Sorry I’m running late today. Maybe NJ Transit needs another tunnel into Manhattan. Enough griping, here’s your Morning EDition:
TODAY
- The House goes home. Until Sept. 7th. Just like your summer vacation, right?
- Senate vote on the debt-ceiling deal is expected at noon.
- Pres. Obama will make a statement following the Senate vote.
BUDGET
- Who will sit on the “super committee“?
- VIDEO: Sen. GOP Leader McConnell (R-KY) vows to hold the debt ceiling hostage again. Why wouldn’t he, when Dems keep rewarding it?
- Greg Sargent on what the reaction to the deal says about how screwed we are.
- White House does know how to draw some lines, e.g., Medicaid.
- Liberal reaction to the deal.
- Dems say GOP won.
- GOP says GOP won. (Though maybe that’s to fool the Tea Party…)
- Taibbi says Democrats didn’t fight because they didn’t want to.
- The Ticktock.
- Both parties try to spin the deal as helpful to the economy. History be damned.
- Markets not happy.
- Lobbyists are.
- Gene Robinson: Liberals lost the battle, not the war.
- The GOP 2012 field finally weighs in on the deal.
- Union leader says the deal will kill jobs.
- The deal won’t help the economy.
- Industry says the deal won’t create jobs.
- What does create jobs? Government spending.
- So the Fed is considering stepping in again.
- The deal saves only what we spend on three months in Afghanistan, cuts aid to grad students.
- Most Tea Party supporters supported new revenues in the deal.
- Democrats will push for the debt committee to raise taxes, which Republicans will be able to prevent.
- The debt-ceiling battle cost taxpayers $1.7 billion.
- Think I saw a McConnell denial, but reports say GOPers who vote against deal won’t get to sit on “super committee.”
- Chart: The deal’s cuts utterly dwarf the spending from the stimulus.
- Poll: Most Americans oppose the debt deal.
- Poll: Most Americans want a different representative. So much for 2010.
- VIDEO: Rep. Gabby Gifford (D-AZ) returns to the House to vote for the deal.
JOBS
- The administration plans a pivot to jobs.
- Corporations move to lay off tens of thousands.
- Pres. Obama talks jobs today with the AFL-CIO.
- Pivoting to jobs is tough without room to pivot.
- Manufacturing saw weakest growth in two years.
- If you thought electoral anger about unemployment was bad now, what about when the debt deal fails to improve things?
CLASS WARFARE
- Study finds weakening of unions has led to income disparity.
- Significant numbers of students may be unable to repay their loans.
- Wall St. has spent $100 million this year to fight back against already-weakened new rules.
BROKEN GOVERNMENT
- House members fly home on planes inspected by FAA safety inspectors working without pay. Leaving Dems defending rural airports. And unions.
- We could have another shutdown standoff next month.
- And another one.
- Map: Which states are actually the parasites on government?
- Analysis: Our system is fine, it’s the GOP that’s screwed up.
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
- Judge orders Kansas to resume disbursing funds to Planned Parenthood.
LATINOPHOBIA
- DOJ files suit against Alabama’s anti-immigrant law.
ISLAMOPHOBIA
- Fox attacks Obama’s Ramadan statement.
WISCONSIN
- Could debt-deal loss dispirit Wisconsin progressives in the recall battle?
SYRIA
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