Top Items:
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.
Discussion:
ABC News, Reuters, Bloomberg, Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, NPR, Roll Call, Questions and Observations and The Hill
RELATED:
Politico:
House to vote first on Senate plan — The House will vote first on an emerging Senate proposal to open government and lift the debt ceiling, a move that would expedite bipartisan legislation developed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Discussion:
ThinkProgress, Wonkblog, Business Insider, The Week, Hot Air, The Hinterland Gazette and Reuters
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.
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, News Desk, Washington Post, The American Conservative, Hot Air, Daily Kos and Taegan Goddard's …
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Ayotte urges Cruz to allow quick vote in Senate on debt deal — Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) on Wednesday urged her GOP colleague Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) to allow a Senate budget deal to hit the floor without delay. — Ayotte said delaying a Senate bill with procedural tactics would have little point.
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.
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.
Discussion:
CNN, NBCNews, Hot Air, Shakesville and ABC News
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 …
Discussion:
Taegan Goddard's …
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.
Discussion:
KTLA 5
Kelly Ayotte / CNN:
Republican senator wants Cruz to stay out of the way in debt vote
Republican senator wants Cruz to stay out of the way in debt vote
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo
The Lead with Jake Tapper:
Rep. Dent predicts Boehner to bring pending Senate deal to House floor
Rep. Dent predicts Boehner to bring pending Senate deal to House floor
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
McCain: ‘Republicans Have To Understand We Have Lost This Battle’
McCain: ‘Republicans Have To Understand We Have Lost This Battle’
Discussion:
Mediaite, Liberaland, Weasel Zippers, The Reaction and Calculated Risk
Washington Post:
Senate leaders race to draft debt-limit bill after House effort collapses
Senate leaders race to draft debt-limit bill after House effort collapses
Discussion:
NationalJournal.com, The Fix, New York Magazine, Politico, FOX News Radio, Right Turn, FishbowlDC, NBCNews, Washington Times, Independent Journal Review, ProfessorBainbridge.com, Shot in the Dark, FreedomWorks, VodkaPundit, Post Politics, Daily Kos, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Monthly and The Plum Line
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 …
RELATED:
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
RELATED:
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Exclusive: Greenwald exits Guardian for new Omidyar media venture
Exclusive: Greenwald exits Guardian for new Omidyar media venture
Discussion:
Guardian, Poynter, Taylor Marsh and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
Discussion:
ThinkProgress, Slate and The Fact Checker
RELATED:
Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Obama vows veto over Vitter measure
Obama vows veto over Vitter measure
Discussion:
BizPac Review, PoliticusUSA and ThinkProgress
Ajc Blogs: &lsquo:
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.
Discussion:
Politico, Outside the Beltway, Right Turn, Taylor Marsh and Weasel Zippers
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.
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.
Discussion:
Liberaland and democrats.com
Juliet Eilperin / Post Politics:
Analysis: Obamacare glitches scare off many Web site users — The number of visitors to the federal government's HealthCare.gov Web site plummeted 88 percent between Oct. 1 and Oct. 13, according to a new analysis of America's online use, while less than half of 1 percent …
Discussion:
Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and Washington Free Beacon
RELATED:
Matt Pace / Compete Pulse:
A Bleak First Week: 99.6% of Healthcare.gov Visitors Did NOT Enroll in Obamacare
A Bleak First Week: 99.6% of Healthcare.gov Visitors Did NOT Enroll in Obamacare
Discussion:
Kantar, Weasel Zippers, Mediaite, National Review, The Daily Caller and Twitchy
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 …
Discussion:
BillMoyers.com
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.
Discussion:
The Hinterland Gazette
Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Phil Griffin: Chris Matthews ‘national treasure’ — If you take MSNBC President Phil Griffin at his word, “Hardball” host Chris Matthews is the cable network's top employee. — “Everything he does, especially as he gets older and succeeds, is really impressive,” Griffin told a crowd at Washington …
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers