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12:30 PM ET, October 17, 2013

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Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Ted Cruz left with few friends after Obamacare fight fails, government shutdown ends, debt limit rises  —  Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said he wouldn't try to block the Senate agreement.  “There's nothing to be gained from delaying this vote one day or two days.  The outcome will be the same,” Cruz said.
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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Winners and losers of the debt-limit fight  —  The 2013 fiscal showdown was ugly, especially for Republicans.  —  Both parties have scoffed that there are winners and losers in the debate.  —  Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) recently said, “This isn't a damn game!”
Discussion: CNN, Politico and Reuters
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Tea Party's Image Turns More Negative  —  Ted Cruz's Popularity Soars among Tea Party Republicans  —  The Tea Party is less popular than ever, with even many Republicans now viewing the movement negatively.  Overall, nearly half of the public (49%) has an unfavorable opinion of the Tea Party, while 30% have a favorable opinion.
Todd Starnes / Fox News:
American taxpayers betrayed by chicken-hearted RINOs  —  American taxpayers have once again been trampled by establishment Republicans - a thundering herd of chicken-hearted Republicans in Name Only (RINOs) galloping to the Left.  —  The debt ceiling deal struck between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …
Discussion: The Dish, Reuters and The Right Scoop
Erick Erickson / RedState:
Advancing.  Ever Advancing.  —  Much cynicism has been expressed over the past month about the effort, led by Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, to fight Obamacare.  It was about money or defeating Republicans or something other than what it was about — undermining Obamacare with a united front.
Phillip M. Bailey / WFPL:
McConnell-Reid Deal Includes $3 Billion Earmark for Kentucky Project  —  A proposal to end the government shutdown and avoid default orchestrated by Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic Leader Harry Reid includes a nearly $3 billion earmark for a Kentucky project.
Nate Cohn / The New Republic:
Familiar GOP Divisions Exposed In Debt Ceiling Vote
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Graham: Polls factored into GOP folding
Discussion: Politico and CANNONFIRE
Washington Post:
Deal buys Democrats and Republicans a little time to find a big fiscal fix
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Ryan breaks from Boehner, votes ‘no’  —  Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) split with his party's leadership and voted against the Senate fiscal agreement on Wednesday night.  —  In a statement, Ryan called the legislation to reopen the government and lift the debt ceiling “a missed opportunity” to reduce the federal debt.
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Republicans grapple with stinging defeat
Discussion: Politico
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:   The Vote to Free the Hostages
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz will try to do all of this again. Will John Boehner let him?
New Jersey Online:
Cory Booker makes history as he defeats Steve Lonegan in U.S. Senate election  —  NEWARK — Cory Booker's star-quality and his skill at surviving the roughhouse politics of New Jersey's biggest city took him from the mayor's office to the U.S. Senate today in a hard-fought victory over Republican iconoclast Steve Lonegan.
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Only Four African Americans Have Ever Been Elected To The U.S. Senate In All Of American History
Discussion: NBCNews and Shakesville
John Fund / National Review:
Dem ‘Referendum’ on Tea Party Fizzles: Booker Margin in N.J. Barely Half of Obama's in 2012
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Politico:
House stenographer hauled from floor  —  A House floor stenographer was abruptly hauled out of the chamber after charging the dais and screaming during Wednesday's late night vote on raising the debt ceiling and funding the federal government.  —  As the bill sailed toward final passage …
Discussion: SoundCloud and Roll Call
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New York Post:
Ranting staffer dragged off House floor
Abby D. Phillip / ABC News:
House Stenographer Yanked From Chamber Ranting About God, Freemasons
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Conservatives Learned The Wrong Lessons From The Shutdown Debacle  —  For a certain block of House conservatives, the ones who drove Speaker John Boehner toward a government shutdown and near-default against his will, the lesson of the last few weeks isn't that they overreached.
