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Harry Reid makes budget offer to Mitch McConnell — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has privately offered Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell a deal that would reopen the government until mid-to-late December while extending the U.S. debt ceiling until next year, according to several sources familiar with the talks.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Plum Line, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, The Week, Guardian, neo-neocon, Hullabaloo, The Dish, Daily Kos, Reuters and The New Republic

Lloyd Green / The Daily Beast:

The GOP's Backdoor Impeachment Scheme — Republicans have lost at the ballot box and the Supreme Court, so they've decided to nullify President Obama another way: keep his government from working, period. — The dance over the debt ceiling and the fight over the government shutdown …

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Ashley Alman / The Huffington Post:

Louie Gohmert: A Debt Default Is ‘An Impeachable Offense By The President’ — Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) isn't sure whether he'll support a debt limit deal, but he is sure of one thing: a debt default would be President Barack Obama's fault. — A reporter for The Young Turks asked Gohmert whether …

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Joshua Green / Businessweek:
Ted Cruz Could Force a Debt Default All by Himself

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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
The ire next time — Whatever else came out of the shutdown …

Discussion: The Hill, The Moderate Voice, Roll Call and CNN

Noreen Malone / The New Republic:

This Is the Single Most Ridiculous Thing That's Been Said During the Shutdown — On Sunday, Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz converged on Washington, D.C., to co-headline a protest against the federal government's closure of the World War II Memorial. It is perhaps not surprising that one of the more cynical …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Real Clear Politics, Washington Monthly, Associated Press, Balloon Juice and nbcwashington.com

Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:

Sarah Palin's coming to Iowa — Conservative pundit Sarah Palin will speak at the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition's fall fundraiser, organizers told The Des Moines Register this morning. — She'll be one of several speakers, but Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah still has top billing as the keynote speaker.

Discussion: Politico, Talking Points Memo, Ballot Box and The Daily Caller

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Why Sarah Palin is Back — Wondering why Sarah Palin has reemerged …

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:

The Dixiecrat Solution — So you have this neighbor who has been making your life hell. First he tied you up with a spurious lawsuit; you're both suffering from huge legal bills. Then he threatened bodily harm to your family. Now, however, he says he's willing to compromise …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, Prairie Weather, National Review and Hullabaloo

Robert Costa / National Review:
Divided and Uneasy — As the debt-ceiling deadline nears …

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Stan Collender / Stan Collender's Capital Gains …:
Still No Better Than 50% That Debt Ceiling Is Raised By 10/17...And A Few Other Things

Discussion: The Dish

Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:

Republicans Are Still Hoping Democrats Will Give In Due to the Default Threat — Mitch McConnell, leader of the Senate Republicans, approached Democrats with a new offer over the weekend: He and his colleagues would vote to open the government and increase its borrowing authority …

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Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Senate Democrats Press New Front in Budget Battle

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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Collins cites ‘progress’ in talks; Obama, Biden to meet with congressional leaders

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CNN:
A possible compromise in the works? 'We're making progress'

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Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:

GOPers eye Donald Trump for governor run — Increasingly desperate New York Republicans, seeking the political equivalent of a Hail Mary pass, are trying to get Donald Trump to run against Gov. Cuomo next year, The Post has learned. — They're seeking to make the case that while Trump …

Discussion: Liberaland and Mediaite

Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Report: New York GOP wants Gov. Donald Trump

Discussion: ThinkProgress and Outside the Beltway

Charles C. Johnson / The Daily Caller:

Neighbors: Cory Booker never lived in Newark — As Cory Booker looks set to win the junior Senate seat in New Jersey Wednesday, his supposed neighbors in Newark say Mayor Booker doesn't live in the Gateway City. — Multiple residents of Newark told The Daily Caller that the longtime mayor …

Discussion: Ricochet Conversations Feed, The Lonely Conservative and FishbowlDC

Tal Kopan / Politico:
Poll: New Jersey Senate race tightens

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

Carolyn Roy / KSLA-TV:

Walmart shelves in Springhill, Mansfield, cleared in EBT glitch — Shelves in Walmart stores in Springhill and Mansfield, LA were reportedly cleared Saturday night, when the stores allowed purchases on EBT cards even though they were not showing limits. — The chaos that followed ultimately …

Discussion: Clarion-Ledger, The Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers, Independent Journal Review, The Lonely Conservative and The PJ Tatler

Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:

Fearing a lost governor's race, Virginia Republicans confront party divide — With just three weeks remaining before the election, Republican leaders in Virginia fear that their nominee, Ken Cuccinelli II, is on his way to losing the governor's race and that the party will squander command …

First Read / NBCNews:
First Thoughts: Can the Senate save the day?

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, First Read and Taegan Goddard's …

John Stanton / BuzzFeed:

This Video Of Republicans Tightening Control Of House Is As Unusual As It Seems — The video of an exchange between Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen and GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz over Republican rule changes spread like wildfire this weekend. GOP leaders are hanging on by their fingernails.

Ashley Alman / The Huffington Post:
House Republicans Changed The Rules So A Majority Vote Couldn't Stop The Government Shutdown

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Susan Page / USA Today:

Colo. governor suggests gun-control groups stay away — WASHINGTON — Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper suggests national gun-control groups stay away from a looming recall battle that could switch control of the state Senate to the GOP. The groups poured money into an unsuccessful defense …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Hot Air and The PJ Tatler

Tal Kopan / Politico:

Mark Halperin: GOP ‘terms of surrender’ — Veteran political journalist Mark Halperin said Monday that Democrats know they are winning the battle over the government shutdown and all that's left is negotiating the Republicans' “surrender.” — “It's just a question of the terms of surrender right now …

Discussion: The Hugh Hewitt Show

Byron York / Washington Examiner:

GOP seizes advantage on Obamacare, White House struggles to defend: An alternative history of the past two months — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL WHITE HOUSE BARACK OBAMA OBAMACARE PRESIDENT HEALTH CARE DEBT CEILING ECONOMY GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN — What if, instead of throwing its political energy …

Discussion: Slate, Wonkblog, Power Line and Betsy's Page

Healthcare Reform:

Obamacare enrollees become urban legend — Will the Floridians who have enrolled for Obamacare please stand up? — Nearly two weeks after the federal government launched the online Health Insurance Marketplace at HealthCare.gov, individuals who have successfully used the choked-up website …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Hit & Run, Taylor Marsh, The Daily Caller and Roger L. Simon

Bill Keller / New York Times:

Obamacare: The Rest of the Story — Unless you've been bamboozled by the frantic fictions of the right wing, you know that the Affordable Care Act, familiarly known as Obamacare, has begun to accomplish its first goal: enrolling millions of uninsured Americans, many of whom have been living …

Discussion: Right Wing News

Oliver Wright / The Independent:

Opponents of third world GM crops are ‘wicked’, says Environment Secretary Owen Paterson — Environmental groups fighting against the use of GM crops in Africa and Asia are “wicked” and potentially condemning millions of people to a premature death, the Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, says today.

Discussion: Guardian