All In All, A Woeful Week For The White House

The debt-ceiling deal is signed, if flawed. The jobs report is not as bad as expected, but hardly good. The markets have tanked. The country's credit rating was downgraded for the first time in history. Happy birthday, Mr. President.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/06/139026194/all-in-all-a-woeful-week-for-the-white-house?ft=1&f=1014

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GOP candidates slam Obama in reaction to S&P downgrade (Daily Caller)

Daily Caller - Investors, business leaders, and politicians reacted Friday night to news that Standard & Poor’s had downgraded the United States’ creditworthiness for the first time in its history. But first out of the gate were some GOP presidential hopefuls eager to make campaign hay out of what they see as a failure of the Obama administration.

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Abu Ghraib abuse ringleader freed from jail (AFP)

Charles Graner in 2005 at Fort Hood, Texas. Graner was released on August 6, 2011 after serving more than 6½ years of a 10-year sentence at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, according to Army spokeswoman Rebecca Steed. Graner was convicted of abusing detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Jana Birchum)AFP - The convicted ringleader of the US military guards who abused detainees at Abu Ghraib and took scandalous pictures of their acts was released on parole from military prison, the US Army said.


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Obama won debt-ceiling fight, says DNC (Daily Caller)

Daily Caller - Democrats won the debt ceiling fight and they have the poll numbers to prove it, says Patrick Gaspard, the former White House official now running the Democratic National Committee.

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From protest to power: Autonomist parties in government

In many Western European states, an increasing number of autonomist parties are taking part in government at state and regional levels. To date, however, scholars have paid little attention to the repercussions of government incumbency for these actors. This article aims to take a first step towards redressing this oversight. Based on an extensive literature examining political parties in government, we formulate hypotheses about how autonomist parties will approach, behave within and be affected by government office. We test these hypotheses by examining the participation of autonomist parties in regional and state governments in Western Europe since 1945. The findings demonstrate that the difficult decisions autonomist parties must make when entering government, the subsequent dilemmas and challenges that must be resolved once the threshold of government has been crossed, and the consequences of government incumbency, are similar to those faced by any political party in government. However, the fact that autonomist parties operate within a multi-level political context can render these challenges more complex than is the case for political parties operating (mainly or exclusively) at a single territorial level, usually that of the state. The article concludes by identifying key factors that affect the success of autonomist parties in government.

Source: http://ppq.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/17/4/505?rss=1

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President Obama to Honor Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers at the White House

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WASHINGTON--On Friday, August 12, President Obama will welcome the Super Bowl XLV Champion Green Bay Packers to the White House to honor the team and their Super Bowl victory.  The President will also continue his tradition of honoring sports teams for their efforts both on and off the field by recognizing the efforts by the Packers to give back to their community as part of their visit.

Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/08/03/president-obama-honor-super-bowl-champion-green-bay-packers-white-house

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With U.S. Downgrade, S&P Calls Politics Into Account

On Friday night Standard & Poor's credit rating agency downgraded its rating of U.S. credit for the first time in the country's history. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Scott Simon about the politics of the decision.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/06/139046381/with-u-s-downgrade-s-p-calls-politics-into-account?ft=1&f=1014

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