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Wall Street Journal:
It's time to wrap up this comedy of political errors. — The Beltway budget melodrama rolls on to its predictable and dreary end, with both sides now split over increasingly small differences. None of this is worth a partial government shutdown, much less the risk of a debt default, and both sides are looking like losers.
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Jonathan Strong / National Review:
Stunned Republicans React to Canceled Vote — Referring to his plan to preemptively send the Senate a House-passed bill, Speaker John Boehner told his conference this morning that he'd “rather throw a grenade than catch a grenade.” But with his right-wing troops abandoning him again it was the speaker left holding the bomb.
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Abby D. Phillip / ABC News:
Senate Leaders ‘Very Close’ to Debt, Shutdown Deal … With less than a day remaining before the debt limit is reached, Congress will need to work feverishly today to pass compromise legislation that would extend the debt ceiling and end the government shutdown.
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
House Republicans Show Themselves To Be Dangerously Incompetent, Again — House Republican leaders canceled plans to call a vote Tuesday evening on a Republican plan to raise the debt limit and reopen the government. They couldn't round up enough Republican votes to pass it.
Politico:
Markets expect a deal — they better get one — NEW YORK — Wall Street has so far mostly shrugged off the latest Washington political crisis, assuming an 11th hour deal will materialize to raise the debt limit and stave off a potentially ruinous default. — But if the final act …
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Tom Cohen / CNN:
Will they make it? Senate rushing deal before debt ceiling deadline — Washington (CNN) — The country crashes into the debt ceiling at midnight, and there is no deal yet in Washington. — The deal-making resumes Wednesday, as the government slides into day 16 of the shutdown.
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Politico:
Senate leaders finalizing deal — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are finalizing a deal to avert a debt default and reopen the government, capping a frantic day that had Washington bracing for an economic crisis of its own making.
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Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Ayotte urges Cruz to allow quick vote in Senate on debt deal
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The Lead with Jake Tapper:
Rep. Dent predicts Boehner to bring pending Senate deal to House floor
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Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
Alternet:
US Warned of Credit Downgrade as Republicans Inch Closer to the Brink
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Guardian
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Senate Debt Deal Screeches To Halt As U.S. Looks Over The Cliff
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The Impolitic
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Exclusive: Glenn Greenwald Will Leave Guardian To Create New News Organization — The reporter who broke the NSA story promises “a momentous new venture.” A “very substantial new media outlet” with serious backing, he says. Updated. — Greenwald in Rio de Janeiro in July. — Sergio Moraes / Reuters
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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Exclusive: Greenwald exits Guardian for new Omidyar media venture
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Hearsay from Hillary Clinton: On Joe Biden and the Osama bin Laden raid — Former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton was in town today. A few Secret Squirrels, and some not so secret, agreed to be our sources, given that her speech to the National Association of Convenience Stores was encapsulated by a cone of silence.
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John Schwartz / New York Times:
Judge in Landmark Case Disavows Support for Voter ID — It is the kind of thought that rarely passes the lips of a member of the federal judiciary: I was wrong. — But there was Richard A. Posner, one of the most distinguished judges in the land and a member of the United States Court …
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Ryan Lizza / News Desk:
Why Congressional Staffers Hate the Vitter Amendment — Tonight, the House of Representatives will likely vote on the so-called Vitter Amendment, a bill that will be attached to a debt-ceiling increase and a continuing resolution to re-open the government. The Vitter Amendment …
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Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Obama vows veto over Vitter measure
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
As Good as It Gets? — ObamaCare supporters go through the stages of grief. — In a much-discussed post titled “Five Thoughts on the ObamaCare Disaster,” the Washington Post's Ezra Klein manages to cycle through the first three of Elisabeth Kübler Ross's five stages of grief: — • Denial.
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Houston Chronicle:
Why we miss Kay Bailey Hutchison — Things surely would look far different with Sen. Hutchison in office in the nation's capital — Does anyone else miss Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison? — We're not sure how much difference one person could make in the toxic, chaotic, hyperpartisan atmosphere in Washington …
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Rick Newman / Yahoo Finance:
Washington Bickering Has Killed Nearly 1 Million Jobs — It's just a “partial” government shutdown. Threats of a U.S. government default are overblown. The federal government is too involved in the economy, anyway. — These are some of the excuses used to justify repeated standoffs in Washington over federal spending.
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Warren Buffett: No debt limit hike ‘poison gas’ — Billionaire investor Warren Buffett warned Wednesday that failing to raise the debt ceiling would be like unleashing “poison gas” and a political weapon that should not be used. — “If it does happen, it's a pure act of idiocy.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Three Theories of House GOP Brinkmanship—And One More — As we await the next development in the fiscal saga, it's worthwhile to look at three theories kicking around today for exactly why House Republicans are continuing to engage in economy-risking and popularity-damaging brinkmanship …
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Business Insider, Washington Post, Balloon Juice and Democratic Strategist
Lacey Donohue / Gawker:
Joe Lhota Doesn't Want To Be Lumped In With National Republicans — The majority of Tuesday night's mayoral debate between Bill de Blasio and Joe Lhota was spent covering the usual topics: charter schools, taxes, small businesses, well-paying jobs, the income gap, and stop and frisk policies.
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The Hinterland Gazette
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Senate GOP Aide: ‘Ted Cruz And His Tortilla Coast Republicans Are Leading Us To A Default’ — With the possibility of breaching the debt limit looking more and more plausible as House Republicans struggle to appease their caucus and come up with a plan to re-open the government and increase the debt ceiling …
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Paige Lavender / The Huffington Post:
Antonin Scalia: 14th Amendment Protects Everyone, Not ‘Only The Blacks’ — During oral arguments on an affirmative action case on Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said the 14th Amendment protects everyone, not “only the blacks.” — The quote was tweeted by the New York Times' David Leonhardt:
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Appeals court turns aside reporter's privilege plea, 13-1 — A federal appeals court turned aside a major showdown over reporter's privilege Tuesday, refusing to have the court's full bench re-hear a case that resulted in a July ruling that a New York Times reporter had no right to decline …
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Sorry, Kids. We Ate It All. — Eventually this shutdown crisis will end. And eventually the two parties will make another stab at a deal on taxes, investments and entitlements. But there's one outcome from such negotiations that I can absolutely guarantee: Seniors …
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