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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid; Minority Leader Mitch McConnell

Andrew Leonard

Natasha Lennard

Tom Engelhardt
U.S. President Barack Obama holds a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington July 15, 2011. Obama on Friday said he would not support a $2.4 trillion plan to reduce the federal deficit without some tax hikes to increase revenues. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS HEADSHOT) (© Larry Downing / Reuters)

Alex Pareene
A voter in Glendale, Wis., casts a ballot in a Democratic primary on Thursday, July 12, 2011, as part of recall efforts against Republican state Sen. Alberta Darling. Darling is one of six Republican state senators being targeted for recall for supporting Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s budget-repair bill this winter. Three Democratic state senators are also being targeted for recall for fleeing the state to stall action on the bill. (AP Photo/Dinesh Ramde) (AP)

A whiff of Koch-backed foul play in Wisconsin

Natasha Lennard
(AP)

James K. Galbraith

David Case - GlobalPost
Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney and John Boehner

What the 2012 candidates' debt-deal reactions mean

Alex Pareene
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian pro-government supporters carry a giant national flag during a rally in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour, Syria, Thursday, July 28, 2011. A global campaigning organization said Thursday that one person disappears in Syria every hour and that almost 3,000 people have gone missing since the start of the uprising against President Bashar Assad more than four months ago. The online activist group Avaaz.org said its investigation has identified 2,918 Syrians who were arrested or abducted by force by security troops and whose whereabouts are now unknown. (AP Photo/SANA) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

Bassem Mroue
Newspapers for sale with headlines relating to the phone hacking scandal, near Westminster in London, Wednesday, July 20, 2011. Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday emphatically denied claims that his staff tried to stop an inquiry into phone hacking at the News of the World newspaper and defended his decision to hire one of the tabloid's editors as his communications chief. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) (AP)

Associated Press
In this image from House Television, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., center, appears on the floor of the House of Representatives Monday, Aug. 1, 2011, in Washington. Giffords was on the floor for the first time since her shooting earlier this year, attending a vote on the debt standoff compromise. (AP Photo/House Television) (AP)

Natasha Lennard
Tea Party protesters (Reuters)

The Tea Party's white Southern extremism

Michael Lind

Peter Finocchiaro
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David Espo
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) (L) shakes hands with with Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) (R) as they depart after a news conference about debt relief legislation at the U.S. Capitol in Washington August 1, 2011. Congressional leaders scrambled for enough support from skeptical lawmakers on Monday to push through an 11th-hour deal to raise the U.S. borrowing limit and avert a potentially devastating debt default. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) (Reuters)

Andrew Leonard

The Founders would have hated the debt ceiling

William Hogeland
Rep. Doug Lamborn

GOP congressman likens Obama to a "tar baby"

David Sirota
Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller

Fundraising on a massacre

Alex Pareene
Barack Obama

Andrew Leonard

Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar

David Sirota

Steve Kornacki
John Bolton

John Bolton: Debt deal might imperil endless war

Alex Pareene
... one of them is 24 hour news and the inanity it broadcasts across the political spectrum. You just can't talk that long without scrambling for things to say, and eventually something really dumb will come out. Which is why it really irritates me that, since Tuesday, I've been glued to various 24 hour outlets watching the demonstrations in Egypt. I spent my junior year of college at the American University in Cairo, and I've been engaged in a love affair with the country and its people ever since. I'm scheduled to go again in March (fingers crossed), and the thought of being able to visit a free country for the first time fills me with hope. تحيا مصر! Long live Egypt! (Christopher Rose)

Natasha Lennard
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