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10:15 AM ET, October 11, 2013

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New York Times:
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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New York Times:
An Inadequate Offer From the House  —  Speaker John Boehner on Thursday said he was willing to delay briefly a disastrous default of the country's financial obligations but was not willing to reopen the government.  “I would hope that the president would look at this as an opportunity …
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.
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 …
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:   Analysis: Republicans Are Working Out the Terms of Their Surrender
Todd S. Purdum / Reuters:
The year the government broke
Discussion: Capitol Report and Politico
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Fed up with House, senators grab at reins of fiscal debate
Michael O'Brien / NBCNews:
GOP to seek short-term debt ceiling extension
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Boehner Offers Debt Extension; Interim Resolution?
Discussion: Politico, Associated Press and CNN
James Lankford / USA Today:
Rep. Lankford: Republicans seek fairness, less debt
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and CNN
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
In U.S., Perceived Need for Third Party Reaches New High  —  Twenty-six percent believe Democratic and Republican parties do adequate job  —  This article is part of an ongoing series analyzing how the government shutdown and the debate over raising the debt ceiling are affecting Americans' views …
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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.
Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
Gallup: 60% Of Americans Say Third Party Is Needed  —  Amid a government shutdown and continuing brinkmanship over the debt ceiling, 60 percent of Americans feel that a third party is needed to accurately represent their interests, according to a Gallup survey published Friday.
Discussion: Gallup
Benjy Sarlin / msnbc.com:
GOP plummets, Obamacare soars in shutdown standoff
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Gallup: Cruz's favorability rating plunges
Discussion: Daily Kos
Quin Monson / Utah Data Points:
Senator Lee and the Shutdown
Discussion: msnbc.com and Politico
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
C.I.A. Warning on Snowden in '09 Said to Slip Through the Cracks  —  WASHINGTON — Just as Edward J. Snowden was preparing to leave Geneva and a job as a C.I.A. technician in 2009, his supervisor wrote a derogatory report in his personnel file, noting a distinct change in the young man's behavior …
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Kathy Lally / Washington Post:
Snowden's father arrives in Moscow
Discussion: RT, Lawfare, Liberaland and Guardian
Nobelprize.org:
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2013  —  The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2013 is to be awarded to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons.  —  During World War One, chemical weapons were used to a considerable degree.
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Alan Cowell / New York Times:
Chemical Weapons Watchdog Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Discussion: Lawfare and Althouse
Reuters:
Chemicals weapons watchdog OPCW wins Nobel Peace Prize
Discussion: Liberaland and The Hill
John B. Judis / The New Republic:
The Last Days of the GOP  —  We could be witnessing the death throes of the Republican Party  —  I once wrote about lobbying, and this week I called some Republicans I used to talk to (and some that they recommended I talk to) about the effect the shutdown is having on the Republican Party in Washington.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Dealing With Default  —  So Republicans may have decided to raise the debt ceiling without conditions attached — the details still aren't clear.  Maybe that's the end of that particular extortion tactic, but maybe not, because, at best, we're only looking at a very short-term extension.
Michael Tackett / Bloomberg:
Obamacare Foes Using Shutdown Echo South's Nullifiers  —  The Tea Party-inspired drive to derail Obamacare is anchored in a place where opposition to the federal government is as old as the nation: the American South.  —  The current fight, a budget standoff that threatens the creditworthiness of the U.S …
Senator Ted Cruz / Rolling Stone:
Inside the Republican Suicide Machine  —  It's open warfare within the GOP - and all of America is caught in the crossfire  —  The day before Congress broke for its August recess, on an afternoon when most of official Washington was tying up loose ends and racing to get out of town …
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 …
Discussion: The Hugh Hewitt Show and HBR.org
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
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.
Discussion: USA Today, Deadspin and Mediaite
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Barry Petchesky / Deadspin:
Rick Reilly's American Indian Father-In-Law Says Reilly Misquoted Him
Discussion: City Desk, CBS DC and ThinkProgress
 
 
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