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Wall Street Journal:
The Cruz Campaign Against ObamaCare — The freshman Texas Senator volunteers House Republicans for duty on his implausible defunding gambit. — So House Republicans have passed and sent to the Senate a budget that includes no funding for the Affordable Care Act, setting up a political showdown …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans' dangerous rationality — It has become fashionable to give a psychiatric diagnosis to those Republicans teeing up a government shutdown. — “They're on a different planet,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), a member of the Senate Democratic leadership, said last week. “Off the deep end.”
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American Spectator, Balkinization, Mediaite, Hullabaloo, Daily Kos and Instapundit
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Ted Cruz's Flinty Path — The fall television season kicks into gear this week, with tons of new stuff, but before you check out any of it, you owe yourself a bigger treat. Go back and watch Chris Wallace's interview with Ted Cruz on “Fox News Sunday.” — That's entertainment.
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Power Line, GQ Magazine Online, NPR, Prairie Weather, msnbc.com and The Raw Story
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Harry Reid Shoots Down Ted Cruz On Defunding Obamacare — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) objected on Monday to Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) request for unanimous consent to pass the House's continuing resolution to defund Obamacare. — Reid also objected to a request by Cruz …
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Daily Kos
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Fmr. McCain Strategist Blasts Sarah Palin's ‘Asininity’ on Obamacare — Sarah Palin jumped into the “defund Obamacare” fray this week with a full defense of Ted Cruz's efforts to defund the health care law by any means necessary. On Hardball Monday, former McCain 2008 campaign strategist Steve Schmidt …
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RealClearPolitics Video Log, FOX News Radio and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Niels Lesniewski / The World's Greatest …:
Senate GOP Prepares to Shoot Down Cruz's Obamacare Strategy
Senate GOP Prepares to Shoot Down Cruz's Obamacare Strategy
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Wonkblog, The Week, msnbc.com, Hot Air and Patterico's Pontifications
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Lindsey Graham Knocks Ted Cruz Strategy For Defunding Obamacare: ‘Not The Best Tactic’
Lindsey Graham Knocks Ted Cruz Strategy For Defunding Obamacare: ‘Not The Best Tactic’
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The Plum Line and ThinkProgress
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Obama selfish, stubborn on health care: Column
Obama selfish, stubborn on health care: Column
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Politico:
Obamacare: One blow after another — The Obamacare that consumers will finally be able to sign up for next week is a long way from the health plan President Barack Obama first pitched to the nation. — Millions of low-income Americans won't receive coverage.
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Jonathan Bernstein / American Prospect:
The Day after Shutdown — So it's October ... or maybe it's six …
The Day after Shutdown — So it's October ... or maybe it's six …
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Economix, The Week, CNN, PostPartisan, Washington Monthly, A plain blog about politics, The Plum Line and Politico
Abby D. Phillip / ABC News:
Clinton World Hints at Ditching Old Baggage for Hillary Run … Hillary Clinton's first major print interview since leaving the Obama administration seven months ago leaves two inescapable impressions: She is running in 2016, and this campaign won't look anything like her failed 2008 run.
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Politico, CNN and Taylor Marsh
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Obama: I Haven't Had A Cigarette In Six Years Because I'm Scared Of My Wife — The president gives a different quit date than the one the first lady has given. — View Video › — President Obama got caught on a hot mic today saying he hasn't smoked in six years because he's afraid of his wife Michelle.
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Andy Fox / WAVY-TV:
Boys suspended for airsoft guns in yard — Has zero tolerance gone too far? — (1/7)Andy Fox reports on zero tolerance incident at VB middle school — (2/7)Andy Fox reports on VB 7th grader facing expulsion — (3/7)Andy Fox reports on zero gun tolerance at VB schools
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Mediaite, Weasel Zippers, Hit & Run and National Review
Washington Post:
McAuliffe leads Cuccinelli in Virginia governor's race — Democrat Terry McAuliffe has vaulted into the lead over Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II in a Virginia governor's race that has left many voters sour on both candidates, according to a new Washington Post/Abt SRBI poll.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Today's Top Opinion: Unserious
Today's Top Opinion: Unserious
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Townhall.com, Hot Air, Politico and National Review
Michael Laris / Washington Post:
E.W. Jackson says non-Christians are engaged in ‘some sort of false religion’ — At a morning sermon Sunday in Northern Virginia, Republican lieutenant governor candidate E.W. Jackson, a Chesapeake pastor, said people who don't follow Jesus Christ “are engaged in some sort of false religion.”
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Markus Schmidt / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Jackson says he differs with pope on gays
Jackson says he differs with pope on gays
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Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Sorry, The Latest Anti-Obamacare Article To Go Viral Is Totally Wrong — An article published by Forbes claiming that Obamacare will increase health care costs by $7,450 for a typical family of four is spreading like wildfire across the internet, but causing eye rolls from economists across the country.
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Chris Conover / Forbes:
Obamacare Will Increase Health Spending By $7,450 For A Typical Family of Four
Obamacare Will Increase Health Spending By $7,450 For A Typical Family of Four
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Bookworm Room, Liberal Values and Shakesville
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Ex-FBI agent to plead guilty in leak to AP — A former FBI bomb technician who later worked as a contractor for the Bureau has agreed to plead guilty to disclosing national defense information about a disrupted terrorist plot to the Associated Press, according to the Justice Department.
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Washington Monthly and WJLA-TV
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Former F.B.I. Agent to Plead Guilty in Press Leak
Former F.B.I. Agent to Plead Guilty in Press Leak
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Joy Wilke / Gallup:
Americans' Belief That Gov't Is Too Powerful at Record Level — Record number of Republicans say the federal government has too much power — PRINCETON, NJ — Six in 10 Americans (60%) believe the federal government has too much power, one percentage point above the previous high recorded in September 2010.
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Daily Mail:
SAS hero of the mall massacre: Off duty soldier with a handgun saved 100 lives as terrorists ran amok — An off-duty member of the SAS emerged as a hero of the Nairobi siege yesterday, after he was credited with saving up to 100 lives. — The soldier was having coffee at the Westgate mall …
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The Hugh Hewitt Show
Neil King Jr / Washington Wire:
One Big Trader Lost Millions Betting on Romney, Study Finds — A new academic paper digging into presidential betting in the final weeks of the 2012 election finds that a single trader lost between $4 million and $7 million placing a flurry of Intrade bets on Mitt Romney …
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Taegan Goddard's …, naked capitalism and Balloon Juice
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Lois Lerner, IRS official at heart of tea party scandal, retires — Lois G. Lerner, the woman at the center of the IRS tea party targeting scandal, retired from the agency Monday morning after an internal investigation found she was guilty of “neglect of duties” and was going to call for her ouster, according to congressional staff.
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Lauren French / Politico:
Lois Lerner still Hill's favorite piñata
Lois Lerner still Hill's favorite piñata
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