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This afternoon, NAM President and CEO Jay Timmons sent a letter to President Obama, Speaker Boehner and Leaders Pelosi, Reid and McConnell urging them to “rise above partisan differences and put the nation’s best interests first by addressing the debt limit,” as soon as possible. Hopefully the continued pressure will help this avoidable  crisis end.

Calculated Risk: CBO Report on Fiscal 2013 Deficit :

The Bonus Employees Really Want, Even If They Don't Know It Yet - Lalin Anik and Jordi Quoidbach - Harvard Business Review : This is interesting but I am not sure if your are addressing the reduced compensation with a higher base plus the more altruistic bonus.

An Update on Polarization through the 113th Congress (Part II) | voteview blog :

‘It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With The New Politics of Extremism’ by Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein - The Washington Post :

Obamacare or the Debt Ceiling | RedState :

If we hit the debt ceiling, can Obama choose which bills to pay? :

How to think, write, edit and respond in the very short news cycle? As much as some of us think the news cycle is short, it may be no different than it was in the past. We push a lot more information up and down but is this analysis. Does it have value? There has been thousands of articles, news stories, tv shows, spoofs, blogs, etc. on the partial government shutdown. Do we know anymore than we did a week ago? Have we lost patience? Did we have patience? Is there evindence of either? How would we go about to answer this questions?