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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.
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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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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.
Politico:
Government shutdown: Is a grand bargain the only way out?
Government shutdown: Is a grand bargain the only way out?
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David Espo / ABC News:
Analysis: Republicans Get Opposite of Stated Goals
Analysis: Republicans Get Opposite of Stated Goals
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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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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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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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Washington Post:
Government shutdown puts U.S. security at risk
Government shutdown puts U.S. security at risk
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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 …
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