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Politico:
House GOP to attach Obamacare delay to CR — House Republicans will vote to pass a one-year delay of Obamacare in exchange for funding the government, a plan that drastically increases the chances of a government shutdown this Tuesday. — The decision was announced by the GOP leadership …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Ted Cruz Now Ruining John Boehner's Life, Too — The Republican Party right now most closely resembles a Weatherman gathering from about 1969, with various factions debating the feasibility of immediate communist revolution versus building a working-class movement as a prelude to smashing the state.
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Obamacare fight reenergizes tea party movement — The clash in Congress over efforts to derail President Obama's health-care law has lit up tea party groups across the country, reenergizing activists who had drifted away from the movement while intensifying the divisions tearing at the Republican Party.
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The Moderate Voice, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Atlantic Online and RedState
John Dickerson / Slate:
Why Senate Republicans Hate Ted Cruz — There's more than one reason they despise the junior senator from Texas. — At one point in the tense back and forth between Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Bob Corker this week, the Senate's presiding officer, Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin …
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Outside the Beltway, Taegan Goddard's …, The Hill and National Review
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
The House GOP Wants to Throw a Temper Tantrum, and Boehner Can't Stop Them — Here's the question to ask yourself while watching the government shutdown/debt-limit insanity play out these next few days: Is the congressional GOP a global menace, bent on destruction of an epic scale …
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Firedoglake, Wonkblog, msnbc.com and Politico
Bryan Koenig / CNN:
Obama defends Obamacare, warns GOP against shutdown in weekly address — Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama in his weekly Saturday address praised his signature health care legislation while lashing out at congressional Republicans who would seek to defund it.
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Politico, The Hinterland Gazette and The Hill
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Official Says Obama ‘Shucking And Jiving’ On Health Care Law
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Weasel Zippers, The Huffington Post, Tucson Citizen, The Moderate Voice, msnbc.com and The Hinterland Gazette
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Reid's parting shot to Boehner: Pass our bill, or it's a shutdown
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CNN, The PJ Tatler, americanthinker.com, The Impolitic, Talking Points Memo and PoliticusUSA
Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
Obama To House GOP: ‘Do Not Shut Down The Economy’ (VIDEO)
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Washington Monthly and Booman Tribune
David Rothkopf / CNN:
Obama and Rouhani: ‘Jaw jaw’ better than ‘war war’ — Editor's note: David Rothkopf writes regularly for CNN.com. He is CEO and editor-at-large of the FP Group, publishers of Foreign Policy magazine, and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Follow him on Twitter.
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Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:
Iranians Welcome President With Protest
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Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
New York Times:
N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens — WASHINGTON — Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans' social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times …
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Washington Monthly, The Verge and PolicyMic
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Edward Snowden e-mail provider Lavabit faced ‘pen register’ order
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Firedoglake
Andrew Cohen / The Atlantic Online:
The One Weird Law That Dictates How Government Shutdowns Work — A shutdown would end up costing more because of the price of restarting the government — and other odd facts about the late-1800s Antideficiency Act. — If rogue Republicans do not relent over the budget impasse by October 1 …
Discussion:
Washington Monthly and Law Blog
kff.org:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: September 2013 — As the clock counts down on open enrollment and the rollout of the major provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), in the latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll we asked people who say they don't have enough information about the law …
Bloomberg:
Obama Stripped to Skeleton Staff in a Government Shutdown — A U.S. government shutdown means President Barack Obama will have fewer people to cook meals, do the laundry, clean the floors or change the light bulbs, according to a White House contingency plan.
Discussion:
The Gateway Pundit
Mark Steyn / National Review:
Worse Is the New Normal — A few years ago, after the publication of my book America Alone, an exasperated reader wrote to advise me to lighten up, on the grounds that “we're rich enough to be stupid.” That's to say, Western democracies and their citizens are the wealthiest societies ever known …
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