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4:05 PM ET, October 2, 2013

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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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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 …
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.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid offers to talk tax reform if GOP ends federal shutdown  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) offered to open negotiations on tax reform Wednesday if Republicans agree to a clean resolution to reopen the government.  —  Reid sent a letter to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) …
Discussion: CNN
Washington Free Beacon:
Reid: ‘Why Would We Want To’ Help One Kid With Cancer?  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) asked why Senate Democrats would want to fund the National Institutes of Health to “help one child who has cancer” Wednesday when asked that question by CNN reporter Dana Bash.
Wall Street Journal:
Lawmakers Look to Break Budget Impasse  —  Obama Invites Congressional Leaders for Talks … WASHINGTON—U.S. lawmakers and President Barack Obama made overtures on Wednesday aimed at sparking negotiations to end the government shutdown, but neither side budged on demands that have polarized the debate.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why the Shutdown Is Leading to Debt Default; or, What Happens When You Take Hostages Without a Plan
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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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Lachlan Markay / Washington Free Beacon:
Shutdown Theater  —  The National Park Service has ordered the closure of a Virginia park that sits on federal land, even though the government provides no resources for its maintenance or operation.  —  The Claude Moore Colonial Farm announced on Wednesday that NPS has ordered …
Patrick Poole / The PJ Tatler:
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: McDonald's Employee Admits Being Paid $15 to Protest WW2 Veterans  —  Yesterday I reported from the National World War Two Memorial on several members of Congress crashing the barricades set up by the National Park Service that were keeping out several hundred Honor Flight veterans …
Discussion: Power Line
ABC News:
World War II Veterans Prove Unstoppable, Entering Memorial
Chris Delcamp / Northwest Ohio:
Honor Flight to World War II Memorial in jeopardy due to shutdown
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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Fred Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
Where leadership is needed, Obama stays on the sidelines—except when he's attacking Republicans.
Discussion: neo-neocon and Betsy's Page
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
This time, it's different: Negotiations have no place in latest fiscal crisis
Discussion: The Fix and Politico
New York Times:
Staunch Group of Republicans Outflanks House Leaders
Politico:
Collision course: CR and debt ceiling
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Tom Clancy, Best-Selling Novelist of Military Thrillers, Dies at 66  —  Tom Clancy, whose complex, adrenaline-fueled military novels made him one of the world's best-selling and best-known authors, died on Tuesday in a hospital in Baltimore.  He was 66.  —  Ivan Held, the president …
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CNN:
Sources: Author Tom Clancy dead
USA Today:
Author Tom Clancy dies at 66
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Mark Schmitt / The New Republic:
What We Need to Fix Congress: More Partisanship  —  Stronger political parties would have avoided this week's shutdown  —  The shutdown of the federal government, we're told, is a result of “partisanship” or even “hyperpartisanship,” as the centrist group No Labels puts it.
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Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
Republicans following Cruz's playbook as shutdown crisis unfolds
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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 …
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
Discussion: protein wisdom and LifeNews.com
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 …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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.
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
The truth is, Americans love Obamacare  —  Among the many delusions guiding the Republican campaign against the Affordable Care Act, surely the most consistent is the idea that the public detests the law and is clamoring for repeal.  —  Here's the truth: The American public loves Obamacare …
Discussion: Business Insider and Guardian
 
 
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Why Are So Many People in a Blind Rage These Days?
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Wall Street Journal:
A U.N. report can't explain the hiatus in global warming.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
N.S.A. Experiment Traced U.S. Cellphone Locations
Bruno Waterfield / Telegraph:
Belgian killed by euthanasia after a botched sex change operation
Sabrina Siddiqui / The Huffington Post:
Republicans Split On Whether To Give Back Pay To Workers Furloughed In Government Shutdown
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Katie J.M. Baker / Dissent:
Cockblocked by Redistribution: A Pick-up Artist in Denmark
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First Read / NBCNews:
First Thoughts: GOP digs in deeper
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Martin Wolf / Financial Times:
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Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
Americans Think GOP's Top Priority Is Troublemaking
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