Discussion: The Mahablog
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Marshall Sella / GQ Magazine Online:
The Year of Living Carlos Dangerously  —  Anthony Weiner's sexting addiction nuked his political career (twice!), endangered his marriage (twice!), and turned him into a walking penis joke (forever!).  —  Marshall Sella tails Weiner through his doomed campaign for New York mayor …
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Documents reveal NSA's extensive involvement in targeted killing program  —  It was an innocuous e-mail, one of millions sent every day by spouses with updates on the situation at home.  But this one was of particular interest to the National Security Agency and contained clues that put …
Michael Hirsh / NationalJournal.com:
Hillary Clinton, Welcome to the White House  —  She has no Democratic challenger, and the Republican Party is no longer a credible opposition force.  —  Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton smiles as she waits to answer questions from an audience at Chatham House on October 11, 2013 in London, England.
Discussion: Yahoo! News and Wonkblog
Ashley Killough / CNN:
McCain: No more shutdowns, ‘I guarantee it’  —  Washington (CNN) - Sen. John McCain promised Thursday the government will not shut down again in the near future, and argued the President, as the victor in the recent showdown, will now have to engage with his political opponents on Capitol Hill.
Discussion: Politico
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CNN:
Republican congressman: It was worth the fight
Larry Flynt / Hollywood Reporter:
Don't Execute the Man Who Paralyzed Me (Guest Column)  —  Joseph Paul Franklin, who has confessed to shooting Flynt in 1978 and been convicted in a series of racially motivated murders, is set for execution in Missouri in November.  Flynt writes for THR, “I have every reason to be overjoyed with that decision, but I am anything but.”
Discussion: Liberaland and Mediaite
Steve Almasy / CNN:
There's a little pork in that bill: The 5 most surprising provisions in the debt deal  —  (CNN) — So much for a “clean” bill.  The measure passed by Congress to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling also contains some goodies and gifts tucked into the 35-page bill.
Discussion: BizPac Review
Betsy Woodruff / National Review:
Norquist: Defunders Owe Conservatives an Apology  —  Grover Norquist isn't happy with the Defunders.  The Americans for Tax Reform president told reporters today that they have a lot of apologies to make and bridges to re-build.  —  “It'd be a good idea if they stopped referring …
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Telegraph:
US debt ceiling crisis - Barack Obama has won the shutdown. His prize is a lame duck presidency
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Losing a Lot to Get Little  —  WASHINGTON — For the Republicans who despise President Obama's health care law, the last few weeks should have been a singular moment to turn its botched rollout into an argument against it.  Instead, in a futile campaign to strip the law of federal money …
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Pro-Discrimination Left  —  Not everyone thinks white people have constitutional rights.  —  The Declaration of Independence declared that “all men are created equal,” but the U.S. Constitution as originally ratified did not live up to that principle.  By political necessity it permitted …
Discussion: Instapundit and The Hill
Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Obama Wins!  Big Whoop.  Can He Lead?  —  With an eye to history, will the president leverage his victory to score a debt-busting deal with the GOP?  Doubt it.  —  Barack Obama is a winning president.  Will he be remembered as a great one?  (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Discussion: Washington Wire
 
 
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Shutdown Over, Government Slowly Gets Back to Normal
Discussion: The Plum Line, Hit & Run and CBS DC
Elizabeth Harrington / Washington Free Beacon:
Study: Food Stamps Most Rapidly Growing Welfare Program
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Infowars
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
N.J. GOPer: If My Rival Comes To Your Door, ‘Get Your Gun’
Discussion: The Raw Story
Conrad Black / National Review:
The Obamacare Disaster
FRANCE 24:
Chinese agency downgrades US credit rating
 Earlier Items: 
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Federal workers returning to a ‘mess’
Discussion: CNN and NBCNews
Shane Goldmacher / NationalJournal.com:
The Next Budget Crisis Is Only 90 Days Away
Discussion: Firedoglake and Liberaland
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Conservatism needs to lighten up
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