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5:00 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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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 …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Shutdown hampering Iran sanctions, White House says
Discussion: Politico
Jonathan Bernstein / PostPartisan:
The Insiders: The World War II Memorial is not a political prop
Discussion: EconLog
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 …
Discussion: The New Republic and The Raw Story
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
Matt Fuller / Roll Call:
Boehner Vows He Won't ‘Roll Over’ to Obama, Democrats (Updated)
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and First Read
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.
Discussion: protein wisdom
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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.
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 …
Matt Fuller / Roll Call:
Democrats Plan to Discharge GOP Bill to End Shutdown (Updated)
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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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.
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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Brett French / Billings Gazette:
Federal government shutdown foul-hooks small Montana angling town
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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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.
Discussion: Politico, Ballot Box and The Caucus
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.
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.
Steve Eder / New York Times:
Rodriguez Sues M.L.B., Claiming a ‘Witch Hunt’  —  Faced with baseball's longest doping suspension, Alex Rodriguez sued Major League Baseball late Thursday, accusing it of buying the cooperation of Anthony Bosch, the head of an anti-aging clinic at the center of a doping scandal …
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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Rebecca Ballhaus / Washington Wire:
Washington's Z-Burger Shuts Down Shutdown Special
Brandon Darby / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE—BORDER PATROL REP CLAIMS AGENTS BEING ORDERED TO STAND DOWN
Discussion: WND and The Right Scoop
Ellie Hall / BuzzFeed:
Obama And Biden Go Out For Lunch
Joshua Green / Businessweek:
Republicans Are No Longer the Party of Business
Discussion: Daniel W. Drezner and GOP Shutdown
Dorsey Shaw / BuzzFeed:
Fox News Host To Nicaraguan Co-Host: “You Grew Up On Tacos, Correct?
Washington Post:
The question facing Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Stay or go?
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
We need climate-change risk assessment
Discussion: The Verge, EcoWatch and National Review
Gerard Magliocca / Washington Post:
Why Obamacare isn't ‘settled’  —  Gerard Magliocca is a professor …
ThinkProgress:
How A Rand Paul Republican From Alabama Learned To Love Obamacare
Discussion: Booman Tribune and PoliticusUSA
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
G.O.P. Elders See Liabilities in Shutdown
Timothy Egan / Opinionator:
Wrong Side of History
Discussion: Balloon Juice