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Jim Demint / Wall Street Journal:
We Won't Back Down on ObamaCare  —  Fighting a law that is unfair, unworkable and unaffordable is reasonable and necessary.  —  Now that the government shutdown has ended and the president has preserved ObamaCare for the time being, it's worth explaining why my organization, the Heritage Foundation …
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Politico:
Donors' frustration with GOP mounts  —  Republican donors were horrified in November after pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into losing campaigns for president and Congress with nothing to show for it.  A year later they're appalled by how little has changed, angered by the behavior …
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Harry Reid On Vitter And His Obamacare Amendment: ‘He Just Is Not Playing With A Full Deck’  —  WASHINGTON — As the showdown over raising the nation's debt limit and funding the government entered its final week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) could sense “desperation” seeping into the Republican Party.
Politico:
Anatomy of a shutdown  —  House Speaker John Boehner just wanted …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
At Al Smith Dinner, Colbert Doesn't Spare Politicians  —  When the comedian Stephen Colbert took to the dais on Thursday for his keynote speech at the Al Smith white-tie charity dinner, the annual gathering of New York's Roman Catholic elite, he immediately flashed a sly glance at Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, sitting a few seats away.
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
The Truth About the Obamacare Rollout  —  The feds botched the website.  But the states are doing much better.  —  The federal government is open and paying its bills, which means you can start looking at the other big story from the past few weeks: The startup of Obamacare's marketplaces.
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Geoffrey Cowley / msnbc.com:
Obamacare: The ultimate survivor  —  With enemies like John Boehner, a president hardly needs friends.  —  “Our drive to stop the train wreck that is the president's health care law will continue,” the House Speaker blustered Wednesday night after failing yet again to derail, defund or even delay the Affordable Care Act.
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Ryan Cooper / The Plum Line:
Here's a ‘grand bargain’ for ya: Tax cuts for $1 trillion in infrastructure spending  —  With the government shutdown over, the serious political discussion moves to the budget talks, already in progress.  But it's already obvious the talks are likely to go nowhere, because Republicans won't give any ground on new revenues.
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New York Times:
Two Parties Start Work to Avoid Repeat Crisis
Alan Cowell / New York Times:
Saudi Arabia Rejects Security Council Seat  —  LONDON — Assailing what it called double standards at the United Nations, Saudi Arabia took the surprising step Friday of declining an invitation to take a rotating seat on the Security Council just one day after it was chosen to join the body for a two-year term.
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
October House Overview: GOP Risk Factors  —  Earlier this year, a senior House Democrat ribbed our pessimistic forecast for their 2014 prospects by suggesting, “Why can't you just say 'Democrats can't win a majority in the House, but Republicans can lose one?'”  That admonition has never seemed more appropriate.
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NationalJournal.com:
Handicappers: Shutdown Puts More Than 17 GOP Seats in Play
Scott Bauer / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
APNewsBreak: Walker calls for positive GOP message  —  MADISON, Wis. — Republican Gov. Scott Walker is using his new book to renew his criticism of 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and raise his own national profile as a reformer who took on public sector unions and won.
Discussion: Politico
The Atlantic Online:
How the GOP Slowly Went Insane  —  The current moment in politics came about slowly, not suddenly, but it doesn't make it any less of a national emergency.  —  When I was a kid, all I knew about Michael Jackson was that he was crazy.  He had a monkey named Bubbles and some kind of oxygen chamber …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
Jonathan Tasini / Playboy:
PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: BERNIE SANDERS  —  At a time when politicians—particularly members of Congress—are almost universally reviled and blind partisanship seems to dictate the fate of every piece of legislation, one U.S. senator stands out as a unique voice.  —  Bernie Sanders has been a senator from Vermont since 2006.
Scott Conroy / Real Clear Politics:
Brian Schweitzer Mulling 2016 Presidential Bid  —  Add another name to the short list of Democrats seriously considering a run for president in 2016.  —  In an interview with RealClearPolitics, former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer indicated that he may launch a White House bid …
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
McConnell challenger nabs big endorsement  —  Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) primary challenger got a boost Friday with the endorsement of a prominent national conservative group, the Senate Conservatives Fund.  —  The endorsement of Matt Bevin comes just days after the fund blasted McConnell …
Discussion: Politico and The Dish
Kimberly Craig / WXYZ-TV:
Walmart employee fired after trying to help assault victim in store parking lot  —  HARTLAND, MI (WXYZ) - “The last thing I expected was to not have a job,” said Kristopher Oswald, 30, who was fired from Walmart this week after he intervened to help a woman who was apparently being assaulted in the parking lot of the store.
Curtis Gans / Washington Monthly:
Why Only Republicans Can Save Us From the Tea Party  —  Facebook Twitter Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Delicious  —  There is only one route to restoring health to the American polity, comity to its dialogue, constructive and collegial approaches to governance, an end to extortion and a restoration …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Group demands GOP arrests for ‘conspiracy against US’  —  A petition on the MoveOn.org website is calling for the Department of Justice to arrest some House Republican leaders for their roles in the government shutdown and debt ceiling debates.  —  The petition singles out Speaker John Boehner …
Bloomberg:
Republican Civil War Erupts: Business Groups v. Tea Party  —  A battle for control of the Republican Party has erupted as an emboldened Tea Party moved to oust senators who voted to reopen the government while business groups mobilized to defeat allies of the small-government movement.
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Redskins and reason  —  In re the (Washington) Redskins.  Should the name be changed?  —  I don't like being lectured by sportscasters about ethnic sensitivity.  Or advised by the president of the United States about changing team names.  Or blackmailed by tribal leaders playing the race card.
Massimo Calabresi / TIME:
Ted Cruz Failed To Disclose Ties To Caribbean Holding Company  —  An old college friendship led to financial entanglement with a Jamaican private equity firm and a British Virgin Islands holding company.  Neither was disclosed during his 2012 campaign.  —  Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Gawker
Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Conservatives, Get a Grip on Reality!  —  Those who thought shutting down the government was a winning strategy should have their heads examined.  —  Here's a question for conservatives and Republicans: Going into the 2012 Election Day, or even in the last few days before Election Day, did you think Mitt Romney was going to win?
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Damage Done  —  The government is reopening, and we didn't default on our debt.  Happy days are here again, right?  —  Well, no. For one thing, Congress has only voted in a temporary fix, and we could find ourselves going through it all over again in a few months.
Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
How to Win in Virginia as a Liberal Democrat  —  Unlike Mark Warner and Tim Kaine before him, Terry McAuliffe is touting a distinctly left-leaning social agenda.  —  No one would confuse Terry McAuliffe with a policy wonk.  The Democratic gubernatorial nominee in Virginia is more likely to be found slapping backs than cracking books.
 
 
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