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The New York Times - Ashley Parker and Jonathan Weisman
Newsmax - Todd Beamon
The Washington Times - Stephen Dinan and David Sherfinski

We are a nation that embraces hard work and opportunity. Since our founding more than 237 years ago, American trailblazers have shown time and again that success is possible in our great land—a promise that has been passed on to each and every generation.
The Washington Post - Ed O'Keefe

As President Theodore Roosevelt once wrote, “I have a very strong feeling that it is a president’s duty to get on with Congress if he possibly can, and that it is a reflection upon him if he and Congress come to a complete break.”
The Hill - Russell Berman
Reuters
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives struggled on Friday to reach consensus on a strategy for lifting the federal debt limit but decided what they don't want - a "clean" increase and a default crisis, a senior Republican lawmaker said.
Representative Tom Cole, a close ally of House Speaker John Boehner, said that House Republicans still had not settled the conditions they would attach to any increase, and were "working through" their strategy.

