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8:49 AM, Aug 1, 2011 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL

John Bolton has just issued a thoughtful statement raising “serious questions ... about the national-security implications of the proposed deal to raise the Federal debt ceiling.” Bolton calls attention to the worrisome short-term defense cuts that the deal makes likely, and to the huge medium- and long-term cuts that the deal’s triggering mechanism makes possible.

9:29 PM, Jul 31, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

This evening, at around 8:40 p.m., President Obama announced a debt deal between himself and congressional leaders. Here is the full text of Obama's short remarks:

Be careful what you wish for.

1:05 PM, Jul 13, 2011 • By FRED BARNES

Recall the old saying: Be careful what you wish for. In the struggle over raising the debt limit, it applies to President Obama as well as to congressional Republicans.

Moving on from Mitch McConnell.

2:01 AM, Jul 13, 2011 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL

Mitch McConnell’s plan, as Eric Cantor and Jim DeMint said tonight, is “going nowhere.” Which is where it deserved to go. It was too clever by half, transparently cynical, probably unconstitutional, and Rube Goldberg-like in its incomprehensibility.

The debt ceiling debate continues.

3:00 PM, Jul 12, 2011 • By FRED BARNES

Senate Republicans mounted a bold offensive today against President Obama’s effort to force them to accept a tax hike as part of a bipartisan agreement to raise the debt limit.

12:20 PM, Jul 12, 2011 • By FRED BARNES

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell challenged President Obama’s claim to support trillions in serious spending cuts as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling – cuts the president says show he’s ready to anger Democrats to get a deal.

8:08 AM, Jul 12, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

Steve Hayes, with Juan Williams and Charles Krauthammer, last night on Fox News:

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