• The White House says it’s struck a deal that will get trade deals with South Korea, Colombia and Panama through Congress along with its expansion to the Trade Adjustment Assistance benefit.
• The Dems’ unlimited donation independent expenditure group Priorities USA answers Crossroads with $750,000 swing state ad buy of its

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• Obama wades into debt limit talks with goal of raising some new revenues, mostly from the very wealthy.
• Bowles and Simpson push for a $4 trillion package.
• Obama’s legislative failures have been punts, not failures despite his public efforts.
• In a Tuesday speech, Tim Pawlenty will make the case against the inklings of

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• As debt ceiling talks move to the White House, revenue remains the sticking point.
• A heavy lift may require Nancy Pelosi.
• Crossroads GPS plans $20 million early ad campaign hitting Obama on the economy:

• The Senate slays ethanol subsidies.
• “Generic Republican” is doing fine against Obama in the early polling.
• Give Tim Pawlenty three days and he can come up with a middling comeback.

• Romney is at 30% in the latest WSJ/NBC News poll. The next candidate who’s currently running is Herman Cain at 12% and then Ron Paul at 7%. (I’m excluding Palin and Rick Perry.) There are plenty of caveats that go with one early national poll, but it’s stunning nonetheless.
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• Wisconsin’s supreme court upholds law restricting collective bargaining.
• Governor Andrew Cuomo’s gay marriage legislation is one vote away clear passage. It could happen Friday.
• A federal district judge denied a motion to dismiss the 2010 decision striking down California’s gay marriage ban on the basis that the ruling judge in

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• The consensus on last night’s GOP presidential primary debate –Bachmann emerged, Romney skated to victory — is so ubiquitous it’s almost unsettling.
• It largely reflects public polling, but the scant sections of the debate on foreign policy were the least hawkish of any GOP forum in recent memory.
• The debate may have widened the

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• Bachmann, Cain, Paul, Gingrich, Pawlenty, Romney and Santorum will attend the first Republican presidential primary debate tonight in New Hampshire.
• Romney goes into the debate in strong shape nationally.
• He’s jumped on Obama for calling dismal job numbers in May “a bump in the road to recovery”:

• Mitt Romney will skip Iowa’s vaunted Ames straw poll. (Nevermind the chicken suit from ’07.)
• The New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC will crowdsource the Palin e-mails Alaska is releasing today.
• The Biden debt ceiling talks pick up speed.

• From the magazine: This recession is different. Don’t expect Washington to help.
• Minor stimulus a la December 2010′s tax cut deal may be on the table in debt ceiling talks.
• It goes without saying, but more polls find widespread economic pessimism means problems for Obama.
• The White House floats Warren deputy and former banker

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• Obama presses Bahrain.
• Weiner’s not getting any help in Washington or New York.
• The great Retailer-Bank battle is joined: The Senate will vote today on a delay for swipe fee regulations.

• Disapproval of Obama’s handling of the economy reaches new highs in a Washington Post/ABC News poll. Twice as many American now say the country is on the wrong track than on the right one. (However, support for the effort in Afghanistan ticks up.)
• Austan Goolsbee, one of President Obama’s more effective communicators on the economy,

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• Nobel-winning economist Peter Diamond has withdrawn as a Federal Reserve Board of Governors nominee after more than a year in confirmation limbo. Republican Senator Richard Shelby was the primary obstructor, but the White House has appeared sluggish, if not downright apathetic, about getting appointments like Diamond’s through. As the

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