debt deal is a thing of beauty.  Under the terms of the deal, the federal government will cut spending by $2.4 trillion over the next 10 years …
The Politico:
Biden: Tea partiers like ‘terrorists’
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Dems eat Satan sandwich, GOP looks to next course
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Last Look from Across the Pond: Was This Obama's “Read My Lips” Moment?
Discussion: The Independent
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Green with Tea Party envy
David Rogers / The Politico:
Debt ceiling bill passes Senate 74-26  —  Treasury won an immediate reprieve of $400 billion in new borrowing authority Tuesday, as the Senate gave final approval to a hotly contested debt and deficit-reduction agreement hammered out with the White House Sunday night.
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Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
DEFAULT AVERTED: Senate Passes Debt Deal
Discussion: HotAirPundit and Townhall.com
Danny Yadron / Washington Wire:
Palin Calls House Debt Vote a (Qualified) Victory for Tea Party
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Fiscal Conservatives Barred from Supercommittee  —  Will Senate Republicans be able to prevent tax hikes?  —  The debt ceiling deal will pass the Senate early this afternoon.  No suspense there.  But the vote will be worth watching for another reason: Three Republican Senate sources tell TWS …
Jsimoncnn / CNN:
CNN/ORC Poll: Most Americans dislike debt deal, think lawmakers acted like ‘spoiled children’  —  (CNN) - A majority of Americans disapprove of the deal struck Sunday by President Barack Obama and congressional leaders that will raise the country's legal borrowing limit …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:   Poll: 77 percent say Obama, Congress acted like ‘spoiled children’ in debt fight
Don Surber:
Saving Matt Damon  —  Many conservatives think of Matt Damon as another stuck-on-himself multi-millionaire liberal in Hollywood who says one thing but lives otherwise.  —  But I think of him as a friend of Ben Affleck, who is married to Jennifer Garner, who grew up in Charleston, West Virginia …
John S. Irons / epi.org:
What's missing from the debt ceiling debate?  Jobs  —  The unemployment rate, currently above 9 percent, is projected to remain high for a long time.  For example, the current Blue Chip Economic Indicators consensus forecast puts the average unemployment rate for 2012 at 8.3 percent.
Discussion: Firedoglake
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Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
REPORT: Debt Ceiling Deal Will Cost 1.8 Million Jobs In 2012
Kristin Fisher / wusa9.com:
Woodpecker-Saving Daughter Costs Mom $500, Possible Jail Time  —  “I've just always loved animals,” said Skylar Capo.  “I couldn't stand to watch it be eaten.”  —  Skylar couldn't find the woodpecker's mother, so she brought it to her own mother, Alison Capo, who agreed to take it home.
Spengler / Asia Times:
The collapse of America's middle class  —  People seem to act irrationally when they have nothing to lose.  Often we observe in wars that the losing side expends more blood and treasure after its position becomes hopeless.  —  The American South sustained most of its casualties in the Civil War …
Thomas Lifson / americanthinker.com:
We The Stupid  —  I stand here in abject stupefaction.  The so-called “right” or “Tea Party” in this republic is being so thoroughly rolled and defeated that I am struggling to come up with an adequate violent submission metaphor that does not involve prison rape . . . and they honesty think that they're “winning.”
Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Who gains from debt deal?  The Pentagon, for one  —  WASHINGTON — The last-minute deal that Congress is considering to raise the federal debt limit probably will mean trillions of dollars in government spending reductions for most agencies.  But one department stands to gain: the Pentagon.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney to pick up pace in new phase of 2012 campaign  —  After a relatively low-key start to his second presidential campaign, Republican front-runner Mitt Romney plans to pick up his pace this month as the 2012 sweepstakes intensifies, with a blitz of appearances in early voting states and a list of policy proposals.
