- Obama says he'd talk on GOP's terms -- if they raise debt ceiling, fund government—"President Barack Obama is ready to talk even on Republicans' terms, he insisted Tuesday, so long as Congress acts first to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling -- even for a short period." He will not respond to threats [NYT].
- Obama: Republicans using 'extortion' on debt limit
- House Approves New 'Supercommittee' To Negotiate Debt-Limit Deal
- Lawmakers trying to reopen government piece by piece WaPo
- Let's Call The Shutdown What It Is: Secession By Another Means
- Democrats should tell Republicans what they really want
- If Dems Give In, Social Security and Medicare Will Be Future Hostages
- IMF warns of 'major' consequences of US debt default
- Poll: Voters prefer hemorrhoids over Congress
- Government Shutdown 2013 illustrated
- End Game: John Boehner Doesn't Even Have to Cave—"The Speaker can avert disaster with some procedural jiu-jitsu at the eleventh hour."
- John Boehner's endgame Politico
- John Boehner Too Embarrassed to Defend His Own Extortion Demands
- Boehner: 'Didn't come here to default on our debt'—Suuuuure you didn't.
- Boehner: Clean Debt Limit Would Be 'Unconditional Surrender' For GOP
- Polls: Yes, The GOP Is Losing The Shutdown Fight—Coming across as irrational, irresponsible and unreasonable.
- GOP unity frays, frustration builds Politico
- Suicide of the Right
- Here's A Tally Of Which House Republicans Are Ready To Fund The Government, No Strings Attached—Maybe add one more to the list?
- What Moderate Republicans?
- Olympia Snowe: This is no way to run a country—"What is needed, the former Maine congresswoman says, is a counterweight to the extremism."
- Daily Show Enlists Actual Hostage Negotiator to Get Through to GOP Strategist on Shutdown
- Jon Stewart Tells GOP to Own the Shutdown: 'Don't Fart And Point at the Dog!'
- How the GOP's Kamikaze Club Hijacked John Boehner—"Right-wing groups, tea party back-benchers, and the Koch network plotted and pushed the House speaker to this breaking point—and he hasn't fought back."
- Friedman: U.S. Fringe Festival—"The reason so many mainstream Republican lawmakers want Obama to give something to Cruz & Co. is that they want to get out of this mess, but they're all afraid to stand up to the far-right fringe themselves — with its bullying network of barking talk-show hosts and moneymen." NYT
- 'Safe Seats' And The Media Spin About Radical Republicans
- Ted Cruz Is Convinced His Strategy Will Lead Republicans to 2014 Victory
- Why House Republicans aren't sweating the 2014 election
- Juan Cole: Dear Tea Party: The Gov't Shutdown is Hurting White People, Too—"The reason that the Tea Party doesn't want Obamacare is because they are convinced that it is ultimately a transfer of wealth from the white rich and middle classes to the minorities."
- Medicaid system broken? Report finds McCrory admin downplayed explanations for problems
- GOPers Upset Shutdown Is Eclipsing Coverage Of Glitchy Obamacare Launch
- Obamacare site hits reset button on passwords as contractors scramble—Not surprised.
- The Problem With Jon Stewart's Obamacare Interview
- Government shutdown worst-case scenario realized: Salmonella outbreak Politico
- Senate elders denounce suspension of death benefit for families of fallen
- Billionaire couple donates $10 million to Head Start programs closed by U.S. government shutdown
- Exclusive Gyms For Members Of Congress Deemed 'Essential,' Remain Open During Shutdown
- Right-Wing Truckers Plan To Jam DC's Major Commuter Highway, Arrest Members Of Congress—More crazies are coming out.
- Bill Moyers Essay: On the Sabotage of Democracy
- Weapons inspectors begin destroying Syrian chemical stockpile and machinery
- India: Give voters right to cast negative vote
- David Cameron suggests cutting benefits for under-25s
- Qatar under growing pressure over workers' deaths as Fifa is urged to act—"Victims' groups and UN urge football governing body to halt death toll before 2022 World Cup."
- Venezuela expels top U.S. diplomat, two other embassy officials
- Brazil govt backs natives on land demarcation
- 'Worse Than Gangs': Rio Police Criticized for Favela Crackdowns—"A new security campaign is helping authorities win back control of Rio de Janeiro's favelas ahead of next year's World Cup. Special police units are driving drug gangs out of the slums -- but often only to replace them with their own thuggish rule."
- Putin critic sentenced to detention in psychiatric ward
- Internet Troll Operation Uncovered in St. Petersburg
- This is what happens when Tibetan villages refuse to fly the Chinese flag
- China pays 2 million to monitor Internet
- New law to permit Turkish police to detain 'possible' protesters
- Iran nuclear: Rivals rally as Rouhani returns from UN
- Iran's Khamenei backs Rouhani's New York talks
- Iran's Rouhani calls Holocaust crime against Jewss
- Iranian media splits over diplomatic outreach—"I could not have dreamt that the Iranian news would broadcast the voice of real people who would say, on camera, that our president has conversed with America."
- Israel's Netanyahu heads for the US with a warning to the White House: Don't be fooled by Iran
- GCHQ leaks have 'gifted' terrorists ability to attack 'at will', warns spy chief
- Virginia State Police Used License Plate Readers At Political Rallies, Built Huge Database
- Canada spying in Brazil: more to come, Greenwald promises—Oh, Canada.
- Meltdowns at NSA spy data center destroy equipment, delay opening
- How Lavabit Melted Down—"The inside story of how the secure e-mail service used by the N.S.A. whistleblower Edward Snowden went dark, as told by court documents and its owner and operator."
