memeorandum: DC attacker a dental hygienist, shot dead after chase (Larry Celona/New York Post)

9:00 AM ET, October 4, 2013

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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:

How the White House sees the shutdown (and debt ceiling!) fight — To the White House, the shutdown/debt ceiling fight is quite simple, and quite radical: Republicans are trying to create a new, deeply undemocratic pathway through which a minority party that lost the last election can enact …

Discussion: Hullabaloo and Washington Monthly

Brian Beutler / Salon:

Republicans finally confronting reality: They're trapped! — Obama's ironclad resolve not to negotiate over the debt limit appears to finally be sinking in among GOP leaders — After struggling for weeks and weeks in stages one through four, Republicans are finally entering the final stage …

Discussion: The Mahablog, Hullabaloo, NPR and The Reaction

Politico:

Bad blood: Four feuding leaders — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid privately told fellow Democratic senators this week what he really thought of Speaker John Boehner. — “He's a coward,” Reid angrily said, referring to Boehner's private push for federal health care contributions for lawmakers and their staff.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

New York Times:
Boehner Pledges to Avoid Default, Republicans Say

nbcwashington.com:
Obama to Boehner: “Take a Vote. End This Shutdown Right Now”

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and The PJ Tatler

Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
What the White House fears most about the debt limit fight

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Fix the Debt, PoliticusUSA and Washington Monthly

Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Rattled Congress Seeks Way Out of Its Standoff

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Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
GOP aides: Boehner tells colleagues he will avoid a default on federal debt

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, NPR, Post Politics, Wonkblog, American Prospect and Daily Kos

Charles Babington / Associated Press:
Politically Safe Lawmakers See No Shutdown Urgency

Discussion: Associated Press, Politico, CNN and Reuters

Larry Celona / New York Post:

DC attacker a dental hygienist, shot dead after chase — Alex Leary tweeted, “Something happening outside Capitol. Police running around with guns at ready.” — @learyreports via Twitter — @MarcSchloss tweeted: “No joke on Capitol Hill as Cops are running with machine guns as reports of shots being fired at Capitol.”

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The Moderate Voice, Hot Air and The Hinterland Gazette

Washington Post:

Police suspect dental hygienist Miriam Carey was behind the wheel of Capitol chase — She had a toddler with her, confounding everyone who watched the car crash through barriers and lead police through the heart of high-security Washington. — Law enforcement officials said the black Infiniti …

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Washington Post:

In shooting near Capitol, government workers rush into danger — THE ORDER went out to Capitol Hill personnel Thursday afternoon in capital letters: SHELTER IN PLACE. It was a terrifying moment for a community already on edge. The scare ended with less carnage than we have come to fear in such moments …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Daily Kos, Right Wing News and The Fix

Peter Hermann / Washington Post:

Driver killed after car chase from White House to Capitol — A woman with a 1-year-old child in her car was fatally shot by police near the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, after a chase through the heart of Washington that brought a new jolt of fear to a city already rattled by the recent Navy Yard shooting and the federal shutdown.

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NY Daily News:
U.S. Capitol shooting: Brooklyn neighbor says Connecticut woman shot dead outside Capitol 'seemed …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

ABC News:
Attempt to Ram White House Gate Ends With Female Suspect Dead

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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Car Chase, White House to Capitol, Has Fatal End

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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Capitol lockdown lifted after shots fired

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Adobe Blogs:

Important Customer Security Announcement — Cyber attacks are one of the unfortunate realities of doing business today. Given the profile and widespread use of many of our products, Adobe has attracted increasing attention from cyber attackers. Very recently, Adobe's security team …

Discussion: Guardian, Mashable, BBC, New York Times, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Raw Story and The Daily Caller

Noah Rothman / Mediaite:

Chad Henderson Signed Up for Obamacare and Every... Single... Media Outlet Is on It! — On October 1, Chad Henderson successfully signed up for a health care exchange as part of the Affordable Care Act. He was instantly catapulted into the national spotlight as the White House …

Discussion: Twitchy, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler

Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
Meet Chad Henderson, the Obamacare enrollee tons of reporters are calling

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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:

Why we won't mint the coin, why we can't just pay off bonds, and other scary debt-ceiling facts — Mark A. Patterson is senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. He was chief of staff at the Treasury Department from 2009 until May 2013 where he was deeply involved in the 2011 debt-ceiling negotiations.

Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:

Senate Democrats block reopening of NIH, national parks — Shutdown positions hardening on both sides — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday blocked a House bill providing funding to reopen national parks amid the government shutdown, saying he would not allow the GOP to pick …

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Out of ideas, House GOP considers Hail Mary

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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Schumer: No Funding for Veterans and NIH ‘Because We Have a Tea Party’

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and Politico

USA Today:

Jack Lew: U.S. failure to pay bills hurts everyone — If Congress does not raise the debt limit soon, seniors, veterans, kids, among others, are at risk. — CONNECT — It might be hard to believe, but there is a dangerous debate underway in Congress right now over whether the United States …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Maggie Haberman / Politico:

Cory Booker's lackluster campaign — Cory Booker is all but certain to win the New Jersey special election for U.S. Senate. — But as polls show Republican rival Steve Lonegan tightening the race, Booker is getting an uncomfortable reminder that he will have to campaign hard to defend …

Timothy Egan / Opinionator:

Wrong Side of History — Sarah Palin finally got her death panels — a direct blow from the Republican House. In shutting down the government, leaving 800,000 people without a paycheck and draining the economy of $300 million a day, the Party of Madness also took away last-chance cancer trials …

Discussion: Balloon Juice

Jonathan Martin / New York Times:

G.O.P. Elders See Liabilities in Shutdown — WASHINGTON — The hard-line stance of Republican House members on the government shutdown is generating increasing anger among senior Republican officials, who say the small bloc of conservatives is undermining the party and helping President Obama …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Washington Post

David French / National Review:

The World War II Memorial Shutdown: A Symbol of Government Malice — The mainstream media is in the midst of one of its regular exercises in completely missing a wave of groundswell conservative anger — this time over the closing of the World War II Memorial.

Discussion: alicublog

Mark Segraves / nbcwashington.com:
Congressman Confronts Park Ranger Over Closed WWII Memorial

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Hadas Gold / Politico:

GOP rep. to CNN host: 'You're beautiful, but ...' — Republican Rep. Todd Rokita told CNN's Carol Costello Thursday morning that she and the media are part of Washington's problems — despite the fact that she's “beautiful.” — In an exchange over the Republican opposition to the Affordable Care Act …

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