Thursday, October 03, 2013 Published Weekday Mornings   To see the full version of today's cartoon, click on the preview graphic of the cartoon (below the Commentary) to be taken to the full version in your favorite web browser. Obamacare Rolls On Kevin Drum: So Far, the Obamacare Rollout Looks Pretty Normal to Me Sarah Kliff: Obamacare's biggest problem right now isn't glitches. It's traffic. HHS: 4.7 million visits to ObamaCare site on Day 1 Jonathan Cohn: Obamacare Glitches Are Real-and Matter Less Than You Think Signing up for Obamacare: 'It will save me over $6,000. For that, I would have waited all day.' Butch Matthews, A Republican Who Came To Love Obamacare After Realizing It Will Save Him $13,000 Due To GOP Governors That Aren't Expanding Medicaid, Millions of Poor Left Uncovered by Health Law Under Obamacare, Disney World Will Promote Its Part-Time Workers To Full-Time Status On Capitol Hill, the Obamacare fight is no longer about Obamacare Henry Blodget: Republicans Hate Obamacare Because They're Afraid People Will Like It Michael Hiltzik: The truth is, Americans love Obamacare Shutdown Continues No sign of government shutdown ending after Wednesday evening White House meeting House GOP Blocks Vote On Re-opening Government Robert Costa: Boehner to GOP - A Grand Bargain Is In The Works Greg Sargent: Why Dems must not give an inch to GOP debt limit blackmail Report: Cruz Blasted By Angry GOP Colleagues In Closed-Door Meeting Boehner, between a rock and a hard place on shutdown and debt limit Hastert Disses Boehner Hiding Behind The 'Hastert Rule': Says The Rule 'Never Really Existed' Jonathan Chait: What Happens When You Take Hostages Without a Plan Brian Beutler: GOP moderates should stop whining, and reopen the government Jen Bendery: The Tally Of Which House Repubs Are Ready To Fund The Govt, No Strings Attached Jonathan Bernstein: Drip, drip, drip - Why we're all still waiting for the shutdown to be over Jamelle Bouie: Take Your Lumps, GOP Greg Sargent: How Dems could play procedural hardball in shutdown fight E.J. Dionne: Why this shutdown is different Immigration: Reform Coming? House Democrats unveil immigration plan in hopes of pressuring Republicans Shutdown Is Good News for Immigration Reform Energy, Climate & Environment BP wins reprieve over Gulf spill payouts in U.S. appeals court Ocean acidification due to carbon emissions is at highest level in 300m years Nations In Turmoil Weapons Inspection Team Begins Work in Syria CIA ramping up covert training program for moderate Syrian rebels Russian Embassy in Libya comes under fire, attack repelled The War Over There Afghan officials say long-term security agreement with the U.S. is still on hold International News Japan and U.S. Agree to Broaden Military Alliance Agreement will allow U.S. to fly long-range surveillance drones from base in Japan Scores killed as migrant boat sinks off coast of Sicil Plane carrying 27 crashes in Nigeria's Lagos, five dead Midwest Roundup Neb. GOP Gov. Heineman again pushing tax lies, in yet another attempt to cut taxes for corporations Nebraska governor claims he's open to scaling back business incentives for lower income tax Center for Rural Affairs: New health insurance exchanges are "designed for rural people" Iowa State Sen. Kent Sorenson resigns after report finds he illegally received money from Bachmann campaign None So Blind... As America enters day three of the government shutdown, with exactly two weeks to go until the much more dangerous debt ceiling default, there are plenty of reasons for pessimism - and we've likely said, heard, or read most of them in the past three days. The facts on the shutdown remain stubbornly the same. Congressional Democrats and President Obama are still waiting for a "clean" continuing resolution to get passed by the GOP-led House. A relatively  small group of right-wing extremists in the House continue to hold Speaker John Boehner as an ideological hostage, refusing to let him put a clear CR up for whole House vote - mostly because they know it would pass without their small number of votes. For now, we think Brian Beutler and Jamelle Bouie have it right - that GOP moderates should stop the whining of their more extreme party members, reopen the government, and take their lumps for throwing in with the insane fools of the tea bag right. At least they'd be able to get affordable health care for their lumps, thanks to the opening of the health insurance marketplaces at healthcare.gov. For all the preaching against Obamacare from those on the right, the real truth already appears to be that Americans are loving the opportunity to get decent health insurance that isn't robbing them blind. In the first day of the health insurance exchanges being open... To continue reading... click here. And now, for your Daily Felltoon preview for October 03, 2013 (Click the preview cartoon above to see the full version of the cartoon) Shutdown Effects Shutdown: Americans feeling the pinch, showing their outrage Poll: Americans not happy about shutdown; more blame GOP GOP Donors Revolt Against Republican-Led Government Shutdown Government Shutdown Pinches Low-Income Aid Programs Head Start preschoolers sent home thanks to shutdown Shutdown Kabuki: A Tea Party circus at the WWII Memorial; no one at a children's cancer ward With tropical storm looming, 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron will fly into storm for free | Republicans Split On Whether To Give Back Pay To Workers Furloughed In Government Shutdown Businesses slammed by Yosemite fire now hurt by shutdown Five other shutdown stories that didn't make the headlines Reversing course: Navy-Air Force football game to go on as scheduled despite shutdown Shutdown makes U.S. more vulnerable to terrorist attacks, intelligence officials warn Thirty Ways the Shutdown Is Already Screwing Americans How The Rest Of The World Sees The U.S. Government Shutdown Jobs & The Economy Jobless Claims in U.S. Rose Less Than Forecast Last Week U.S. Businesses Add 166,000 Jobs, Private-Sector ADP Report Shows | U.S. jobless claims point to labor market healing Shutdown won't hit the economy right away, but it will Wall Street Watch U.S. Stocks Fall Amid Little Progress on End to Shutdown Wall Street's Fears Go Far Beyond The Shutdown The Debt Ceiling Looms Focus shifts to looming debt-ceiling deadline Obama to Wall Street, on the looming debt ceiling: This time, be worried Communications Breakdown Reuters To Cut Five Percent Of Staff Across Editorial Dept.  | Reasons to keep Net Neutrality: Charts show Comcast acting more and more like a monopolist It's Your Cap News Toon for October 03, 2013 (Click the preview cartoon above to see the full version of the cartoon) White House Update Obama meets with top bankers on economy, shutdown This Ain't The '90s: Shutdown Negotiation A Dead Zone For Obama SCOTUS Brief Supreme Court poised to tilt further to the right Abortion, Big Money In Elections, And Eleven Other Huge Cases The Supreme Court Will Hear Next Term On The Left Rick Perlstein: Dukakis and the Neverending Myth of Democratic Extremism John Nichols: Can a Bold Pro-Choice Woman Get Elected Governor In Texas? On The Right Josh Barro: Conservatives Are Angry Because They Have No Idea What They Want Paul Waldman: What Happens to Conservatism When the Obamacare War Is Over? States Of Confusion Poll Finds Democrat De Blasio Has Enormous Lead Over Lhota In NYC Mayor's Race | Man Accidentally Shoots Himself At Tennessee Walmart We hope you enjoy "The Daily Felltoon" every business day. Thanks for continuing to be a member! Paul Fell Shawn "Smith" Peirce Paul Fell Cartoons, Inc.