- Debt ceiling talks continue Monday with an Obama press conference and more meetings at the White House.
- Fourteen million Americans are “waiting on Roosevelt.”
- Elizabeth Warren is taking meetings with Senate recruiters.
- Sheila Bair sits for an exit interview. Believe it or not, she’s not going to work for a bank.
- U.S. suspends some aid to Pakistan as a rebuke.
- Minnesota GOP riven by hard line on shutdown.
- Pawlenty calls Bachmann’s record “non-existent.” She’s cutting deep into the constituencies he’s after.
- Senator Mike Lee jabs Huntsman as “unknown quantity.” (Correction: I conflated Lee with Rep. Chaffetz, a former Huntsman chief of staff. Lee is a former chief legal counsel to Huntsman and has not endorsed Romney.)
- Republican Party of Florida seeks to punish blogger.
- And allies rally around Senator Inhofe’s pilots’ rights bill, which was a reaction to the slap on the wrist he got for recklessly landing on a closed runway.
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