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5:55 PM ET, September 27, 2013

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Robert Costa / National Review:
Cruz to House Conservatives: Oppose Boehner  —  On a Thursday conference call, a group of House conservatives consulted with Senator Ted Cruz of Texas about how to respond to the leadership's fiscal strategy.  Sources who were on the call say Cruz strongly advised them to oppose it, and hours later, Speaker John Boehner's plan fizzled.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Cruz emerges as GOP leader  —  PPP's newest national poll finds Ted Cruz is now the top choice of Republican primary voters to be their candidate for President in 2016.  He leads the way with 20% to 17% for Rand Paul, 14% for Chris Christie, 11% for Jeb Bush, 10% each for Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan …
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 …
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Reid's parting shot to Boehner: Pass our bill, or it's a shutdown  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Friday that the Senate is done acting on legislation to avert a government shutdown and that House Republicans have no choice but to pass the Senate's bill if they want to keep the government open.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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.”
Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
Obama To House GOP: ‘Do Not Shut Down The Economy’ (VIDEO)
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Gore to GOP: ‘How dare you?’
Discussion: CNN, ABC News, Politico and Hot Air
First Read / NBCNews:
First Thoughts: Boehner's bluff?
Joshua Green / The Boston Globe:
Shutdown is the best way to jolt Washington back to its senses
Discussion: Hit & Run, National Review and Hot Air
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:   Republicans have ‘a bomb strapped to their chest’
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Obama chides Republicans as shutdown looms
Peter Baker / New York Times:
First Top-Level U.S.-Iran Talk Since 1979  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama spoke by telephone with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran on Friday afternoon, the first direct conversation between leaders of the two estranged countries since the rupture of the Tehran hostage crisis more than three decades ago.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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Associated Press:
OBAMA SPEAKS TO ROUHANI, SAYS IRAN DEAL POSSIBLE  —  You are here  —  Home » United States government » Obama speaks to Rouhani, says Iran deal possible  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke by telephone Friday …
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
A Small President on the World Stage
Discussion: TheBlaze.com and Washington Wire
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate approves measure to keep federal government operating  —  The Senate voted along party lines Friday to pass a stopgap spending measure lasting until Nov. 15 after removing controversial language to defund ObamaCare.  —  The 54-44 vote puts the Senate on a collision course with the House …
Discussion: Politico
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Why should Congress get special exemption under Obamacare?
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
House Conservatives Warn GOP Senators: Vote for Cloture ‘Same As a Vote for Obamacare Itself’
Discussion: protein wisdom and The Right Scoop
Wall Street Journal:
Senate Passes Funding Bill in Party-Line Vote
Discussion: Washington Wire
Richard Schiffman / The Atlantic Online:
What Leading Scientists Want You to Know About Today's Frightening Climate Report  —  “We have five minutes before midnight.”  —  The polar icecaps are melting faster than we thought they would; seas are rising faster than we thought they would; extreme weather events are increasing.  Have a nice day!
Discussion: The Dish and Guardian
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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.
Washington Post:
Gore accuses GOP of ‘political terrorism’  —  By Aaron Blake and Karen Tumulty, Published: September 27 at 10:49 am  —  Former Vice President Al Gore on Friday called the GOP's strategy to defund Obamacare “political terrorism.”  —  Speaking at the Brookings Institution, Gore called it a …
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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.
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The Lead with Jake Tapper:
Exclusive: Romney disagrees with GOP ‘tactics’ on Obamacare in D.C.  —  (CNN) - [Updated 5:30 p.m. ET] Mitt Romney thinks Obamacare is a bad law that will hurt the country, but disagrees with how conservatives in Washington are trying to get rid of it.  —  In an exclusive interview …
Salvador Rizzo / New Jersey Online:
Judge legalizes same-sex marriage in New Jersey  —  TRENTON — A state judge today ruled to legalize same-sex marriage in New Jersey, saying gay couples would be denied federal benefits if the state kept allowing only civil unions.  —  Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson granted an emergency request …
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 …
Foreign Policy:
Exclusive: McCain Hires Controversial Syria Analyst Elizabeth O'Bagy  —  Sen. John McCain has hired Elizabeth O'Bagy, the Syria analyst in Washington who was fired for padding her credentials, The Cable has learned.  She begins work Monday as a legislative assistant in McCain's office.
Discussion: National Review and The PJ Tatler
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the ‘pathetic’ American media  —  Pulitzer Prize winner explains how to fix journalism, saying press should 'fire 90% of editors and promote ones you can't control'  —  Seymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism - close down the news bureaus …
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 …
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
What Cruz Wrought  —  Ted Cruz has sparked a Republican civil war.  He has done the bidding of the GOP fringe, in a self-aggrandizing crusade.  And while he has enhanced his own position in the conservative fantasyland he seeks to rule, the practical effect of his quixotic campaign …
 
 
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Paul Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
Elizabeth Warren: ‘We Face A Clear Danger’ In Campaign Finance Supreme Court Case
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Adam O'Neal / Real Clear Politics:
NBC News to Air Special Series on Obamacare
Discussion: TheBlaze.com
Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Issa feared targeted by terrorists after Democrats revealed secret Libya trip
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Cruz can't be president, Texas Dem says
Discussion: Politico
Susan Page / USA Today:
Heitkamp warns Obama on Keystone XL Pipeline approval
Discussion: Hot Air, The Hill and Weekly Standard
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