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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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Devil's Xmas Tree Lite — So long as House Republicans maintain the initiative in the current fiscal fight, we're all living in Robert Costa's world. His latest missive from Boehnerland (entitled “The Emerging Offer") suggests that the Speaker and such helpmeets as Paul Ryan are already far advanced …
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Booman Tribune


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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Roll Call, Slate, Hot Air, PoliticusUSA, A plain blog about politics, Campaign for America's Future, Daily Kos and The Monkey Cage


GOP House can't claim to speak for America — Editor's note: Tom Mann is a senior in governance studies at the Brookings Institution and the W. Averell Harriman Chair. His most recent book, co-authored with Norman Ornstein and now out in paperback, is “It's Even Worse Than It Looks …
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Cruz: GOP Already Compromised By Demanding To Defund, Not Repeal Obamacare — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), or “the joint speaker of the House” as Harry Reid calls him, argued Friday that Republicans have already offered Democrats a concession in their stand against reopening the government in demanding …
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Politico, Hullabaloo and Weasel Zippers


How to Make a Non-Disastrous Debt-Limit Deal
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Wall Street Journal, Fix the Debt, The Dish, Townhall.com, National Review, Economix and Wonkblog

Boehner Vows He Won't ‘Roll Over’ to Obama, Democrats (Updated)
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PoliticusUSA and First Read

Dems plan discharge petition to force vote on ending shutdown — House Democratic leaders will begin circulating a discharge petition Friday in hopes of forcing a vote on a “clean” spending bill. — GOP leaders have so far refused to stage a vote on the Senate-passed continuing resolution …
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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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Outside the Beltway and voteview blog


House Democrats Propose Hail Mary Strategy For Ending Shutdown
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Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, Balloon Juice and Eschaton


Priests threatened with arrest if they minister to military during shutdown — In a stunning development, some military priests are facing arrest if they celebrate mass or practice their faith on military bases during the federal government shutdown. — “With the government shutdown …
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The PJ Tatler and New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Shutdown Impacts Chapel Services — If the government shutdown continues through the weekend, there will be no Catholic priest to celebrate Mass this Sunday in the chapels at some U.S. military installations where non-active-duty priests serve as government contractors.
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Ed Driscoll, Independent Journal Review, Weasel Zippers and National Review


The Insiders: The World War II Memorial is not a political prop — There are similarities between how the Obama administration used the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to target its political enemies before the 2012 election and how it is using the World War II Memorial as a stage to discredit Republicans in the battle over the budget.
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PRUDEN: The cheap tricks of the game
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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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Is Obamacare's celebrity enrollee actually signed up?
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Angola 3 member Herman Wallace died quietly in his sleep, friends say — New Orleans native, former Black Panther and member of the Angola Three Herman Wallace died Thursday night because of complications from liver cancer, friends and counsel confirmed Friday morning.
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Tea Party's Ross Says Debt Worth Yielding on Obamacare — U.S. Representative Dennis Ross, a Florida Republican, said he would support a broad spending deal that didn't include changes to the health-care law, becoming the first Tea Party-backed House lawmaker to publicly back off the fight …
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Hullabaloo, Daily Kos, Associated Press, The Lonely Conservative and Political Capital


Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity — Secret servers and a privileged position on the internet's backbone used to identify users and attack target computers — The online anonymity network Tor is a high-priority target for the National Security Agency.
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emptywheel, The Verge and CANNONFIRE
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Man Found With Burns on Nat'l Mall in Critical Condition — The man may have set himself on fire, police said. — Park Police officials tell NBC Washington a man may have set himself on fire at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Friday afternoon. — The incident was reported around 4:30 p.m …
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NBCNews, The Gateway Pundit and The Raw Story

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


And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’ — The 55 miles from Campbell to San Francisco make for one of the nicest commutes anywhere. The journey mostly zips along the Junipero Serra Freeway, a grand and remarkably empty highway that abuts the east side of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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The Verge and VodkaPundit