- Obama signs bill to end partial shutdown, stave off debt ceiling crisis
- Barack Obama defeats the Republican Party: The president's aggressive strategy on the government shutdown and debt limit crushed the GOP—Bipartisanship only works if both sides are sane.
- US debt ceiling crisis – Barack Obama has won the shutdown. His prize is a lame duck presidency
- McConnell-Reid Deal Includes $3 Billion Earmark for Kentucky Project
- Winners and losers of the government shutdown WaPo
- That's how you treat a bully!: Democrats win — and learn a huge lesson—"GOP is finally surrendering. But it will try more extortion soon -- and Democrats will have to stand just as strong." Salon
- The defunding debacle—"The Republican push to defund Obamacare defied the strategic wisdom of the ages."
- Reich: What to Expect During the Cease-Fire
- Will Debt-Ceiling Extortion Ever Return?—It's over for now.
- Warren Buffett: Debt limit is a 'political weapon of mass destruction'
- What's Next For The Federal Budget
- 3 reasons not to celebrate the shutdown deal
- The Republican Surrender—"After inflicting enormous damage, the House wins virtually nothing and gives up." NYT
- Republican Party lose on government shutdown and debt limit: The GOP rewrites their defeat
- John Boehner, GOP Savaged: 'Humiliating Failure,' 'Disaster'
- Conservatives Learned The Wrong Lessons From The Shutdown Debacle
- Darrell Issa To Investigate How Republicans' Government Shutdown Is Totally Obama's Fault Somehow
- GOP: We can easily avoid default Thursday by not paying Social Security checks
- GOP Sen. Isakson Blames Heritage Action For Collapse Of House Gov't Funding Deal
- GOP's huge Tea Party mess has only just begun—"John Boehner thought the last few weeks were rough? The coming months could present him with even more headaches." Salon
- Insani-Tea Reigns: Koch Brothers Fail To Control The Monster They Created
- Tea Party's Popularity Reaches New Low, Poll Finds
- Ted Cruz Was Never Going to Filibuster the Debt Deal—He wanted the spotlight on him as the GOP's leading presidential candidate for 2016.
- Sorry, Houston Chronicle, but Ted Cruz won—"To the dismay of the newspaper that endorsed him, Ted Cruz emerges from the shutdown mess a right-wing hero." Salon
- Ted Cruz Blames Senate GOP For 'Bombing Our Own Troops' In The House—One sore loser [WaPo].
- Reign Of Morons: The Apotheosis, Starring Ted Yoho
- "The Surrender Caucus Is the Whiner Caucus"—"House GOP members try to see the upside of defeat.
- The Tea Party As A Religion
- A tea party purge among the GOP—Starting with those who voted for the debt deal. WaPo
- Tea Party Vows Future Fights as Republicans Assess Damage—They gunnin' for more.
- Tea party activists call bipartisan deal a capitulation, say they are unbowed
- 'Lying To The American People': House Conservatives Blame Press For Shutdown Surrender
- 'Balanced' coverage ignores nine reasons why the shutdown is a GOP Idea—"Ignoring, denying or minimising such evidence in the pursuit of false balance dangerously mis-represents the news."
- Right-Wing Media: We Didn't Lose The Shutdown Fight, We Were Betrayed
- At least 185,000 people have applied for Obamacare WaPo
- Dear Freedom-Loving, Constitution-Upholding, Socialism-Hating, Red-Blooded Americans—A cowboy's words on the ACA.
- About 5.2 Million Poor People Won't Get Insurance Because Their States Resisted Obamacare: Study
- Ann Coulter says no doctors who went to an American medical school will be accepting Obamacare: Pants on Fire!
- Heritage Action Reverses Defund Obamacare Push: Can't Repeal Until 2017
- Democrats vs. Republicans vs. Tea Partiers
- Furloughed Federal Employees Return To Work Thursday
- S&P: Shutdown Cost U.S. $24 Billion, 0.6% GDP In Projected Growth
- Even as shutdown deal nears, 'a Kafka-esque moment' at parks hearing—"House Republicans accused the National Park Service of barricading open-air monuments such as the World War II memorial in Washington to make the shutdown ' as painful and visible as possible.'" Then they shouldn't have shut down the government in the first place.
- Rep. Noem faces natural and political disaster after South Dakota blizzard—She voted for the shutdown which she her state wants to be exempted from.
- Redefining Rock Bottom: Another Scary Poll For Congress
- Mandatory Voting Will End Extremism and Government Dysfunction
- 'She's Got Really Hot Breasts, Man!' Lonegan Aide Bashes Booker With X-Rated Rant—Mudslinging didn't work.
- Wisconsin: Three more state workers got raises after phantom job transfers
- NC governor spending $230,000 on mansion bathrooms—No money for teachers; lots of it for shit.
- The Joe Rogan Experience with Stefan Molyneux
- Blast from the Past: Dr. Paul: Not board-certified, but self-certified—"Asked by a Louisville reporter when he would explain his dubious certification, Rand Paul said: "Uh ... never.'" Face of libertardianism. Salon
- Robert Shiller: Income Inequality Is 'Most Important Problem'
- Welfare Isn't Too Generous—Wages Are Too Low
- Food stamp system restored after 17-state crash
- Robert Reich Goes 'Hulk' on trickle down
- Guys, We've Actually Found A Hilarious And Fiscally Responsible Elected Official
- Americans need to discover how the world sees them—"There's little awareness of how the budget crisis has eroded US credibility. It's time for a reverse Christopher Columbus."
- The Ungratitude of the Normally Apathetic
- Why I will never return to the USA
- Redford: Racism drives some Obama critics
- Obama to Prioritize Immigration Reform Once Fiscal Crisis Resolved
- Supreme Court justices skeptical of affirmative-action arguments WaPo
- Red Lobster Waitress Gets $10K Tip After Racist Receipt
- 'Birther' judge banished to traffic court
- Reports: NSA Director To Step Down In 2014—Fallout from the Snowden leaks.
- Secret Surveillance Court Insists It's Not a Rubber Stamp
- U.S.-Style Personal Data Gathering Is Spreading Worldwide
- DOJ Argues No One Has Standing To Challenge Metadata Collection Even As It Says Govt Can Legally Collect Everyone's
- Unbreakable encryption comes to the U.S.—"The first quantum key distribution network in the United States promises un-hackable data security."
- How to Design — And Defend Against — The Perfect Security Backdoor
- Blast from the Past: Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans—"Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as part of the U.S. terrorist surveillance program, according to two former military intercept operators who say they listened to private phone calls, even phone sex, of US soldiers in Iraq calling home."
