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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Senate Dems to call GOP's bluff on debt limit — Senate Democrats are planning to start the process this week for a Senate vote on a clean debt limit increase, sources tell me - a move that could call the bluff of Republicans in both chambers and force them to take a stand on whether …
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
White House: Obama Will Never Negotiate On The Debt Limit Again — White House spokesman Jay Carney said Monday that lifting the debt ceiling will be non-negotiable for as long as Barack Obama is president. — “Whether it's today, or a number of weeks from now, or a number of months from now …
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Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Obama, Senate Dems hope to break logjam soon with debt ceiling bill — President Obama and Senate Democrats on Monday decided to try to break a political logjam that threatens the U.S. economy by advancing legislation to raise the federal debt ceiling as soon as possible.
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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Why Obama Must Talk to the GOP — The president doesn't need to cave on Obamacare to help end the GOP-inspired fiscal crisis. — President Barack Obama visits M. Luis Construction on October 3, 2013 in Rockville, Maryland. (Dennis Brack-Pool/Getty Images) — I am on record advocating two seemingly incongruous positions.
Erick Erickson / RedState:
Obamacare or the Debt Ceiling — Republicans are winning the shutdown fight, and Democrats know it. — People turning on the news this week came away with the knowledge that it was about Obamacare and kept hearing that Democrats wouldn't negotiate. They also learned that for some reason …
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Jeff Zeleny / ABC News:
Senate to Move Ahead on ‘Clean’ Debt-Limit Increase — The Senate is preparing to move ahead this week on legislation to raise the nation's debt ceiling, Senate aides told ABC News, with Majority Leader Harry Reid expected to file a bill later today or Tuesday on a “clean” debt-limit increase, without any restrictions.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Smash-mouth Reid (Video) — President Obama has handed over the reins of leadership on government funding and the debt limit to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). — Reid is now fully in charge of his party's negotiating strategy, a significant change from past showdowns with Republicans.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama dares Boehner to hold vote on ‘clean’ funding bill
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Republican disapproval grows in budget battle, Post-ABC poll finds — By Scott Clement and Peyton M. Craighill, Published: October 7 at 3:01 pm — Disapproval of congressional Republicans' budget wrangling after a weeklong shutdown has shot up to 70 percent, with 51 percent disapproving …
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Republicans Lose Ground vs. Obama in the Shutdown Blame Game — The Republicans in Congress have lost ground against Barack Obama in blame over the government shutdown, with Americans expressing increasing criticism of both parties in Washington, while the president's avoided that rise in public ire.
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
CNN Shutdown Poll: Plenty of blame to go around — Washington (CNN) - Most Americans say the government shutdown is causing a crisis or major problems for the country, according to a new national poll. — And while a CNN/ORC International survey also indicates that slightly more people …
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Robert Costa / National Review:
Conservatives Wary of Deal — Speaker John Boehner may be trying to finalize a plan to raise the debt limit, but House conservatives are already skeptical of his efforts. In interviews, several of them tell me they're unlikely to support any deal that may emerge.
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep Blames Cruz For Shutdown: ‘He Took A Lot Of Folks Into The Ditch’ (VIDEO)
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Carrie Dann / NBCNews:
Obama to Boehner: 'Hold a vote. Call a vote right now. Let's see what happens'
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Steven Nelson / US News:
‘Truckers for the Constitution’ Plan to Slow D.C. Beltway, Arrest Congressmen — Police must detain ‘accessories’ to ‘treason’ or truckers will, organizer says — Tractor-trailer drivers will intentionally clog the inner loop of the Washington, D.C., beltway beginning on the morning of Oct. 11 …
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Yalman Onaran / Bloomberg:
A U.S. Default Seen as Catastrophe Dwarfing Lehman's Fall — Anyone who remembers the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. little more than five years ago knows what a global financial disaster is. A U.S. government default, just weeks away if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling …
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Tom Coburn: No default if ceiling stays
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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Republican Congressman Compares U.S. Default To His Household Budget
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Daniel Doherty / Townhall.com:
MSNBC Host: “I am Suggesting that” Ted Cruz Doesn't Love America — Kudos to Joe Scarborough this morning for calling out his fellow co-anchor. On Morning Joe today, Mika Brzezinski said that Senator Ted Cruz and all the other conservatives in Congress who want to defund Obamacare …
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David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Mika: Ted Cruz, Like-Minded Republicans Don't Love America
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Wall Street Journal:
Defects Cripple Health-Care Website — Six days into the launch of insurance marketplaces created by the new health-care law, the federal government acknowledged for the first time Sunday it needed to fix design and software problems that have kept customers from applying online for coverage.
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ThinkProgress:
Nebraska Decides 16-Year-Old Must Give Birth Because She Isn't ‘Mature’ Enough For An Abortion — The highest court in Nebraska has decided that a 16-year-old in foster care must carry her unintended pregnancy to term because she hasn't proven that she's “sufficiently mature and well informed” enough to choose to have an abortion.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Want to know why the government is shut down? This chart explains it. — Looking for the roots of the current morass in Washington? Look no further than the chart — built by the WaPo graphics wizards — below that shows the percentage of the vote that all House Members won with in the 2012 election.
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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
The 13 reasons Washington is failing — The government is shut down. Confidence in Congress is at all-time lows. The American people haven't believed the country to be on the right track in almost a decade. Congress might do something truly crazy and default on the national debt.
Becky Bratu / NBCNews:
Kerry ‘very pleased’ at Syria compliance over chemical weapons — Secretary of State John Kerry lauded Syria Monday, saying he was “very pleased” at news that experts had already begun the process of destroying Syria's chemical weapons. — In unusual praise for Damascus …
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Laura Barron-Lopez / E2-Wire:
Kerry: ‘Inviting catastrophe’ on climate
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John McCain / Wall Street Journal:
He Beat Us in War but Never in Battle — To defeat any adversary, the late North Vietnamese Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap permitted immense casualties and the near total destruction of his country. — I met Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap—who died on Friday—twice. The first time was in the Vietnamese military hospital …
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David Byrne / Guardian:
If the 1% stifles New York's creative talent, I'm out of here — Rampant inequality is squeezing out the artistic genius that made New York such a vibrant cultural capital. We can't let that happen — I'm writing this in Venice, Italy. This city is a pleasantly confusing maze …
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