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12:30 PM ET, October 3, 2013

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CBS News:
Poll: Americans not happy about shutdown; more blame GOP  —  PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO  —  On day three of the partial government shutdown, a new CBS News poll reveals that a large majority of Americans disapprove of the shutdown and more are blaming Republicans than President Obama and the Democrats for it.
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Robert Costa / National Review:
Boehner to GOP: Grand Bargain in the Works  —  House Republicans tell me Speaker John Boehner wants to craft a “grand bargain” on fiscal issues as part of the debt-limit deliberations, and during a series of meetings on Wednesday, he urged colleagues to stick with him.  —  The revelation came quietly.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Government shutdown: Why many Republicans have no reason to deal  —  The prevailing wisdom ahead of the government shutdown was that tea party lawmakers who agitated for it would fold within a few days, once they got an earful from angry constituents and felt the sting of bad headlines.
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
GOP stands firm against funding bill, will link to debt ceiling fight  —  OBAMACARE DEBT CEILING PENNAVE BUDGETS AND DEFICITS GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN  —  House Republicans are unlikely to blink in the standoff over Obamacare that precipitated a government shutdown, fearing that acceding …
Politico:
Government shutdown: Is a grand bargain the only way out?  —  Many pragmatic House Republicans have come to a simple conclusion: Navigating their way out of this fiscal mess won't be easy.  —  They think their best chance to fund the government, raise the debt ceiling and extract any concession …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Out of ideas, House GOP considers Hail Mary  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL CONGRESS BARACK OBAMA OBAMACARE PAUL RYAN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPUBLICAN PARTY HARRY REID JOHN BOEHNER DAVE CAMP GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN  —  As the partial government shutdown enters its third day, many House Republicans …
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:   Poll Confirms Americans Blame GOP For Shutdown
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
John Boehner, between a rock and a hard place on shutdown and debt limit
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Bachmann: Republicans ‘About The Happiest’ They've Been In A While During Shutdown (VIDEO)
Discussion: Mediaite
Suzy Khimm / msnbc.com:
What's the fight about? Republicans struggle to explain
Jim Williams / Public Policy Polling:
Conspiracy Theories Round Two: Republicans More Likely To Subscribe to Government Conspiracy Theories
Manu Raju / Politico:
Ted Cruz blasted by angry GOP colleagues  —  Ted Cruz faced a barrage of hostile questions Wednesday from angry GOP senators, who lashed the Texas tea party freshman for helping prompt a government shutdown crisis without a strategy to end it.  —  At a closed-door lunch meeting …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Coburn challenges McConnell on ‘leadership vacuum’  —  An outspoken conservative lawmaker recently challenged Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) at a closed-door meeting, saying there is a GOP “leadership vacuum” in the upper chamber, according to sources.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
David Espo / ABC News:
Analysis: Republicans Get Opposite of Stated Goals
Discussion: Associated Press and Politico
Mason Stevenson / WPSD Local 6:
Live mic catches Senators McConnell and Paul talking strategy  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - WPSD Local 6 got an inside glimpse Wednesday night to how much the government shutdown is about the messaging for congressional lawmakers.  —  After finishing an interview with CNN, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul ran …
Discussion: BuzzFeed
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
McConnell, Rand Paul Caught On Hot Mic Talking Shutdown Strategy (VIDEO)
Tom Curry / NBCNews:   McCain in the middle: Can Senate's GOP elders solve shutdown mess?
New York Times:
Millions of Poor Are Left Uncovered by Health Law  —  A sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to millions of Americans will leave out two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers and more than half of the low-wage workers who do not have insurance, the very kinds of people …
Chad Terhune / Los Angeles Times:
California exchange overstated its Web traffic for Obamacare launch  —  Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, discusses the launch of the state's insurance exchange Tuesday in Los Angeles.  (Reed Saxon/AP / October 2, 2013)  —  California's health insurance exchange vastly overstated …
Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
Denny Hastert Disses the ‘Hastert Rule’: It ‘Never Really Existed’  —  The former Republican speaker's ‘rule,’ that you can't bring legislation to the House floor without a majority of GOP votes, is cited as the reason Boehner can't end the shutdown.  But Hastert tells Eleanor Clift it's a ‘non-entity’ …
Soopermexican / Twitchy:
'You're exposed': Scantily-clad models prowl the streets of Denver selling Obamacare [pics]  —  Nothing like nearly-naked people to remind you that pretty soon the government will force you to have health insurance — whether you like it or not.  —  From the Denver Post: … Move over, SlutWalk.
Discussion: TheBlaze.com and Weasel Zippers
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Montana lieutenant governor announces Senate bid  —  Montana Lieutenant Gov. John Walsh (D) will run for the Senate, he announced Thursday morning, giving Democrats a viable recruit in the GOP-leaning state.  —  Walsh, a former adjudant general in the Montana National Guard who served in Iraq …
Discussion: Politico and Booman Tribune
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Extremists, Not “Nihilists”  —  The rapidly spreading progressive CW about what House Republicans are doing is that they are “nihilists” who have blundered into an impasse and have no clue how to get out.  Jonathan Chait vividly compares them to characters in the Cohn Brothers' tragi-comedy Fargo:
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Power says she's regretted calling Hillary a monster ‘every day since’  —  U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power says she's regretted calling Hillary Clinton a “monster” during the 2008 presidential campaign “pretty much every day since.”  —  “It was beyond searing,” Power said Thursday on NBC's The Today Show.
Discussion: CNN and Politico
Patrick Marley / JSOnline:
State DNR refuses federal directive to close some popular parks  —  By Patrick Marley and Lee Bergquist of the Journal Sentinel  —  The state Department of Natural Resources on Wednesday refused a directive from the National Park Service to close a host of popular state properties because of the federal government shutdown.
Brian Beutler / Salon:
The right's new lie about its shutdown intentions  —  If Ted Cruz is making John Boehner dance like a marionette, then Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., is the guy helping Cruz keep the strings untangled.  —  He's the author of the House's version of the famous letter insisting that Republicans …
Discussion: The Plum Line
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Brendan Mahoney Saves ObamaCare  —  Great news!  They got a 30-year-old dude to sign up!  —  “People complain of having to stand in line for hours, often in vain, and many are losing patience with the government's explanation that unsavory conspirators are to blame for the nation's problems,” reports the New York Times.
Discussion: Politico and ThinkProgress
 
 
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Dave Levinthal / The Center for Public …:
Government shutdown shrinks FEC to just four employees
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Dozens of lawmakers declining their pay during government shutdown
Mike Needham / The Federalist:
This Shutdown Is Just Democracy At Work
Mike Allen / Politico:
Taylor Griffin running for Congress in N.C.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Samantha Marcus / Morning Call:
Lehigh County same-sex benefits in limbo
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