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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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Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
White House, Senate Democrats step up pressure to raise federal debt ceiling — The White House and Senate Democrats on Monday sought to increase pressure on House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) to raise the federal debt ceiling — if only for several weeks — with just 10 days until …
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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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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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Manu Raju / Politico:
Reid plotting to stay in power — Republicans are eager for November 2016 — and not just because Barack Obama's presidency will be in its final days. — It's when Harry Reid, the man reviled by Republicans for his inflammatory rhetoric and hardball tactics during the government shutdown, could be booted from his Nevada Senate seat.
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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Carrie Dann / NBCNews:
Obama to Boehner: 'Hold a vote. Call a vote right now. Let's see what happens'
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep Blames Cruz For Shutdown: ‘He Took A Lot Of Folks Into The Ditch’ (VIDEO) — A Republican congressman said Monday that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is largely responsible for the first government shutdown since 1996. — Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that while he believes …
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Doug Powers / Michelle Malkin:
Obamacare epiphanies, part VII: Hey, somebody's got to pay for somebody else's ‘free’ stuff
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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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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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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Anxious Allies Aiding Booker in Senate Bid — Cory A. Booker is an undisputed star of a new generation of African-American leaders, electrifying liberal audiences with his oratory and charming the social media set with his digital savvy. — But the Senate campaign Mr. Booker, a Democrat …
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Denver Post:
NEW RECALL EFFORT TARGETS STATE SEN. EVIE HUDAK — A renewed and spirited effort is underway to recall Sen. Evie Hudak, a Democrat from Westminster, less than six months after an initial effort faltered. — Organizers from within Senate District 19 were certified by the secretary …
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