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Analysis: Republicans Are Working Out the Terms of Their Surrender — ANALYSIS: — Beware of irrational exuberance. Thursday night's meeting between President Obama and House Republican leaders was clearly a breakthrough, but both sides are cautioning this morning that progress is fragile.
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No Quick Deal, but Offer by G.O.P. on Debt Shifts the Tone — WASHINGTON — President Obama and House Republicans failed to reach agreement on a six-week extension of the nation's borrowing authority during a meeting Thursday at the White House, but the two sides kept talking …
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Reid pans six-week debt deal — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Friday rejected the House Republican proposal for a six-week increase in the debt limit. — “They're talking about extending the debt ceiling for two months or six weeks — please,” Reid said Friday.

An Inadequate Offer From the House — Speaker John Boehner on Thursday said he was willing to delay briefly a disastrous default of the country's financial obligations but was not willing to reopen the government. “I would hope that the president would look at this as an opportunity …
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GOP sends fiscal proposal to President Obama
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GOP Senators Skeptical of House Short-Term Debt Limit Plan Without End to Shutdown
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Obama, Republicans in debt talks on two fronts
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Fed up with House, senators grab at reins of fiscal debate
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In U.S., Perceived Need for Third Party Reaches New High — Twenty-six percent believe Democratic and Republican parties do adequate job — 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 …
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NBC/WSJ poll: Shutdown debate damages GOP — The Republican Party has been badly damaged in the ongoing government shutdown and debt limit standoff, with a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finding that a majority of Americans blame the GOP for the shutdown, and with the party's popularity declining to its lowest level.
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NBC/WSJ poll: 60 percent say fire every member of Congress
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Americans' Satisfaction With U.S. Gov't Drops to New Low
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How Democrats Can Get to Yes — If they want to end the shutdown and avoid default, they must find a way to let Republicans save face. — Google is a pretty amazing thing. The other day I was thinking about the government-shutdown mess and how it might be resolved …
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Missing From New CR Negotiations: Harry Reid
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Ryan Is Again in the Forefront for the G.O.P.
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The Ryan Factor — According to my sources, the House is poised …
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Cruz wows conservative crowd at Values Voter summit — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) whipped the conservative crowd into a frenzy at Friday's Values Voter summit, painting the fight over ObamaCare as a battle for basic freedom and calling on Republicans to redouble their efforts to end the program.
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Perkins: Cruz is de facto leader of Republican Party
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The Nobel Peace Prize for 2013 — The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2013 is to be awarded to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons. — During World War One, chemical weapons were used to a considerable degree.
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Chemical Weapons Watchdog Wins Nobel Peace Prize
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The year the government broke — In the nearly two decades since the last government shutdown, fierce partisanship, recurrent brinkmanship and routine dysfunction have been the national governing norm. For a full generation, the widespread consensus has been that Washington is “broken.”
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The way out — For all the hyped indignation over GOP …
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C.I.A. Warning on Snowden in '09 Said to Slip Through the Cracks — WASHINGTON — Just as Edward J. Snowden was preparing to leave Geneva and a job as a C.I.A. technician in 2009, his supervisor wrote a derogatory report in his personnel file, noting a distinct change in the young man's behavior …


The Last Days of the GOP — We could be witnessing the death throes of the Republican Party — I once wrote about lobbying, and this week I called some Republicans I used to talk to (and some that they recommended I talk to) about the effect the shutdown is having on the Republican Party in Washington.
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The Ferg-beast attacks — I'm breaking my blogging hiatus to briefly respond to Niall Ferguson, not because I'm mad, but because it's fun. For those who haven't seen it, Ferguson has posted a massive three-part rant (part 1, part 2, part 3) in which he attempts to take Paul Krugman to task …
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Will the Kamikaze Caucus Doom the GOP? — When Congress devolves into perpetual conflict, each party's more militant voices gain influence at the expense of its deal-makers. — When congressional insiders say John Boehner could lose his speakership if he moves to end the confrontations …
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Obamacare Foes Using Shutdown Echo South's Nullifiers — The Tea Party-inspired drive to derail Obamacare is anchored in a place where opposition to the federal government is as old as the nation: the American South. — The current fight, a budget standoff that threatens the creditworthiness of the U.S …
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Ben Carson Says Obamacare Is ‘Worst Thing’ To Happen To America Since Slavery — Tea Party favorite Dr. Ben Carson said the Obama administration's healthcare reform law is the worst thing to happen to the United States since slavery. — “I have to tell you Obamacare is, really I think …
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Dealing With Default — So Republicans may have decided to raise the debt ceiling without conditions attached — the details still aren't clear. Maybe that's the end of that particular extortion tactic, but maybe not, because, at best, we're only looking at a very short-term extension.
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