- The White House is looking to trade Medicare and Medicaid cuts, hitting providers not beneficiaries, for some revenue increases.
- Romney flips back to saying Obama made the economy worse.
- Frank Rich lists the left’s economic and financial grievances with Obama at length.
- Obama nominates a more regulation-friendly candidate to oversee national banks.
- Five ways to tell if markets are spooked about the debt ceiling. (For example: If people are scrambling to short Treasurys, it’s time to worry.)
- Tim Pawlenty raised $4.2 million in the second quarter, putting his haul somewhere north of Herman Cain and south of Ron Paul.
- He’s trying to pivot off the Minnesota shutdown with another (presumably tiny) ad buy in Iowa:
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- New Jersey politics feature head-punching fantasies, references to Jimmy Stewart movies.
- Andrew Cuomo for VP is the silliest shiny object since the fabled Joe Biden-Hillary Clinton switcheroo.
- And Obama not dead.