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Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Early Reaction to Supreme Court Decision on the ACA — This poll fielded following the Supreme Court's decision upholding the heart of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) finds a majority of Americans (56 percent) now say they would like to see the law's detractors stop …
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The Moderate Voice, The Maddow Blog, ThinkProgress, Politico and Daily Kos
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell: Covering 30 million uninsured is ‘not the issue’ — Mitch McConnell's appearance today on Fox News Sunday was remarkably revealing — it showed as clearly as you could want that the Supreme Court decision is finally forcing Republicans to declare what, exactly …
CNN:
CNN Poll: Health care ruling changes views of Supreme Court — Washington (CNN) - The Supreme Court's decision to uphold the national health care law may not have changed many minds regarding the controversial measure, but a new poll indicates it sure did change Americans views of the high court.
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Washington Wire, The Hill and The Huffington Post
Donovan Slack / Politico:
W.H. gets unexpected backup: Romney camp says it's a penalty, not a tax — Prominent Dems including White House chief of staff Jack Lew and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have repeatedly argued in recent days that the fee for not buying insurance under the health care law is in fact a penalty and not a tax.
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
No, ‘Obamacare’ isn't ‘the largest tax increase in the history of the world’ (in one chart) — Since the Supreme Court decision, Republicans have been calling the Affordable Care Act “the largest tax increase in the history of the world.” Politifact rates this false.
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Fox News Psychiatrist: Obamacare ‘Absolutely Infantilizes Americans’ — Last week, conservatives responded to the Supreme Court's ruling upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act by issuing flamboyant denunciations of the the justices and the court.
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The Reaction
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dem memo to GOP women highlights benefits preserved in court ruling
Dem memo to GOP women highlights benefits preserved in court ruling
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CNN
Austin Frakt / The Incidental Economist:
Obamacare is the biggest tax increase in history ... if you ignore history
Obamacare is the biggest tax increase in history ... if you ignore history
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Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Dems target vulnerable GOP lawmakers over health law repeal vote
Dems target vulnerable GOP lawmakers over health law repeal vote
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CNN, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Post, Weasel Zippers and Prairie Weather
Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
Romney team agrees with Obama, individual mandate not a tax
Romney team agrees with Obama, individual mandate not a tax
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Mediaite, The Moderate Voice, JustOneMinute, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Macsmind
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
David Axelrod: Top GOP officials are ‘sliming their own nominee’
David Axelrod: Top GOP officials are ‘sliming their own nominee’
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Firedoglake, ABCNEWS, Daily Kos and ThinkProgress
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Anderson Cooper: “The Fact Is, I'm Gay.” — Last week, Entertainment Weekly ran a story on an emerging trend: gay people in public life who come out in a much more restrained and matter-of-fact way than in the past. In many ways, it's a great development: we're evolved enough not to be gob-smacked when we find out someone's gay.
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Patrick Gavin / Politico:
CPAC's boy wonder swings left — Jonathan Krohn took the political world by storm at 2009's Conservative Political Action Conference when, at just 13 years old, he delivered an impromptu rallying cry for conservatism that became a viral hit and had some pegging him as a future star of the Republican Party.
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Why are Republicans so awful at picking Supreme Court justices? — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.'s decision to side with the court's liberal bloc and uphold Obamacare raises an important question for conservatives: Why are Republicans so awful at picking Supreme Court justices?
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Wall Street Journal:
A Vast New Taxing Power — The Chief Justice's ObamaCare ruling is far from the check on Congress of right-left myth. — The commentary on John Roberts's solo walk into the Affordable Care Act wilderness is converging on a common theme: The Chief Justice is a genius.
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
A New Grievance For the Right — The big non-weather news …
A New Grievance For the Right — The big non-weather news …
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Hit & Run, Mediaite and Democratic Strategist
Josiah Ryan / Campus Reform:
Secret Service disrupts students' ‘Fire Holder protest’ over ‘suspicious package’ — The Secret Service on Monday shutdown a student-protest calling for the firing of Attorney General Eric Holder saying they were acting on concerns over a ‘a suspicious package’ apparently left by a tourist on White House grounds.
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Washington Examiner, Politicker, The Lonely Conservative, The PJ Tatler and Jammie Wearing Fools
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Doing Double Duty at Justice
Doing Double Duty at Justice
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The Lonely Conservative and Outside the Beltway
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Secret Service shuts down ‘Fire Holder’ protest outside White House
Secret Service shuts down ‘Fire Holder’ protest outside White House
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The PJ Tatler
Jodi Rudoren / New York Times:
Romney Plans Trip to Israel — JERUSALEM — Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will visit Israel this summer to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders, a senior aide to the prime minister confirmed on Monday evening.
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ABCNEWS, GOP 12 and Israel Matzav
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Obama Now Leads Romney, 48% to 43% — Represents largest lead for Obama among registered voters since April — PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama has maintained at least a slight margin over Mitt Romney in each of the last six Gallup Daily tracking averages, including a 48% …
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David Corn / MoJo Articles:
Romney Invested in Medical-Waste Firm That Disposed of Aborted Fetuses, Government Documents Show — And these documents challenge Romney's claim that he left Bain Capital in early 1999. — Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Zuma — Earlier this year, Mitt Romney nearly landed …
Washington Post:
Sweaty Washington returns to work; mass outages persist, though numbers decline — Area residents experienced slightly less sweltering temperatures and relatively quiet roads on Monday, as utility companies continued to battle massive power outages from Friday's severe storms.
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Christopher S. Rugaber / Associated Press:
US manufacturing shrinks for first time in 3 years — WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. manufacturing shrank in June for the first time in nearly three years, a troubling sign as evidence builds that economic growth is slowing. — The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers …
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Power Line, msnbc.com, Michelle Malkin and The Gateway Pundit
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Romney at Langone, Murdoch, Blankfein meeting: I won't be ‘flip-flopper’ on immigration — Mitt Romney last week told a private group of potential supporters and business and media elites, including Rupert Murdoch, that he was treading carefully around the issue of immigration to avoid looking like a “flip-flopper.”
Max Fisher / The Atlantic Online:
Here's the Video of Newt Gingrich Bowing to the Leader of an Iranian Terrorist Group — The former speaker of the house traveled to Paris last week to speak to an Iranian exile group led by Maryam Rajavi, who also heads an officially designated terrorist group called MEK.
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ProPublica, Wonkette and The Maddow Blog
Wolfgang Münchau / Financial Times:
The real victor in Brussels was Merkel — Mario Monti faced down the German chancellor and won the battle. He will survive a few more weeks or months in politics. It was clever of him to threaten a veto on something Angela Merkel badly needed. He had her in the corner.
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nbcnewyork.com:
Christie Calls Reporter “Idiot” at Press Conference — When a reporter tried to ask Chris Christie an off-topic question at a press conference, the governor snapped at him — New Jersey's governor is known for speaking his mind when something displeases him.
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New York Magazine and WNYC News Blog