Rolling Stone:
Debt Ceiling Deal: The Democrats Take a Dive  —  So the debt deal has finally been reached.  As expected, the agreement arrives in a form that right-thinking people everywhere can feel terrible about with great confidence.  —  The general consensus is that for the second time in three years …
Be Safe / KKTV-TV:
Rep. Lamborn Apologizes for “Tar Baby” Remark … Monday evening, Colorado Springs Congressman Doug Lamborn emailed a statement apologizing for remarks made during a Denver talk radio show.  On the radio, Rep. Lamborn said being associated with President Barack Obama's policies during …
Discussion: USA Today and The Daily Caller
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John Schroyer / Gazette:
Lamborn apologizes to Obama over reference to ‘tar baby’
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Rep. West to screen controversial film on ‘Ground Zero mosque’  —  Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) is planning to screen a controversial film on Capitol Hill about attempts to build an Islamic center near Ground Zero in Manhattan.  —  The film, “Sacrificed Survivors: The Untold Story of the Ground Zero Mosque …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:
Egyptians Turn Against Liberal Protesters  —  CAIRO—Mobs of ordinary Egyptians joined with soldiers to drive pro-democracy protesters from their encampment in Tahrir Square here Monday, showing how far the uprising's early heroes have fallen in the eyes of the public.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
DEMS PLAN PIVOT TO JOBS: Transportation, infrastructure, tax breaks on fall agenda - New Michael Meehan firm - NYT creates Political Desk - Alison Starling, NBC's Peter Alexander engaged  —Arizona Republic A1, “Giffords stuns D.C., casts vote,” by Dan Nowicki: “Giffords' decision to come …
Thomas M. Defrank / NY Daily News:
Pols all ‘look like idiots’ during debt crisis, but President Obama takes biggest hit of them all  —  WASHINGTON - There are no real winners in the debt-crisis debacle, and in such moments the leader of the country absorbs a larger hit than most.  —  The tawdry spectacle of governmental paralysis …
Discussion: msnbc.com
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Paul Bentley / Daily Mail:
What debt crisis?  President Obama heads off to be serenaded by Jennifer Hudson for lavish 50th birthday celebration
Discussion: Say Anything and JammieWearingFool
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Fitch warns US would endanger AAA rating with even ‘technical’ default  —  The United States would endanger its coveted AAA credit rating if Congress allows even a short-term “technical default” to occur, according to the Fitch credit rating agency.  —  Fitch said Wednesday it would put …
Discussion: Reuters and ThinkProgress
Scott Pelley / CBS News:
Boehner: I got 98 percent of what I wanted  —  CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley sat down with Speaker of the House John Boehner in his office at the Capitol on Monday.  —  With a brutal partisan fight over the debt ceiling drawing to an apparent close, Boehner said he understands …
Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Gingrich slams Obama's “Paul Krugman presidency”  —  Newt Gingrich invokes the liberal economist and New York Times columnist.
Discussion: TPMDC and Washington Monthly
Russ Buettner / New York Times:
Reaping Millions in Nonprofit Care for Disabled  —  Medicaid money created quite a nice life for the Levy brothers from Flatbush, Brooklyn.  —  The brothers, Philip and Joel, earned close to $1 million a year each as the two top executives running a Medicaid-financed nonprofit organization serving the developmentally disabled.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Gretawire
Reason:
Obama's Top Four Power Grabs  —  The president stretches executive power to expand the warfare state and the regulatory state.  —  Candidates never keep their promises once in office.  But even by the unlovely standards of his political peers, President Obama has pulled a rather impressive switcheroo from the anti-Bush to Bush-plus.
Discussion: Hit & Run
 
 
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Edward Glaeser / Bloomberg:
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Boehner Repeals Murphy's Law
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Dysfunction obscures the more meaningful problem
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
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Associated Press:
Fears of far-right rise in crisis-hit Greece
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Frank Rich / New York Magazine:
Murdoch Hacked Us Too
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Joe Weisenthal / Politics:
Bill Gross: This Deal Does Nothing, And We Still Have An “Unfathomable” $66 Trillion In Liabilities To Deal With
Discussion: Sense of Events
Kate Nocera / The Politico:
Judge: Reform doesn't fund abortion
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Jezebel
Shobhana Chandra / Bloomberg:
Consumer Spending in U.S. Unexpectedly Fell in June