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1:45 PM ET, October 9, 2013

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Paul Ryan / Wall Street Journal:
Here's How We Can End This Stalemate  —  Both Reagan and Clinton negotiated debt-ceiling deals with their opponents.  We're ready to negotiate.  —  The president is giving Congress the silent treatment.  He's refusing to talk, even though the federal government is about to hit the debt ceiling.
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First Read / NBCNews:
First Thoughts: The beginning of the end?  —  The beginning of the end?  Paul Ryan op-ed appears to be an olive branch and a way out of the budget stalemate... But can conservatives accept that potential end (which has no Obamacare changes?)...  Cantor's bad cop to Ryan's good cop? …
Erick Erickson / RedState:
This is the Strategy.  Now Do It.  —  Conservatives need to push the debt ceiling fight off the front burner to after Christmas.  —  Republican Leaders are begging us to merge the continuing resolution fight and debt ceiling fight.  They covet this with all their mind and heart.
Eric Cantor / Washington Post:
Divided government requires bipartisan negotiation
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Republican Arcade Claw Machine
Discussion: Hullabaloo and National Review
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The Morning Plum: A clarifying moment of Washington dysfunction
Associated Press:
POLL: GOP GETS THE BLAME IN SHUTDOWN  —  You are here  —  Home » United States Congress » Poll: GOP gets the blame in shutdown  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are holding Republicans primarily responsible for the partial government shutdown as public esteem sinks for all players …
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John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
MEDIA FAIL: OBAMA APPROVAL PLUMMETS TO 37%
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Suicide of the Right  —  Every piece of evidence we have so far on the government shutdown shows the public is blaming Republicans most of all for the standoff.  On Monday, an ABC poll showed 71 percent fault the GOP; 61 percent fault Congressional Democrats; 51 percent fault President Obama.
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Politico:
John Boehner's endgame  —  As he tries to navigate the politics of a government shutdown that he never wanted, leading a Republican Conference with little interest in being led, House Speaker John Boehner in recent days has scored an unlikely victory of sorts.
Discussion: CNN and Reuters
Jake Sherman / Politico:
GOP unity frays, frustration builds
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Hill
Louis Bolden / clickorlando.com:
Lead health care navigator in Florida provides wrong information on credit scores  —  Ann Packham tells Local 6 she was incorrect about Affordable Care Act … A day after telling Local 6 that anyone signing up for the Affordable Care Act had to provide their credit score, the lead navigator in Florida said she was wrong.
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
George Will Compares Obamacare To Fugitive Slave Act, Segregation  —  Conservative columnist and pundit George Will on Wednesday compared Obamacare to the Fugitive Slave Act and segregation to demonstrate the “bruising, untidy, utterly Democratic” process of changing laws.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:   Democrats maintain edge for 2014
Analysis:
George Will Compares This Budget Deadlock To Past Conflicts
Discussion: Mediaite and Shakesville
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Many in G.O.P. Offer Theory: Default Wouldn't Be That Bad  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Richard Burr, Republican of North Carolina, a reliable friend of business on Capitol Hill and no one's idea of a bomb thrower, isn't buying the apocalyptic warnings that a default on United States government debt …
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Matt Fuller / Roll Call:
Republicans Say Obama Underestimates Their Resolve as Debt Default Nears
Kristin Roberts / NationalJournal.com:
Republicans Are Awfully Close to Violating the Constitution  —  Who cares if President Obama has 14th Amendment obligations?  The critical sentence in that block of text should be read as instruction for lawmakers first, and last.  —  Have Republicans forgotten that they too must abide by the Constitution?
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Waterboarding Is A Big Joke At Cheney Roast  —  A sentimental evening at the Plaza for Cheney, Rumsfeld, Mukasey, and Lieberman.  “Really tasteless,” says a guest.  —  The cover of the program at the Oct. 7 “Roast of Dick Cheney.”  —  Dick Cheney is ready to laugh about waterboarding.
CBS News:
Obamacare website looks “like nobody tested it,” programmer says  —  (CBS News) Healthcare.gov launched more than a week ago, and while millions of Americans have signed into the site, not many have been able to actually sign up for insurance because of glitches with the website.
David Edwards / The Raw Story:
House Republicans silence Rep. Grayson after he cites poll comparing them to ‘dog poop’  —  Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) found himself on Tuesday being added to the list of things that had been shut down because of Republicans in Congress.  —  During a speech on the House floor to call for a vote …
ThinkProgress:
How Racism Caused The Shutdown  —  This isn't an article about how Republicans shut down the government because they hate that the President is black.  This is an article about how racism caused the government to shut down and the U.S. to teeter on the brink of an unprecedented and catastrophic default.
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
GOP Rep. Bill Young to retire  —  Rep. C.W. Bill Young (R-Fla.) has announced he will retire from Congress when his term ends in 2014.  —  Flagging health and poor fundraising hauls had prompted speculation that the 22-term congressman would retire, though he had previously defied those expectations.
Discussion: CNN, Talking Points Memo and Roll Call
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
Obamacare site hits reset button on passwords as contractors scramble  —  Three years wasn't enough time to get this massive IT effort past the finish line.  —  Amid all the attention, bugs, and work happening at Healthcare.gov in light of the Affordable Care Act, potential registrants talking …
Discussion: National Review
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Coburn: 'I'd Rather Have A Managed Catastrophe Now' To Force Budget Cuts (VIDEO)  —  Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) on Wednesday defended his stance that a debt default would not have a large negative impact on the economy, and may be necessary in order to force the government to enact more budget cuts.
Niall Ferguson / The Huffington Post:
Krugtron the Invincible, Part 1  —  It's an ill wind that blows no one any good.  The financial crisis that came to a head five years ago with the failure of Lehman Brothers has been especially beneficial to the economist Paul Krugman.  In his widely read New York Times column and blog …
Discussion: The Grumpy Economist
Justin Wolfers / Bloomberg:
Why I'm Very Happy About Janet Yellen  —  President Barack Obama plans to nominate Janet Yellen as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.  In doing so, he will promote the pre-eminent policy economist of her generation to the role of the most powerful central banker in the world.
Charles Blahous / RealClearMarkets:
Obamacare's Financial Unraveling: Predictable, and Predicted  —  Advocates marketed the Affordable Care Act (ACA), known colloquially as “Obamacare,” to the American public as a way to “bend the cost curve” of soaring health care costs downward.  But despite its supporters' hopes …
Discussion: Brad DeLong
Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail  —  October 9, 2013 - Big Gender Gap, But Booker Up 12 Points In NJ Senate Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Stripper-Tweet Not An Issue, Voters Say 4-1  —  A 31-point lead among women overcomes his deficit among men to give Newark Mayor Cory Booker, the Democrat …
Discussion: Politico, CNN and Taegan Goddard's …
 
 
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