memeorandum: House passes bill funding government, defunding Obamacare (Jake Miller/CBS News)

5:50 AM ET, September 21, 2013

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Paul Courson / CNN:

Peter King: Ted Cruz ‘is a fraud’ — Washington (CNN) - The government shutdown showdown is getting ugly. — Republican Rep. Peter King said Friday that his Republican colleague in the Senate, Ted Cruz, “is a fraud” who will “no longer have any influence in the Republican Party” …

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Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:

Filibuster the House CR? Cruz, Other Conservatives Say ‘Yes’ (Updated) — Sen. Ted Cruz said Friday that Republican senators should, in effect, filibuster the House-passed continuing resolution in the Senate. — The Texas Republican is calling on his colleagues to oppose limiting debate on it …

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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:

John Boehner is being even more irresponsible than Ted Cruz — The House just voted for a “continuing resolution” that defunds Obamacare (though it wouldn't actually stop Obamacare from being implemented). Here's what House Speaker John Boehner hopes will happen next: — This'll go well.

Discussion: NBCNews, Washington Post, Speaker.gov, The Plum Line and Hullabaloo

Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:

In blow to immigration reform, House ‘gang of seven’ bill looks dead — In a blow to the hopes of passing immigration reform anytime soon, the bipartisan House “gang of seven” plan is probably dead, and almost certainly won't be introduced this fall as promised, a top Democrat on the “gang” acknowledges.

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Avik Roy / National Review:

Myths of the Obamacare Shutdown Soap Opera — There are a number of misperceptions of the internecine dispute taking place among conservatives, and within the Republican Party, around the effort by some to use the continuing resolution and the possibility of a government shutdown, to attempt to defund Obamacare.

Discussion: Power Line

John McCormack / Weekly Standard:

Never Surrender — Since January 2011, Republicans have tried to repeal Obamacare, in whole or in part, more than 40 times. That number is recited with a predictable sneer by congressional Democrats and the Washington press corps each time a new vote is held.

Discussion: Power Line and Taylor Marsh

Jake Miller / CBS News:

House passes bill funding government, defunding Obamacare — House Republicans advanced a bill on Friday that would continue funding the government at current spending levels for nearly three months but would strip money appropriated to fund Obamacare, following through on months of threats …

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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
House Bill Links Health Care Law and Budget Plan

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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep: Obamacare Defunders Are Following Example Of Rosa Parks, MLK

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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House votes 230-189 to fund government, defund ObamaCare

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Politico:
Senate turns to CR that defunds Obamacare

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New York Times:
Conservatives Take Turns Standing Up to the Speaker

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Tim Alberta / NationalJournal.com:
Inside Boehner's Plan To Avoid Shutdown (And Wound Obamacare)

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Washington Post:
House passes GOP plan to slash food stamp funding

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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:

US nearly detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina - secret document — Exclusive: Journalist uses Freedom of Information Act to disclose 1961 accident in which one switch averted catastrophe — A secret document, published in declassified form for the first time by the Guardian today …

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Guardian:
Goldsboro revisited: account of hydrogen bomb near-disaster over North Carolina - declassified document

Discussion: BBC and NBCNews

Bloomberg:

Company Behind Snowden Check Also Vetted D.C. Shooter — Photographer: Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty Images — The same federal contractor that vetted Edward Snowden, who leaked information about classified U.S. spying programs, also performed a background check …

Discussion: Power Line and National Review

Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:

Rollie Chance, Wrongly Suspected Navy Yard Shooter: I Thought ‘This Must Be A Joke’ — WASHINGTON — No one knows what it's like to be a dead mass murderer. But for about 20 minutes on Monday, Rollie Chance got about as close to that experience as you can get.

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New York Times:
Signs of Distress Multiplied on Killer's Path to Navy Yard

Discussion: The Lead with Jake Tapper and Clayton Cramer's Blog

Steve Benen / The Rachel Maddow Show:

Elections used to have consequences — If you listen to congressional Republicans defend their shutdown scheme and crusade to destroy the federal health care system, they'll routinely use the same phrase. The “American people,” the GOP claims, are on their side.

Discussion: Althouse, The Week, The Impolitic and The Plum Line

Adam Aigner-Treworgy / CNN:
Obama: ‘We are not some banana republic’

Discussion: Politico

Ginger Gibson / Politico:

Darrell Issa to travel to Libya — Darrell Issa is scheduled to travel to Libya next week as part of his investigation into the attack last year on the Benghazi consulate, according to documents obtained by POLITICO. — The California Republican, who chairs the House Oversight …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo and Moe Lane

Julian Pecquet / The Hill: Democrats slam Chairman Issa for upcoming ‘partisan’ trip to Libya

Alex Pareene / Salon:

The final triumph of welfare reform — The Third Way was supposed to end welfare politicking as we knew it, but no one told Republicans — House Republicans voted yesterday to cut $40 billion in funding for SNAP — the anti-poverty program commonly known as “food stamps” — because …

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Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep. Quotes Bible On Food Stamps: ‘If Anyone Is Not Willing To Work, Let Him Not Eat’

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Gina McCarthy / The Huffington Post:

Time to Act on Climate Change — I didn't plan for a life built around protecting the environment. In fact, I started my career as a health agent in the town of Canton, Mass., and later worked for the Stoughton Board of Health. But at some point I realized that at its core …

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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Administration Presses Ahead With Limits on Emissions From Power Plants

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Ben Geman / E2-Wire:
EPA to propose carbon emission limits

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Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:

A guide to freaking out about the newest Obamacare glitch — Welcome to Health Reform Watch, Sarah Kliff's regular look at how the Affordable Care Act is changing the American health-care system — and being changed by it. You can reach Sarah with questions, comments and suggestions here.

Discussion: Hot Air and Hit & Run

Avik Roy / Forbes:
WSJ: Obamacare Software Can't ‘Reliably Determine’ Enrollees' Eligibility For Subsidies

Discussion: Hit & Run, The Heritage Foundation, Wall Street Journal, National Review and Washington Free Beacon

Los Angeles Times:

Norwalk pastor violated 20-plus women using ‘healing hands,’ cops say — An associate pastor at a church in Norwalk arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting more than 20 female parishioners allegedly told his victims the sex acts were a necessary part of using “healing hands.”