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CLIVE BUNDY'S FIRST AND LAST RODEO - "It can happen to anyone, right? You rally behind a guy and his anti-government cause, and suddenly he's spewing racist bile and boy, does it splash on your face," writes POLITICO's David Nather. "Well, actually, it can't happen to just anyone. It didn't even happen to most people. It happened, specifically, to a handful of politicians and media celebrities who didn't check out Cliven Bundy a little more closely.

-- "Republicans like Rand Paul, Dean Heller and Ted Cruz are sprinting away from the Nevada rancher after embracing his fight against the Bureau of Land Management. And media figures like Sean Hannity, who built Bundy into a star for his battle against yet another heavy-handed government agency. Much of the nation heard what Bundy thinks about race, thanks to an extended riff he gave during a weekend news conference that was reported by The New York Times. (It was captured on video, too, because of course it was.) All of Bundy's big-name backers are paying for their endorsements now - grappling with the awkward situation of condemning a man's words after supporting his crusade. ...

-- "In case you missed it, Bundy's rant starts with 'I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro' and goes downhill from there, somehow mentioning abortion, cotton and slavery all in the same speech."
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-- Bundy digs himself into a deeper hole.CNN: "Cliven Bundy -- the Nevada rancher turned conservative folk hero for bucking the federal government's attempts to stop his cattle from grazing on public land -- admits he doesn't understand the bipartisan uproar over his comments suggesting blacks might have been better off under slavery. But he understands what he meant by those comments, and he's not backing down. 'I don't think I'm wrong,' Bundy told CNN's Bill Weir on Thursday night. 'I think I'm right.'"
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SPOTTED:SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER dining last night with Gov. John Kasich and Rep. Mike Turner at the Pine Club in Dayton, Ohio. "The Pine Club," our Huddle tipster tells us, "is perhaps the last great steakhouse in Dayton. It's next to the campus of the University of Dayton."

-- EARLIER, BOEHNER MOCKED HIS GOP COLLEAGUES for being afraid to tackle immigration reform while speaking at an Ohio rotary club, Sheila McLaughlin writes for the Cincinnati Enquirer: "'Here's the attitude. Ohhhh. Don't make me do this. Ohhhh. This is too hard,' Boehner whined before a luncheon crowd at Brown's Run County Club in Madison Township. 'We get elected to make choices. We get elected to solve problems and it's remarkable to me how many of my colleagues just don't want to ... They'll take the path of least resistance.'"
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PLANE CARRYING MARIO DIAZ-BALART MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING - The Tampa Tribune reports: "An American Airlines flight with a U.S. congressman aboard made an emergency landing in Tampa on Thursday night after reports of a smoke smell in the cockpit. Flight 3454 from Tallahassee to Miami, landed without incident about 9:30 p.m. at Tampa International Airport, an airline spokeswoman said. There were no reported injuries. The flight had three crew members and 46 passengers, including U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Miami. 'Everyone is OK,' Diaz-Balart tweeted after landing in Tampa. 'Big thanks to flt crew + 1st responders.' Also on the plane was Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho,
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IN OKLAHOMA, TEA PARTY EATS ONE OF THEIR OWN - POLITICO's Burgess Everett files this dispatch from Tulsa: "Down here in the buckle of the Bible Belt, conservatives might eat one of their own. Tea party celebrities Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee descended here on Thursday night to anoint their candidate to replace retiring Republican Sen. Tom Coburn: former state House Speaker T.W. Shannon (R).

-- "By embracing Shannon, they are leaving behind Rep. James Lankford, the fifth-highest ranking member of the House GOP leadership who is also bidding for the last two years of Coburn's term. Lankford could be forgiven for thinking he had a shot at such prominent endorsements, since he rode the tea party wave of 2010 to a seat in the House. But the conservative glitterati think Shannon is a true believer and that Lankford has disappointed them by voting to raise the debt ceiling and joining John Boehner's team."
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TODAY IN CONGRESS - Both the House and Senate are on recess for the rest of the week and return Monday.

AROUND THE HILL - Reps. Chris Van Hollen and Joaquin Castro hold a conference call highlighting the impact of the Paul Ryan Republican budget on young Americans, at 11 a.m. RSVP to
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'RUN, LIZ, RUN!' - Our own MJ Lee catches up with the Elizabeth Warren book tour in Cambridge, Mass.: "At the debut event of Elizabeth Warren's book tour this week, the moderator at a Barnes & Noble off Manhattan's Union Square asked what she said was the most-submitted question from the senator's fans in the audience: 'Will you please run for president?' 'Run, Liz, run!' one woman hollered, as the room broke out in cheers and applause. When a smiling Warren responded, 'I'm not running for president,' the audience collectively let out a disappointed, 'Aww.'

