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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
As Pressure Mounts, House G.O.P. Weighs Short-Term Debt Deal — WASHINGTON — House Republicans, increasingly isolated from even some of their strongest supporters more than a week into a government shutdown, began on Wednesday to consider a path out of the fiscal impasse that would raise …
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Wall Street Journal:
CONNECT — WASHINGTON—The partisan logjam that has paralyzed the capital showed signs of easing Wednesday, as conservative Republicans warmed to the idea of a short-term increase in the country's borrowing limit and House GOP leaders prepared for their first meeting with President Barack Obama since the government shutdown began.
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U-T San Diego / utsandiego.com:
President Obama's shameful death-benefit theater — The Obama administration insisted Tuesday it had no choice but to withhold death benefits to relatives of 1st Lt. Jennifer Moreno, a 25-year-old soldier born and raised in San Diego, and four other soldiers killed since the partial government shutdown began Oct. 1.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
New GOP strategy: Offer deal on debt limit, but keep shutdown fight going
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The Plum Line and Hot Air
Tim Alberta / NationalJournal.com:
House Republicans Expect to Approve Short-Term Debt Deal
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Washington Monthly, Hot Air, ThinkProgress and National Review
Michael Isikoff / NBC Politics:
Kochs to Congress: Focus on spending, not Obamacare
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NBCNews, Taylor Marsh, his vorpal sword, msnbc.com and Crooks and Liars
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Wolf Blitzer: White House Should Take GOP ‘Advice,’ Delay Obamacare Website
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Dana Bash / CNN:
Senior House GOP source: Debt deal may require Democratic help
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The Impolitic, Booman Tribune, Politico and Hullabaloo
Andrew Dugan / Gallup:
Republican Party Favorability Sinks to Record Low — Falls 10 percentage points from September's 38% — This article is part of an ongoing series analyzing how the government shutdown and the debate over raising the debt ceiling are affecting Americans' views of government, government leaders …
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New York Times:
Business Groups See Loss of Sway Over House G.O.P. — WASHINGTON — As the government shutdown grinds toward a potential debt default, some of the country's most influential business executives have come to a conclusion all but unthinkable a few years ago: Their voices are carrying little weight …
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Politico:
GOP quietly backing away from Obamacare — A fight over Obamacare? That's so last week. — With the government shutdown firmly in its second week, and the debt limit projected to be reached next Thursday, top House and Senate Republicans are publicly moving away from gutting the health care law …
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Mitch McConnell, Senate GOP search for way out
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
House GOP ‘negotiators’ to meet Obama
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CNN:
Rebels kidnap Libyan PM Ali Zeidan, his office says — (CNN) — Armed men kidnapped Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan at dawn Thursday and took him to an undisclosed location, his office said. — The gunmen escorted the prime minister from the Corinthian Hotel in Tripoli into a convoy of waiting cars …
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James Hohmann / Politico:
Virginia governor election: Less money, more problems for Cuccinelli — Ken Cuccinelli is getting crushed on the Virginia airwaves, and it's probably only going to get worse - a major factor thwarting the Republican's hopes of a comeback in a governor's race that's been slipping away.
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Scarborough: A NYT Editor Told Me Krugman's Column Is Newspaper's ‘Biggest Nightmare’ — MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Thursday that a public editor at the New York Times considers liberal columnist Paul Krugman's work to be an ongoing “nightmare” for the newspaper.
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Washington Free Beacon and Weekly Standard
Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Most Utahns disapprove of Sen. Mike Lee, want him to compromise — Public opinion » The senator says his position won't change. — | The Salt Lake Tribune — More than half of Utah voters now disapprove of the performance of Utah Sen. Mike Lee, with support for the junior senator …
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The Hill and Talking Points Memo
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature — Alice Munro, the renowned Canadian short-story writer whose visceral work explores the tangled relationships between men and women, small-town existence and the fallibility of memory, won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.
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Ed O'Keefe / Post Politics:
Eleanor Holmes Norton confronts Obama on D.C. budget bill — Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) had what some colleagues called “a heated exchange” and what she described as “a conversation” with President Obama during a White House meeting Wednesday afternoon regarding the District's budget constraints …
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
When Does Wall Street Cast Its Vote? — NOTABLES — A GLIMMER OF A DEAL?: A House Republican leadership source says House GOP leaders are coalescing around a plan to provide a six-week extension of the debt limit - putting off the threat of default until early December and allowing …
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Yahoo! News and ABC News
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Let's Get Cynical — Why should we trust the government—especially now? — “An old friend who has been active in politics for more than 30 years tells me he's giving up,” claims Robert Reich in a Puffington Host post: " 'I can't stomach what's going on in Washington anymore,' he says.
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Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail — October 10, 2013 - Christie Holds Almost 2-1 Lead In New Jersey Gov Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Voters Say Override Gov Veto On Same-Sex Marriage — Despite strong support for same-sex marriage, which New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie is blocking …
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Developments in Financial Markets and the Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet — The Manager of the System Open Market Account reported on developments in domestic and foreign financial markets as well as the System open market operations during the period since the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met on July 30-31, 2013.
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Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Yellen's Path From Liberal Theorist to Fed Voice for Jobs — BERKELEY, Calif. — When the economists Janet L. Yellen and George A. Akerlof hired a baby sitter for their son in the early 1980s, they decided to pay more than the going wage. They reasoned that a happier baby sitter would provide better care.
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Announcing Fed Nomination, Obama Praises Yellen
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Rich Lowry / Reuters:
Train wreck: The Obamacare rollout — 'I'm not yet ready to be tsar," Nicholas II reportedly said in 1894 when his predecessor died. “ I know nothing of the business of ruling. The tsarina of Obamacare, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, must know how he felt.
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