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10:15 AM ET, October 3, 2013

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Manu Raju / Politico:
Ted Cruz blasted by angry GOP colleagues  —  Ted Cruz faced a barrage of hostile questions Wednesday from angry GOP senators, who lashed the Texas tea party freshman for helping prompt a government shutdown crisis without a strategy to end it.  —  At a closed-door lunch meeting …
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Robert Costa / National Review:
Boehner to GOP: Grand Bargain in the Works  —  House Republicans tell me Speaker John Boehner wants to craft a “grand bargain” on fiscal issues as part of the debt-limit deliberations, and during a series of meetings on Wednesday, he urged colleagues to stick with him.  —  The revelation came quietly.
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
GOP stands firm against funding bill, will link to debt ceiling fight  —  OBAMACARE DEBT CEILING PENNAVE BUDGETS AND DEFICITS GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN  —  House Republicans are unlikely to blink in the standoff over Obamacare that precipitated a government shutdown, fearing that acceding …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Government shutdown: Why many Republicans have no reason to deal  —  The prevailing wisdom ahead of the government shutdown was that tea party lawmakers who agitated for it would fold within a few days, once they got an earful from angry constituents and felt the sting of bad headlines.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Coburn challenges McConnell on ‘leadership vacuum’  —  An outspoken conservative lawmaker recently challenged Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) at a closed-door meeting, saying there is a GOP “leadership vacuum” in the upper chamber, according to sources.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
David Espo / ABC News:
Analysis: Republicans Get Opposite of Stated Goals  —  Republicans insisted they wanted to shut down the nation's 3-year-old health care overhaul, not the government.  They got the opposite, and now struggle to convince the public that responsibility for partial closure of the federal establishment lies …
Discussion: Associated Press and Politico
Politico:
Government shutdown: Is a grand bargain the only way out?  —  Many pragmatic House Republicans have come to a simple conclusion: Navigating their way out of this fiscal mess won't be easy.  —  They think their best chance to fund the government, raise the debt ceiling and extract any concession …
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
John Boehner, between a rock and a hard place on shutdown and debt limit  —  House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) has at his disposal the political tools to reopen the government at a moment's notice.  But he would have to rely on an uneasy coalition of Democrats and a few moderate Republicans …
Suzy Khimm / msnbc.com:
What's the fight about?  Republicans struggle to explain  —  Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), and Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) meet with other House Republican conferees on Capitol Hill October 1, 2013 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
Washington Post:
Government shutdown puts U.S. security at risk
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Cruz warns shutdown could lead to terrorist attacks
Sheldon Alberts / The Hill:
No sign of government shutdown ending after White House meeting
Discussion: Politico
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Bank CEOs huddle with Obama
Discussion: Politico and Washington Monthly
CBS News:
Poll: Americans not happy about shutdown; more blame GOP  —  PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO  —  On day three of the partial government shutdown, a new CBS News poll reveals that a large majority of Americans disapprove of the shutdown and more are blaming Republicans than President Obama and the Democrats for it.
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:   Poll Confirms Americans Blame GOP For Shutdown
Jim Williams / Public Policy Polling:
Conspiracy Theories Round Two: Republicans More Likely To Subscribe to Government Conspiracy Theories
Discussion: PoliticusUSA, Reuters and CANNONFIRE
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
In Showdown With G.O.P., a Scrappy Reid Plays Hardball  —  WASHINGTON — It was not enough for Senator Harry Reid to just dismiss Republican offers as “vexatious” or “kid's stuff” or “one cockamamie, can't-pass idea after another.”  He called the White House and asked it to issue a veto threat, which it promptly did.
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House passes bills to fund DC, parks and medical research
Washington Free Beacon:
Reid: ‘Why Would We Want To’ Help One Kid With Cancer?
Chad Terhune / Los Angeles Times:
California exchange overstated its Web traffic for Obamacare launch  —  Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, discusses the launch of the state's insurance exchange Tuesday in Los Angeles.  (Reed Saxon/AP / October 2, 2013)  —  California's health insurance exchange vastly overstated …
Des Moines Register:
Kent Sorenson resigns from Senate  —  Investigation into Bachmann payments finds ‘probable cause’ he broke ethics rules  —  Iowa senator resigns amid ethics probe: Des Moines Register politics editor Carol Hunter and Statehouse reporter Jason Noble discuss the resignation of Iowa Sen. Kent Sorenson.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
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Jason Noble / Des Moines Register:
BREAKING: Iowa Sen. Kent Sorenson resigns after report finds he received money from Bachmann campaign
Discussion: Politico and Talking Points Memo
Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
Denny Hastert Disses the ‘Hastert Rule’: It ‘Never Really Existed’  —  The former Republican speaker's ‘rule,’ that you can't bring legislation to the House floor without a majority of GOP votes, is cited as the reason Boehner can't end the shutdown.  But Hastert tells Eleanor Clift it's a ‘non-entity’ …
ThinkProgress:
Meet Butch Matthews, A Republican Who Came To Love Obamacare After Realizing It Will Save Him $13,000  —  61-year-old Butch Matthews, left, with his wife Debbie  —  Butch Matthews is a 61-year-old former small business owner from Little Rock, Arkansas who used to wake up every morning at 4 …
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Brendan Mahoney Saves ObamaCare  —  Great news!  They got a 30-year-old dude to sign up!  —  “People complain of having to stand in line for hours, often in vain, and many are losing patience with the government's explanation that unsavory conspirators are to blame for the nation's problems,” reports the New York Times.
Sol Stern / City Journal:
The Closing of Diane Ravitch's Mind  —  Education writer and activist Diane Ravitch is very angry these days.  She's convinced herself and her followers that elements of the American corporate elite are working to destroy the nation's public schools, the indispensable institution that has held …
Discussion: Eduwonk
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Jessica Taylor / msnbc.com:
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BBC:
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