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• Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner Trade Barbs Over Prospect Of Another Debt Limit Fight

  Source: The Huffington Post

  WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday slammed House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) for sparking another potential showdown over tying an increase in the debt ceiling to trillions in spending cuts. "They did it before. Here we go again," Pelosi t …

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• Super PAC preparing ads tying Obama to pastor

  Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney sought to distance himself Thursday from a GOP-leaning independent group's plan for a $10 million TV ad campaign renewing attention to President Barack Obama's ties to his controversial former pastor. Obama's campaign accused Romney of failing to show "moral leadership in standing up to the very extreme wing of his own party."

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• How Mitt Romney gets away with his lying

  Source: The Washington Post

  Yesterday, Mitt Romney gave a big speech in which he accused Obama of lighting a “prairie fire of debt.” It’s a good line, and it has received widespread media coverage. Romney’s speech has already been dissected by Jonathan Chait and Steve Benen. They  …

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• Elisabeth Hasselbeck gets smacked down by the President

  Source: Daily Kos

  I love The View with one exception. That exception is Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

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• 22 Million Children Could Be Left Without Food Stamps Due to Budget Cuts

  Source: Youth Today

  Some 22 million children who depend on the federal nutrition assistance program that replaced food stamps could lose their benefits under a 2013 budget resolution recently approved by the House Agricultural Committee. The budget, approved in April, would cut more than $33 billi …

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