memeorandum: Arizona Lawmaker Denies ‘De Fuhrer’ Obama Comment Was Reference To Hitler (Hunter Walker/Talking Points Memo)

3:15 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 …

Discussion: Business Insider, DownWithTyranny!, Politico, The Lonely Conservative, neo-neocon, The Hinterland Gazette, Talking Points Memo, The PJ Tatler and The Dish

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, Little Green Footballs, The Dish and Shakesville

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.

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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 …

Discussion: CNN, Daily Kos, National Review, Taylor Marsh, The Hill, The Impolitic and The Hill

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.

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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:

Ted Cruz Backs House GOP's Temporary Debt-Limit Plan — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Thursday that he supported the House GOP's plan for a temporary debt-limit increase, hoping it would help refocus the government shutdown debate on stopping Obamacare. — “My understanding is that this is being driven …

Discussion: Washington Monthly

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

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MJ Lee / Politico: Stocks surge on reports of possible debt ceiling 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

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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
As Pressure Mounts, House G.O.P. Weighs Short-Term Debt Deal

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Wall Street Journal:
CONNECT — WASHINGTON—The partisan logjam that has paralyzed …

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Politico:
GOP quietly backing away from Obamacare

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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 …

Discussion: Balloon Juice, Shakesville and Weekly Standard

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.

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, The Grumpy Economist, Mediaite and msnbc.com

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 …

Discussion: Politico, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, Associated Press and Washington Free Beacon

James Hohmann / Politico:
Virginia governor election: Less money, more problems for Cuccinelli

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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

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

Discussion: Politico, The Strata-Sphere and National Review

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 …

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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.

Discussion: Gawker, The Daily Caller, Liberaland and Spectator

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.

Discussion: Arizona Capitol Times and The New Civil Rights Movement

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.

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.

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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

ThinkProgress:

Los Angeles Police Dogs Only Bit Blacks And Latinos In The First Six Months Of 2013 — A new report on the Los Angeles Sheriff Department Canine Special Detail finds that the number of minority individuals bitten by police dogs has dramatically increased between 2004 to 2012.

Discussion: The Raw Story

Benny Johnson / BuzzFeed:

Insane Tourists Blatantly Defying The U.S. Government's Demands — The government shutdown has shuttered all the monuments and park services in D.C. — And signs like this are littered all over the city, demanding that people stay out of the beautiful parks FOR THEIR OWN SAFETY.

Discussion: Hit & Run