Read this on the Web at http://patriotpost.us/edition/2011/08/01/brief/ Brief · August 1, 2011 The Foundation "Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be." --John Adams Editor's Note Boehner, Obama and Reid The debt-ceiling "deal" agreed to by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), and President Barack Obama over the weekend is Washington politics at its finest: Cut $2 trillion from federal spending over a decade in return for adding $2.4 trillion to the current $14.3 trillion debt this year . That's enough that the debt ceiling debate won't have to occur again until after the 2012 elections, throwing O

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