memeorandum: New National Survey: Shutdown Severely Damaging GOP (gqrr.com)

3:25 PM ET, October 11, 2013

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Jonathan Karl / ABC News:

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.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Hot Air, Politico and The Hinterland Gazette

Associated Press:

NEW GOP SHUTDOWN/DEBT PLAN, BUT NO AGREEMENT YET — You are here — Home » United States government » New GOP shutdown/debt plan, but no agreement yet — WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are offering to pass legislation to avert a default and end the 11 …

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Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:

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 …

Discussion: Booman Tribune and Washington Post

Ian Swanson / The Hill:

House Republicans make new offer to Obama in fiscal fight — House Republican leaders have offered a new plan to lift the debt ceiling and reopen the government after meeting with President Obama Thursday. — The offer, made late Thursday night, would allow the House to vote as early …

Discussion: Daily Kos

Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
Reid pans six-week debt deal

Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …

Jonathan Strong / National Review:
Missing From New CR Negotiations: Harry Reid

Discussion: Power Line, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Hot Air and Booman Tribune

New York Times:
An Inadequate Offer From the House

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Politico:
GOP sends fiscal proposal to President Obama

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Washington Monthly and The Hill

Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
A Crisis of the President's Own Making

Discussion: Betsy's Page

Meredith Shiner / The World's Greatest …:
GOP Senators Skeptical of House Short-Term Debt Limit Plan Without End to Shutdown

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Hill, New York Times, Politico, msnbc.com, Daily Kos, Taegan Goddard's … and The PJ Tatler

Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:

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 …

Discussion: The Hill, Politico, Taylor Marsh, Hot Air, EconLog, Scared Monkeys, The Hinterland Gazette, msnbc.com, Talking Points Memo and Firedoglake

John B. Judis / The New Republic:

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.

Discussion: Associated Press, The Dish, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Week, ThinkProgress, Connecting.the.Dots and Heritage Action for America

Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
Gallup: 60% Of Americans Say Third Party Is Needed

Discussion: Gallup

Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:

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.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, CNN, American Spectator, Hullabaloo and The Dish

Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:

Liberal heckling sparks stream of one-liners from Ted Cruz — After his recent 21-hour filibuster-style marathon speech on Obamacare, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz found himself heckled over and over again by liberal activists during remarks at a conservative conference in Washington D.C. on Friday.

Discussion: Hot Air and Weasel Zippers

Peter Hamby / CNN:
Perkins: Cruz is de facto leader of Republican Party

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Politico and Los Angeles Times

Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
McCain To Fox News: No, The Shutdown Is The GOP's Fault (VIDEO)

Discussion: The Raw Story

Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Paul: Aid funds ‘war on Christianity’

Discussion: Politico

gqrr.com:

New National Survey: Shutdown Severely Damaging GOP — A just-completed national survey from Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research confirms that the voting public is fed up with just about everyone in Washington, but Republicans are clearly bearing much more of their anger and it damaging their prospects for 2014.

Discussion: Politico and Taegan Goddard's …

Mark Murray / NBCNews:
NBC/WSJ poll: Shutdown debate damages GOP

Domenico Montanaro / NBCNews:
NBC/WSJ poll: 60 percent say fire every member of Congress

Discussion: Associated Press, Michelle Malkin, Weasel Zippers, The Week, The Strata-Sphere, Scared Monkeys and Taegan Goddard's …

Mario Trujillo / The Hill:

Carson compares ObamaCare to slavery — Neurosurgeon Ben Carson said Friday that ObamaCare is the worst thing to happen to the United States since slavery. — “I have to tell you ObamaCare is, really I think, the worst thing that's happened in this nation since slavery,” …

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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:

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 …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and The Hinterland Gazette

Eric Schmitt / New York Times:

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 …

Discussion: Liberaland, RIA Novosti, Hot Air, Little Green Footballs, Talking Points Memo, Outside the Beltway, Gawker, The Verge, Business Insider and Prairie Weather, more at Mediagazer »

Alan Cowell / New York Times:

Chemical Weapons Watchdog Wins Nobel Peace Prize — LONDON — The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2013 Peace Prize on Friday to the United Nations body charged with destroying Syria's stocks of chemical weapons under a deal brokered by Russia and the United States.

Discussion: Slate, The Jawa Report, Lawfare, TVNewser and Althouse

Nobelprize.org:
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2013

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Reuters:
Chemicals weapons watchdog OPCW wins Nobel Peace Prize

Discussion: The Hill

ThinkProgress:

Sixth Grader's Father Says She Wouldn't Have Died If A School Nurse Had Been On Duty — Laporshia Massey, a 12-year-old girl from Philadelphia, died on September 25 after an asthma attack went untreated at her school. Her father says that she would have lived had there been a school nurse …

Discussion: UPI, Philly.com and Philadelphia City Paper

Jonathan D. Salant / Bloomberg:

Budget Battle Ends Soon With Tea Party Loss: King, Corker — Congress will open the partially shuttered government and increase its borrowing limit on at least a short-term basis next week before the debt ceiling is reached Oct. 17, Senator Bob Corker said today.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Raw Story and The Daily Caller

Luis Martinez / ABC News:

Air Force Fires Two Star General in Charge of Nuke Missiles — Maj. Gen. Michael Carey is being relieved of his command over the military's intercontinental ballistic missile force, according to a Defense official. Air Force — The Air Force's two star general in charge of the units responsible …

Discussion: The Greenroom