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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Ted Cruz seizes Senate floor in failing quest — Ted Cruz seized control of the Senate floor on Tuesday at about 2:42 p.m., vowing to “speak in support of defunding Obamacare until I am no longer able to stand.” — But Cruz cannot stop a Senate now in motion from eventually returning …
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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 …
Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
Reid's office: Cruz filibuster is fake — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's spokesman said Tuesday that Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-Texas) filibuster was fake. — “Fun fact: Senator Cruz pre-negotiated the terms of his #fakefilibuster with Senator Reid yesterday.
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Crooks and Liars, Weasel Zippers, Hit & Run and National Review
Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
Ted Cruz Vows To Speak Against Obamacare: ‘Until I Am No Longer Able To Stand’ — On Tuesday at 2:41 p.m., Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., took the Senate floor to protest a government funding bill that funds President Obama's signature health care reform law. He plans to talk — and talk — all afternoon and possibly all evening long.
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Business Insider, National Review, American Spectator and The PJ Tatler
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Cruz Likens Obamacare Defunding Skeptics To Nazi Appeasers (VIDEO) — During a floor speech Tuesday aimed at reviving the already-dim prospects for his effort to defund Obamacare, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) likened his doubters to Nazi appeasers. — “If you go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany,” Cruz said.
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Weekly Standard, Hit & Run and Hullabaloo
Alex Seitz-Wald / NationalJournal.com:
Don't Call It a Filibuster — Ted Cruz's speech is not a filibuster, but he can talk until Wednesday morning. — Despite what you see on C-SPAN2, or what you read on Twitter, Ted Cruz is not filibustering Obamacare. The Republican senator from Texas is speaking on the Senate floor …
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NationalJournal.com:
Ted Cruz Is Talking Until He Can't Stand Anymore — “I rise in opposition to Obamacare,” the Texas Republican began. This speech may go on for a while. — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, rose to speak on the Senate floor at 2:41 p.m. He stood up in opposition to Obamacare, he said.
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Michelle Malkin, Ricochet Conversations Feed and Yahoo! News
CNN:
CNN's GUT CHECK for September 24, 2013
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Politico, New York Times and The Huffington Post
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
GOP leaders face resistance in push to speed up government funding bill
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Politico
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Steve Schmidt rants against GOP ‘asininity’
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The Daily Caller, Booman Tribune, Juanita Jean's, Weasel Zippers, American Spectator, The Week, Joe. My. God. and Wall Street Journal
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Cruz vows filibuster ‘Until I am no longer able to stand’
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The Gateway Pundit and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Erick Erickson / RedState:
A Cruz Missile Launch, Like a Light, Shows the Cockroaches Scurrying
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Talking Points Memo and Washington Wire
David Frum / The Daily Beast:
Can Ted Cruz Win by Losing?
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Ross Douthat, Democracy in America, The Fix, The Dish, Gawker, Washington Post, GQ Magazine Online and American Prospect
John B. Judis / The New Republic:
Obama Just Gave His Most Significant Foreign Policy Speech — President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday to the United Nations was his most significant foreign policy statement since becoming president. It showed he had clearly learned something from the recent “red line” fiasco in Syria.
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The Dish, FP Passport, Hot Air and The Reaction
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Obama's Iran outreach triggers debate — President Obama formally launched diplomatic talks with Iran on its nuclear program Tuesday despite widespread distrust about that country's intentions. — Speaking at the United Nations, Obama announced he had tasked Secretary of State John Kerry with pursuing a nuclear deal with Iran.
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Guardian:
Obama tells UN that diplomatic path must be tested with Iran
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Washington Free Beacon, The Reaction and Real Clear Politics
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
AIG CEO: Anger over AIG bonuses ‘just as bad’ as lynchings — AIG's CEO Robert Benmosche — who came in to rescue the company after the 2008 financial crisis — told the Wall Street Journal that the outrage over the bonuses promised to AIG's members was just as bad as when white supremacists …
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Leslie Scism / WSJ Blogs - WSJ:
AIG's Benmosche and Miller on Villains, Turnarounds and Those Bonuses
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American Prospect, The Huffington Post, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, PostPartisan, MoneyBeat, The Tell and Gawker
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
WSJ buries the lead deep on AIG's CEO
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Crooks and Liars
Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
AIG Exec: Public Outrage Over Bonuses ‘Just As Bad’ As Lynchings In The South
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FIRST DRAFT and Hullabaloo
Fox News:
One man's ObamaCare nightmare — Andy and Amy Mangione of Louisville, Ky. and their two boys are just the kind of people who should be helped by ObamaCare. But they recently got a nasty surprise in the mail. — “When I saw the letter when I came home from work,” Andy said …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Hillary Clinton defends Obamacare, slams defunding efforts
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CNN
James Moore / CNN:
Hillary, don't run for president — Hillary Clinton through the years … (CNN) — Don't run, Hillary. — Nobody is saying the former secretary of state, New York senator, U.S. and Arkansas first lady, and Yale-trained attorney is not qualified for the White House.
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Shakesville
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Dorsey Shaw / BuzzFeed:
Cornel West + “Crossfire” = One Hell Of A GIF Factory — Thank goodness for split screen reaction shots on cable news. — You may have missed the extremely animated debate over Obamacare and the future of conservatism last night on Crossfire. — Well, Bill Kristol was there, and he did this, which was great.
Paul Krugman:
What's It All About Then — Simon Wren-Lewis writes with feeling about the “austerity deception”; what sets him off is a post that characterizes the whole austerity debate as being about “big-state” versus “small-state” people. — Wren-Lewis's point is that only one side of the debate saw it that way.
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Hullabaloo, mainly macro, Cafe Hayek and Economist's View
Eamon Javers / CNBC:
News organizations respond to Fed lockup questions — The Federal Reserve says it is contacting news organizations to discuss the rules surrounding lock up procedures and the release of market moving information from the Federal Reserve's headquarters in Washington.
Suzanne LaBarre / Popular Science:
Why We're Shutting Off Our Comments — Starting today, PopularScience.com will no longer accept comments on new articles. Here's why. — Comments can be bad for science. That's why, here at PopularScience.com, we're shutting them off. — It wasn't a decision we made lightly.
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Kim Zetter / Wired:
How a Crypto ‘Backdoor’ Pitted the Tech World Against the NSA — In August 2007, a young programmer in Microsoft's Windows security group stood up to give a five-minute turbo talk at the annual Crypto conference in Santa Barbara. — It was a Tuesday evening, part of the conference's …
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