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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
New Jersey Politician Quits Over Nude Photos
Carol E. Lee / Washington Wire:
After Debt Bill, Obama Takes Staffers Out for Burgers  —  Congressional leaders will get the pens President Barack Obama used to sign the debt ceiling bill, but White House staffers who logged long hours to secure the deal got lunch with the boss. … Mr. Obama treated a handful …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland:
Republicans Attack Obama For Having A Birthday Party
Chicago Tribune:
Emanuel defends Obama on Republican criticism ahead of birthday fundraiser
Discussion: TPMDC
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
The eternal pivot  —  Mike Allen's note this morning that …
Dmitri Alperovitch / Blog Central:
Revealed: Operation Shady RAT  —  For the last few years, especially since the public revelation of Operation Aurora, the targeted successful intrusion into Google and two dozen other companies, I have often been asked by our worldwide customers if they should worry about such sophisticated …
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Michael Joseph Gross / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: Operation Shady rat—Unprecedented Cyber-espionage Campaign and Intellectual-Property Bonanza
Pierre Thomas / ABCNEWS:
D.B. Cooper Mystery: Alleged Niece Comes Forward  —  A woman claiming to be the niece of infamous skyjacker D.B. Cooper has spoken to ABC News in an exclusive interview about her role in the recently re-ignited 40-year-old cold case that has haunted the FBI for years.
David Weigel / Slate:
Bachmann vs. Romney … - Walter Kirn: Catch-22 Isn't Joseph Heller's Best Book - Devastating Photos of the Famine in Somalia - Sex Selection Happens in the U.S., Too.  How Should Doctors Deal With Such Cases?  - When They Test Birth-Control Pills, Who Takes the Placebos?
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Palin says she has no respect for Romney's debt-ceiling stance
Discussion: CNN and Washington Wire
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Washington Chain Saw Massacre  —  Even before Emanuel Cleaver, the Democratic congressman from Missouri, called the debt deal “a sugar-coated Satan sandwich” and Nancy Pelosi tossed in a side of “Satan fries,” the whiff of sulfur was rising from the Capitol.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Tense moments at Common Purpose meet  —  Tensions between the White House and its liberal allies came to a head last night at the weekly “Common Purpose” meeting, where progressive leaders and National Economic Council director Gene Sperling had a tense exchange about the debt deal, two Democratic sources said.
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Big ‘response’ for Rick Perry?  —  Washington (CNN) - It's likely not the response Rick Perry was expecting.  —  Earlier this year, the Texas Governor called on Christians across the U.S. to come to Houston for a prayer event aimed at bringing God's help to a “nation in crisis.”
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Jennifer Wishon / CBN.com:
Perry: Free Private Sector Key to Economy
Discussion: CNN and GOP 12
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Democrats' frustration with media begins to show in FAA fight with House  —  After an acrimonious, months-long debate over raising the national debt limit, a battle many Democrats think the Republicans won, Senate Democratic leaders are becoming increasingly frustrated over how the media reports …
Discussion: The Politico and Pajamas Media
Washington Post:
In debt deal, the triumph of the old Washington  —  To keep Democrats honest, the trigger would bring automatic cuts to some federal agency spending.  To keep Republicans honest, Democrats wanted to trigger automatic cuts to the Pentagon's budget.  —  By Sunday afternoon …
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Extra Bonus Quote of the Day
Discussion: Swampland and ThinkProgress
Lila Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
Layoffs Surge As Recovery Shows Little Sign Of Momentum … The early days of the recession were characterized by massive layoffs across industries, and while economists caution that the labor market isn't there yet, a surge of private sector layoffs in July may indicate that the American recovery is stalling out.
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Reuters:
Private sector added 114,000 jobs in July
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
How John Boehner escaped disaster  —  In the midst of a rebellion from his own colleagues, John Boehner faced a big decision.  —  It was 10 p.m. last Thursday, the most stressful moment of his Speakership.  —  Boehner's debt-limit bill was short on votes, and the GOP leadership was forced …
Peter Suderman / Hit & Run:
A Debt Deal Dissenter Explains His Vote  —  Here's why Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Ok) voted against the deal to raise the debt limit: … Coburn was one of two Republicans to vote in favor of the deficit reduction package put forth by President Obama's fiscal commission, as well as the bipartisan Gang of Six …
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Tom Coburn / Washington Post:   Why I voted against the debt deal
Steven Hoffer / The Huffington Post:
Minnesota School Faces Lawsuit Over Racist ‘Wigger Day’ … A Minnesota school district allowed a homecoming event called “Wigger Day,” during which students wore clothes and behaved in a manner that “from their perspective, mimicked black culture,” according to a federal class action lawsuit filed against the district on Friday.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Above the Law
Paul Ryan / Wall Street Journal:
Where's Your Budget, Mr. President?  —  Ever since they fudged the numbers to pass ObamaCare, Democrats have abandoned credible spending plans.  —  During the negotiations over raising the debt ceiling, President Obama reportedly warned Republican leaders not to call his bluff by sending him a bill without tax increases.
