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NationalJournal.com:
Congressional Sources: White House Reviewing Terms of Spending Deal — The likelihood of a war-time federal government shutdown—the first in American history—diminished dramatically on Friday night as all parties began reviewing, with the goal of approving, a broad array of cuts …
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Conservatives Urge Boehner to Cut a Budget Deal and Move On — Michele Bachmann speaking to Tea Party demonstrators outside the US Capitol Thursday afternoon. — Are Republicans ready to declare victory in the shutdown showdown and move on? — For days, the assumption has been that Speaker John …
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Lynn Sweet, Booman Tribune and The Daily Dish
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Biden gets fed up during spending talks — Vice President Joe Biden got visibly upset during late night White House talks on avoiding a government shutdown. — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters Friday morning that Biden doesn't get upset very often …
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ABCNEWS and Weasel Zippers
The Politico:
Breakthrough? GOP reviews offer — The threat of a government shutdown diminished late Friday night after White House and congressional negotiators reached agreement on controversial policy riders in the stalled government funding measure, and closed in on a final compromise on cuts around $40 billion.
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Opinion L.A., CNN, Hot Air, msnbc.com, Guardian, Swampland, Pat Dollard, NationalJournal.com and The Caucus
Darren Goode / The Politico:
EPA riders axed, lawmakers say — An evolving deal to avoid a government shutdown would include a study of the economic effect of environmental regulations rather than Republican riders to block EPA rules on climate change and mountaintop mining, senior Senate Democrats and a key House Republican say.
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Firedoglake, TPMDC and Daily Kos
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Last-Ditch Talks Held as Shutdown Nears
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The Politico, FiveThirtyEight, TPMDC, Boston Globe, Guardian, Christianity Today, Datechguy's Blog, The Democratic Daily, Truthdig, Wonkette and Daily Kos
Laura Litvan / Bloomberg:
Coburn Says Republicans ‘Probably Should’ Make Budget Deal With Democrats
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Firedoglake, Ballot Box, Washington Monthly, The Huffington Post, National Review and Wall Street Journal
Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
GRAPHIC: Democrats Have Met Republicans More Than Halfway On Spending Cuts
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The Moderate Voice, Bloomberg, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Washington Monthly
Wall Street Journal:
Who Really Wants a Shutdown? — President Obama does …
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Washington Examiner, Betsy's Page, BizzyBlog, Don Surber, The Caucus, neo-neocon, The Atlantic Online and Hot Air
Jay Newton-Small / Swampland:
Is This Really All About Abortion?
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The Hill, TPMDC, National Review, Taylor Marsh, The Daily Dish and The Atlantic Online
Stan Collender / Capital Gains and Games blogs:
The Shutdown Problem This September is Going to be Even Worse
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The Daily Dish and Calculated Risk
The Politico:
White House hopes last-minute heroics keep government running
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CNN, Roll Call, About.com US Liberal Politics, Hot Air, Guardian, The Monkey Cage, msnbc.com and TPMDC
Eli Lehrer / FrumForum:
Lobbyists Drive the Shutdown
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The New Republic and New York Magazine
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
On Budget Dispute, Obama Casts Himself as Mediator in Chief
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New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Hill, Firedoglake, Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
Louise Radnofsky / Washington Wire:
D.C. Residents Target Boehner With Trash-Bag Protest
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The Raw Story
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
What Planned Parenthood actually does — With Planned Parenthood being either the major obstacle to a budget deal or one of the major obstacles to a budget deal, it's worth taking a minute explaining what they do — and what they don't do. — As you can see in the chart atop this post …
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Report: Tentative Deal on Budget Being Reviewed by White House — Marc Ambinder at National Journal breaks the news of a deal framework on the 2011 budget, which would include painful spending cuts but no defunding of Planned Parenthood. … Essentially, Democrats bought Planned Parenthood's continued life …
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The Huffington Post and Suburban Guerrilla
Major Garrett / NationalJournal.com:
Muted Abortion Response Speaks Volumes — The GOP reaction, or lack thereof, instead suggested a shrugging acceptance of one more round of talking points before the final brokering. — For Speaker John Boehner, seen here at a January mock swearing-in of the 112th Congress, the budget battle's bottom line is spending cuts.
