- The Senate will pass the debt deal at noon.
- Maybe it wasn’t such a raw deal for the Pentagon after all.
- Fifty-nine House Republican freshmen voted yes, as did more than half of the Tea Party Caucus.
- With the debt ceiling raised, the House is adjourned until Sept. 7. They’ll stay in pro-forma session to prevent recess appointments though.
- Just like America, John Boehner is relieved to be done with debt ceiling nonsense.
- If downgraded, how long might it take for the U.S. to regain AAA rating?
- With the economy stuck and all the fiscal doors still shut, the Fed may reconsider inaction.
- Obama administration will follow recommendations, classify birth control as preventative medicine.
- If you want to revisit it, the New Yorker‘s three-months-later account of the bin Laden raid is worthwhile:
The raiding team then presented the President with an American flag that had been on board the rescue Chinook. Measuring three feet by five, the flag had been stretched, ironed, and framed. The SEALs and the pilots had signed it on the back; an inscription on the front read, “From the Joint Task Force Operation Neptune’s Spear, 01 May 2011: ‘For God and country. Geronimo.’ ” Obama promised to put the gift “somewhere private and meaningful to me.” Before the President returned to Washington, he posed for photographs with each team member and spoke with many of them, but he left one thing unsaid. He never asked who fired the kill shot, and the SEALs never volunteered to tell him.
- And The Awl offers the definitive graphical explanation of the debt debate.
