memeorandum: States of Change (Tom Holbrook/The Numbers)

12:35 AM ET, September 27, 2013

Top Items:

Michael C. Bender / Bloomberg:

Democrat Manchin Breaks Ranks to Back Mandate Delay — U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia broke ranks with fellow Democrats and said he'd support a stopgap spending plan that delays the individual mandate in President Barack Obama's health-care law. — “There's no way I could not vote for it …

Discussion: Sister Toldjah, Washington Post, Weasel Zippers, Politico, Hit & Run, CNN, Washington Monthly, Roll Call, The World's Greatest …, Post Politics, Mediaite, National Review, FreedomWorks, The Daily Caller, Hot Air and Talking Points Memo

Ian Swanson / The Hill:

House Republicans lack votes to move plan to raise debt ceiling — House Republican leaders found themselves struggling to secure the votes on Thursday for a debt ceiling measure they hoped to swiftly pass through the House as the latest salvo in a multi-front fiscal fight.

Discussion: Politico, Roll Call, The Plum Line, Daily Kos, BobCesca.com and Business Insider

Matthew Yglesias / Slate:

House GOP Just Showed Why Obama Can't Compromise on the Debt Ceiling — Over the past two days, I've started hearing murmurs from the CW-vendors that in light of the potentially catastrophic consequences of breaching the debt ceiling on October 17, the White House's stance that it won't negotiate …

Discussion: National Review, Hullabaloo, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Monthly, Business Insider, Talking Points Memo, E2-Wire and The Hill

Jonathan Strong / National Review:
Revealed: The House GOP's Debt-Ceiling Plan

Discussion: The Dish, Talking Points Memo, NPR, TechCrunch, Daily Kos, msnbc.com, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, Hit & Run, BBC, AEIdeas, Yahoo! News, The Week and The Atlantic Online

Julie Hirschfeld Davis / Bloomberg:
Americans Reject by 61% Obama Demand for Clean Debt Vote

Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Dan Pfeiffer: W.H. not ‘negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest’

Discussion: Booman Tribune and Weasel Zippers

Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:
Republicans Willing To Risk Debt Limit Disaster To Win Concessions

Discussion: The Plum Line

Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner: House unlikely to accept clean funding bill from Senate

Discussion: Politico

Tim Alberta / NationalJournal.com:
House Republicans Ready to Retreat, Easing Shutdown Fears

Discussion: Yahoo! News, Washington Monthly, Red Alert Politics, National Review, americanthinker.com and Wall Street Journal

Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
If John Boehner Knows What's Good For Him, He'll Shut Down the Government

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, Talking Points Memo, Washington Monthly, Booman Tribune and Politico

Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
House G.O.P. Raises Stakes in Debt-Ceiling Fight

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, CNN and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
GOP's Dangerous Debt Limit Demand: A Christmas Tree Of Conservative Goodies

Discussion: Salon, National Review, Business Insider, Balloon Juice, BobCesca.com, The Mahablog and Daily Kos

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Corker takes on Cruz as GOP feuding moves to the Senate floor — Feuding in the Republican conference moved to the Senate floor on Thursday as Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) accused two colleagues of risking a government shutdown as a publicity stunt. — “The reason you don't want to send …

Discussion: Politico and CNN

Erick Erickson / RedState:

The Disconnect — There is a real and genuine disconnect between grassroots conservatives and many in Washington. Let's first concede that, like with many politicians, a cult of personality has started developing around Ted Cruz, though from my vantage point it is not nearly as virulent as among some.

Discussion: The Daily Caller and Booman Tribune

Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Tea Party Support Dwindles to Near-Record Low

Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo: Bob Corker To Ted Cruz: You Are Confused (VIDEO)

William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Opposition to Tea Party drops to near-record low

Discussion: Roger Ailes

Tal Kopan / Politico:
Peter King: ‘Vile’ phone calls by Ted Cruz allies

Discussion: CNN, Weasel Zippers and Crooks and Liars

Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:

Allen West Out At PJ Media — Sources say he had an anti-Semitic exchange with a staffer, calling her a “Jewish American princess.” — Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images — Former Congressman Allen West is leaving his job at Pajamas Media after an altercation with a female staffer …

Discussion: Gawker, Mediaite, Politico, TheBlaze.com, The Raw Story, The Hill, Little Green Footballs and Hullabaloo

Reuters:

