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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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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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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
John Boehner, between a rock and a hard place on shutdown and debt limit
John Boehner, between a rock and a hard place on shutdown and debt limit
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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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Washington Post:
Government shutdown puts U.S. security at risk
Government shutdown puts U.S. security at risk
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
On Capitol Hill, the Obamacare fight is no longer about Obamacare
On Capitol Hill, the Obamacare fight is no longer about Obamacare
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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.
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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Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Cruz warns shutdown could lead to terrorist attacks
Cruz warns shutdown could lead to terrorist attacks
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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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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 …
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Bachmann: Republicans ‘About The Happiest’ They've Been In A While During Shutdown (VIDEO)
Bachmann: Republicans ‘About The Happiest’ They've Been In A While During Shutdown (VIDEO)
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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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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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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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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 …
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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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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 …
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Jessica Taylor / msnbc.com:
Leave us out of it! — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie listens to a question at an event Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, in Camden, N.J. (Photo by Mel Evans/AP) — Washington Republicans are getting little help from their friends in governor's mansions across the country.
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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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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.
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