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Robert Costa / National Review:
Holding Firm — The same question keeps popping up: why doesn't Speaker John Boehner just pass a “clean” continuing resolution to fund the government? It's a ubiquitous query at the Capitol, and it was asked many times this afternoon as House Republicans left their closed-door conference meeting.
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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Why Boehner doesn't just ditch the hard right — Robert Costa is the National Review's Washington editor and one of the best-sourced reporters among House Republicans. Like many others, I've relied on his reporting in recent days about how House Republicans are strategizing around the government shutdown.
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David Weigel / Slate:
The Sad and Predictable Death of the “Fund Our Veterans” Republican Gambit — Ideally, as of this morning, Republicans were hoping that Democrats would come to Jesus and agree to form a conference committee to hammer out the continuing resolution. As of this afternoon …
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Erick Erickson / RedState:
Hold Your Ground and Shut John Cornyn Up
Hold Your Ground and Shut John Cornyn Up
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Jon Terbush / The Week:
How the government shutdown is tearing the GOP apart
How the government shutdown is tearing the GOP apart
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GovBeat, Little Green Footballs and Trail Blazers Blog
Mark Schmitt / The New Republic:
What We Need to Fix Congress: More Partisanship
What We Need to Fix Congress: More Partisanship
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Washington Monthly, A plain blog about politics, Daniel W. Drezner and NationalJournal.com
Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
Republicans following Cruz's playbook as shutdown crisis unfolds
Republicans following Cruz's playbook as shutdown crisis unfolds
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Telegraph:
US government shutdown: Barack Obama looks like a bitter, petty and partisan president — The American Left's hatred for all things conservative has been on full display in Washington in recent days, with the White House and its allies in Congress heaving with anger and indignation …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dems: Prolonged shutdown will give us leverage on debt limit — Senate Democrats believe the longer the government remains shut down, the more leverage they will wield in the debt-limit debate later this month. — There is growing sentiment among Democrats that the short-term funding resolution …
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Wall Street Journal:
Reid Offers to Negotiate on Budget, Policy — Obama Invites Congressional Leaders for Talks … WASHINGTON—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) on Wednesday offered to engage in wide-ranging budget and policy negotiations with House Republicans, marking the first formal overture …
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Fred Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
Where leadership is needed, Obama stays on the sidelines—except when he's attacking Republicans.
Where leadership is needed, Obama stays on the sidelines—except when he's attacking Republicans.
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
This time, it's different: Negotiations have no place in latest fiscal crisis
This time, it's different: Negotiations have no place in latest fiscal crisis
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The Fix, Politico and First Read
Susan Page / USA Today:
News analysis: Can this government be saved?
News analysis: Can this government be saved?
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CNN:
Sources: Author Tom Clancy dead — Tom Clancy: The Cold War's novelist — (CNN) — Author Tom Clancy, whose novel, “The Hunt for Red October” propelled him to fame, fortune and status as a favorite storyteller of the American military, has died, according to sources with his publisher and family.
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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Tom Clancy, Best-Selling Novelist of Military Thrillers, Dies at 66
Tom Clancy, Best-Selling Novelist of Military Thrillers, Dies at 66
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Associated Press:
With Traditional GOP Allies Defecting, Big Business Takes Sides With Obama — WASHINGTON (AP) — Having failed to persuade their traditional Republican allies in Congress to avert a government shutdown, business leaders fear bigger problems ahead, and they're taking sides …
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Joan Walsh / Salon:
The real story of the shutdown: 50 years of GOP race-baiting
The real story of the shutdown: 50 years of GOP race-baiting
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Shutdown overreach: More guards at WWII memorial than Benghazi; Park Service closes park it doesn't run — WASHINGTON SECRETS BENGHAZI GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN — The National Park Service is sending so many officials out to shut down federal parks from visiting Americans that at this rate …
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Michelle Malkin, Twitchy, The PJ Tatler and The Right Scoop
Jay Z / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: Mia Farrow and Eight of Her Children Speak Out on Their Lives, Frank Sinatra, and the Scandals They've Endured — See a slide show of Mia's children and quotes from Orth's piece. — Twenty years after Vanity Fair special correspondent Maureen Orth reported on the sexual-abuse …
Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Rand Paul: ‘Goons’ blocked WWII Memorial — Sen. Rand Paul blasted the federal government for trying to block World War II vets from visiting their memorial, saying “some idiot in government sent goons out there to set up barricades.” — “If Harry Reid and the President want to keep the parks closed …
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
What Happens to Conservatism When the Obamacare War Is Over? — When we look back decades from now, one of the keys to understanding this period in our political history will be the story of how a set of market-based health insurance reforms that started as a proposal from the Heritage Foundation …
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Washington Monthly
Scott Conroy / Real Clear Politics:
Rick Perry: Implementing Obamacare “a Criminal Act” — HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N.J. — In a campaign appearance Tuesday on behalf of New Jersey Republican Senate nominee Steve Lonegan, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said the government's implementation of the national health care reform law constituted “a criminal act.”
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Brent Johnson / New Jersey Online:
Rick Perry calls Obamacare ‘a criminal act’ as he stumps for Lonegan in Bergen County
Rick Perry calls Obamacare ‘a criminal act’ as he stumps for Lonegan in Bergen County
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The Mahablog and The Raw Story
Katie J.M. Baker / Dissent:
Cockblocked by Redistribution: A Pick-up Artist in Denmark — Thirty-three-year-old Daryush Valizadeh, known to his predominantly heterosexual male fan base as Roosh, is a well-known pick-up artist within the worldwide “Seduction Community,” which relies on pop evolutionary psychology to teach the art of getting laid.
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Dylan Matthews / Wonkblog:
The shutdown is the Constitution's fault — You made this happen, buster. (National Archives) — The government is shut down. Two million federal workers are having paychecks delayed, and 800,000 of them might never be repaid at all. Food safety inspections are on hold.
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Martin Wolf / Financial Times:
America flirts with self-destruction — The fallout of a US government default, particularly one that lasts, is beyond prediction — Is the US a functioning democracy? This week legislators decided to shut down a swath of the federal government rather than allow an enacted health law go into operation at the agreed moment.
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Dan Froomkin / Al Jazeera America:
Shutdown coverage fails Americans … U.S. news reports are largely blaming the government shutdown on the inability of both political parties to come to terms. It is supposedly the result of a “bitterly divided” Congress that “failed to reach agreement” (Washington Post) or …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
N.S.A. Experiment Traced U.S. Cellphone Locations — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency in 2010 and 2011 conducted a secret pilot project to test the collection of bulk data about the location of Americans' cellphones, but the agency ultimately decided against putting such a program …
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Speaker.gov:
President Obama Turns His Back on Veterans — The White House and congressional Democrats aren't satisfied with simply shutting the government down. Today the president reiterated his threat to veto a simple, common-sense measure to stand with our nation's veterans and ensure that veterans' programs are funded during the shutdown.
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PoliticusUSA and The Right Scoop