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2:30 PM ET, October 4, 2013

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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 …
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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.
ThinkProgress:
Boehner Suggests Taking The Country Into Default Unless Republicans Get Additional Spending Cuts  —  House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) raised the idea of taking the country into default if Republicans don't get more spending cuts during a press conference on Friday.
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 …
Brian Beutler / Salon:
Dumbest extortion attempt ever: Republican scheme's perverse logic  —  GOP's demands are putting the economy and American presidency on the line — and now they can't back away from them  —  This is the fourth day of the GOP's government shutdown and the sequence of events that will ultimately end it …
Discussion: The Raw Story
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Senior Admin. Official: 'We Are Winning...It Doesn't Really Matter to Us' When Shutdown Ends  —  Although the government shutdown continues, it appears President Barack Obama and the White House are not getting any closer to negotiating with Republicans.  A quotation from an unnamed senior …
Washington Free Beacon:
Boehner to White House: 'This Isn't Some Damn Game'  —  Speaker of the House John Boehner excoriated the White House over comments made by an unnamed senior Obama administration aide in the Wall Street Journal Friday at a GOP press conference.  —  The unnamed source is quoted as saying …
Aamer Madhani / USA Today:
Obama hammers Boehner on shutdown, debt ceiling
Discussion: The Week and Taegan Goddard's …
NBCNews:
Woman in DC chase may have thought Obama was stalking her, sources say  —  Investigators have found indications that the woman who led authorities on a chase from the White House to the Capitol before she was shot to death by police thought that President Barack Obama was stalking her, law enforcement sources told NBC News.
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ABC News:
Miriam Carey, Capitol Suspect, Suffered Post-Partum Depression
Peter Suderman / Reason:
Obamacare Poster Boy Chad Henderson and His Dad Haven't Signed Up for Obamacare, Says His Father  —  An exclusive Reason.com interview with Bill Henderson.  —  Chad Henderson is the media's poster boy for Obamacare.  Reporters struggled this week to find individuals who said they had been able …
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Tom Corbett / CNN:
Gov. compares same-sex marriage to incest  —  (CNN) - Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's stance on same-sex marriage is no secret, after bringing a legal challenge against a county clerk who tried to sign marriage licenses for same-sex couples.  Friday, Corbett went a step further, comparing gay marriage to a union between siblings.
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Mark Scolforo / Associated Press:
Corbett compares gay marriage to incest
CBS News:
Nearly 9 in 10 Americans displeased with Washington, poll says  —  As the partial federal government shutdown continues with no break in the impasse between Democrats and Republicans in Congress, nearly nine in 10 Americans are unhappy with the way things are going in Washington …
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Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Voters support delaying Obamacare, but oppose defunding it
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, NPR and PoliticusUSA
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Pelosi: Dem spending concessions ‘lost in the news’ on shutdown
Discussion: Politico and Weasel Zippers
ThinkProgress:
How A Rand Paul Republican From Alabama Learned To Love Obamacare  —  Joshua Pittman is a 31-year-old self-employed videographer from Montgomery, Alabama.  A libertarian Republican who voted for Ron Paul in 2012 and believes that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is the future of the GOP …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Booman Tribune
Washington Post:
We need climate-change risk assessment  —  Michael Bloomberg, an independent, is mayor of New York.  Hank Paulson, a former chairman of Goldman Sachs and Treasury secretary in the George W. Bush administration, is chairman of the Paulson Institute, which promotes sustainable economic growth.
Discussion: E2-Wire, EcoWatch and National Review
Washington Post:
The question facing Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Stay or go?  —  Who dreamed up this bit of kismet?  How did the stars align to make this spot of New Mexico desert the best place in the world on a late summer evening to be Ruth Bader Ginsburg?  —  Ginsburg is doing what she always does this time of year.
Dorsey Shaw / BuzzFeed:
Fox News Host To Nicaraguan Co-Host: “You Grew Up On Tacos, Correct?  —  Happy National Taco Day from your friends at Fox News!  —  View Video ›  —  Earlier in the program, Fox & Friends host Elisabeth Hasselbeck introduced a segment from a series that celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month:
 
 
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Joshua Green / Businessweek:
Republicans Are No Longer the Party of Business
Discussion: Daniel W. Drezner and GOP Shutdown
Steve Eder / New York Times:
Rodriguez Sues M.L.B., Claiming a ‘Witch Hunt’
Discussion: Hot Air and Bleacher Report
Brett French / Billings Gazette:
Federal government shutdown foul-hooks small Montana angling town
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Experts See Potential Ways Out for Obama in Debt Ceiling Maze
Jessica Ravitz / CNN:
'I'm the original voice of Siri'
Discussion: GigaOM, The Week and Mashable
Gerard Magliocca / Washington Post:
Why Obamacare isn't ‘settled’  —  Gerard Magliocca is a professor …
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Boehner in Charge  —  How the House speaker rallied his restive troops.
Discussion: VodkaPundit
James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
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Discussion: Weekly Standard
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Cory Booker's lackluster campaign
Timothy Egan / Opinionator:
Wrong Side of History
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
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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