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No Quick Deal, but Offer by G.O.P. on Debt Shifts the Tone — WASHINGTON — President Obama and House Republicans failed to reach agreement on a six-week extension of the nation's borrowing authority during a meeting Thursday at the White House, but the two sides kept talking …
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Robert Costa / National Review:
The Ryan Factor — According to my sources, the House is poised to pass a six-week extension of the debt ceiling. One member of the leadership team says he's “increasingly optimistic” that when the bill comes to the floor in the coming days, it'll have significant Republican support.
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Washington Post:
Obama, Republicans in debt talks on two fronts — President Obama opened talks with House Republicans on Thursday about their plan to lift the federal debt limit through late November, raising hopes that Washington would avert its first default on the national debt.
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Damian Paletta / Washington Wire:
House Debt-Ceiling Plan Would Ban ‘Emergency’ Measures — WASHINGTON - The House Republican plan to extend the debt ceiling for six weeks would permanently ban the Treasury Department from using extraordinary measures to avoid default, congressional aides said.
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James Lankford / USA Today:
Rep. Lankford: Republicans seek fairness, less debt
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Mark Murray / NBCNews:
NBC/WSJ poll: Shutdown debate damages GOP — The Republican Party has been badly damaged in the ongoing government shutdown and debt limit standoff, with a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finding that a majority of Americans blame the GOP for the shutdown, and with the party's popularity declining to its lowest level.
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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
The shutdown just saved the world
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Benjy Sarlin / msnbc.com:
GOP plummets, Obamacare soars in shutdown standoff
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
A Crisis of the President's Own Making — Unless Mr. Obama is willing to make a serious deal on spending, he will spend the next three years fighting the same budget wars over and over. — For months now, the GOP has been held hostage by a faction of its party that deluded itself …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The way out — For all the hyped indignation over GOP “anarchism,” there has been remarkable media reticence about the president's intransigence. He has refused to negotiate anything unless the Republicans fully fund the government and raise the debt ceiling — unconditionally.
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Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Boehner Offers Debt Extension; Interim Resolution?
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Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
Boehner's Smart Debt Ceiling Play
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David Martosko / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Just 51,000 people completed Obamacare applications during the website's first week, out of tens of millions of Americans in 36 states — Obamacare's main signup engine attracted just 6,200 new customers on its launch day and 51,000 after the first week
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Michael Kinsley / The New Republic:
Obama Should Just Give in to the Republicans — President Obama should give in. Yes, this mess is all the Republicans' fault. Yes, it's outrageous that they can hold the government hostage in order to reargue a law that's been voted on, signed, enacted, and upheld by the Supreme Court.
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Bob Burns / Indian Country Today Media Network.com:
Blackfeet Elder Says Rick Reilly Misquoted Him; Wants ‘Redskins’ Banned — There are a few things I'm passionate about in life, and one is to share the true history of how our people have overcome the trauma of 150 years of attempts to erase the Blackfeet people.
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Barry Petchesky / Deadspin:
Rick Reilly's American Indian Father-In-Law Says Reilly Misquoted Him
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Tim Mak / Washington Examiner:
John McCain regrets ‘wacko birds’ comment, worries about GOP infighting — SENATE REPUBLICAN PARTY TEA PARTY PENNAVE JOHN MCCAIN SEQUESTER — Sen. John McCain said Thursday that he's worried about the Republican Party's future and the infighting that is dividing it, calling efforts …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate GOP rallies around rival plan on debt ceiling, shutdown
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Facebook:
Reminder: Finishing the Removal of an Old Search Setting — Last year we announced the removal of an old setting called “Who can look up your Timeline by name?” along with new controls for managing content on Facebook. — The search setting was removed last year for people who weren't using it.
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Amy Hollyfield / PolitiFact:
PolitiFact to launch PunditFact, checking pundits and media figures — PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking website of the Tampa Bay Times, will soon launch PunditFact, a site dedicated to checking claims by pundits, columnists, bloggers and the hosts and guests of talk shows.
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Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Steve Lonegan: Obama Will Cave On The Shutdown When I Win My Election — Republican New Jersey Senate candidate Steve Lonegan said Thursday he has a way to singlehandedly stop Obamacare and help the GOP emerge victorious in its shutdown standoff. — Lonegan's campaign issued …
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Nate Silver / Grantland:
The Six Big Takeaways From the Government Shutdown — FiveThirtyEight.com will officially relaunch in very early 2014 in cooperation with ESPN. I've been spending most of my time recruiting and interviewing job candidates for the new site. It's a labor-intensive process …
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
How the U.S. Is Spreading ‘Procedures of Totalitarianism’ — What gives us the right to spy on innocents anywhere abroad without any constraints? — On Wednesday evening, Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center delivered the first in a series of lectures at Columbia Law School on Edward Snowden …
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