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6:50 PM ET, July 2, 2012

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kff.org:
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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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.
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 …
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.
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?
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.
CNN:
CNN Poll: Health care ruling has not impacted race for White House, so far
Discussion: Politico, GOP 12 and Hot Air
Mike Lillis / The Hill:   Dem memo to GOP women highlights benefits preserved in court ruling
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
David Axelrod: Top GOP officials are ‘sliming their own nominee’
Rob Portman / CNN:
Portman to headline New Hampshire GOP event
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and GOP 12
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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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
GOP Rep Suggests Arresting Attorney General Eric Holder
Discussion: The Maddow Blog
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Secret Service shuts down ‘Fire Holder’ protest outside White House
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Doing Double Duty at Justice
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% …
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.
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.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
A New Grievance For the Right  —  The big non-weather news …
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 …
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.
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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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.
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.”
Discussion: GOP 12 and Guardian
Washington Post:
Colorado's table was set for monster fire  —  No one predicted fires like the current ones, but years ago climate scientists warned state and federal officials that they could start seeing early springs, more hot and dry weather, and frequent and perhaps severe droughts, Doesken said.
 
 
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Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
Romney's Foreign-Policy Team: Anyone Home?
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Two years later, many of Dodd-Frank's rules remain unwritten, report finds
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Obama's new attacks on Romney and outsourcing
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Fox News Psychiatrist: Obamacare ‘Absolutely Infantilizes Americans’
Discussion: The Reaction
Amanda Peterson Beadle / ThinkProgress:
Romney Surrogate Falsely Claims That Obamacare Would Harm Breast Cancer Patients
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A Tale of One Tragedy and Two Campaigns
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Christie Calls Reporter “Idiot” at Press Conference
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Economy Cuts Into Obama's Youth Support
 

 
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