Here's How We Can End This Stalemate  —  Both Reagan and Clinton negotiated debt-ceiling deals with their opponents.  We're ready to negotiate.  —  The president is giving Congress the silent treatment.  He's refusing to talk, even though the federal government is about to hit the debt ceiling.

POLL: GOP GETS THE BLAME IN SHUTDOWN  —  You are here  —  Home » United States Congress » Poll: GOP gets the blame in shutdown  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are holding Republicans primarily responsible for the partial government shutdown as public esteem sinks for all players …

Suicide of the Right  —  Every piece of evidence we have so far on the government shutdown shows the public is blaming Republicans most of all for the standoff.  On Monday, an ABC poll showed 71 percent fault the GOP; 61 percent fault Congressional Democrats; 51 percent fault President Obama.

Lead health care navigator in Florida provides wrong information on credit scores  —  Ann Packham tells Local 6 she was incorrect about Affordable Care Act … A day after telling Local 6 that anyone signing up for the Affordable Care Act had to provide their credit score, the lead navigator in Florida said she was wrong.

Many in G.O.P. Offer Theory: Default Wouldn't Be That Bad  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Richard Burr, Republican of North Carolina, a reliable friend of business on Capitol Hill and no one's idea of a bomb thrower, isn't buying the apocalyptic warnings that a default on United States government debt …

Republicans Are Awfully Close to Violating the Constitution  —  Who cares if President Obama has 14th Amendment obligations?  The critical sentence in that block of text should be read as instruction for lawmakers first, and last.  —  Have Republicans forgotten that they too must abide by the Constitution?

Waterboarding Is A Big Joke At Cheney Roast  —  A sentimental evening at the Plaza for Cheney, Rumsfeld, Mukasey, and Lieberman.  “Really tasteless,” says a guest.  —  The cover of the program at the Oct. 7 “Roast of Dick Cheney.”  —  Dick Cheney is ready to laugh about waterboarding.

Why I'm Very Happy About Janet Yellen  —  President Barack Obama plans to nominate Janet Yellen as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.  In doing so, he will promote the pre-eminent policy economist of her generation to the role of the most powerful central banker in the world.

Obamacare website looks “like nobody tested it,” programmer says  —  (CBS News) Healthcare.gov launched more than a week ago, and while millions of Americans have signed into the site, not many have been able to actually sign up for insurance because of glitches with the website.

How Racism Caused The Shutdown  —  This isn't an article about how Republicans shut down the government because they hate that the President is black.  This is an article about how racism caused the government to shut down and the U.S. to teeter on the brink of an unprecedented and catastrophic default.

Obamacare site hits reset button on passwords as contractors scramble  —  Three years wasn't enough time to get this massive IT effort past the finish line.  —  Amid all the attention, bugs, and work happening at Healthcare.gov in light of the Affordable Care Act, potential registrants talking …

GOP Rep. Bill Young to retire  —  Rep. C.W. Bill Young (R-Fla.) has announced he will retire from Congress when his term ends in 2014.  —  Flagging health and poor fundraising hauls had prompted speculation that the 22-term congressman would retire, though he had previously defied those expectations.

Coburn: 'I'd Rather Have A Managed Catastrophe Now' To Force Budget Cuts (VIDEO)  —  Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) on Wednesday defended his stance that a debt default would not have a large negative impact on the economy, and may be necessary in order to force the government to enact more budget cuts.

Chris Christie makes point on Obamacare  —  Republican Gov. Chris Christie said Tuesday that he doesn't like Obamacare but that he found a way to deal with it in New Jersey, another signal that he sees the government shutdown as an opportunity to contrast himself with feuding parties in Washington.

Krugtron the Invincible, Part 1  —  It's an ill wind that blows no one any good.  The financial crisis that came to a head five years ago with the failure of Lehman Brothers has been especially beneficial to the economist Paul Krugman.  In his widely read New York Times column and blog …