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
The Scariest 4 Economic Graphs I've Seen This Year  —  This is a remarkable sequence of pictures from Calculated Risk showing that no major economic indicator has returned to its pre-crisis level.  In other words, after two years of recovery, not a single key broad measure of the economy has actually recovered.
Sky News:
‘Mission Accomplished’: Breivik Call To Cops  —  Anders Behring Breivik said “mission accomplished” during a call to police after he massacred 69 people on Utoya island, it has been reported.  —  According to the Verdens Gang (VG) daily, the 32-year-old right-wing extremist said: “Breivik.
Cheezburger Network / The Daily What:
Just Watch This of the Day: Why the Internet Exists, Reason #143,106: “Mariachi Connecticut performing for a beluga whale at Mystic Marinelife Aquarium.”  —  [thanks tracey!]
Discussion: TheBlaze.com
Free exchange:
Flying blind  —  ON DECEMBER 16th, 2008, President-Elect Barack Obama met in Chicago with key members of his economic team to discuss their response to the deteriorating economic situation.  Just two weeks earlier, the Bureau of Labour Statistics reported that 533,000 jobs had been lost in November …
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Romney Advisor Robert Bork: Civil Rights Act Is ‘Unsurpassed Ugliness,’ But Contraception And Porn Bans Are Fine  —  Yesterday, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) announced his presidential campaign's “Justice Advisory Committee,” along with its co-chair Robert Bork.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Gingrich denies fake follower allegation  —  Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond emails:  —  At no time has the campaign or Gingrich Communications employed an outside group to inflate the number of followers of @newtgingrich.  Any accusation of the kind is a lie, a smear and unsubstantiated.
Discussion: The Hill, GOP 12, Balloon Juice and Gawker
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Chevy Volt: Still Not Selling  —  The July sales numbers are out and the Chevy Volt continues to electrify (get it?) the country.  GM sold ... 125 Volts last month!  —  Way back in March I made fun of the Volt for selling 281 units in February.  Turns out, February was a good month.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
The economy and 2012 loom over Obama's bus tour of the Midwest  —  President Obama will travel the Midwest by bus this summer to talk up the White House's job-creation efforts and to try to shore up political support in battleground states.  —  Obama will embark on a three-day tour, from Aug. 15 to 17.
Tiffany Kary / Bloomberg:
New York State's Fracking Lawsuit Barred by Law, U.S. Says  —  The U.S. government said it will ask a judge to dismiss a New York lawsuit that seeks to force a fuller environmental review of how natural-gas extraction could affect 9 million water drinkers in the state.
Discussion: DeSmogBlog and Capital Tonight
Nathan Hodge / Washington Wire:
Panetta Warns on Across-the-Board Pentagon Cuts  —  The day after the passage of the debt-reduction deal, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta sent a message to the Pentagon's rank-and-file-and to Congress.  Failure to enact further deficit-reduction measures, he said, might trigger “dangerous, across-the-board” cuts to defense.
Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
NBC News' Al Sharpton Doesn't Seem to Understand the Debt Ceiling Issue  —  In a baffling and confusing interview, NBC News' newest star Al Sharpton doesn't seem to understand the difference between the debt ceiling issue, credit rating downgrade and default. he also, clearly …
 
 
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Gaming Out the Debt Deal: Will It Hurt Obamacare?
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Al Kamen / Washington Post:
Birthday bashes for Obama's big 5-0
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Cantor: Lawmakers asking to serve on ‘supercommittee’
Discussion: Daily Kos
Matt Schneider / Mediaite:
Rep. Cleaver Reveals Ingredients Of ‘Satan Sandwich’ And Why His GOP Colleagues Are Not ‘Satan’
Paul Bentley / Daily Mail:
As the economy threatens collapse President Obama celebrates signing debt deal with lavish 50th …
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Steve Matthews / Bloomberg:
Odds of Renewed U.S. Recession Seen Rising by Majority of Economic Panel
Discussion: Guardian and Money & Company
 Earlier Items: 
Austin Frakt / The Incidental Economist:
Memo to the Super Committee
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Financial Times:
Rush for safety sends core debt yields tumbling
Rasmussen Reports:
Just 22% Approve of Debt Ceiling Deal, Most Doubt It Will Cut Spending
Discussion: Moonbattery and HotAirPundit
Daniel Markovits / Los Angeles Times:
How the GOP lost on the debt deal
Discussion: Daily Kos and normblog
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
McConnell: ‘The debt ceiling will not be clean anymore’
 

 
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