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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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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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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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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
No, ‘Obamacare’ isn't ‘the largest tax increase in the history of the world’ (in one chart)
No, ‘Obamacare’ isn't ‘the largest tax increase in the history of the world’ (in one chart)
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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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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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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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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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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
No, Obamacare Isn't the Biggest Tax Increase in History
No, Obamacare Isn't the Biggest Tax Increase in History
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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 over the weekend was a thinly sourced article by CBS' Jan Crawford seeking to confirm the theory that Chief Justice Roberts switched sides in the ACA case after initially supporting its invalidation on Commerce Clause grounds.
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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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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 …
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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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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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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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Scott and Jindal Go Over the Brink on Medicaid Expansion — In the continuing campaign for the mantle of America's Worst Governor, Florida's Rick Scott and Louisiana's Bobby Jindal became the first of their peers to put aside coy equivocation and flatly say they would oppose implementation …
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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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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.”
Alex Keefe / WBEZ:
Downstate county clerks move to defend gay marriage ban — Two downstate county clerks are stepping in to defend Illinois' gay marriage ban, after high-ranking government lawyers made the rare decision not to defend the state law against a pair of legal challenges in Cook County.
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ThinkProgress, Towleroad News #gay and Joe. My. God.
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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