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3:35 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.
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.
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.) …
Washington Post:
Both parties continue talks over elusive 2011 budget deal  —  Gallery: Government shutdown: Democrats and Republicans have so far failed to reach an agreement on the 2011 federal budget, increasing the likelihood of the first government shutdown in more than 15 years.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
No Accord in Budget Talks as Policy Fights Hamper Deal
Jay Newton-Small / Swampland:
Is This Really All About Abortion?
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Bachmann wants ‘clean’ bill to fund government for one week
The Politico:
Government shutdown: John Boehner brushes off budget deal talk
Discussion: Pat Dollard
Meredith Shiner / The Politico:
Senate Democrats plan one-week stopgap
Discussion: Daily Kos
The Note:
Sen. Schumer: Public Will Blame Boehner for Shutdown
Discussion: ABCNEWS and George's Bottom Line
Matt Finkelstein / Political Correction RSS:
Sen. Coburn Says House Republicans Should Drop Contentious Riders
Discussion: The Daily Dish and ThinkProgress
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Abortion, Spending Cuts Hamper Deal To Avoid Government Shutdown
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.
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
The Democrats have a plan for controlling health-care costs. Paul Ryan doesn't.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Dissents Of The Day  —  The in-tray is still bulging with fury over Paul Ryan.
Jeffrey Sachs / The Huffington Post:
The People's Budget
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 …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Wisconsin Republican County Clerk Claims She Misplaced 7,500 Votes For Justice Prosser, Her Former Boss  —  Last night, Republican Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus rocked Wisconsin's Supreme Court election by claiming that she had suddenly found 14,315 lost votes in the most conservative county in the state.
host.madison.com:
High-profile lawyers retained for possible Supreme Court recount
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 …
Mark McKinnon / Politics:
How Michele Bachmann Can Win  —  THE DAILY BEAST ON:  —  The Minnesota firebrand could parlay her Tea Party support, fundraising skills, and message discipline into a serious run for the White House.  She has the fire in the belly, Mark McKinnon writes.  —  Though prone to gaffes …
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Reagan Budget Guru: Shut It Down!
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.
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
G-A-Y / Good As You:
G-A-Y Exclusive: National Organization For Marriage tour organizer/Facebook moderator does startling about-face; Exposure to NOM could lead to unintended side effects  —  Louis Marinelli first came on our radar late last spring, when he started Tweeting under the name “NOMUpdates”:
 
 
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Diana Wueger / The Atlantic Online:
The Global Risk of Arming Libya's Rebels
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
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
The Indian Express:
Cleric who termed stone-pelting protests un-Islamic killed in Srinagar blast
Discussion: The Jawa Report
BBC:
Royal Navy personnel killed in HMS Astute sub shooting
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The Daily Caller:
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Discussion: CNN
Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
Levin on Obama not funding military by executive order: ‘This is what Saul Alinsky Marxists do’
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Reading Romney's Mind
Discussion: The Daily Dish
New York Post:
Ryan's ‘roadmap’: The moral message
Discussion: Cold Fury and National Review
 

 
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