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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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The Hill, USA Today, First Read, The Daily Beast, Reuters and Hot Air
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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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The Fix, Daily Kos and Firedoglake
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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PoliticusUSA, Hot Air, Business Insider, Talking Points Memo, Hullabaloo and RedState
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Boehner: Obama gambling with economy by refusing to talk — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Monday that President Obama is putting the economy at risk by refusing to negotiate with Republicans over spending and the debt ceiling. — “The president's refusal to negotiate is hurting …
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Shakesville
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Shutdown — 'A pox on everybody's house' — Democrats have the advantage in the government shutdown debate, but it's not the rout that many anticipated. — While polls show that more people blame Republicans than Democrats, the margin is not so lopsided that GOP leaders feel compelled to back down.
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Hot Air
Jonathan Strong / National Review:
‘House of Indecision’ — House Republican leaders met today …
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Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider and PoliticusUSA
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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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Right-Wing Truckers Plan To Jam DC's Major Commuter Highway, Arrest Members Of Congress
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Washington Times, Daily Kos and Associated Press
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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New York Times:
Senate Leaders Mull Raising Debt Ceiling in Challenge to House
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Talking Points Memo, msnbc.com and naked capitalism
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
CNN Shutdown Poll: Plenty of blame to go around
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Connecting.the.Dots, The Lead with Jake Tapper, Washington Times, Outside the Beltway and Shakesville
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Republicans Lose Ground vs. Obama in the Shutdown Blame Game
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The Week, Twitchy, Little Green Footballs, The Moderate Voice, The Raw Story and Liberal Values
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 …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Bachmann: Obama arming terrorists proof 'we're in God's end times' — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) over the weekend accused President Obama of arming al Qaeda militants in Syria and said it was evidence “we're in God's end times.” — “This happened and as of today the United States is willingly …
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
POLITICO poll: Government shutdown backlash boosts Terry McAuliffe — Democrat Terry McAuliffe has opened up a significant lead over Republican Ken Cuccinelli in the Virginia governor's race amid broad public disapproval of the federal government shutdown, according to a POLITICO poll of the 2013 gubernatorial election.
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Outside the Beltway, Reuters, The Week and WJLA-TV
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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americanthinker.com and Weasel Zippers
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.
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The Dish
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Chris Casteel / Daily Oklahoman:
Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe says he feels ‘great’ after emergency heart surgery — After a routine test found extreme blockage in five arteries, the Republican senator returned to Tulsa and had quadruple bypass surgery Friday. — Sen. Jim Inhofe underwent emergency heart surgery in Tulsa …
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Post Politics
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Republicans Didn't Sabotage Health Exchanges, Obama Did — For the first week that the federal health-care exchanges were running ... well, crawling ... the Obama administration claimed that no one could get through because of overwhelming pent-up demand. Essentially it spent a week arguing …
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Washington Wire, The Lead with Jake Tapper and Firedoglake
Charlie Spiering / Washington Examiner:
Park Service OKs immigration reform rally on ‘closed’ National Mall — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL IMMIGRATION GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN — A planned immigration reform rally will take place on the National Mall on Tuesday even though the site is closed due to the government shutdown.
Jeffrey Goldberg / Bloomberg:
Rouhani Has Revealed His True Nuclear Intentions — Here is something to remember as nuclear negotiations between the West and Iran appear set to recommence: The Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, the putative moderate on whose shoulders great American hopes have been placed …
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Power Line, Iran Focus, Israel Matzav, The Times of Israel and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Biden campaign stop for Cory Booker canceled — Vice President Joe Biden has canceled a trip to New Jersey to campaign for Democrat Cory Booker because of the government shutdown. — Booker's campaign announced Tuesday that the vice president will not appear at a Friday event for the candidate in New Jersey.
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CNN
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 …
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