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8:50 PM ET, October 7, 2013

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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 …
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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 …
Discussion: American Prospect and The Reaction
Robert Costa / National Review:
Conservatives Wary of Deal  —  Speaker John Boehner may be trying to finalize a plan to raise the debt limit, but House conservatives are already skeptical of his efforts.  In interviews, several of them tell me they're unlikely to support any deal that may emerge.
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Obama, Senate Dems hope to break logjam soon with debt ceiling bill  —  President Obama and Senate Democrats on Monday decided to try to break a political logjam that threatens the U.S. economy by advancing legislation to raise the federal debt ceiling as soon as possible.
Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Why Obama Must Talk to the GOP  —  The president doesn't need to cave on Obamacare to help end the GOP-inspired fiscal crisis.  —  President Barack Obama visits M. Luis Construction on October 3, 2013 in Rockville, Maryland.  (Dennis Brack-Pool/Getty Images)  —  I am on record advocating two seemingly incongruous positions.
Jeff Zeleny / ABC News:
Senate to Move Ahead on ‘Clean’ Debt-Limit Increase  —  The Senate is preparing to move ahead this week on legislation to raise the nation's debt ceiling, Senate aides told ABC News, with Majority Leader Harry Reid expected to file a bill later today or Tuesday on a “clean” debt-limit increase, without any restrictions.
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 …
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:   The 13 reasons Washington is failing
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama dares Boehner to hold vote on ‘clean’ funding bill
Discussion: Politico and Taylor Marsh
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
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Schumer predicts Boehner will cave
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Jonathan Strong / National Review:
‘House of Indecision’  —  House Republican leaders met today …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Business Insider
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Republican disapproval grows in budget battle, Post-ABC poll finds  —  By Scott Clement and Peyton M. Craighill, Published: October 7 at 3:01 pm  —  Disapproval of congressional Republicans' budget wrangling after a weeklong shutdown has shot up to 70 percent, with 51 percent disapproving …
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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.
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
CNN Shutdown Poll: Plenty of blame to go around  —  Washington (CNN) - Most Americans say the government shutdown is causing a crisis or major problems for the country, according to a new national poll.  —  And while a CNN/ORC International survey also indicates that slightly more people …
Steven Nelson / US News:
‘Truckers for the Constitution’ Plan to Slow D.C. Beltway, Arrest Congressmen  —  Police must detain ‘accessories’ to ‘treason’ or truckers will, organizer says  —  Tractor-trailer drivers will intentionally clog the inner loop of the Washington, D.C., beltway beginning on the morning of Oct. 11 …
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Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
Bachmann: ‘End Times’ Are Coming Because Obama Is Supporting Al-Qaeda  —  Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) claims the end of days is near, and as proof the former Republican presidential candidate cited President Barack Obama's decision last month to support Syrian rebels, which she calls al-Qaeda terrorists …
Discussion: The Daily Banter
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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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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
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.
ThinkProgress:
Nebraska Decides 16-Year-Old Must Give Birth Because She Isn't ‘Mature’ Enough For An Abortion  —  The highest court in Nebraska has decided that a 16-year-old in foster care must carry her unintended pregnancy to term because she hasn't proven that she's “sufficiently mature and well informed” enough to choose to have an abortion.
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
Becky Bratu / NBCNews:
Kerry ‘very pleased’ at Syria compliance over chemical weapons  —  Secretary of State John Kerry lauded Syria Monday, saying he was “very pleased” at news that experts had already begun the process of destroying Syria's chemical weapons.  —  In unusual praise for Damascus …
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Laura Barron-Lopez / E2-Wire:
Kerry: ‘Inviting catastrophe’ on climate
 
 
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Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
This cancer patient's treatment is on hold because of the government shutdown
Discussion: Daily Kos and ThinkProgress
New York Times:
Egypt Hit by Three Brazen Attacks in New Mayhem
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep Blames Cruz For Shutdown: ‘He Took A Lot Of Folks Into The Ditch’ (VIDEO)
Discussion: The Raw Story
David Byrne / Guardian:
If the 1% stifles New York's creative talent, I'm out of here
Discussion: Boing Boing and Pitchfork
David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
Al Sharpton, ‘PoliticsNation’ Advertisers Targeted in New Boycott
Discussion: The Raw Story and Liberaland
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Scott Walker gets Democratic opponent
Discussion: CNN and Politico
 Earlier Items: 
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Ten years after recall, California still feels effects
Discussion: The Reaction
Manu Raju / Politico:
Harry Reid talks tough, ramps up for 2016
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
TV ad in Wyoming Senate race hits Liz Cheney on gay marriage
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Anxious Allies Aiding Booker in Senate Bid
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Boehner Bunglers  —  The federal government is shut down …