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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
New Jersey Politician Quits Over Nude Photos
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  —  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) joined the attacks against Mitt Romney's handling of the debt-ceiling debate, saying she has no respect for how the GOP presidential front-runner handled the issue.
Discussion: Washington Wire and CNN
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
Bloomberg:
Debt Panel Membership to Send Signal on Chances for Tax Overhaul
Discussion: The Reaction
Paul Bentley / Daily Mail:
As the economy threatens collapse President Obama celebrates signing debt deal with lavish 50th birthday dinner (featuring Jennifer Hudson)  — President to host massive birthday dinner in Chicago this evening, featuring a star turn by singer Jennifer Hudson
Discussion: Pajamas Media and Weasel Zippers
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JammieWearingFool:   'Maybe He Hasn't Noticed or Doesn't Care, But the Country is Giving Up On Him'
New York Post:
Scapegoater-in-chief
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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Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Tea Party terror?  —  If liberals believe anything, it is that the right is either solely, or mostly, responsible for the degradation of political discourse in America.  And they are surely correct to condemn such ugly rhetorical excesses as the Obama-is-Hitler placards that flowered across the land in the summer of 2009.
Alan Colmes' Liberaland:
Republicans Attack Obama For Having A Birthday Party  —  Apparently, you're not allowed to do anything other than create jobs, if you're Barack Obama (Mr. Boehner, where are the jobs?).  The right wing is going apoplectic because there is a star-studded Chicago fund-raiser in conjunction with his 50th birthday.
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Chicago Tribune:
Emanuel defends Obama on Republican criticism ahead of birthday fundraiser
Discussion: TPMDC
Reuters:
Private sector added 114,000 jobs in July  —  (Reuters) - Private employers added more jobs than expected in July, though less than in June, but planned layoffs rose to a 16-month high, according to separate surveys on Wednesday.  —  The data comes ahead of the U.S. government's key jobs report on Friday …
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CNBC:
Private Sector Adds 114,000 Jobs, But Layoffs On the Rise
Discussion: Don Surber and Hot Air
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 …
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.
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
McConnell: ‘The debt ceiling will not be clean anymore’  —  (GETTY IMAGES) The most honest man in Washington did some more truth-telling on CNBC last night.  Speaking to Larry Kudlow, Mitch McConnell made perfectly clear that the hostage situation we just went through wasn't a one-shot deal.
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Michael Joseph Gross / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: Operation Shady rat—Unprecedented Cyber-espionage Campaign and Intellectual-Property Bonanza  —  For at least five years, a high-level hacking campaign—dubbed Operation Shady rat—has infiltrated the computer systems of national governments, global corporations, nonprofits …
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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.
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.
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
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Gingrich denies fake follower allegation  —  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.
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
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.”
Elizabeth Flock / Washington Post:
Debt ceiling gaffes part two: Lamborn apologizes for ‘tar baby’ remark  —  A House Republican apologized to President Obama Wednesday for saying that being associated with Obama's policies is like “touching a tar baby.”  —  Rep. Doug Lamborn, (R-Colo.), made the gaffe last week on a Denver radio show …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and The Wire
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.
Lawrence Summers / Washington Post:
Moving forward after the debt deal  —  At last Washington has reached a deal that raises the debt limit and averts a default that would have been a national embarrassment and an economic and geopolitical catastrophe.  The forces shaping the deal are multifaceted and so are reactions.
Austin Frakt / The Incidental Economist:
Memo to the Super Committee  —  I know you haven't been established yet.  Neither you, nor I, know who you really are.  Still, it's possible you'll be pretty important between now and Thanksgiving so I thought I'd drop you this note.  —  I heard through the grapevine (OK, it was the internet) …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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 …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and AMERICAN FUTURE
 
 
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Peter Suderman / Hit & Run:
A Debt Deal Dissenter Explains His Vote
Matt Schneider / Mediaite:
Rep. Cleaver Reveals Ingredients Of ‘Satan Sandwich’ And Why His GOP Colleagues Are Not ‘Satan’
Steve Matthews / Bloomberg:
Odds of Renewed U.S. Recession Seen Rising by Majority of Economic Panel
Discussion: Guardian and Money & Company
Financial Times:
Rush for safety sends core debt yields tumbling
Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
NBC News' Al Sharpton Doesn't Seem to Understand the Debt Ceiling Issue
Discussion: Big Journalism and HotAirPundit
Rasmussen Reports:
Just 22% Approve of Debt Ceiling Deal, Most Doubt It Will Cut Spending
Discussion: Moonbattery and HotAirPundit
Dr. Milton R. Wolf / Washington Times:
Liberals' unmaking of Barack Obama
Discussion: Power Line
 Earlier Items: 
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
For Faye Dunaway, Real-Life Role in Housing Court
Daniel Markovits / Los Angeles Times:
How the GOP lost on the debt deal
Discussion: normblog
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
One shot on taxes: Don't blow it, Democrats
Discussion: UrbanGrounds and Daily Kos
Scott Wong / The Politico:
Senate blocking recess appointments