memeorandum: Ted Cruz Is Talking Until He Can't Stand Anymore (NationalJournal.com)

6:55 PM ET, September 24, 2013

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The Cruz Campaign Against ObamaCare — The freshman Texas Senator volunteers House Republicans for duty on his implausible defunding gambit. — So House Republicans have passed and sent to the Senate a budget that includes no funding for the Affordable Care Act, setting up a political showdown …

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Burgess Everett / Politico:

Ted Cruz seizes Senate floor in failing quest — Ted Cruz seized control of the Senate floor on Tuesday at about 2:42 p.m., vowing to “speak in support of defunding Obamacare until I am no longer able to stand.” — But Cruz cannot stop a Senate now in motion from eventually returning …

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NationalJournal.com:

Ted Cruz Is Talking Until He Can't Stand Anymore — “I rise in opposition to Obamacare,” the Texas Republican began. This speech may go on for a while. — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, rose to speak on the Senate floor at 2:41 p.m. He stood up in opposition to Obamacare, he said.

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Arlette Saenz / ABC News:

Ted Cruz Vows To Speak Against Obamacare: ‘Until I Am No Longer Able To Stand’ — On Tuesday at 2:41 p.m., Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., took the Senate floor to protest a government funding bill that funds President Obama's signature health care reform law. He plans to talk — and talk — all afternoon and possibly all evening long.

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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:

Cruz Likens Obamacare Defunding Skeptics To Nazi Appeasers (VIDEO) — During a floor speech Tuesday aimed at reviving the already-dim prospects for his effort to defund Obamacare, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) likened his doubters to Nazi appeasers. — “If you go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany,” Cruz said.

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Erick Erickson / RedState:

A Cruz Missile Launch, Like a Light, Shows the Cockroaches Scurrying — A curious moment happened on Fox News Sunday. Chris Wallace told Karl Rove that a number of Republicans in Congress had sent him opposition research on Ted Cruz once Fox announced Cruz would be on. — Rove responded.

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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Steve Schmidt rants against GOP ‘asininity’

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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
GOP leaders face resistance in push to speed up government funding bill

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David Frum / The Daily Beast:
Can Ted Cruz Win by Losing?

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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Cruz vows filibuster ‘Until I am no longer able to stand’

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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
GOP flinches at Obamacare plan devised by Sens. Ted Cruz, Mike Lee

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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
There's much less time to avoid a government shutdown than you think

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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Ted Cruz's Flinty Path

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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:

AIG CEO: Anger over AIG bonuses ‘just as bad’ as lynchings — AIG's CEO Robert Benmosche — who came in to rescue the company after the 2008 financial crisis — told the Wall Street Journal that the outrage over the bonuses promised to AIG's members was just as bad as when white supremacists …

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Leslie Scism / WSJ Blogs - WSJ:
AIG's Benmosche and Miller on Villains, Turnarounds and Those Bonuses

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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
WSJ buries the lead deep on AIG's CEO

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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Yo, Wall Street!

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John B. Judis / The New Republic:

Obama Just Gave His Most Significant Foreign Policy Speech — President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday to the United Nations was his most significant foreign policy statement since becoming president. It showed he had clearly learned something from the recent “red line” fiasco in Syria.

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Guardian:
Obama tells UN that diplomatic path must be tested with Iran

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TIME:
Obama and Rouhani: A Handshake that Could Shake the World

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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama, Rouhani won't meet

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James Moore / CNN:

Hillary, don't run for president — Hillary Clinton through the years … (CNN) — Don't run, Hillary. — Nobody is saying the former secretary of state, New York senator, U.S. and Arkansas first lady, and Yale-trained attorney is not qualified for the White House.

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Brittney Cooper / Salon:
GOP launches race war to boost the 1 percent

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John Dickerson / Slate:
The Long Game — Hillary Clinton is perhaps the first …

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Ken Thomas / Associated Press:
Hillary Clinton Warns Against Government Shutdown

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Fox News:

One man's ObamaCare nightmare — Andy and Amy Mangione of Louisville, Ky. and their two boys are just the kind of people who should be helped by ObamaCare. But they recently got a nasty surprise in the mail. — “When I saw the letter when I came home from work,” Andy said …

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Politico:
Obamacare: One blow after another

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Avik Roy / National Review:
Obamacare Bends the Cost Curve—Upward

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Dorsey Shaw / BuzzFeed:

Cornel West + “Crossfire” = One Hell Of A GIF Factory — Thank goodness for split screen reaction shots on cable news. — You may have missed the extremely animated debate over Obamacare and the future of conservatism last night on Crossfire. — Well, Bill Kristol was there, and he did this, which was great.

Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Police: Missouri House staffer left loaded gun in Capitol restroom — • By Elizabeth Crisp ecrisp@post-dispatch.com 573-556-6186 — A Missouri House staffer allegedly left a loaded gun in a public restroom in the state Capitol last week. — According to a Capitol Police incident report …

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Larry Klayman / RenewAmerica:

Obama's reckoning to come on November 19! — Klayman Calls for the Masses to Force Resignation of Convicted President — Last Wednesday, the great usurper, Barack Hussein Obama, after having been indicted by an Ocala, Florida citizens' grand jury, was convicted by a people's court …

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Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:

Rubio Withdraws Support for Gay Black Judge's Nomination to the Federal Bench — MIAMI — The nomination of a gay black Miami judge to the federal bench will not move forward after Senator Marco Rubio announced he was withdrawing his support over concerns about the judge's actions in two criminal cases.

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Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:

Catholic College Rescinds Invitation to Speaker Defending Same-Sex Marriage — Providence College, a Roman Catholic school in Rhode Island, has canceled a lecture in support of same-sex marriage on Thursday by a gay philosophy professor, citing a church document that says that …

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Kathryn Ruemmler / White House.gov Blog:

Senate Votes to Confirm Todd Hughes to Serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit — This afternoon, the Senate unanimously confirmed Todd Hughes to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Like all of the President's judicial nominees …