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The Hill, Hot Air, The Blaze, New York Magazine, Taylor Marsh and The Politico
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
The Brave and Serious Mr. Ryan — I mentioned earlier that if asked to choose an adjective to describe the budget plan presented by Rep. Paul Ryan, I would suggest “partisan” or “gimmicky,” as opposed to “serious” or “brave.” Most budget proposals are both partisan and gimmicky, so this is no particular knock against Rep. Ryan.
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The New Republic, The Daily Dish, Firedoglake, Balloon Juice, MyDD, Hullabaloo, Paul Krugman and DailyHowler.com
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
The Democrats have a plan for controlling health-care costs. Paul Ryan doesn't.
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Time, The Incidental Economist, The Atlantic Online, Washington Monthly, The New Republic and Balloon Juice
Dan Joseph / CNSNews:
Rep. Louise Slaughter: GOP Freshmen Came to Washington ‘To Kill Women’ — (CNSNews.com) - Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) said today that the new Republicans elected to the House of Representatives last November came to Congress “to kill women.” She also likened Republican efforts …
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Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
Schumer likens conservatives to a flea — Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) compared House conservatives to a flea Friday as rhetoric in the spending fight intensified. — Schumer, who has been criticizing Republicans all day, said in a floor speech Friday that conservatives were the flea controlling the dog …
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GayPatriot, Weasel Zippers and Swampland
Eric Scheiner / CNSNews:
Schumer: Senate Will ‘Never, Never, Never’ Defund Planned Parenthood
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CNN, iOwnTheWorld.com, The Politico, Weasel Zippers, The Lonely Conservative, Pajamas Media and Maggie's Farm
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Vote-Counting Error In Wisconsin Points to Incompetence, Not Conspiracy — When Kathy Nickolaus, the county clerk in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, spoke to the press on Thursday after revealing that she had failed to count more than 14,000 ballots in the hotly contested state supreme court election …
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Dan / Pruning Shears:
Microsoft Access imports and Kathy Nickolaus
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Citizen Action of Wisconsin, TPMDC, Firedoglake, Wonkette and Slate
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Moran gets irritable at veteran's interruption in town-hall meeting — The absent majority. — That headline is a little more fair than the suggestions that came to me this morning on a clip from a town-hall meeting held by Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) last night, in which the Congressman loses …
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Nice Deb, Patterico's Pontifications, The Last Tradition and The Other McCain
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iowahawk:
War Is No Excuse For Forgetting One's Manners — War Etiquette Tips — From Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) — As a lad in Charleston, I at first chafed whenever Mama would squire me to my weekly instructions at Miss Buelah Fontaine's Palmetto Street Finishing Academy for Young Gentlemen.
Patricia Sellers / Fortune:
Cathie Black vows to come back: “I'm a warrior” — Few career falls are as swift and spectacular as Cathie Black's. — It took just 95 days for the former boss of Hearst Magazines — and alum of the Fortune Most Powerful Women list — to get ousted as chancellor of New York City public schools.
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Runnin' Scared, Mediaite, Gothamist, Ben Smith's Blog and New York Magazine
Rep. Michele Bachmann / Rep_Michele_Bachmann's blog:
Not a Big Enough Fight — Since Republicans took the House majority in January I have been calling for our leadership to fight. We must answer the bell that was rung last November when the American people called us to fight for deep cuts in spending, for the full repeal of ObamaCare …
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The Note, TPMDC, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, Firedoglake and American Power
Joe Kovacs / WorldNetDaily:
Rush Limbaugh slammed for ‘avoiding’ eligibility — ‘Not 1 high Republican or you has ever really tried to nail’ Obama — Radio giant Rush Limbaugh came under fire today from a caller to his top-rated program accusing the host of avoiding the issue of Barack Obama's eligibility to be president.
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