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9:50 AM ET, October 4, 2013

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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, NPR and NBCNews
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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 …
Wall Street Journal:
White House's Hard Line on Shutdown, Debt Ceiling Has Risks Attached  —  President Barack Obama is sticking to his stance that he won't negotiate with Republicans over the government shutdown or the higher-stakes fight over the federal debt ceiling.  —  The question, for Republicans …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
What the White House fears most about the debt limit fight  —  Right now, the primary fear among senior Obama administration officials is that John Boehner and the GOP leadership don't grasp just how damaging Obama believes it would be to the remainder of his tenure — and the office …
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 …
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
Aamer Madhani / USA Today:   Obama hammers Boehner on shutdown, debt ceiling
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Rattled Congress Seeks Way Out of Its Standoff
Discussion: Prairie Weather and CNN
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Begins Search for Broad Deal on Budget
Discussion: The Plum Line and NBCNews
nbcwashington.com:
Obama to Boehner: “Take a Vote. End This Shutdown Right Now”
New York Times:
Boehner Pledges to Avoid Default, Republicans Say
Washington Post:
GOP lawmakers: Boehner tells colleagues he will avoid a default on federal debt
Charles Babington / Associated Press:
Politically Safe Lawmakers See No Shutdown Urgency
Discussion: Associated Press, CNN, Politico and Reuters
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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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.”
NY Daily News:
U.S. Capitol shooting: Brooklyn neighbor says Connecticut woman shot dead outside Capitol ‘seemed like a nice young lady, stable’  —  Relatives of Miriam Carey converged in Bushwick to try to make sense of the events that unfolded in Washington, where the 34-year-old dental hygienist …
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 …
NBCNews:
Woman in DC chase may have thought Obama was stalking her, sources say
Discussion: NBC Politics and VodkaPundit
ABC News:
Miriam Carey, Capitol Suspect, Suffered Post-Partum Depression
Discussion: NPR
ABC News:
Attempt to Ram White House Gate Ends With Female Suspect Dead
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 …
Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
Meet Chad Henderson, the Obamacare enrollee tons of reporters are calling  —  Ask and, apparently, you shall receive.  —  Just moments after writing a blog post Thursday morning, about the lack of information on Obamacare enrollees, Enroll America reached out with contact information for Chad Henderson …
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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
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.
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 …
Wayne Slater / Dallas Morning News:
Now that she's running, Davis will have to talk about abortion  —  AUSTIN — Wendy Davis talked a lot Thursday about the issues she wants to emphasize in her race for governor: public education (she's for it) and hyper-partisanship and political cronyism in Austin (she's against it).
Discussion: The Fix, msnbc.com and NBCNews
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
 
 
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CNN:
Worst shutdown in modern U.S. history
Discussion: Global Public Square
David French / National Review:
The World War II Memorial Shutdown: A Symbol of Government Malice
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Lauren Markoe / The Huffington Post:
Hobby Lobby Boycotts Jewish Hanukkah And Passover
Discussion: Israel Matzav and The Raw Story
Joseph A. Morris / Washington Post:
Shutdowns have been frequent tools of policy. Just ask Reagan.
Discussion: msnbc.com
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
The Cruelty of Republican States in One Chart
CNN:
Gulf Coast hurricane watch as Karen moves north
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
 Earlier Items: 
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
OVERNIGHT TECH: Tech companies pledge to keep fighting NSA secrecy
Discussion: Firedoglake and Lawfare
John B. Judis / The New Republic:
The Shutdown Standoff Is One of the Worst Crises in American History
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Congressman Who Appeared To Blame Democrats For Shooting “Tweeted Out Of Emotion,” He Says
Discussion: Business Insider and Hullabaloo
The Atlantic Online:
The Republican Hardliners Aren't Conservatives, They're Radicals