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1:45 PM ET, October 8, 2013

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Politico:
Democratic cracks open in debt-limit fight  —  For the past several weeks, Senate Democrats and the White House have shown a remarkable amount of unity in the controversial fight surrounding the debt ceiling.  —  Then came shutdown Day Seven.  —  Just as top Senate Democrats began to lay …
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Politico:
Power play: Harry Reid sidelined Joe Biden  —  When President Barack Obama laid out his strategy for the current debt-limit fight in a private meeting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this past summer, Reid stipulated one condition: No Joe Biden.  —  And while Biden attended …
Shane Goldmacher / NationalJournal.com:
Harry Reid's Getting the Fight He Always Wanted
Discussion: First Read
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Shutdown: 'A pox on everybody's house'
Discussion: CNN and Hot Air
Caitlin Huey-Burns / Real Clear Politics:
John Boehner's New Headache  —  Catastrophic.  Brutal.  Dangerous.  Terrifying.  —  That's how lawmakers, the administration and market analysts have described the prospect of default if Congress fails to raise the borrowing limit on the nation's $16.7 trillion debt by the Treasury Department's Oct. 17 deadline.
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Four Reasons Debt Ceiling Breach Means Default  —  A new idea is taking hold among House Republicans that perhaps breaching the debt ceiling isn't such a terrible idea after all.  One form this takes is the patently absurd remarks of Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) who muses that “I think, personally …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Federal Government Can't, and Won't, Default on Its Debt Obligations
Emma Dumain / Roll Call:
GOP Proposes New Supercommittee to Resolve Impasse (Updated)  —  Updated 12:12 p.m. |  House Republicans will bring to the floor a bill to create a bipartisan, bicameral committee to address the current fiscal impasse that has shut down much of the government and threatens a debt default.
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
House eyes supercommittee to settle shutdown, debt limit (video)  —  The House will vote as soon as Tuesday on forming a special committee of House and Senate members to work out a deal on reopening the government and raising the nation's $16.7 trillion debt ceiling, multiple GOP sources told The Hill.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
And Then There Were 17: GOP Support For A Clean C.R. Slips
Discussion: The Spot, msnbc.com and ABC News
Leslie Bentz / CNN:
Stewart to Sebelius on health care law “Am I a stupid man?”  —  (CNN) - “The Daily Show” took a more serious turn Monday night when host Jon Stewart introduced his guest for the evening, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.  —  Sebelius, who has been on a media blitz …
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
ObamaCare chief: 'I don't know' numbers
Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Politico and Twitchy
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Sebelius: Individuals Can Get A One Year Obamacare Delay — By Paying The Penalty
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Weasel Zippers
Bloomberg:
Insurers Getting Faulty Data From U.S. Health Exchanges  —  Insurers are getting faulty and incomplete data from the new U.S.-run health exchange, which may mean some Americans won't be covered even after they sign up for an insurance plan.  —  While it's not clear how widespread the problem is …
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Kathleen Sebelius / USA Today:
HealthCare.gov simple, user-friendly  —  Engineers are working day and night on upgrades to cope with high demand.  —  CONNECT  —  When the Health Insurance Marketplace opened last week, demand was so high, it exceeded even optimists' expectations.  On the first day alone …
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USA Today:
Exchange launch turns into inexcusable mess: Our view
Discussion: Hit & Run and National Review
Washington Post:
The House GOP has nothing to show for its government shutdown  —  WHAT HAVE House Republicans managed to accomplish in a week of government shutdown?  —  Damage the livelihood of millions of Americans?  Check.  Government secretaries, food-truck operators, cleaners who work in motels near national parks: They're all hurting.
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Boehner: Obama gambling with economy by refusing to talk
Discussion: Politico and Shakesville
Wall Street Journal:
The Attorney General tries to reverse a Supreme Court ruling by the back door.  —  For Eric Holder, American racial history is frozen in the 1960s.  The Supreme Court ruled in June that a section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is no longer justified due to racial progress …
Discussion: TheBlaze.com
New York Post:
Biker cop joined in SUV beatdown, hit vehicle  —  Alexian Lien after he was attacked by motorcyclists on Sept., 28, 2013  —  An off-duty undercover cop who had claimed he took no active role as fellow bikers pulled a Manhattan dad from his SUV and beat him to a pulp was actually pounding …
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
Why the Government Shutdown Isn't Anywhere Near Over—in 1 Graph  —  Two parties, divided by a common loathing  —  Americans are perfectly, identically, symmetrically split on whether the GOP is justified in demanding major changes to Obamacare in exchange for funding the rest of the government, according to a new Pew Research poll.
David Weigel / Slate:
Crisis?  What Crisis?  —  How House Republicans are convincing themselves that defaulting on the country's debt wouldn't be the disaster everybody claims it'd be.  —  For a couple of days last week, Texas Rep. Randy Neugebauer was the Republican face of the government shutdown.
Alyssa Brown / Gallup:
Weekly Drop in U.S. Economic Confidence Largest Since '08  —  Decline of 12 points to -34 is largest since Lehman Brothers collapsed  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' confidence in the economy has deteriorated more in the past week during the partial government shutdown …
Carol Rosenberg / MiamiHerald.com:
Capitol Hill lawyer chosen as Pentagon's ‘Guantánamo closer’  —  The Obama administration has chosen a former U.S. Marine and seasoned congressional lawyer to serve as the special envoy for Guantánamo closure at the Defense Department, the Miami Herald has learned.
Sean Wilentz / New York Times:
Obama and the Debt  —  PRINCETON, N.J. — THE Republicans in the House of Representatives who declare that they may refuse to raise the debt limit threaten to do more than plunge the government into default.  They are proposing a blatant violation of the 14th Amendment, which states that …
Discussion: National Review and normblog
archpedi.jamanetwork.com:
Prevalence Rates of Male and Female Sexual Violence Perpetrators in a National Sample of Adolescents  —  ONLINE FIRST  —  Michele L. Ybarra, MPH1; Kimberly J. Mitchell, PhD2  —  JAMA Pediatr.  —  Tables  —  References  —  ABSTRACT  —  Importance Sexual violence can emerge in adolescence …
 
 
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Jenn Taylor / Twitchy:
AWKward: WH adviser Dan Pfeiffer apologizes for ‘horrendous’ N-word tweet
Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
The Government Shutdown Has Cost $1.6 Billion So Far
Discussion: Liberaland
Penny Starr / CNSNews:
NIH Stops Therapy Dogs From Visiting Sick Children
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Biden campaign stop for Cory Booker canceled
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