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4:50 PM ET, October 7, 2013

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Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
White House, Senate Democrats step up pressure to raise federal debt ceiling  —  The White House and Senate Democrats on Monday sought to increase pressure on House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) to raise the federal debt ceiling — if only for several weeks — with just 10 days until …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Senate Dems to call GOP's bluff on debt limit  —  Senate Democrats are planning to start the process this week for a Senate vote on a clean debt limit increase, sources tell me - a move that could call the bluff of Republicans in both chambers and force them to take a stand on whether …
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
White House: Obama Will Never Negotiate On The Debt Limit Again  —  White House spokesman Jay Carney said Monday that lifting the debt ceiling will be non-negotiable for as long as Barack Obama is president.  —  “Whether it's today, or a number of weeks from now, or a number of months from now …
Erick Erickson / RedState:
Obamacare or the Debt Ceiling  —  Republicans are winning the shutdown fight, and Democrats know it.  —  People turning on the news this week came away with the knowledge that it was about Obamacare and kept hearing that Democrats wouldn't negotiate.  They also learned that for some reason …
Discussion: Wonkblog and Washington Monthly
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Schumer predicts Boehner will cave
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Carrie Dann / NBCNews:
Obama to Boehner: 'Hold a vote. Call a vote right now. Let's see what happens'
Discussion: Daily Kos and Balloon Juice
Yalman Onaran / Bloomberg:
A U.S. Default Seen as Catastrophe Dwarfing Lehman's Fall  —  Anyone who remembers the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. little more than five years ago knows what a global financial disaster is.  A U.S. government default, just weeks away if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling …
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Tom Coburn: No default if ceiling stays  —  Sen. Tom Coburn said Monday that warnings of a U.S. default if Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling by Oct. 17 are untrue.  —  “I would dispel the rumor that is going around that you hear on every newscast that if we don't raise the debt ceiling we will default on our debt.
NationalJournal.com:
Republicans Downplay ‘Default’, Dismiss Debt Deadline  —  Some GOP lawmakers say White House officials—and global financial experts—are exaggerating the potential impact of missed payments.  —  Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew arrives at the Capitol on Thursday during the government shutdown.
Manu Raju / Politico:
Reid plotting to stay in power  —  Republicans are eager for November 2016 — and not just because Barack Obama's presidency will be in its final days.  —  It's when Harry Reid, the man reviled by Republicans for his inflammatory rhetoric and hardball tactics during the government shutdown, could be booted from his Nevada Senate seat.
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Reuters:
Democrats eye long-term debt ceiling hike
Discussion: National Review and Politico
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Republicans Lose Ground vs. Obama in the Shutdown Blame Game  —  The Republicans in Congress have lost ground against Barack Obama in blame over the government shutdown, with Americans expressing increasing criticism of both parties in Washington, while the president's avoided that rise in public ire.
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:   CNN Shutdown Poll: Plenty of blame to go around
Wall Street Journal:
Defects Cripple Health-Care Website  —  Six days into the launch of insurance marketplaces created by the new health-care law, the federal government acknowledged for the first time Sunday it needed to fix design and software problems that have kept customers from applying online for coverage.
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep Blames Cruz For Shutdown: ‘He Took A Lot Of Folks Into The Ditch’ (VIDEO)  —  A Republican congressman said Monday that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is largely responsible for the first government shutdown since 1996.  —  Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that while he believes …
Discussion: The Raw Story
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Tracy Seipel / Mercury News:
Obamacare's winners and losers in Bay Area
Doug Powers / Michelle Malkin:
Obamacare epiphanies, part VII: Hey, somebody's got to pay for somebody else's ‘free’ stuff
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Mediaite
The Right Scoop:
AMBER WEBSITE NOW WORKING - Obama plays POLITICS with LOST CHILDREN, shuts down Amber Alert website  —  This is unbelievable.  The Obama administration has shut down the Amber Alert website because of the government shutdown and it now renders this message when you attempt to access it:
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Amber Alert System Unaffected By Government Shutdown, Justice Department Says
Brandon Lowrey / nbclosangeles.com:
Amber Alert Website Offline Due to Gov't Shutdown
Daniel Doherty / Townhall.com:
MSNBC Host: “I am Suggesting that” Ted Cruz Doesn't Love America  —  Kudos to Joe Scarborough this morning for calling out his fellow co-anchor.  On Morning Joe today, Mika Brzezinski said that Senator Ted Cruz and all the other conservatives in Congress who want to defund Obamacare …
Discussion: protein wisdom
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David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Mika: Ted Cruz, Like-Minded Republicans Don't Love America
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Want to know why the government is shut down?  This chart explains it.  —  Looking for the roots of the current morass in Washington?  Look no further than the chart — built by the WaPo graphics wizards — below that shows the percentage of the vote that all House Members won with in the 2012 election.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Jennifer Senior / New York Magazine:
In Conversation: Antonin Scalia  —  On the eve of a new Supreme Court session, the firebrand justice discusses gay rights and media echo chambers, Seinfeld and the Devil, and how much he cares about his intellectual legacy ("I don't").  —  a day that just happened to be the 27th anniversary …
David Byrne / Guardian:
If the 1% stifles New York's creative talent, I'm out of here  —  Rampant inequality is squeezing out the artistic genius that made New York such a vibrant cultural capital.  We can't let that happen  —  I'm writing this in Venice, Italy.  This city is a pleasantly confusing maze …
Discussion: Pitchfork and Boing Boing
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Anxious Allies Aiding Booker in Senate Bid  —  Cory A. Booker is an undisputed star of a new generation of African-American leaders, electrifying liberal audiences with his oratory and charming the social media set with his digital savvy.  —  But the Senate campaign Mr. Booker, a Democrat …
 
 
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Jeremy Kenney / GOP.com:
RNC Hires Hispanic State Directors and Hispanic Field Directors in Seven States
Discussion: ThinkProgress and ABC News
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:
There's A Website Giving Away Free Vibrators To Furloughed Government Workers During The Shutdown
Discussion: Mediaite and The Daily Caller
John McCain / Wall Street Journal:
He Beat Us in War but Never in Battle
David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
Al Sharpton, ‘PoliticsNation’ Advertisers Targeted in New Boycott
Discussion: Liberaland and The Raw Story
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Scott Walker gets Democratic opponent
Discussion: CNN and Politico
Kurtis Lee / The Spot:
Effort to recall Democratic state Sen. Evie Hudak renewed
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Ten years after recall, California still feels effects
Discussion: The Reaction
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Van Sickler / MiamiHerald.com:
Gov. Rick Scott delivers mea culpa on voter purge
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
National Security, the Shutdown, and Moral Seriousness
Discussion: The Dish
John Dickerson / Slate:
PGSTX0534 Will Not See You Now  —  One woman's quest to sign …
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
TV ad in Wyoming Senate race hits Liz Cheney on gay marriage
Stephanie Simon / Politico:
Vouchers don't do much for students
Discussion: AEIdeas
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Boehner Bunglers  —  The federal government is shut down …