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12:30 PM ET, September 27, 2013

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New York Times:
A Republican Ransom Note  —  On Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew sent the House a very serious warning that, for the first time, the United States would be unable to pay its bills beginning on Oct. 17 if the debt ceiling is not lifted.  House leaders responded on Thursday …
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Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
The GOP should just do it  —  Shut down the government!  Blow through the debt ceiling!  Subject the United States to fiscal chaos or financial ruin if your party can't get its way on unrelated ideological priorities!  —  With apologies to Nike, maybe it's time for the House Republicans to stop threatening and “Just do it.”
Discussion: The Boston Globe and Hot Air
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.
Politico:
House GOP banking on Plan C
Benjamin Bell / ABC News:   Bill Clinton Calls Parts of House GOP Proposal To Raise Debt Ceiling ‘Chilling,’ ‘Spiteful’
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
White House adviser compares Republicans to terrorists in fiscal fight
Discussion: Power Line
Steve Beshear / New York Times:
My State Needs Obamacare.  Now.  —  FRANKFORT, Ky. — SUNDAY morning news programs identify Kentucky as the red state with two high-profile Republican senators who claim their rhetoric represents an electorate that gave President Obama only about a third of its presidential vote in 2012.
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:   Shutdown Forecast: 50-50  —  NOTABLES  — LOOKING FOR PROGRESS …
First Read / NBCNews:
First Thoughts: Boehner's bluff?  —  Back to talk of a government shutdown, but is it real or does Boehner blink? ...  If GOP had any hope of blaming Obama and Democrats for a shutdown, the Corker-Cruz spat on the Senate floor didn't help its cause ... Let's remember how we got here …
Discussion: msnbc.com and Yahoo! News
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Corker takes on Cruz as GOP feuding moves to the Senate floor
Discussion: Politico, Daily Kos, WJLA-TV and CNN
Catrina Stewart / The Independent:
Kenya shopping mall attack: Nairobi hostages were tortured before they were killed, says police doctor  —  Rumours of rapes, disfigurement and beheadings are rife in Kenya's capital  —  A police doctor scouring Nairobi's Westgate mall for bodies after a four-day siege by Islamist gunmen …
Discussion: National Review
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Candida Moss / The Daily Beast:
The Gospel According to Bill O'Reilly's New Book ‘Killing Jesus’  —  Jesus was killed because of taxes.  That's more or less the message of Bill O'Reilly's new book.  Professor Candida Moss on what else the Fox host gets wrong—and what he leaves out.  —  In Killing Jesus: A History …
Discussion: The Raw Story
Ryan Lizza / Comment:
WHERE THE G.O.P.'S SUICIDE CAUCUS LIVES  —  On August 21st, Congressman Mark Meadows sent a letter to John Boehner.  Meadows is a former restaurant owner and Sunday-school Bible teacher from North Carolina.  He's been in Congress for eight months.  Boehner, who has served in Congress for twenty-two years …
USA Today:
U.N. panel delivers landmark climate change report  —  United Nations climate change study says man to blame for Earth's warming.  —  CONNECT  —  Global warming is “unequivocal” and it is “extremely likely” that humans are the primary contributors to this warming, according …
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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
U.N. Deal on Syrian Arms Is Milestone After Years of Inertia  —  UNITED NATIONS — The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council have agreed on a resolution that will require Syria to give up its chemical weapons, but there will be no automatic penalties if the Syrians fail to comply, officials said Thursday.
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Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Most of Syria's toxins can be destroyed more easily than officials initially thought
Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Average Is Over—if We Want It to Be  —  Tyler Cowen's new book Average Is Over makes an excellent followup to his previous work The Great Stagnation and I expect it will set the intellectual agenda in much the way that its predecessor did.  I want to offer not so much a review as an effort at explication …
Martin Wolf / Financial Times:
Osborne has now been proved wrong on austerity  —  Nobody thought a recovery would never happen - merely that it would be delayed  —  The UK economy is recovering.  The government is vindicated.  Its critics should crawl into a hole.  This, in essence, is what George Osborne …
Discussion: Paul Krugman
Tom Holbrook / The Numbers:
States of Change  —  Not long after the 2012 election some observers noted an increasing Democratic “lock” on the Electoral College.  Although Republican nominee Mitt Romney's campaign took a lot of heat for losing election, there has developed a general sense that changing demographics …
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
First on CNN: NRSC targets vulnerable Democrats
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Why should Congress get special exemption under Obamacare?  —  CONGRESS OBAMACARE SENATE HARRY REID MITCH MCCONNELL HEALTH CARE OPM CHUCK GRASSLEY  —  “I'm going to get a vote,” says Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana.  “I can't tell you how, or when, but I'm going to get a vote.”
Sen. Rand Paul / Washington Times:
Why must the American people suffer when even so many Democrats don't want Obamacare?  —  Officials who implemented the law should not escape its pain  —  Earlier this week, in an effort led by Sen. Ted Cruz, some of my Republican colleagues and I took to the Senate floor with the intent of making Washington listen.
Sean Higgins / Washington Examiner:
SEIU unionists strike over Obamacare-related cuts  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL BARACK OBAMA OBAMACARE LABOR HEALTH CARE AFL-CIO  —  Members of the Chicago-based Service Employees International Union Local 1 have gone on strike over recent job cuts by a janitorial company called Professional Maintenance.
Susan Page / USA Today:
Heitkamp warns Obama on Keystone XL Pipeline approval  —  Senator predicts a partial government shutdown Tuesday in ‘a game of Russian roulette.’  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, a freshman Democrat from North Dakota, is ready to take on President Obama over the long-delayed approval …
Discussion: The Hill and Weekly Standard
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Obamacare Is About to Go Live.  Here's Why It Was Worth the Wait.  —  Obamacare's new insurance marketplaces are scheduled to open for business on October 1, just a few days from now.  For all the attention that date has received, it is less important than it might seem.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Via Meadia
Mara Gay / NY Daily News:
Mayor Bloomberg on the brink: Testy exchange with reporters leads to threat of ending press conferences  —  Mayor Bloomberg, the billionaire founder of a business news and media company, has frequently boiled over when dealing with probing journalists but his temper seems to be reaching …
Discussion: Politico and Mediaite
 
 
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
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ABC News:
President George W. Bush Uses Golf Tournament to Help Wounded Veterans
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Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Ron Paul to Rand on 2016: ‘You could get elected’
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