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2:45 PM ET, October 10, 2013

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Erick Erickson / RedState:
House GOP Preparing to Give Up  —  I'm being told by several sources that Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor are plotting to give up trying to either defund or delay Obamacare.  —  This comes at the same time the Obama administration admits it will be months before their Obamacare website …
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
GOP's New Strategy: Avert Default But Keep Government Shut  —  Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced Thursday that the House will move forward with a six-week debt limit extension after pitching the idea to his Republican conference during a closed-door meeting.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and The Dish
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
New GOP strategy: Offer deal on debt limit, but keep shutdown fight going  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL REPUBLICAN PARTY JOHN BOEHNER DEBT CEILING GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN  —  Many House Republicans, including some key leaders, have decided they can live with a government shutdown but not with the threat of default.
Politico:
John Boehner's bet: Democrats will talk  —  Speaker John Boehner's latest gambit — to lift the debt ceiling for six weeks while leaving government shut down — isn't exactly a magic bullet.  —  It's a bet that President Barack Obama and Democratic congressional leaders will want so desperately …
Jim Acosta / CNN:
Official: Obama will sign short term debt ceiling extension  —  Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama would sign a short term debt ceiling increase as long as the measure contains no conservative-backed provisions, a White House official said late Wednesday.
MJ Lee / Politico:   Stocks surge on reports of possible debt ceiling deal
Just Sink / The Hill:
White House: No budget talks until government reopens
Discussion: Reuters, National Review and The Week
Washington Post:
GOP offers short-term debt-limit increase, but wants negotiations before ending shutdown
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
As Pressure Mounts, House G.O.P. Weighs Short-Term Debt Deal
Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
Carney: Obama ‘Happy’ That House Is Willing To Raise Debt Limit
Discussion: Daily Kos
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
House GOP unveils six-week debt hike that continues shutdown
Discussion: Politico and The Federalist
Wall Street Journal:
CONNECT  —  WASHINGTON—The partisan logjam that has paralyzed …
Politico:
Mitch McConnell, Senate GOP search for way out
Discussion: naked capitalism and Roll Call
Washington Post:
Key Republicans signal willingness to back down on effort to defund health-care law
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Scarborough: A NYT Editor Told Me Krugman's Column Is ‘Their Biggest Nightmare’ (VIDEO)  —  MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Thursday that a public editor at the New York Times considers liberal columnist Paul Krugman's work to be an ongoing “nightmare.”  —  During a segment on “Morning Joe …
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Niall Ferguson / The Huffington Post:
Krugtron the Invincible, Part 3  —  In my previous two articles, I have shown that Paul Krugman - revered by his acolytes as the Invincible Krugtron - failed to anticipate the financial crisis and wrongly predicted that the single European currency would fall victim to it.
Fredrick Kunkle / Washington Post:
McAuliffe among investors in Rhode Island insurance scam that preyed on dying people  —  Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe was one of dozens of investors with a Rhode Island estate planner charged with defrauding insurers by using the stolen identities of terminally ill people …
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James Hohmann / Politico:
Virginia governor election: Less money, more problems for Cuccinelli  —  Ken Cuccinelli is getting crushed on the Virginia airwaves, and it's probably only going to get worse - a major factor thwarting the Republican's hopes of a comeback in a governor's race that's been slipping away.
Discussion: CNN and Right Wing Watch
ThinkProgress:
Indiana Sues To Prevent Its Own Residents From Receiving Obamacare's Insurance Subsidies  —  Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller (R)  —  This week, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) challenging its authority …
Discussion: in.gov, Liberaland, The Hill and Shakesville
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
The Final Insult in the Bush-Cheney Marriage  —  In the final days of his presidency, George W. Bush sat behind his desk in the Oval Office, chewing gum and staring into the distance as two White House lawyers briefed him on the possible last-minute pardon of I. Lewis Libby.  —  “Do you think he did it?”
Discussion: emptywheel
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
The House GOP's Little Rule Change That Guaranteed A Shutdown  —  Late on the night of Sept. 30, with the federal government just hours away from shutting down, House Republicans quietly made a small change to the House rules that blocked a potential avenue for ending the shutdown.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Ace / minx.cc:
CBS' Jan Crawford: Obama Rollout “Nothing Short of Disastrous”  —  From Tami.  Jan Crawford is one of the few reporters in the media who calls things as they are, without prejudice or favor.  —  This is a tough report.  Tough, but honest.  Look below the fold for it.
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Rich Lowry / Reuters:
Train wreck: The Obamacare rollout
New York Times:
Business Groups See Loss of Sway Over House G.O.P.  —  WASHINGTON — As the government shutdown grinds toward a potential debt default, some of the country's most influential business executives have come to a conclusion all but unthinkable a few years ago: Their voices are carrying little weight …
Max Fisher / WorldViews:
Oops: Azerbaijan released election results before voting had even started  —  Azerbaijan's big presidential election, held on Wednesday, was anticipated to be neither free nor fair.  President Ilham Aliyev, who took over from his father 10 years ago, has stepped up intimidation of activists and journalists.
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature  —  Alice Munro, the renowned Canadian short-story writer whose visceral work explores the tangled relationships between men and women, small-town existence and the fallibility of memory, won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.
Kevin Derby / Sunshine State News:
Charlie Crist's Lead Within Margin of Error Against Rick Scott in New Poll  —  A new poll released Thursday finds Gov. Rick Scott at the heels of former Gov. Charlie Crist, the front-runner for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, in a possible 2014 match-up.
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Arizona Lawmaker Denies ‘De Fuhrer’ Obama Comment Was Reference To Hitler  —  Arizona state Rep. Brenda Barton (R) issued a statement on Wednesday denying that a recent Facebook post in which she described President Obama as “de Fuhrer” was a reference to Adolf Hitler.
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Arizona's GOP Gov: Don't Defund Obamacare, We Need The Money  —  Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) said Wednesday that she opposed the congressional Republican effort to defund Obamacare, saying that it would be a blow to the state's budget.  —  “The bottom line is we need that money in our economy …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
 
 
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Los Angeles Police Dogs Only Bit Blacks And Latinos In The First Six Months Of 2013
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Report: Only 5 Iowans Have Signed Up for Obamacare
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
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Shut up!  Olivia Wilde's latest O-care propaganda claims ‘you can sign up for health care online in 10 minutes’
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Insane Tourists Blatantly Defying The U.S. Government's Demands
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Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Most Utahns disapprove of Sen. Mike Lee, want him to compromise
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
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CNN:
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