-- "It's a question that the first-term Massachusetts Democrat is being asked over and over again as she promotes her newest book, 'A Fighting Chance.' ... The first stops of her cross-country book tour this week in New York City and Cambridge offered a vivid snapshot of the intense, passionately liberal following Warren has amassed in the course of a few years, as she has become a national political celebrity. Her supporters are pledging that regardless of her decision on 2016, Warren will be a political force that any candidate in the Democratic field - including Hillary Clinton - will have to contend with."
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-- BOSTON GLOBE A1: "Riding the wave while it lasts: Warren gets wide exposure and friendly questions on book tour," By Noah Bierman: "The venues for Senator Elizabeth Warren's book tour have been decidedly favorable. No Fox interviews for her, no Rush Limbaugh, and very few tough questions."
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KENNEDY SAYS SHE WOULD BACK HILLARY in 2016- Amy Chozick writes for the NYT: "Caroline Kennedy, whose endorsement of Barack Obama in 2008 was a major setback for Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign, as well as a personal blow, said Thursday that she would 'absolutely' support Mrs. Clinton should she decide to run for president again. Ms. Kennedy, whom President Obama recently named ambassador to Japan, is the latest high-profile Obama supporter from 2008 to endorse a potential 2016 run by Mrs. Clinton, who has yet to make her intentions clear. 'I'm sure she's looking forward to being a grandmother,' Ms. Kennedy told ABC News during a series of interviews as Mr. Obama arrived in Japan. 'I know
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HE SAID WHAT? GRAHAM'S FOE SAYS CHILDREN LOVING-WOMEN CAUSES DIVORCES - "Det Bowers, a pastor challenging Lindsey Graham in the South Carolina GOP Senate primary, once blamed women for causing most divorces - even when husbands are unfaithful to their wives," Manu Raju writes for POLTICO. "During a sermon on the Book of Peter delivered at the Christ Church of the Carolinas, Bowers said it was an 'abominable idolatry' when wives love their children more than their husbands, arguing that's what causes divorces most of the time. He added that in the 'vast preponderance' of situations where men are adulterous, women are to blame because they have showered too much emotion on their children
instead of their husbands. 'And yet, I find that in about 95 percent of broken marriages, though the husband's the one that ran out on his wife, the wife loves her children more than she does her husband,' Bowers said in an audio recording obtained by POLITICO. 'That is an abominable idolatry.'

-- "Bowers added, his voice rising: 'Do you hear me ladies? It is an abominable idolatry to love your children more than you love your husband, and it will ruin your marriage. And yet you blame it on him because he ran off with some other woman! He did run off with some other woman, and you packed his bags. All of his emotional bags, you packed for him. Is that true in every case? No, but it's true in the vast preponderance of them."
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REID IS GOP'S 2014 BOOGEYMAN - Janet Hook in the Wall Street Journal: "The Senate's top Democrat is playing a starring role in campaign ads and fundraising pitches across the country-but on behalf of Republicans. GOP leaders have launched a new effort to try to turn Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada into a political symbol of all that ails Washington, just as they did with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California in past election years. In Arkansas, Senate GOP candidate Tom Cotton's website pleads for help 'to take back the Senate from Harry Reid.' In North Carolina, a GOP Senate candidate accuses Mr. Reid of supporting a 'sleazy' attack ad. The Republican
National Committee is encouraging candidates to embrace 'Stop Obama, fire Reid' as a campaign theme.

-- "It marks a shift from Republicans' heavy focus in recent months on trying to discredit the 2010 Affordable Care Act. It also shows how the GOP is trying to highlight the national political stakes in the midterm elections-control of the U.S. Senate-at a time when Senate Democrats running for re-election in conservative states are trying to keep voters focused on the local choice between two candidates."
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CRUZ HEADS BACK TO N.H. - John DiStaso writes for the NH Journal: "Eventually, New Hampshire will be a 'ground zero' for the 2016 presidential election campaign, as it always is. But for now, insists Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the Granite State is "ground zero" in the battle for control of the United States Senate - and the way Cruz sees it, in many ways the future of the country. The 43-year-old first-term conservative, hero to many in the Tea Party and scourge to Democrats (and even some middle-of-the-road Republicans), will make a key pilgrimage to New Hampshire this weekend to talk about not only the mid-term election but also, 'more broadly, to talk about how we turn our nation around.' ...

-- "Predictably, the senator isn't outwardly talking about running for the White House, at least not yet. Still, a speaking engagement Saturday at the Carroll County Republican Committee Lincoln Dinner and a Sunday appearance at a private reception with the conservative advocacy group Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire are effective starting points for Cruz ..."
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THURSDAY'S TRIVIA - Jim Casto was first to correctly answer that Rep. Bob Lotta (R-Ohio) was the first sitting member of the House to release his or her own iPhone app.

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