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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
New GOP strategy: Offer deal on debt limit, but keep shutdown fight going — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL REPUBLICAN PARTY JOHN BOEHNER DEBT CEILING GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN — Many House Republicans, including some key leaders, have decided they can live with a government shutdown but not with the threat of default.
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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 …
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
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Tim Alberta / NationalJournal.com:
House Republicans Expect to Approve Short-Term Debt Deal
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Wolf Blitzer: White House Should Take GOP ‘Advice,’ Delay Obamacare Website
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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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Taegan Goddard's …, Prairie Weather and DealBook
Washington Post:
Key Republicans signal willingness to back down on effort to defund health-care law
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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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Justin Sink / The Hill:
House GOP ‘negotiators’ to meet Obama
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Ace / minx.cc:
CBS' Jan Crawford: Obama Rollout “Nothing Short of Disastrous” — From Tami. Jan Crawford is one of the few reporters in the media who calls things as they are, without prejudice or favor. — This is a tough report. Tough, but honest. Look below the fold for it.
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Scarborough: A NYT Editor Told Me Krugman's Column Is ‘Their Biggest Nightmare’ (VIDEO) — 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.” — During a segment on “Morning Joe …
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Weekly Standard
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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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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Niall Ferguson / The Huffington Post:
Krugtron the Invincible, Part 3 — In my previous two articles, I have shown that Paul Krugman - revered by his acolytes as the Invincible Krugtron - failed to anticipate the financial crisis and wrongly predicted that the single European currency would fall victim to it.
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Andrew Couts / Digital Trends:
WE PAID $634 MILLION FOR THE OBAMACARE SITES AND ALL WE GOT WAS THIS LOUSY 404 — It's been one full week since the flagship technology portion of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) went live. And since that time, the befuddled beast that is Healthcare.gov has shutdown, crapped out …
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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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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
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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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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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Ted Cruz poll shows GOP gained in fight over Obamacare despite shutdown — BARACK OBAMA OBAMACARE REPUBLICAN PARTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLLS TED CRUZ PENNAVE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN — Sen. Ted Cruz during a closed-door lunch on Wednesday argued to his Republican colleagues that the campaign …
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Michael Isikoff / NBC Politics:
Kochs to Congress: Focus on spending, not Obamacare — In a move that highlights a growing rift in conservative ranks, Koch Industries — the privately held energy conglomerate owned by billionaires Charles and David Koch — today distanced the firm from allied political groups lobbying …
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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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