memeorandum: Morsi Spurned Deals, Seeing Military as Tamed (New York Times)

3:10 PM ET, July 7, 2013

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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:

McCain calls Morsi ouster a coup d'etat, urges blocking aid — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) called the ouster of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi a coup d'etat and pressed the Obama administration to suspend aid to the country on Sunday. — “It was a coup and it was the second …

Discussion: CNN and Politico

Fox News:

McCain: After thinking ‘long and hard,’ US should suspend aid to Egypt — Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain is calling on President Obama to suspend aid to Egypt after its military overthrew the country's government. — McCain, a member of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee …

Discussion: Post Politics, The PJ Tatler, National Review, “The Lid” and Booman Tribune

New York Times:

Morsi Spurned Deals, Seeing Military as Tamed — CAIRO — As President Mohamed Morsi huddled in his guard's quarters during his last hours as Egypt's first elected leader, he received a call from an Arab foreign minister with a final offer to end a standoff with the country's top generals, senior advisers with the president said.

Discussion: Mondoweiss, Los Angeles Times, The Reaction, Hot Air and Bloomberg

Alarabiya.net English:
Cairo residents: ‘Heavily armed Islamists attacked us’

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit

Hamza Hendawi / bigstory.ap.org:
EGYPT: ELBARADEI'S APPOINTMENT PUT ON HOLD

Discussion: ViralRead, Israel Matzav, americanthinker.com and The Other McCain

Washington Post:

Health insurance marketplaces will not be required to verify consumer claims — The Obama administration announced Friday that it would significantly scale back the health law's requirements that new insurance marketplaces verify consumers' income and health insurance status.

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Power Line, Scared Monkeys, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler and Instapundit

Yuval Levin / National Review:

Obamacare's Invitation to Fraud — When the Obama administration announced last Tuesday that they would be delaying Obamacare's employer mandate and its associated reporting requirements by a year, many observers (myself included) noted that this could create problems for verifying eligibility for subsidies in the Obamacare exchanges.

Discussion: Doug Ross and VA Viper

Avik Roy / Forbes:
Not Qualified For Obamacare's Subsidies? Just Lie — Govt. To Use ‘Honor System’ Without Verifying Your Eligibility

Discussion: americanthinker.com

Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:

In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A. — WASHINGTON — In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation's surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the National Security Agency the power to amass vast collections of data on Americans while pursuing not only terrorism suspects …

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, Outside the Beltway, Via Meadia, Business Insider, Balloon Juice, The Volokh Conspiracy, The Hinterland Gazette, The PJ Tatler, The Moderate Voice, americanthinker.com, The Gateway Pundit and emptywheel

Cameron Joseph / The Hill:

Perry vows Texas will pass abortion bill — Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) on Sunday promised his state will push through a law restricting abortion rights, which has gained national attention, within the next 10 days. — “We have a special session with some important issues in front of us.

Discussion: CNN, Politico and LifeNews.com

Kevin Cirilli / Politico: Perry: 2016 an option — Texas Gov. Rick Perry isn't ruling …

Jonathan Martin / New York Times:

In Wyoming, a Cheney Run Worries G.O.P. — LUSK, Wyo. — A young Dick Cheney began his first campaign for the House in this tiny village — population 1,600 — after the state's sole Congressional seat finally opened up. But nowadays, his daughter Liz does not seem inclined to wait patiently for such an opening.

Discussion: Conservatives4Palin, Phantom Public, Taegan Goddard's …, Booman Tribune, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Prairie Weather, The Reaction, Balloon Juice and American Power

Bobby Cervantes / Politico:

Menendez: Snowden asylum anti-U.S. — Sen. Robert Menendez, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said any country that accepts Edward Snowden — the former national security contractor who leaked NSA program details — “is taking a step against the United States.”

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Hinterland Gazette

Kirit Radia / ABC News:
Venezuela, Nicaragua Talk Asylum for Edward Snowden, but Could He Get There?

Discussion: The Hinterland Gazette, FP Passport, The Lonely Conservative, The Moderate Voice and Taegan Goddard's …

Daniel Strauss / The Hill:

NTSB chief Hersman: San Francisco crash could have been worse — National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairwoman Deborah Hersman on Sunday said investigators were in the initial stages of their probe into the deadly crash of a Boeing 777 at San Francisco International Airport …

Discussion: Politico and The Hinterland Gazette

Tim Alberta / mobile.nationaljournal.com:

House Republicans Draft Their Debt-Ceiling Playbook — With an anxious eye toward the coming debt-ceiling negotiations, House Republicans are drafting what members call a “menu” of mandatory spending cuts to offer the White House in exchange for raising the country's borrowing limit.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Booman Tribune and Taegan Goddard's …

Jordan Weissmann / The Atlantic Online:

Please Don't Be Satisfied With This Jobs Report — The labor market continues to be consistently, maddeningly mediocre. — Another month, another jobs report that's good, but not quite good enough. — Employers beat expectations in June by adding 195,000 new workers to their payrolls.