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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 …
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ABCNEWS, NationalJournal.com and Weasel Zippers
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.
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PERRspectives, Outside the Beltway, The Raw Story, NationalJournal.com, Daily Kos, The Reaction and TPMDC
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.
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msnbc.com, Hot Air, Guardian, The Monkey Cage and TPMDC
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.) …
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Firedoglake, TPMDC, Washington Monthly, NewsBusters.org blogs and National Review
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.
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Washington Monthly, CBS News, The Raw Story, Guardian, The Nation and ECHIDNE of the snakes
Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
GRAPHIC: Democrats Have Met Republicans More Than Halfway On Spending Cuts
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Bloomberg and Washington Monthly
Jay Newton-Small / Swampland:
Is This Really All About Abortion?
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National Review, The Atlantic Online, Mother Jones, CNN and The Politico
New York Times:
Shutdown Near, No Sign of Compromise
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The Politico, Christianity Today, New York Magazine, Wonkette and Daily Kos
The Politico:
Government shutdown: John Boehner brushes off budget deal talk
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Pat Dollard
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Bachmann wants ‘clean’ bill to fund government for one week
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Wall Street Journal, Associated Press and The Politico
The Note:
Sen. Schumer: Public Will Blame Boehner for Shutdown
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PewResearch.org, ABCNEWS, Ben Smith's Blog, Washington Post and George's Bottom Line
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Reid's Final Offer To GOP: Drop Planned Parenthood Rider Or Cause A Government Shutdown
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The Huffington Post, Washington Post, Wonk Room and Talking Points Memo
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Breaking: Budget deal? Update: Not yet; Reid says Planned Parenthood higher priority than funding government
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NationalJournal.com, The Hill, The Jawa Report, The Blaze, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit and Pundit & Pundette
Matt Finkelstein / Political Correction RSS:
Sen. Coburn Says House Republicans Should Drop Contentious Riders
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The Daily Dish and ThinkProgress
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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The Incidental Economist, National Review, The New Republic, Mother Jones, Free exchange, Daily Kos and Marginal Revolution
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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.
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Washington Monthly, The Incidental Economist, Mother Jones, CNN, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Paul Krugman
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Dissents Of The Day — The in-tray is still bulging with fury over Paul Ryan.
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Balloon Juice, The Incidental Economist and No More Mister Nice Blog
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.
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Guardian, Los Angeles Times and blue cheddar
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Vote-Counting Error In Wisconsin Points to Incompetence, Not Conspiracy
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American Thinker, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Washington Monthly, Firedoglake, No More Mister Nice Blog and Moe Lane
host.madison.com:
High-profile lawyers retained for possible Supreme Court recount
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New York Times, TPMDC, Wall Street Journal and Hotline On Call
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Hah... MoveOn.org Fundraises Off of Kloppenburg's “Victory”
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Weasel Zippers, MoveOn.Org, Nice Deb, The Blaze and Big Government
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.
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Eschaton
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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Yglesias and The Incidental Economist
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Rationing One Way Or Another
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Balloon Juice and The Politico
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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Ben Smith's Blog and Runnin' Scared
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 …
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.
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LifeNews.com, GOP 12 and National Review
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.
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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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Wonk Room, Towleroad News #gay, Pam's House Blend and Joe. My. God.
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