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Politico:
Senate leaders nearing a deal  —  Senate leaders are closing in on a deal to reopen the government and extend the U.S. debt ceiling until next year, marking a major breakthrough in an impasse that has paralyzed Washington for the last two weeks, according to several sources familiar with the talks.
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Joshua Green / Businessweek:
Ted Cruz Could Force a Debt Default All by Himself  —  Here's a cheerful thought as Congress remains deadlocked over the debt ceiling and the hours tick away toward default: Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), who basically forced the shutdown and whose own private polls have convinced …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dems dare GOP to provoke another hostage crisis during 2014 elections  —  Politico reports that Senate Democratic leaders have offered Republicans a budget compromise: … A Senate Democratic aide confirms to me that this is roughly accurate, but adds some important additional points.
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Senate leaders within striking distance of shutdown deal  —  In a long-awaited breakthrough, Senate leaders closed in on a deal Monday to raise the federal debt ceiling and end a two-week-old government shutdown as Washington scrambled to avoid the nation's first default on its debt.
Lloyd Green / The Daily Beast:
The GOP's Backdoor Impeachment Scheme  —  Republicans have lost at the ballot box and the Supreme Court, so they've decided to nullify President Obama another way: keep his government from working, period.  —  The dance over the debt ceiling and the fight over the government shutdown …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
Politico:
Senate leaders nearing a deal
Discussion: Washington Monthly and msnbc.com
ABC News:
Obama Calls for GOP Compromise or ‘We Stand a Good Chance of Defaulting’
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Robert Costa / National Review:
Divided and Uneasy  —  As the debt-ceiling deadline nears …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and The Dish
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Five thoughts on the Obamacare disaster  —  1. So far, the Affordable Care Act's launch has been a failure.  Not “troubled.”  Not “glitchy.”  A failure.  But “so far” only encompasses 14 days.  The hard question is whether the launch will still be floundering on day 30, and on day 45.
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Is The Shutdown Bailing The White House Out on Obamacare?  —  Robert Pear, Sharon LaFranier, and Ian Austin gave us today the best reporting I've seen yet on what went wrong in the Department of Health and Human Services and the White House in terms of supervising the contractors who were supposed …
Avik Roy / Forbes:
Obamacare's Website Is Crashing Because It Doesn't Want You To Know How Costly Its Plans Are
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
GOP seizes advantage on Obamacare, White House struggles to defend: An alternative history of the past two months
Discussion: Power Line and Betsy's Page
The Fix:
Poll: Republicans losing no-win game  —  All of Washington's elected leaders earn negative marks for handling budget negotiations, but the public's ire toward Republicans in Congress has hardened quicker than disapproval of President Obama and Democrats through a fortnight of failed negotiations.
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Disapproval of GOP Peaks in Blame for the Budget Crisis  —  A new high of 74 percent of Americans disapprove of the way the Republicans in Congress are handling Washington's budget crisis, up significantly in the past two weeks and far exceeding disapproval of both President Obama and congressional Democrats on the issue.
Discussion: Hot Air and Taegan Goddard's …
Noreen Malone / The New Republic:
This Is the Single Most Ridiculous Thing That's Been Said During the Shutdown  —  On Sunday, Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz converged on Washington, D.C., to co-headline a protest against the federal government's closure of the World War II Memorial.  It is perhaps not surprising that one of the more cynical …
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Why Sarah Palin is Back  —  Wondering why Sarah Palin has reemerged …
Discussion: Liberaland
Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Sarah Palin's coming to Iowa
Roger Simon / Reuters:
Shutdown releases racism  —  Question: If Ted Cruz and John Boehner were both on a sinking ship, who would be saved?  —  Answer: America.  —  Harsh?  Look around you at what is happening to America and you will see harsh.  I am not talking about closed parks and monuments.
Discussion: National Review
John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
This Video Of Republicans Tightening Control Of House Is As Unusual As It Seems  —  The video of an exchange between Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen and GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz over Republican rule changes spread like wildfire this weekend.  GOP leaders are hanging on by their fingernails.
Discussion: The Impolitic
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Carolyn Roy / KSLA-TV:
Walmart shelves in Springhill, Mansfield, cleared in EBT glitch  —  Shelves in Walmart stores in Springhill and Mansfield, LA were reportedly cleared Saturday night, when the stores allowed purchases on EBT cards even though they were not showing limits.  —  The chaos that followed ultimately …
Charles C. Johnson / The Daily Caller:
Neighbors: Cory Booker never lived in Newark  —  As Cory Booker looks set to win the junior Senate seat in New Jersey Wednesday, his supposed neighbors in Newark say Mayor Booker doesn't live in the Gateway City.  —  Multiple residents of Newark told The Daily Caller that the longtime mayor …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Exciting new high-tech solution to ObamaCare website disaster: Paper applications
Discussion: National Review and Weasel Zippers
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
This Republican Congressman Wants To Put The US Through Chapter 13 Bankruptcy  —  This weekend, Business Insider politics reporter Brett LoGiurato went to Gainesville, Florida to interview Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) who has insisted that hitting the debt ceiling would “bring stability to the world markets.”
Discussion: msnbc.com and Hullabaloo
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Republicans Are Still Hoping Democrats Will Give In Due to the Default Threat  —  Mitch McConnell, leader of the Senate Republicans, approached Democrats with a new offer over the weekend: He and his colleagues would vote to open the government and increase its borrowing authority …
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CNN:
White House meeting with congressional leaders postponed
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and KTLA 5
Deadline.com:
Alec Baldwin Betters MSNBC In Crowd But Costs In Demo, Trounced by Hannity  —  Alec Baldwin's premiere of his new MSNBC interview show Up Late With Alec Baldwin logged an average of 654,000 viewers on Friday - up 53% compared to the timeslot's take one week earlier.
 
 
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Bill Keller / New York Times:
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Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
Fearing a lost governor's race, Virginia Republicans confront party divide
Discussion: NBCNews and First Read
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Mark Halperin: GOP ‘terms of surrender’
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