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10:10 AM ET, October 4, 2013

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Politico:
Bad blood: Four feuding leaders  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid privately told fellow Democratic senators this week what he really thought of Speaker John Boehner.  —  “He's a coward,” Reid angrily said, referring to Boehner's private push for federal health care contributions for lawmakers and their staff.
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Wall Street Journal:
White House's Hard Line on Shutdown, Debt Ceiling Has Risks Attached  —  President Barack Obama is sticking to his stance that he won't negotiate with Republicans over the government shutdown or the higher-stakes fight over the federal debt ceiling.  —  The question, for Republicans …
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
G.O.P. Elders See Liabilities in Shutdown  —  WASHINGTON — The hard-line stance of Republican House members on the government shutdown is generating increasing anger among senior Republican officials, who say the small bloc of conservatives is undermining the party and helping President Obama …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
What the White House fears most about the debt limit fight  —  Right now, the primary fear among senior Obama administration officials is that John Boehner and the GOP leadership don't grasp just how damaging Obama believes it would be to the remainder of his tenure — and the office …
Brian Beutler / Salon:
Republicans finally confronting reality: They're trapped!  —  Obama's ironclad resolve not to negotiate over the debt limit appears to finally be sinking in among GOP leaders  —  After struggling for weeks and weeks in stages one through four, Republicans are finally entering the final stage …
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
How the White House sees the shutdown (and debt ceiling!) fight  —  To the White House, the shutdown/debt ceiling fight is quite simple, and quite radical: Republicans are trying to create a new, deeply undemocratic pathway through which a minority party that lost the last election can enact …
Washington Post:
In shooting near Capitol, government workers rush into danger  —  THE ORDER went out to Capitol Hill personnel Thursday afternoon in capital letters: SHELTER IN PLACE.  It was a terrifying moment for a community already on edge.  The scare ended with less carnage than we have come to fear in such moments …
Aamer Madhani / USA Today:
Obama hammers Boehner on shutdown, debt ceiling
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Rattled Congress Seeks Way Out of Its Standoff
Discussion: Prairie Weather and CNN
nbcwashington.com:
Obama to Boehner: “Take a Vote. End This Shutdown Right Now”
Washington Post:
Police suspect dental hygienist Miriam Carey was behind the wheel of Capitol chase  —  She had a toddler with her, confounding everyone who watched the car crash through barriers and lead police through the heart of high-security Washington.  —  Law enforcement officials said the black Infiniti …
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NBCNews:
Woman in DC chase may have thought Obama was stalking her, sources say  —  Investigators have found indications that the woman who led authorities on a chase from the White House to the Capitol before she was shot to death by police thought that President Barack Obama was stalking her, law enforcement sources told NBC News.
Discussion: NBC Politics and VodkaPundit
NY Daily News:
U.S. Capitol shooting: Brooklyn neighbor says Connecticut woman shot dead outside Capitol ‘seemed like a nice young lady, stable’  —  Relatives of Miriam Carey converged in Bushwick to try to make sense of the events that unfolded in Washington, where the 34-year-old dental hygienist …
ABC News:
Miriam Carey, Capitol Suspect, Suffered Post-Partum Depression
Brett Taylor / Twitchy:
Surprise: Media's Obamacare health insurance exchange poster boy is OFA volunteer  —  Despite a huge number of reports of technical failures that kept people from creating accounts at HealthCare.gov the last three days, Mediaite notes that one lucky winner of the health insurance exchange lottery …
Discussion: americanthinker.com
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Adobe Blogs:
Important Customer Security Announcement  —  Cyber attacks are one of the unfortunate realities of doing business today.  Given the profile and widespread use of many of our products, Adobe has attracted increasing attention from cyber attackers.  Very recently, Adobe's security team …
Timothy Egan / Opinionator:
Wrong Side of History  —  Sarah Palin finally got her death panels — a direct blow from the Republican House.  In shutting down the government, leaving 800,000 people without a paycheck and draining the economy of $300 million a day, the Party of Madness also took away last-chance cancer trials …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
ThinkProgress:
How A Rand Paul Republican From Alabama Learned To Love Obamacare  —  Joshua Pittman is a 31-year-old self-employed videographer from Montgomery, Alabama.  A libertarian Republican who voted for Ron Paul in 2012 and believes that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is the future of the GOP …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Cory Booker's lackluster campaign  —  Cory Booker is all but certain to win the New Jersey special election for U.S. Senate.  —  But as polls show Republican rival Steve Lonegan tightening the race, Booker is getting an uncomfortable reminder that he will have to campaign hard to defend …
Mark Segraves / nbcwashington.com:
Congressman Confronts Park Ranger Over Closed WWII Memorial  —  Conflict over the responsibility for the government shutdown got personal at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. Wednesday when a member of Congress confronted a U.S. Park Service Ranger over access to the closed park land.
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David French / National Review:
The World War II Memorial Shutdown: A Symbol of Government Malice
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Congressman Mansplains The Shutdown To CNN Anchor: 'You're Beautiful But You Need To Be Honest'  —  CNN's Carol Costello confronted Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN) over his party's continued crusade against Obamacare Thursday morning, pushing him to admit that Republicans' “divisive approach” …
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Boehner in Charge  —  How the House speaker rallied his restive troops.
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James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
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Discussion: Weekly Standard
Wayne Slater / Dallas Morning News:
Now that she's running, Davis will have to talk about abortion
Discussion: The Fix, msnbc.com and NBCNews
USA Today:
Jack Lew: U.S. failure to pay bills hurts everyone
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
CNN:
Worst shutdown in modern U.S. history
Discussion: Global Public Square
Lauren Markoe / The Huffington Post:
Hobby Lobby Boycotts Jewish Hanukkah And Passover
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CNN:
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John B. Judis / The New Republic:
The Shutdown Standoff Is One of the Worst Crises in American History
Discussion: Washington Monthly
 

 
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