Italian pasta baron's anti-gay comment prompts boycott call — * Gay, lesbian groups call for consumer boycott — * Barilla apologises, emphasises women's “central role” — Guido Barilla, chairman of the world's leading pasta manufacturer, prompted calls for a consumer boycott on Thursday …

Discussion: Jezebel, ProfessorBainbridge.com, Gawker, msnbc.com, Advocate, The Raw Story, Online NewsHour and The Stream

Lizzy Davies / Guardian:
Pasta firm Barilla boycotted over ‘classic family’ remarks

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Los Angeles Times and Weasel Zippers

Cavan Sieczkowski / The Huffington Post:
Barilla Pasta Won't Feature Gay Families In Ads, Says Critics Can ‘Eat Another Brand Of Pasta’

Discussion: AMERICAblog News, The Other McCain, New Urban Legends, ThinkProgress and Mediaite

Michael Day / The Independent:
‘I would never use homosexual couples in my adverts’: Barilla pasta brand faces boycott …

Discussion: ANSA.it, Towleroad News #gay, PolicyMic and Joe. My. God.

Steve Liesman / CNBC:

What's in a name? Lots when it comes to Obamacare/ACA — What's in a name? When it comes to the debate over health care, apparently a lot. — In CNBC's third-quarter All-America Economic Survey, we asked half of the 812 poll respondents if they support Obamacare and the other half if they support the Affordable Care Act.

Discussion: NBCNews and The Reaction

Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
A BRIEF INTERLUDE WITH EXPERT OPINION

Discussion: Balloon Juice and Washington Monthly

Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
IT Is One of Obamacare's Weakest Links

Discussion: Questions and Observations, Instapundit and Guardian

Daily Mail:

So much for keeping a low profile: George Zimmerman is pulled over for the THIRD time since he was acquitted — George Zimmerman was pulled over by police for the third time since his acquittal, it emerged today. — Zimmerman was stopped by Florida Highway Patrol troopers in Brevard County on August 19 just after 11am.

Discussion: Mediaite and Weasel Zippers

Maxim Lott / Fox News:
School official tells students Trayvon Martin case proved it is ‘legal to hunt’ children

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Right Wing News and The Right Scoop

Scott Stump / Today:
George Zimmerman's wife: ‘I have doubts but I also believe the evidence’

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, ThinkProgress, Daily Kos and Gawker

Alexander Burns / Politico:

Wendy Davis tells Democrats she's in — Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis and her advisers have begun informing influential Democrats that she intends to run for governor in 2014, according to multiple sources familiar with Davis's conversations. — The Fort Worth legislator made a national name …

Discussion: Sister Toldjah, Daily Kos, msnbc.com, ThinkProgress, Jezebel, Weasel Zippers, BuzzFeed, NBCNews, Mediaite, The PJ Tatler, CNN, The Democratic Daily, Outside the Beltway and TheBlaze.com

Julia Ryan / The Atlantic Online:

This Year's SAT Scores Are Out, and They're Grim — Fewer than half of the 2013 graduating seniors who took the test got “college-ready” scores. — Of the 1.66 million high school students in the class of 2013 who took the SAT, only 43 percent were academically prepared for college-level work …

Discussion: his vorpal sword and National Review

Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:

Looting the Pension Funds — All across America, Wall Street is grabbing money meant for public workers — In the final months of 2011, almost two years before the city of Detroit would shock America by declaring bankruptcy in the face of what it claimed were insurmountable pension costs …

Discussion: Daily Kos, Gawker, Campaign for America's Future, The Raw Story and Hullabaloo

Paul Bentley / Daily Mail:

'Eyes gouged out, bodies hanging from hooks, and fingers removed with pliers': Horrific claims of torture emerge as soldiers reveal gory Kenyan mall massacre details — Soldiers told of the horrific torture meted out by terrorists in the Nairobi mall massacre yesterday with claims hostages were dismembered …

Discussion: Power Line, Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit

Scott Wise / WTVR-TV:

NRA announces fundraising record — FAIRFAX, Va. (WTVR) - The National Rifle Association announced its grassroots fundraising program “Friends of NRA” is having a record fundraising year. — “The success of this year's Friends of NRA banquets would not have been possible without the hard work …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and National Review

Irin Carmon / msnbc.com:

Marissa Alexander will get a new trial — Marissa Alexander, the African-American woman who was sentenced to 20 years for discharging a firearm in Florida despite pleading Stand Your Ground against her husband, will get a new trial. Alexander, 32, said she fired a bullet at the ceiling because she was afraid of her husband.