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LiveBlog for Monday, July 9, 2012

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The Rude Pundit calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to talk about Romney’s comments on the unemployed, and about Rep. Joe Walsh’s comments on Tammy Duckworth

Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 10am ET / 7am PT to co-host Right Wing World

President Obama today will launch a push to extend the so-called Bush tax cuts for low and middle-income Americans, but he will continue to fight for the cuts to expire on Jan. 1 for people earning more than $250,000.

• Fresh off a week-long break in Wolfeboro, NH, Mitt Romney stopped in the Hamptons on Sunday to host three fundraisers, which were expected to raise $3 million, according to the New York Times.

The House will vote this week to repeal The Affordable Care Act. The vote, which was announced by House GOP leaders immediately following the U.S. Supreme Court’s health care ruling, will be the 31st time the Republican House will have voted to repeal or defund all, or part, of the act.

• Internet providers have plans to help their customers today and others are braced for calls to helplines because thousands around the country whose computers were infected with malicious software more than a year ago faced the possibility of not being able to get online.

• Oscar winning character actor Ernest Borgnine died Sunday. He was 95.