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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.
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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 …
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.
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The Daily Beast, The Plum Line and Brains and Eggs
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 …
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Business Insider, The Raw Story, Hullabaloo, susiemadrak.com, Hot Air and New York Magazine
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
John Boehner, between a rock and a hard place on shutdown and debt limit — House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) has at his disposal the political tools to reopen the government at a moment's notice. But he would have to rely on an uneasy coalition of Democrats and a few moderate Republicans …
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Washington Examiner, NBCNews, National Review, First Read, The Plum Line, msnbc.com and Wall Street Journal
Suzy Khimm / msnbc.com:
What's the fight about? Republicans struggle to explain
What's the fight about? Republicans struggle to explain
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Huffington Post and National Review
Washington Post:
Government shutdown puts U.S. security at risk
Government shutdown puts U.S. security at risk
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The Gateway Pundit and Pirate's Cove
Sheldon Alberts / The Hill:
No sign of government shutdown ending after White House meeting
No sign of government shutdown ending after White House meeting
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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.
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Taegan Goddard's …
David Espo / ABC News:
Analysis: Republicans Get Opposite of Stated Goals — Republicans insisted they wanted to shut down the nation's 3-year-old health care overhaul, not the government. They got the opposite, and now struggle to convince the public that responsibility for partial closure of the federal establishment lies …
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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Grover Norquist on Ted Cruz: ‘He pushed House Republicans into traffic and wandered away’
Grover Norquist on Ted Cruz: ‘He pushed House Republicans into traffic and wandered away’
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Trail Blazers Blog, The Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Cruz warns shutdown could lead to terrorist attacks
Cruz warns shutdown could lead to terrorist attacks
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his vorpal sword, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Taegan Goddard's …, Daily Kos, Hot Air, Politico and WHNT-TV
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Poll Confirms Americans Blame GOP For Shutdown — A poll released Thursday provided confirmation of what's long been anticipated: more Americans blame Republicans — not President Barack Obama and Democrats — for the first government shutdown since 1996. — According to the latest CBS News poll …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
In Showdown With G.O.P., a Scrappy Reid Plays Hardball — WASHINGTON — It was not enough for Senator Harry Reid to just dismiss Republican offers as “vexatious” or “kid's stuff” or “one cockamamie, can't-pass idea after another.” He called the White House and asked it to issue a veto threat, which it promptly did.
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Wall Street Journal, Doug Ross, Mediaite, Conservatives4Palin and The Lonely Conservative
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House passes bills to fund DC, parks and medical research
House passes bills to fund DC, parks and medical research
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WJLA-TV, Shakesville and Patterico's Pontifications
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid offers to talk tax reform if GOP ends shutdown (Video)
Reid offers to talk tax reform if GOP ends shutdown (Video)
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First Read, Politico, Hot Air, Fix the Debt, CNN and WND
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 …
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Twitchy, Scared Monkeys, National Review, Washington Free Beacon, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and WND
The Right Scoop:
Mark Levin to Obama: You lay one hand on WW2 vets and I'LL BRING HALF A MILLION PEOPLE TO THAT MEMORIAL! — Mark Levin warned everyone on Capitol Hill that if they lay a hand on the WWII vets at the memorial to arrest them for visiting their own memorial, he'll bring a half a million people to march on Washington.
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Doug Ross, The Other McCain, protein wisdom and The Gateway Pundit
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Des Moines Register:
Kent Sorenson resigns from Senate — Investigation into Bachmann payments finds ‘probable cause’ he broke ethics rules — Iowa senator resigns amid ethics probe: Des Moines Register politics editor Carol Hunter and Statehouse reporter Jason Noble discuss the resignation of Iowa Sen. Kent Sorenson.
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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’ …
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ThinkProgress, Mediaite and Booman Tribune
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.
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Politico and ThinkProgress
Sol Stern / City Journal:
The Closing of Diane Ravitch's Mind — Education writer and activist Diane Ravitch is very angry these days. She's convinced herself and her followers that elements of the American corporate elite are working to destroy the nation's public schools, the indispensable institution that has held …
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