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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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Brian Beutler / Salon:
Right-wing nutjobs' last stand: The debt limit endgame arrives  —  The fight over the debt limit is now eclipsing the ongoing government shutdown fight, and the way things are going, it almost seems like Republicans will grudgingly agree to avoid default so long as they don't have to simultaneously give …
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
A Short-Term Debt Limit Increase Would Be a Disaster  —  President Obama shouldn't want it.  Neither should John Boehner.  —  Let's stipulate that yesterday's acknowledgement that the White House is open to a short-term debt-limit increase didn't deserve half the breathless coverage it received.
Jonathan Strong / National Review:
Boehner: Democrats Want to ‘Annihilate Us’  —  Speaker John Boehner rallied his troops this morning at a closed-door conference meeting at the Capitol.  Democrats are trying to “annihilate us,” he told his members.  “We can get through this if we stick together.”
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 …
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.
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama open to short-term deal
Discussion: Washington Monthly
New York Times:
Obama Says He Will Negotiate Once G.O.P. Ends ‘Threats’
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Michael O'Brien / NBCNews:
Boehner: GOP won't allow ‘unconditional surrender’ to Obama
Discussion: The Raw Story
Chloe Sommers / CNN:
House Democrats amplify criticism of Boehner for shutdown
Discussion: Politico
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
And Then There Were 17: GOP Support For A Clean C.R. Slips
Harry J Enten / Guardian:
Democrats won't win a ‘blame the GOP’ game on the shutdown and debt ceiling
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Senate Dems Reject GOP Supercommittee ‘Gimmick’
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
GOP shutdown shenanigans giving Dems a big recruiting boost?
Brad Friedman / The BRAD BLOG:
Kansas Sec. of State Kris Kobach Has New Plan to Keep 17,500+ Legal Voters From Voting  —  The man who wrote Arizona's “Papers Please” law before running for Kansas Secretary of State in 2010 on the premise of stamping out “voter fraud” there ... before winning and subsequently not being able to find much …
Discussion: Liberaland and Right Wing Watch
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Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:   The Latest Voter Suppression Fad: Two Tiers
Wall Street Journal:
The Attorney General tries to reverse a Supreme Court ruling by the back door.
Discussion: Betsy's Page and TheBlaze.com
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Lawmakers arrested at immigration rally  —  Nationwide demonstrations calling for comprehensive immigration reform culminated with a rally in Washington on Tuesday to forcefully press lawmakers to overhaul the nation's immigration laws this year.  —  In an attempt to ramp up the heat on their colleagues …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Eight Democratic Members Of Congress Arrested At Immigration Protest
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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 …
Mark Regnerus / Public Discourse:
A Married Mom and Dad Really Do Matter: New Evidence from Canada  —  There is a new and significant piece of evidence in the social science debate about gay parenting and the unique contributions that mothers and fathers make to their children's flourishing.
John Macone / EagleTribune.com, North Andover …:
‘Gestapo’ tactics meet senior citizens at Yellowstone  —  NEWBURYPORT — Pat Vaillancourt went on a trip last week that was intended to showcase some of America's greatest treasures.  Instead, the Salisbury resident said she and others on her tour bus witnessed an ugly spectacle that made her embarrassed, a
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Sam Wang / Princeton Election Consortium:
The risk to the GOP House majority  —  In the current shutdown, John Boehner might be acting out of fear of losing his position.  If he doesn't appease the hardliners who are willing to take the government and economy over the brink for their goals, he could be ejected from the Speaker's seat.
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.
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:   The Shutdown Government: Powerful, Punitive And Petty
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 …
Jenn Taylor / Twitchy:
AWKward: WH adviser Dan Pfeiffer apologizes for ‘horrendous’ N-word tweet … White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer is well on his way to having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. … Dude! … Not fast enough! … After the typo was brought to his attention, Pfeiffer apologized and deleted the tweet.
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
U.S. Adults Fare Poorly in a Study of Skills  —  American adults lag well behind their counterparts in most other developed countries in the mathematical and technical skills needed for a modern workplace, according to a study released Tuesday.  —  The study, perhaps the most detailed of its kind …
USA Today:
Exchange launch turns into inexcusable mess: Our view  —  Health sites generate more error messages than coverage.  —  CONNECT  —  Over the first four days the new online health insurance exchanges were open last week, more than 8 million people visited them, according to the Obama administration.
Erica Ritz / TheBlaze.com:
HERE'S THE REPUBLICAN SENATOR WHO ALLEGEDLY INSINUATED FREEDOMWORKS SUPPORTERS ARE TRAITORS IN RUTHLESS CLOSED-DOOR MEETING  — On Tuesday, Glenn Beck said a source told him Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell insinuated during a closed-door meeting of Republican senators that anyone …
 
 
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FULL TRANSCRIPT: President Obama's Oct. 8 news conference on the shutdown and debt limit
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Michelle Nunn hauls in $1.7M in Georgia Senate race
Discussion: Politico
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Congress losing out to Zombies, Wall Street, and...Hipsters
Discussion: Mediaite and TheBlaze.com
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