- 19 Times Democrats Tried to Negotiate With Republicans—"The GOP's biggest talking point of the shutdown is only true if you ignore everything that happened before last week."
- Reid says Dems will not give in to GOP demands.
- Votes are there to break shutdown, but not the will
- Shutdown Costs at $1.6 Billion With $160 Million Each Day
- Get your fiscal house in order: China warns US as superpower expresses concern for $1.3tn of investments
- Singapore PM criticizes U.S. 'game of chicken'
- Carl Bernstein Slams Media's '50/50' Shutdown Coverage: 'This Is About The Republican Party'—Shooting down the false equivalancy of the "both sides do it" rhetoric.
- Don't slam D.C. for the shutdown, America: You sent these wackos here—"You sent these lawmakers here, voters. That imported brand of cuckoo is what's causing this shutdown." WaPo
- Colbert on shutdown: Republicans already compromised on 'having Mitt Romney be president'
- The Government Shutdown, Told in LEGO
- Crisis? What Crisis?—"How House Republicans are convincing themselves that defaulting on the country's debt wouldn't be the disaster everybody claims it'd be." The first stage is denial [NYT].
- Meet Nine Republicans Down For Defaulting On The National Debt
- Here Are Three Debt-Ceiling Lies You'll Hear From the GOP This Week
- Behold the GOP's Terrifying New Debt Ceiling Theory: Default is Inevitable
- Right-wing nutjobs' last stand: The debt limit endgame arrives—"As the debt limit deadline approaches, conservatives are trotting out the real nonsense. The fantasy is almost over." Salon
- Shutdown Merges With Debt Debate as Senate Seeks Strategy
- Don't want to raise debt ceiling? Get ready for austerity
- Government shutdown unlikely to damage economy, but debt limit could be catastrophe WaPo
- GOP will be dared to filibuster debt ceiling: Harry Reid makes his move—"Majority leader will force GOP to give up their debt limit extortion dream -- or filibuster America into default." But Republicans are angry and desperate to get something "big" out of this debacle. Salon
- Josh Marshall: What I Think Is Happening
- Shutdown Poll: GOP Disapproval High Politico
- Post/ABC News poll: GOP is getting blamed for the shutdown—And rightly so. Their frame game is failing. WaPo
- Peter King: GOP Is Responsible For The Government Shutdown
- 8 Flagrant Examples of Republican Shutdown Hypocrisy—"They claim they didn't want a shutdown, but these GOP politicians have been clamoring for one since 2010."
- The House GOP has nothing to show for its government shutdown WaPo
- A G.O.P. Moderate in the Middle ... of a Jam WaPo
- What John Boehner's ambition has to do with the shutdown
- Opinion: Boehner is leader in name only
- Harry Reid: 'Speaker Boehner Has A Credibility Problem'
- GOP Rep Apologizes For 'Shameful' Remarks, Asks To Have Salary Withheld
- Tea party Republicans blame Obama for the shutdown they planned
- Bill Moyers: Tea Partiers 'have sucked the last bit of soul' from GOP
- Tea Party's Strategy Is a Proven Loser
- Republicans fighting back against the tea party WaPo
- GOP Rep Blames Cruz For Shutdown: 'He Took A Lot Of Folks Into The Ditch'
- Devin Nunes accuses Ted Cruz of lying about shutdown—Though Nunes's still a bit confused on what he wants to do.
- Ex-GOP insider unloads: Blame "neo-Confederate insurrectionists" for shutdown Salon
- Obamacare is here. Get used to it.—"It will get better over time, but already, the act is a beautiful thing." WaPo
- GOP's latest shutdown delusion: They missed the Obamacare negotiations!—"They ignore a year of hearings and desperate bargaining on Obamacare. Plus: The worst shutdown punditry ever."
- Study Confirms Fox Used GOP-Friendly Language To Try To Stop Health Care Reform
- Jon Stewart: Republicans can’t take advantage of Obamacare's problems because 'they're f*cking nuts'
- Ted Cruz: Destroying Entire Planet Best Way to Stop Obamacare—A satire piece.
- The real story behind all those Obamacare waivers
- Health insurance shoppers suffer sticker shock—Single payer, single payer, single payer.
- Why It Doesn't Matter If People Aren't Signing Up for Obamacare Yet
- Tweets and bloggers say Obama used government shutdown to close Amber Alert system—False.
- Did Obama shut down the ocean as part of the shutdown?—False.
- Ted Cruz says 'a strong bipartisan majority' in the House of Representatives 'voted to defund Obamacare'—False.
- GOP Rep. Jeb Hensarling assails "sweetheart" deal for lawmakers, staff under Obamacare—Pants on fire.
- A man opted out of Obamacare after the marketplace launched on Oct. 1, 2013, and was informed he owed a $4,000 fine.—Pants on fire.
- 'Citizens United II' could open floodgates
- This Supreme Court Case Could Usher In a "System of Legalized Corruption"
- Supreme Court Hears Another Challenge To Campaign Finance Law—"What is needed in the modern political system, argues lawyer Bopp, is more money, not less."
- Another victim of US gov't shutdown? Obama's surveillance review panel
- NSA inundated by FOIA requests after Snowden leaks
- Australia prepared briefing on US global internet spying program PRISM before Snowden revelations
- Former NSA contractor designs 'surveillance-proof' font
- Mugged by a Mug Shot Online—"Web sites are publishing arrest photos of millions of Americans and often charging fees to remove the pictures." NYT
- 'Revenge porn' outlawed in California—"Fines and jail sentences may be imposed on people who post naked photos of their former partners without permission."
- Halle Berry backed anti-paparazzi bill becomes law