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And what's right with Obama? — The British have a saying about the twin rules of journalism: first simplify, then exaggerate. — Perhaps Barack Obama can comfort himself with the reality that his current travails are both more complicated in their causes and less dire in their consequences …
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Weasel Zippers, Pirate's Cove, Althouse, Connecting.the.Dots and Jammie Wearing Fools
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Losing the Room — WASHINGTON — On the most deadly day here since Sept. 11, 2001, with the capital reeling over the sadly familiar scene of a mass shooting by a madman, the chief executive stepped to the microphones and captured the heartbreak. — It wasn't the chief executive of the nation.
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Right Turn, The Dish, NationalJournal.com, CNN, No More Mister Nice Blog, Mediaite, TheBlaze.com and Politico


As Budget Fight Looms, Obama Sees Defiance in His Own Party — WASHINGTON — For four years, President Obama counted on fellow Democrats to rally to his side in a series of epic battles with Republicans over the direction of the country. But now, deep in his fifth year in office …

House Republicans up ante in showdown over federal shutdown — House Republican leaders bowed to conservative demands and announced plans Wednesday to strip out money for President Obama's healthcare law in a stopgap spending bill to keep the government running after Sept. 30.
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White House gets ready for shutdown — The White House told federal agencies on Tuesday to prepare for a government shutdown. — President Obama's budget director Sylvia Matthews Burwell in a memo to agencies said they should set their plans in case Congress fails to pass a funding measure by the end of the month.
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CNN and The Moderate Voice

The Money Behind the Shutdown Crisis — Representative Aaron Schock is a conservative Republican from Illinois, but not conservative enough for the hard-right activist group Club for Growth, which is seeking someone to run against him in next year's primary. — His crime?
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Weekly Standard, Politico, The Week, BillMoyers.com, Prairie Weather, Salon and Talking Points Memo


White House Shifts Debt-Ceiling Tone, Warning of Fiasco
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WH: ‘Extreme members’ of GOP are ‘reckless’; Mark Knoller smacks Obama with flashback quotes
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Weasel Zippers

An Open Letter from Howard Schultz, ceo of Starbucks Coffee Company — Posted by Howard Schultz, Starbucks chairman, president and chief executive officer — Few topics in America generate a more polarized and emotional debate than guns. In recent months, Starbucks stores and our partners …


House to Vote on Defunding Obamacare — Leadership sources tell me the House GOP will soon vote on a continuing resolution that simultaneously funds the federal government and defunds Obamacare. Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor are expected to announce the decision at Wednesday's closed-door conference meeting.
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Firedoglake, Mother Jones, Balloon Juice, Washington Monthly, The Dish, Business Insider, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Algemeiner.com, The Week, Moe Lane, Roll Call, The Moderate Voice, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Politico, Taegan Goddard's …, Hot Air, Hit & Run, The Plum Line, The Reaction, msnbc.com and Gin and Tacos
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Boehner Agonistes (again)
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Wall Street Journal, Post Politics, Business Insider and Daily Kos

Boehner: 'We're Going to Put Obamacare Defunding Directly Into the CR'

Reid: GOP doing ‘everything they can’ to get rid of government
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Politico

Government shutdown moves closer to reality
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First Read, Politico, Los Angeles Times, Taegan Goddard's …, Right Turn, Post Politics, New York Times, Prairie Weather, Salon and The Week

Conservatives to Unveil Obamacare Replacement Bill
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Washington Monthly

Chuck Todd: It's Not Media's Job To Correct GOP's Obamacare Falsehoods (VIDEO) — MSNBC host Chuck Todd said Wednesday that when it comes to misinformation about the new federal health care law, don't expect members of the media to correct the record. — During a segment on “Morning Joe …
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Daily Kos, Balloon Juice and Fox News
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Walgreen to Give Workers Payments to Buy Health Plans
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National Review and Pirate's Cove

Walgreens, Blue Cross launch effort to promote ObamaCare
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Weekly Standard and Shakesville

Reaping Profit After Assisting on Health Law
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Via Meadia and OpenSecrets.org

State Law Prevented Sale of Assault Rifle to Suspect Last Week, Officials Say — WASHINGTON — The gunman who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday test-fired an AR-15 assault rifle at a Virginia gun store last week but was stopped from buying one because state law there prohibits …
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The Daily Caller, NPR, Mediaite, NewsBusters, Taylor Marsh, Business Insider, Hot Air, ABC News, The Stranger … and Los Angeles Times
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Buddhist community ponders apparent link between their faith and Navy Yard shooter
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Crooks and Liars, Gawker, The Hinterland Gazette, Althouse and Post Politics

Obama distress signal: President seeks help from first-term A-Team — A struggling President Obama is calling for help from members of his first-term A-Team, who have left the White House for other jobs. — With his poll numbers falling and his second-term floundering so far …
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Hot Air, CNN, Moe Lane, Weekly Standard, Taylor Marsh, Taegan Goddard's …, National Review and Booman Tribune


Could Republican Senator Rand Paul Win the White House? — Tough talk and fearless politics have made Senator Rand Paul a leader in the Republican Party. Could he—and his charming, secret-weapon wife, Kelley—win the White House? — On a sunny Saturday in July, Rand Paul and his wife …
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Ballot Box and Post Politics
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For First Time, Americans' Views of Russia Turn Negative — Despite approval of Russian plan for Syria, Americans sour on Putin — WASHINGTON, D.C. — More Americans view Russia as unfriendly or an enemy of the United States than as an ally or friendly nation for the first time in 15 years …
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Yahoo! News, Weasel Zippers, CBS DC and Post Politics

What Maryland does better than Texas — Martin O'Malley, a Democrat, is governor of Maryland. — With gridlock and partisanship having all but paralyzed Washington, governors are at the forefront of our country's policy divide. On the No. 1 issue facing our nation …
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Washington Monthly, Trail Blazers Blog and WJLA-TV

The Man With Pink Hair — I was at a conference in Bern, Switzerland, last week and struggling with my column. News of Russia's proposal for Syria to surrender its poison gas was just breaking and changing every hour, forcing me to rewrite my column every hour.
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National Review and Daniel W. Drezner


New Hampshire Senate Candidate: More Women In The Workplace Led To More Mass Shootings — Former Republican state Sen. Jim Rubens is expected to announce his U.S. Senate campaign today. The rise of an economy with added opportunities for women has created “stress” for men, he says.
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ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo and The Raw Story


Muslim beauty pageant challenges Miss World — Muslim women in headscarves and elaborately embroidered dresses took to the stage Wednesday for the finale of an Islamic beauty pageant in Indonesia, a riposte to the Miss World contest that has sparked hardline anger.