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3:50 PM ET, October 11, 2013

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Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Analysis: Republicans Are Working Out the Terms of Their Surrender  —  ANALYSIS:  —  Beware of irrational exuberance.  Thursday night's meeting between President Obama and House Republican leaders was clearly a breakthrough, but both sides are cautioning this morning that progress is fragile.
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Associated Press:
NEW GOP SHUTDOWN/DEBT PLAN, BUT NO AGREEMENT YET  —  You are here  —  Home » United States government » New GOP shutdown/debt plan, but no agreement yet  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are offering to pass legislation to avert a default and end the 11 …
Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
How Democrats Can Get to Yes  —  If they want to end the shutdown and avoid default, they must find a way to let Republicans save face.  —  Google is a pretty amazing thing.  The other day I was thinking about the government-shutdown mess and how it might be resolved …
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Washington Post
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
House Republicans make new offer to Obama in fiscal fight  —  House Republican leaders have offered a new plan to lift the debt ceiling and reopen the government after meeting with President Obama Thursday.  —  The offer, made late Thursday night, would allow the House to vote as early …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
Reid pans six-week debt deal
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Jonathan Strong / National Review:
Missing From New CR Negotiations: Harry Reid
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
A Crisis of the President's Own Making
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
McCain To Fox News: No, The Shutdown Is The GOP's Fault (VIDEO)  —  Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) channeled his inner-maverick Friday during an appearance on Fox News Channel, repeatedly reminding the conservative network that the government shutdown was brought about by the quixotic effort to halt the Affordable Care Act.
Discussion: The Raw Story
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Cruz wows conservative crowd at Values Voter summit  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) whipped the conservative crowd into a frenzy at Friday's Values Voter summit, painting the fight over ObamaCare as a battle for basic freedom and calling on Republicans to redouble their efforts to end the program.
Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Liberal heckling sparks stream of one-liners from Ted Cruz
Discussion: Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Perkins: Cruz is de facto leader of Republican Party
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Paul: Aid funds ‘war on Christianity’
Discussion: Politico
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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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.
Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
Gallup: 60% Of Americans Say Third Party Is Needed
Discussion: NBCNews, The Strata-Sphere and Gallup
gqrr.com:
New National Survey: Shutdown Severely Damaging GOP  —  A just-completed national survey from Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research confirms that the voting public is fed up with just about everyone in Washington, but Republicans are clearly bearing much more of their anger and it damaging their prospects for 2014.
Discussion: Politico and Taegan Goddard's …
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Mark Murray / NBCNews:
NBC/WSJ poll: Shutdown debate damages GOP
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Carson compares ObamaCare to slavery  —  Neurosurgeon Ben Carson said Friday that ObamaCare is the worst thing to happen to the United States since slavery.  —  “I have to tell you ObamaCare is, really I think, the worst thing that's happened in this nation since slavery,” …
Discussion: CNN, Politico, ABC News and AMERICAblog News
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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Ben Carson Says Obamacare Is ‘Worst Thing’ To Happen To America Since Slavery
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 …
Alan Cowell / New York Times:
Chemical Weapons Watchdog Wins Nobel Peace Prize  —  LONDON — The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2013 Peace Prize on Friday to the United Nations body charged with destroying Syria's stocks of chemical weapons under a deal brokered by Russia and the United States.
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Reuters:
Chemicals weapons watchdog OPCW wins Nobel Peace Prize
Discussion: The Hill
Jonathan D. Salant / Bloomberg:
Budget Battle Ends Soon With Tea Party Loss: King, Corker  —  Congress will open the partially shuttered government and increase its borrowing limit on at least a short-term basis next week before the debt ceiling is reached Oct. 17, Senator Bob Corker said today.
ThinkProgress:
Sixth Grader's Father Says She Wouldn't Have Died If A School Nurse Had Been On Duty  —  Laporshia Massey, a 12-year-old girl from Philadelphia, died on September 25 after an asthma attack went untreated at her school.  Her father says that she would have lived had there been a school nurse …
Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
Will the Kamikaze Caucus Doom the GOP?  —  When Congress devolves into perpetual conflict, each party's more militant voices gain influence at the expense of its deal-makers.  —  When congressional insiders say John Boehner could lose his speakership if he moves to end the confrontations …
Washington Post:
Trucker protest hits Beltway but causes no major delays, authorities say  —  Heavy volumes of traffic were reported on the Beltway during Friday morning's commute because of the rain, police authorities said, but there were no major incidents related to a protest by about 30 tractor-trailers …
 
 
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Christopher J. Conover / Weekly Standard:
Health Reform Breaks Bad
Jeffrey T. Kuhner / Washington Times:
A search for a silver lining
Discussion: Right Wing Watch
Jim McElhatton / Washington Times:
Christmas spirit dies at White House as ornament-hawking gift shop goes broke
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Justin Parkinson / BBC:
Refugees ‘told to show they are gay’
Discussion: Advocate and Towleroad News #gay
Luis Martinez / ABC News:
Air Force Fires Two Star General in Charge of Nuke Missiles
Discussion: The Greenroom
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Only 2 People Attend ‘Obamacare and You!’ Event in South Carolina
 Earlier Items: 
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Ryan Is Again in the Forefront for the G.O.P.
Discussion: Guardian and The Hugh Hewitt Show
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Sources: Cash-Strapped FreedomWorks In State Of Financial Disarray
Todd S. Purdum / Reuters:
The year the government broke
Discussion: Politico, Capitol Report and CNN
Michael Tackett / Bloomberg:
Obamacare Foes Using Shutdown Echo South's Nullifiers