Editors’ Blog - 2011
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07.12.11 | 3:05 pm
Boehner’s On Board

Boehner on McConnell debt limit parachute plan: Works for me.

07.12.11 | 4:00 pm
Norquist Backtracks

Norquist: News of my support for McConnell plan are greatly exaggerated. But not that greatly.

07.12.11 | 4:53 pm
Upping the Ante on Murdoch

Sen. Rockefeller (D-WV), Chairman of the Commerce, Science & Transportation Chairman, calls on regulators to probe Murdoch’s News Corp to see whether US laws were broken in phone hacking scandal.

07.12.11 | 7:02 pm
Unmanned

From the Post’s bird’s eye inside the debt meetings …

Since pulling the plug on the deal, Boehner has been largely silent in the meetings, leaving House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) to present details of the House’s position. On Tuesday, people in both parties said, Obama tried to reestablish Boehner’s primacy.

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07.13.11 | 3:09 am
CA-36 Stays Democratic

Republican Craig Huey conceded to Democrat Janice Hahn in the CA-36 special election in Los Angeles.

07.13.11 | 3:11 am
Clean Sweep

The real Democratic candidates prevailed over the fake “Dems” in all of Wisconsin’s Senate recall primaries last night. Now it’s on to the actual recall elections.

07.13.11 | 4:09 am
Serious About Voting

DOJ sues Louisiana for failing to provide voter registration forms at public assistance and disability services agencies, as required by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.

07.13.11 | 5:00 am
Gracious In Defeat

The National Republican Congressional Committee, which is charged with getting Republicans elected to the House and keeping them there, sent out a press email overnight on the results of the CA-36 special election titled “Statement on Janice Hahn’s Entry Into Democrats’ Swamp of Corruption”: Read More

07.13.11 | 5:49 am
Rocking the House

You sorta have to get the weird mix of high dudgeon and understatement that is the hallmark of British public politics. But check out this epic confrontation between embattled PM David Cameron and Labour Leader Ed Miliband today over the News Corp/phone hacking scandal in the House of Commons. Video after the fold … Read More

07.13.11 | 5:58 am
Slideshow: Summer at the White House

Penny for your thoughts? President Obama and Paul Ryan share a moment in the East Room.