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12:10 PM ET, October 8, 2013

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Politico:
Democratic cracks open in debt-limit fight  —  For the past several weeks, Senate Democrats and the White House have shown a remarkable amount of unity in the controversial fight surrounding the debt ceiling.  —  Then came shutdown Day Seven.  —  Just as top Senate Democrats began to lay …
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Politico:
Power play: Harry Reid sidelined Joe Biden  —  When President Barack Obama laid out his strategy for the current debt-limit fight in a private meeting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this past summer, Reid stipulated one condition: No Joe Biden.  —  And while Biden attended …
Emma Dumain / Roll Call:
GOP Proposes New Supercommittee to Resolve Impasse
Discussion: Business Insider
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Boehner: Obama gambling with economy by refusing to talk
Discussion: Shakesville
Shane Goldmacher / NationalJournal.com:
Harry Reid's Getting the Fight He Always Wanted
Erik Wasson / The Hill:   House GOP eyes supercommittee to settle shutdown, debt ceiling
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Shutdown: 'A pox on everybody's house'
Discussion: Hot Air
Bloomberg:
Insurers Getting Faulty Data From U.S. Health Exchanges  —  Insurers are getting faulty and incomplete data from the new U.S.-run health exchange, which may mean some Americans won't be covered even after they sign up for an insurance plan.  —  While it's not clear how widespread the problem is …
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Republicans Didn't Sabotage Health Exchanges, Obama Did  —  For the first week that the federal health-care exchanges were running ... well, crawling ... the Obama administration claimed that no one could get through because of overwhelming pent-up demand.  Essentially it spent a week arguing …
Washington Post:
The House GOP has nothing to show for its government shutdown  —  WHAT HAVE House Republicans managed to accomplish in a week of government shutdown?  —  Damage the livelihood of millions of Americans?  Check.  Government secretaries, food-truck operators, cleaners who work in motels near national parks: They're all hurting.
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!, The Fix and Daily Kos
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Josh Eidelson / Salon:
Inside the mind of the Tea Party: Sen. Ron Johnson talks to Salon  —  Sen. Ron Johnson says that Obama is “scare-mongering” — and a debt limit breach should be “no cause for concern”  —  The government shutdown's first week closed with House Speaker John Boehner telling reporters that a …
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Caitlin Huey-Burns / Real Clear Politics:
John Boehner's New Headache
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Federal Government Can't, and Won't, Default on Its Debt Obligations
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
Why the Government Shutdown Isn't Anywhere Near Over—in 1 Graph  —  Two parties, divided by a common loathing  —  Americans are perfectly, identically, symmetrically split on whether the GOP is justified in demanding major changes to Obamacare in exchange for funding the rest of the government, according to a new Pew Research poll.
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Steven Shepard / NationalJournal.com:
Poll: Don't Tie Shutdown to Obamacare Funding
Leslie Bentz / CNN:
Stewart to Sebelius on health care law “Am I a stupid man?”  —  (CNN) - “The Daily Show” took a more serious turn Monday night when host Jon Stewart introduced his guest for the evening, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.  —  Sebelius, who has been on a media blitz …
Discussion: First Read and VodkaPundit
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
ObamaCare chief: 'I don't know' numbers
Discussion: Politico
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Sebelius: Individuals Can Get A One Year Obamacare Delay — By Paying The Penalty
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Weasel Zippers
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 …
Alexander Burns / Politico:
POLITICO poll: Government shutdown backlash boosts Terry McAuliffe  —  Democrat Terry McAuliffe has opened up a significant lead over Republican Ken Cuccinelli in the Virginia governor's race amid broad public disapproval of the federal government shutdown, according to a POLITICO poll of the 2013 gubernatorial election.
Wall Street Journal:
The Attorney General tries to reverse a Supreme Court ruling by the back door.  —  For Eric Holder, American racial history is frozen in the 1960s.  The Supreme Court ruled in June that a section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is no longer justified due to racial progress …
Kathleen Sebelius / USA Today:
HealthCare.gov simple, user-friendly  —  Engineers are working day and night on upgrades to cope with high demand.  —  CONNECT  —  When the Health Insurance Marketplace opened last week, demand was so high, it exceeded even optimists' expectations.  On the first day alone …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Bachmann: Obama arming terrorists proof 'we're in God's end times'  —  Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) over the weekend accused President Obama of arming al Qaeda militants in Syria and said it was evidence “we're in God's end times.”  —  “This happened and as of today the United States is willingly …
Discussion: The Week
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Sean Wilentz / New York Times:
Obama and the Debt  —  PRINCETON, N.J. — THE Republicans in the House of Representatives who declare that they may refuse to raise the debt limit threaten to do more than plunge the government into default.  They are proposing a blatant violation of the 14th Amendment, which states that …
Discussion: normblog and National Review
Paul Rincon / BBC:
Nuclear fusion milestone passed at US lab  —  The achievement is the first of its kind anywhere in the world  —  Researchers at a US lab have passed a crucial milestone on the way to their ultimate goal of achieving self-sustaining nuclear fusion.  —  Harnessing fusion …
Discussion: Shakesville and The Raw Story
ThinkProgress:
Exclusive Gyms For Members Of Congress Deemed ‘Essential,’ Remain Open During Shutdown  —  Head Start programs have been shuttered, small businesses can't get loans and hundreds of thousands of federal government employees are furloughed.  But the exclusive gyms available only to members …
Discussion: AMERICAblog News and Daily Kos
 
 
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Votes are there to break shutdown, but not the will
Discussion: Daily Kos
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Ro Khanna raises $500K against Rep. Honda
Discussion: Politico
Todd Starnes / Fox News:
‘All about power and leverage’ — feds shut down major roadway, block access to graveyard
New York Times:
Health Exchange Delays Tied to Software Crash in Early Rush
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Biden campaign stop for Cory Booker canceled
Discussion: Politico and CNN
 Earlier Items: 
Chris Casteel / Daily Oklahoman:
Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe says he feels ‘great’ after emergency heart surgery
Nathaniel Popper / DealBook:
Little Fear on Wall St. of Default, at Moment
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Charlie Spiering / Washington Examiner:
Park Service OKs immigration reform rally on ‘closed’ National Mall
Brian Beutler / Salon:
Clueless Republicans hatch incoherent shutdown strategy