Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists discuss House Speaker John Boehner’s decision to allow a vote on a debt ceiling increase despite resistance from fellow Republicans, The New York Times’ call for an end of the debt limit and the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger.

Scheer is joined by Rich Lowry of the National Review, Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report and host Matt Miller.

— Adapted from KCRW by Alexander Reed Kelly.

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