Romney campaign slams far-right, slavery friendly “Marriage Vow” pledge as “Undignified and Inappropriate”, won’t sign.
Shorter GOP: Stop telling people we’re threatening to lurch the country into a historic economic crisis of unimaginable proportions! We ruled that out yesterday afternoon!
As Bachmann soars, Pawlenty drops to 3% support nationally, behind Cain, Gingrich, unannounced Perry
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Republicans work to mask party infighting over McConnell plan by claiming Dems are holding country hostage with debt limit.
Dems claim Rep. Issa (R) cancelled his own oversight hearing after finding stuff in a document dump from Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission he didn’t want to find.
Freshman Republican Sen. Lee tells McConnell: Dude, You took our debt hostage and gave it to Obama!
Extra-ethical provocateur James O’Keefe tells supporters: send me money and I’ll break story about public employees cavorting with drug dealers and terrorists.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Moody’s putting U.S. credit rating under review for possible downgrade:
This is a reminder that the deadline for these negotiations may not be as far away as August 2 or even July 22. It’s whenever the credit markets decide it is. We need to come to an agreement immediately because the irreversible consequences of a potential rating downgrade could occur ahead of an actual default.
More here.
Reports coming in that today’s two-hour debt ceiling negotiation session at the White House ended abruptly.
Dem source tells us reports of Obama walking out of the meeting way overblown.