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4:20 PM ET, April 8, 2011

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Wall Street Journal:
Who Really Wants a Shutdown?  —  President Obama does, but the GOP's strategy is a lot less clear.  —  For people who keep saying they don't want a government shutdown, Washington's warring parties are sure acting like they can't wait for it to happen.  Since the policy stakes …
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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 …
Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Three Anti-Abortion Republicans Tell House GOP To Drop Planned Parenthood Rider To Avoid Shutdown  —  If Congress fails to reach a budget deal, the government will shut down at midnight tonight — an event that would hinder economic recovery and withhold payment to soldiers.
The Politico:
White House hopes last-minute heroics keep government running  —  Republicans have hit President Barack Obama for being out of touch, disengaged and unwilling to lead on the budget negotiations — and Democrats aren't wild about his taste for last-minute heroics either.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
GOP senator: Republicans should move on from defunding Planned Parenthood  —  Republicans should “move on” from insisting on defunding Planned Parenthood in a 2011 spending bill, a Republican senator said Friday.  —  With less than 24 hours to go until a shutdown, Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) …
Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
Defending Riders, Sen. Kyl Falsely Claims 90 Percent Of Planned Parenthood's Services Are For Abortion  —  With the government mere hours away from shutdown, the budget debate has centered around policy riders that GOP lawmakers insist must be included in any funding bill.
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
What Planned Parenthood actually does
Washington Post:
Both parties continue talks over elusive 2011 budget deal
Jay Newton-Small / Swampland:
Is This Really All About Abortion?
The Politico:
Government shutdown: John Boehner brushes off budget deal talk
Discussion: Pat Dollard
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Bachmann wants ‘clean’ bill to fund government for one week
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
No Accord in Budget Talks as Policy Fights Hamper Deal
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Reid's Final Offer To GOP: Drop Planned Parenthood Rider Or Cause A Government Shutdown
Meredith Shiner / The Politico:
Senate Democrats plan one-week stopgap
Discussion: Guardian and Daily Kos
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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Daily Kos:
Why Prosser needed EXACTLY +7500 votes....  In WI, a recount at state-expense is triggered if an election is within .5% if the candidate requests it, and we have a fully verifiable paper trail to audit election results.  That means in this election with approximately 740k for Kloppenburg and 739k for Prosser …
host.madison.com:
High-profile lawyers retained for possible Supreme Court recount
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Ryan Journey  —  For decades, academics and think tankers have been proposing plans to avert a fiscal catastrophe.  The ensuing debates were always sedate, high-minded affairs.  Now Republican political leaders have come up with a bold proposal of their own and the atmosphere is totally different.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Ludicrous and Cruel  —  Many commentators swooned earlier this week after House Republicans, led by the Budget Committee chairman, Paul Ryan, unveiled their budget proposals.  They lavished praise on Mr. Ryan, asserting that his plan set a new standard of fiscal seriousness.
The Star-Ledger Editorial Page:
Christie takes a cheap shot at Springsteen  —  He can't help himself, our governor.  In less than a year and a half, he's demonized more people than the Salem witch trials — if they had been run by Judge Judy: Democrats.  Teachers.  Superintendents.  Public workers.  State Supreme Court justices.
Discussion: Eschaton
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 …
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Paying for What We Get  —  Andrew Sullivan writes today that healthcare costs are skyrocketing and there are basically two way to rein them in: … I think half of this is right, but the other half betrays a fundamental (though common) misconception about how politics actually works.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Rationing One Way Or Another
Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Commander in Chief's Appalling Action with Our Troops  —  Yesterday the House passed H.R. 1363, which funds our Department of Defense and our military for the rest of the year at their current levels.  It allows for the continuation of current military operations, which is pretty important when you're fighting three wars.
Discussion: Cubachi, GOP 12 and The Gateway Pundit
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.
David Brody / The Brody File:
Brody File Exclusive: Donald Trump Explains Pro-Life Conversion  —  In an exclusive interview with The Brody File, Donald Trump explains why he changed his view from pro-choice to pro-life.  —  He says one of the main reasons was because one of his close personal friends chose to keep his child rather than have an abortion.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Optimism in the House  —  A House staffer emails:  —  Post Comment  —  Pages  —  Ben Smith passes along an anonymous email, from someone quoting hearsay.  This is, sadly, the “journalism” we've come to expect from Ben.  —  Who cares!  —  Posted By: Who cares!  April 08, 2011 at 02:38 PM
 
 
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Lbentzterp / CNN:
Huntsman heading to South Carolina in May
Discussion: The Politico and Ben Smith's Blog
First Read / msnbc.com:
This would be 18th government shutdown in U.S. history
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
GOP Rep. Allen West suggests Republicans are “using” troops
Discussion: The Atlantic Online and TPMDC
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Stuff Piled in the Aisle? It's There to Get You to Spend More
Discussion: The Atlantic Online and Yglesias
BBC:
Royal Navy personnel killed in HMS Astute sub shooting
Discussion: msnbc.com and The Jawa Report
 Earlier Items: 
Ronald Brownstein / Hotline On Call:
Pew Poll: Obama Struggling With White Voters
The Daily Caller:
During an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller on Thursday …
Discussion: Cubachi
Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
Levin on Obama not funding military by executive order: ‘This is what Saul Alinsky Marxists do’
Discussion: Cold Fury
Mark McKinnon / Politics:
How Michele Bachmann Can Win
David Frum / FrumForum:
Reading Romney's Mind
Discussion: The Daily Dish
 

 
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Reuters:
Iran confirms the arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala; Italy declines to say whether the case might be linked to the arrest of an Iranian in Italy

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Inside Radio:
Salem agrees to sell its seven contemporary Christian radio stations to Educational Media Foundation for $80M and repays all $159.4M of its long-term debt
 
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