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3:55 AM ET, October 5, 2013

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Robert Costa / National Review:
The Emerging Offer  —  It hasn't been announced, and you won't hear about it today, but the final volley of the fiscal impasse, at least for House Republicans, is already being brokered.  And according to my top sources — both members and senior aides — it won't end with a clean CR, or with a sprawling, 2011-style budget agreement.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Devil's Xmas Tree Lite  —  So long as House Republicans maintain the initiative in the current fiscal fight, we're all living in Robert Costa's world.  His latest missive from Boehnerland (entitled “The Emerging Offer") suggests that the Speaker and such helpmeets as Paul Ryan are already far advanced …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dems move to force Republicans to reopen the government  —  House Democratic leaders believe they have hit on a new way to potentially force House Republican leaders into allowing a vote on a “clean CR” funding the government without any defunding of Obamacare attached.
Thomas Mann / CNN:
GOP House can't claim to speak for America  —  Editor's note: Tom Mann is a senior in governance studies at the Brookings Institution and the W. Averell Harriman Chair.  His most recent book, co-authored with Norman Ornstein and now out in paperback, is “It's Even Worse Than It Looks …
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Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
Cruz: GOP Already Compromised By Demanding To Defund, Not Repeal Obamacare  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), or “the joint speaker of the House” as Harry Reid calls him, argued Friday that Republicans have already offered Democrats a concession in their stand against reopening the government in demanding …
Discussion: Politico, Hullabaloo and Weasel Zippers
Matt Fuller / Roll Call:
Boehner Vows He Won't ‘Roll Over’ to Obama, Democrats (Updated)
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and First Read
ThinkProgress:
Boehner Suggests Taking The Country Into Default Unless Republicans Get Additional Spending Cuts
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems plan discharge petition to force vote on ending shutdown  —  House Democratic leaders will begin circulating a discharge petition Friday in hopes of forcing a vote on a “clean” spending bill.  —  GOP leaders have so far refused to stage a vote on the Senate-passed continuing resolution …
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Matt Fuller / Roll Call:
Democrats Plan to Discharge GOP Bill to End Shutdown (Updated)  —  Miller, right, is heading up a Democratic plan to end the government shutdown by bringing up a GOP measure through a discharge petition.  (Douglas Graham/CQ Roll Call)  —  Updated: 3:13 p.m. |
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
House Democrats Propose Hail Mary Strategy For Ending Shutdown
Politico:
Democrats tap procedural trick to force House CR vote
Discussion: protein wisdom
Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Priests threatened with arrest if they minister to military during shutdown  —  In a stunning development, some military priests are facing arrest if they celebrate mass or practice their faith on military bases during the federal government shutdown.  —  “With the government shutdown …
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John Schlageter / milarch.org:
Shutdown Impacts Chapel Services  —  If the government shutdown continues through the weekend, there will be no Catholic priest to celebrate Mass this Sunday in the chapels at some U.S. military installations where non-active-duty priests serve as government contractors.
Jonathan Bernstein / PostPartisan:
The Insiders: The World War II Memorial is not a political prop  —  There are similarities between how the Obama administration used the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to target its political enemies before the 2012 election and how it is using the World War II Memorial as a stage to discredit Republicans in the battle over the budget.
Discussion: Gawker and EconLog
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Shutdown hampering Iran sanctions, White House says
Discussion: Politico
Peter Suderman / Reason:
Obamacare Poster Boy Chad Henderson and His Dad Haven't Signed Up for Obamacare, Says His Father  —  An exclusive Reason.com interview with Bill Henderson.  —  Chad Henderson is the media's poster boy for Obamacare.  Reporters struggled this week to find individuals who said they had been able …
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Lauren McGaughy / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Angola 3 member Herman Wallace died quietly in his sleep, friends say  —  New Orleans native, former Black Panther and member of the Angola Three Herman Wallace died Thursday night because of complications from liver cancer, friends and counsel confirmed Friday morning.
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Michael C. Bender / Bloomberg:
Tea Party's Ross Says Debt Worth Yielding on Obamacare  —  U.S. Representative Dennis Ross, a Florida Republican, said he would support a broad spending deal that didn't include changes to the health-care law, becoming the first Tea Party-backed House lawmaker to publicly back off the fight …
Bruce Schneier / Guardian:
Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity  —  Secret servers and a privileged position on the internet's backbone used to identify users and attack target computers  —  The online anonymity network Tor is a high-priority target for the National Security Agency.
Discussion: emptywheel, The Verge and CANNONFIRE
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Mila Mimica / nbcwashington.com:
Man Found With Burns on Nat'l Mall in Critical Condition  —  The man may have set himself on fire, police said.  —  Park Police officials tell NBC Washington a man may have set himself on fire at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Friday afternoon.  —  The incident was reported around 4:30 p.m …
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Economic Confidence Plummets as Gov't Shutdown Begins  —  Current -34 three-day average is worst since December 2011  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' confidence in the U.S. economy has dropped sharply as the partial government shutdown caused by Congress' inability to pass a spending bill has become reality.
Fred Vogelstein / New York Times:
And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’  —  The 55 miles from Campbell to San Francisco make for one of the nicest commutes anywhere.  The journey mostly zips along the Junipero Serra Freeway, a grand and remarkably empty highway that abuts the east side of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Discussion: The Verge and VodkaPundit
 
 
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Maya Shwayder / Jerusalem Post:
Iran gets senior seat on UN nuclear disarmament committee
Discussion: The Hill, ThinkProgress and Jihad Watch
Jeryl Bier / Weekly Standard:
HHS-Run Website Hacked; Now Selling NFL Jerseys, Ugg Boots, Armani Fragrances
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Newt Gingrich Wants The Government Out Of The Panda Cam Business
Discussion: DCist
Rebecca Ballhaus / Washington Wire:
Washington's Z-Burger Shuts Down Shutdown Special
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Robert Brodsky / Newsday:
Hillary Clinton to begin considering presidential run ‘sometime next year’
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