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Sunday, September 29, 2013

Cheat Sheet - Here Comes the Shutdown

Today: White House: House GOP Irresponsible , Pakistan Bomb Blast Kills Dozens , 60 Dead in Mumbai Building Collapse
Cheat Sheet: Morning

September 29, 2013
Mayday

Uh oh! A House plan to delay Obamacare has put the government on the brink of a shutdown—for real this time. The Daily Beat's David Frum on why the infighting is sure to backfire on the Republicans. Plus, The Daily Beast's John Avlon on the rot of hyper-partisanship that ails our body politic.

NO BLINKING

The White House is not blinking so fast. President Obama said in a statement Saturday that he would veto the House's bill that would delay funding for Obamacare, with press secretary Jay Carney adding that the House GOP is "reckless and irresponsible." "Any member of the Republican Party who votes for this bill is voting for a shutdown," Carney said. Democrats already readied their defenses against a shutdown: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid blasted the House bill as "pointless" and House Democratic campaign chief Steve Israel said the GOP is "committing political suicide." Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel slammed Republican lawmakers as "astoundingly reckless"—especially since half of the Pentagon's nearly 800,000 civilian workers could be placed on leave without pay. Republicans have already approved a separate bill to fund the military. 

DEADLY

A car bomb exploded in a busy market in Peshawar, Pakistan on Sunday, killing 33 and wounding dozens more. "It was a huge blast … thick black smoke covered the air and splinters spread all over," one witness told the Associated Press. According to a report in Pakistan's Dawn newspaper, the police station may have been the target. The bombing comes while the city is still reeling from a bombing on Friday of a bus carrying government employees and a church explosion last week that killed 80.  The Taliban claimed responsibility for Sunday's church bombing, further hindering Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's peace talks.

FINAL

The official death toll in Friday's building collapse in Mumbai reached 60 as officials called off the search for survivors Sunday morning, saying all 93 people who had been listed missing had been accounted for. Thirty-three people were rescued from the rubble during the two-day search, with emergency workers taking six hours on Sunday to rescue the last survivor, a 50-year-old man who was trapped for more than 30 hours. The exact cause of the five-story apartment building collapse was still unclear Sunday, although local residents blamed shoddy construction and corruption by local officials. Two other buildings have already collapsed in Mumbai this year.

'SNL'

Six new actors—and a special appearance by Aaron Paul—joined host Tina Fey on the Saturday Night Live premiere this weekend. Sadly, no laughs joined any of them, writes The Daily Beast's Kevin Fallon


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Just 39 percent think children will have better life.
TEXAS TWO-STEP
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TAKE THE CROWN
Miss Philippines Wins Miss World 2013
But she lived in the U.S. until she was 10!
OPERA SERIA
NYC Opera Faces Bankruptcy
Kickstarter campaign is failing.

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