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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Today's Best Tweets
Here are some tweets that caught my eye today...
Joseph Carlson @joscarlson 2m
Fascinating: The true story of how the CIA promoted American abstract expressionist artists during the Cold War http://ind.pn/16MZCJZ
Breaking News @BreakingNews 4m
Bipartisan deal in hand to reopen government, avoid default, Republican senator says - @AP
Robert Costa @robertcostaNRO 11m
RT @sahilkapur Multiple Senate sources say Boehner has agreed to vote first on the Reid-McConnell deal. Game over.
Ezra Klein @ezraklein 5m
What Republicans got: Nothing. http://wapo.st/1gKDYJQ
Matt Yglesias @mattyglesias 8m
One problem with today’s debt ceiling deal—we’re just going to do this all over again in February: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/10/16/debt_ceiling_deal_one_huge_problem.html
Talking Points Memo @TPM 8m
Matt Drudge predicts Pelosi will be next speaker: http://bit.ly/17K2eEd
Joe Scarborough @JoeNBC 2m
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was.... #ShutdownPolitics
Sam Stein @samsteinhp 5m
So, we will end up where we started, but only after absorbing a $4.8 billion economic hit. ($300m a day x 16 days)
Roger Simon @politicoroger 2m
I'll grasp at any straw right now, but I'll believe there is a deal when the House and Senate vote and the president signs it.
The New York Times @nytimes 1m
The NYT obituary for Hans Riegel, the man who made Gummi Bears a global favorite http://nyti.ms/GR6f3F