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11:45 AM ET, October 3, 2013

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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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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.
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.
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 …
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
Discussion: Associated Press and Politico
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
John Boehner, between a rock and a hard place on shutdown and debt limit
Tom Curry / NBCNews:   McCain in the middle: Can Senate's GOP elders solve shutdown mess?
Suzy Khimm / msnbc.com:
What's the fight about? Republicans struggle to explain
Washington Post:
Government shutdown puts U.S. security at risk
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
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Bachmann: Republicans ‘About The Happiest’ They've Been In A While During Shutdown (VIDEO)
Discussion: Mediaite
Jim Williams / Public Policy Polling:
Conspiracy Theories Round Two: Republicans More Likely To Subscribe to Government Conspiracy Theories
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Politico and Booman Tribune
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.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
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Jason Noble / Des Moines Register:
BREAKING: Iowa Sen. Kent Sorenson resigns after report finds he received money from Bachmann campaign
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Politico
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’ …
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.
Discussion: Politico and ThinkProgress
Samantha Marcus / Morning Call:
Lehigh County same-sex benefits in limbo  —  Lehigh commissioner challenges budget item: Next it's giving money to pets.  — Pin It  —  An amendment eliminating benefits for same-sex couples is the first to roll out in response to a Lehigh County budget with a $10 million deficit.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Raw Story
Mike Allen / Politico:
Taylor Griffin running for Congress in N.C.  —  Taylor Griffin, a former aide to President George W. Bush who went on to co-found Hamilton Place Strategies, has moved back home to eastern North Carolina and on Thursday will announce a challenge to a fellow Republican, Rep. Walter Jones.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
David Martosko / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Less than 1% of visitors are signing up for Obamacare on state health exchange websites  — A Connecticut congressman boasted that his state took 167 applications for Obamacare services on day one, a rate of 0.59 per cent  — Obama administration won't say how many Americans signed …
Associated Press:
Gov't shutdown spreads to beaches of Normandy  —  PARIS — Tourists travelling to Omaha Beach to pay their respects to the 9,387 military dead at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial will find it closed, a victim of the U.S. government's partial shutdown.
 
 
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Soopermexican / Twitchy:
'You're exposed': Scantily-clad models prowl the streets of Denver selling Obamacare [pics]
Discussion: TheBlaze.com and Weasel Zippers
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Dozens of lawmakers declining their pay during government shutdown
Patrick Marley / JSOnline:
State DNR refuses federal directive to close some popular parks
Discussion: americanthinker.com and Althouse
Mike Needham / The Federalist:
This Shutdown Is Just Democracy At Work
 Earlier Items: 
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Power says she's regretted calling Hillary a monster ‘every day since’
Discussion: Politico
Damien McElroy / Telegraph:
Iranian cyber warfare commander shot dead in suspected assassination
Discussion: Israel Matzav, The Verge and Lawfare
Sol Stern / City Journal:
The Closing of Diane Ravitch's Mind
Discussion: Eduwonk
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House passes bills to fund DC, parks and medical research
ThinkProgress:
Meet Butch Matthews, A Republican Who Came To Love Obamacare After Realizing It Will Save Him $13,000
 

 
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