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Erick Erickson / RedState:
House GOP Preparing to Give Up — I'm being told by several sources that Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor are plotting to give up trying to either defund or delay Obamacare. — This comes at the same time the Obama administration admits it will be months before their Obamacare website …
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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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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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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 …
Jake Sherman / Politico:
GOP mulls six-week debt hike — Speaker John Boehner's latest gambit — to lift the debt ceiling for six weeks while leaving government shut down — isn't exactly a magic bullet. — It's a bet that President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats will want so desperately to avoid …
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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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Washington Post:
GOP offers short-term debt-limit increase, but wants negotiations before ending shutdown
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Wall Street Journal:
CONNECT — WASHINGTON—The partisan logjam that has paralyzed …
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Jim Acosta / CNN:
Official: Obama will sign short term debt ceiling extension
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The Hill, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Politico
Mary Bruce / ABC News:
House GOP To Propose Short-Term Debt Limit Increase
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Tim Alberta / NationalJournal.com:
House Republicans Expect to Approve Short-Term Debt Deal
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Washington Post:
Key Republicans signal willingness to back down on effort to defund health-care law
Andrew Dugan / Gallup:
Republican Party Favorability Sinks to Record Low
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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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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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Fredrick Kunkle / Washington Post:
McAuliffe among investors in Rhode Island insurance scam that preyed on dying people — Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe was one of dozens of investors with a Rhode Island estate planner charged with defrauding insurers by using the stolen identities of terminally ill people …
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James Hohmann / Politico:
Virginia governor election: Less money, more problems for Cuccinelli
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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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Rich Lowry / Reuters:
Train wreck: The Obamacare rollout
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U-T San Diego / utsandiego.com:
President Obama's shameful death-benefit theater
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Kevin Derby / Sunshine State News:
Charlie Crist's Lead Within Margin of Error Against Rick Scott in New Poll — A new poll released Thursday finds Gov. Rick Scott at the heels of former Gov. Charlie Crist, the front-runner for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, in a possible 2014 match-up.
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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ThinkProgress:
Indiana Sues To Prevent Its Own Residents From Receiving Obamacare's Insurance Subsidies — Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller (R) — This week, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) challenging its authority …
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in.gov, Liberaland, The Hill and Shakesville
Peter Baker / New York Times:
The Final Insult in the Bush-Cheney Marriage — In the final days of his presidency, George W. Bush sat behind his desk in the Oval Office, chewing gum and staring into the distance as two White House lawyers briefed him on the possible last-minute pardon of I. Lewis Libby. — “Do you think he did it?”
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Joe Scarborough / Politico:
The real Republican divide — Forget the GOP divide between tea party members and establishment Republicans. If you want to see where the fault line runs in the Party of Lincoln look at the difference between Washington Republicans and other GOP leaders across America.
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The Daily Caller, The Moderate Voice and NBCNews
Max Fisher / WorldViews:
Oops: Azerbaijan released election results before voting had even started — Azerbaijan's big presidential election, held on Wednesday, was anticipated to be neither free nor fair. President Ilham Aliyev, who took over from his father 10 years ago, has stepped up intimidation of activists and journalists.
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Liberaland, Gawker and Spectator
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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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
The House GOP's Little Rule Change That Guaranteed A Shutdown — Late on the night of Sept. 30, with the federal government just hours away from shutting down, House Republicans quietly made a small change to the House rules that blocked a potential avenue for ending the shutdown.
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
The Obama Administration and the Press — Leak investigations and surveillance in post-9/11 America — U.S. President Barack Obama came into office pledging open government, but he has fallen short of his promise. Journalists and transparency advocates say the White House curbs routine disclosure …
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Los Angeles Times:
Private charity to restore death benefits for U.S. military families — The restoration of benefits for families of U.S. military members who die on active duty did little to calm their ire over the program's hang-up, caused by the federal government shutdown.
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