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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.
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 …
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Senior Admin. Official: 'We Are Winning...It Doesn't Really Matter to Us' When Shutdown Ends  —  Although the government shutdown continues, it appears President Barack Obama and the White House are not getting any closer to negotiating with Republicans.  A quotation from an unnamed senior …
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 …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Experts See Potential Ways Out for Obama in Debt Ceiling Maze
Discussion: Brad DeLong and Wonkblog
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
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.
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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 …
ABC News:
Miriam Carey, Capitol Suspect, Suffered Post-Partum Depression … A woman killed by police today after a high-speed chase through Washington, D.C., that led to a lockdown of Capitol Hill suffered post-partum depression following the recent birth of her daughter, the suspect's mother told ABC News.
Washington Post:
In shooting near Capitol, government workers rush into danger
Gerard Magliocca / Washington Post:
Why Obamacare isn't ‘settled’  —  Gerard Magliocca is a professor of constitutional law at Indiana University.  His latest book is “American Founding Son: John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment.”  —  The Affordable Care Act was passed by Congress, signed by President Obama …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Pelosi: Dem spending concessions ‘lost in the news’ on shutdown
Discussion: Politico and Weasel Zippers
CBS News:
Nearly 9 in 10 Americans displeased with Washington, poll says
Discussion: The Fix and Politico
CNN:
Worst shutdown in modern U.S. history
Discussion: Global Public Square
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 …
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
Jessica Ravitz / CNN:
'I'm the original voice of Siri'  —  Sandy Springs, Georgia (CNN) — For the past two years, she's been a pocket and purse accessory to millions of Americans.  She's starred alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel.  She's provided weather forecasts and restaurant tips …
Discussion: The Week, NPR, GigaOM and Mashable
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 …
 
 
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