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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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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Senior Admin. Official: 'We Are Winning...It Doesn't Really Matter to Us' When Shutdown Ends
Senior Admin. Official: 'We Are Winning...It Doesn't Really Matter to Us' When Shutdown Ends
Washington Free Beacon:
Boehner to White House: 'This Isn't Some Damn Game'
Boehner to White House: 'This Isn't Some Damn Game'
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Robert Costa / National Review:
The Emerging Offer — It hasn't been announced, and you won't hear about it today, but the final volley of the fiscal impasse, at least for House Republicans, is already being brokered. And according to my top sources — both members and senior aides — it won't end with a clean CR, or with a sprawling, 2011-style budget agreement.
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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 …
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Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
How to Make a Non-Disastrous Debt-Limit Deal
How to Make a Non-Disastrous Debt-Limit Deal
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ThinkProgress:
Boehner Suggests Taking The Country Into Default Unless Republicans Get Additional Spending Cuts
Boehner Suggests Taking The Country Into Default Unless Republicans Get Additional Spending Cuts
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Matt Fuller / Roll Call:
Boehner Vows He Won't ‘Roll Over’ to Obama, Democrats (Updated)
Boehner Vows He Won't ‘Roll Over’ to Obama, Democrats (Updated)
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dems move to force Republicans to reopen the government — House Democratic leaders believe they have hit on a new way to potentially force House Republican leaders into allowing a vote on a “clean CR” funding the government without any defunding of Obamacare attached.
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Politico:
Democrats tap procedural trick to force House CR vote — House Democrats will use a parliamentary procedure to try to break a logjam over government funding and bring a “clean” continuing resolution to the floor, according to senior Democratic lawmakers and leadership aides.
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Matt Fuller / Roll Call:
Democrats Plan to Discharge GOP Bill to End Shutdown (Updated) — Miller, right, is heading up a Democratic plan to end the government shutdown by bringing up a GOP measure through a discharge petition. (Douglas Graham/CQ Roll Call) — Updated: 3:13 p.m. |
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
House Democrats Propose Hail Mary Strategy For Ending Shutdown — House Democrats think they've found a legislative ploy to bring the Senate-passed temporary spending bill to the House floor and end the government shutdown. — The move amounts to a legislative Hail Mary …
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Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, Balloon Juice and Eschaton
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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Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
Is Obamacare's celebrity enrollee actually signed up? — And so Chadgate begins. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters) — Yesterday, Chad Henderson became a verified Obamacare celebrity. The 21-year-old from Georgia was hounded by reporters after Enroll America identified him as someone …
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Jeffrey Young / The Huffington Post:
These Two People Beat The Glitches To Sign Up For Obamacare
These Two People Beat The Glitches To Sign Up For Obamacare
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Rare health exchange enrollee gets 15 minutes of Obamacare fame
Rare health exchange enrollee gets 15 minutes of Obamacare fame
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NewsBusters, Poynter and Wonkblog
Brett Taylor / Twitchy:
Surprise: Media's Obamacare health insurance exchange poster boy is OFA volunteer
Surprise: Media's Obamacare health insurance exchange poster boy is OFA volunteer
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americanthinker.com, Ed Driscoll, The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite
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.
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Economic Confidence Plummets as Gov't Shutdown Begins — Current -34 three-day average is worst since December 2011 — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' confidence in the U.S. economy has dropped sharply as the partial government shutdown caused by Congress' inability to pass a spending bill has become reality.
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Economix, Business Insider and Outside the Beltway
Fox News:
Arizona Gov. Brewer, local businesses fight to reopen Grand Canyon — Oct. 1, 2013: Sebastian Ramirez, 27, of Austin, Texas, hikes out of the Bright Angel Trail in Grand Canyon National Park.AP — With the partial suspension of U.S. government services showing no signs of ending …
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Chicago Boyz, Right Wing News, americanthinker.com and National Review
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.
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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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Elizabeth Titus / Politico:
Davis supporters sent to wrong site — Texas Democrat Wendy Davis's newly official bid for governor hit a minor snag on Thursday when the campaign sent thank-you emails to donors that linked to an anti-Davis website with a similar address to that of the campaign's actual site.
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Robert Brodsky / Newsday:
Hillary Clinton to begin considering presidential run ‘sometime next year’ — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a group of Long Island business and political leaders Friday that she would begin seriously considering a White House run sometime next year.
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Politico, CNN, Ballot Box and The Caucus
Ellie Hall / BuzzFeed:
Obama And Biden Go Out For Lunch — President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden walked out of the White House to grab lunch at a nearby restaurant. — The two headed for Taylor Gourmet, a sandwich shop a few blocks away. — Via taylorgourmet.com — Cable news had absolutely no idea what was going on.
Harvard University:
Fossil Fuel Divestment Statement — Climate change represents one of the world's most consequential challenges. I very much respect the concern and commitment shown by the many members of our community who are working to confront this problem. I, as well as members of our Corporation Committee …
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Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Newt Gingrich Wants The Government Out Of The Panda Cam Business — Former Speaker of the House and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has has a lifelong love affair with zoos. Because of this, TPM wondered how he was handling the closure of the Smithsonian's National Zoo …
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