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As the political tug-of-war wears on in Washington over a deal on reducing the deficit as part of a compromise to raise the debt limit, some conservatives are beginning to fret about the possibility of the GOP "caving" (there's a plethora of definitions of what "caving" would be). And, today the media's attention is focused on differences – perceived or genuine – within the GOP Leadership. 

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Make sense of this if you can.  On the very day that the Labor Department released the June jobs report showing the unemployment rate ticked up to 9.2% and new jobs for the month was an anemic 18,000, Nancy Pelosi says that whatever Congress and the White House finally agree on to reduce the deficit, it must "not harm our economic growth." 

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