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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Obamacare, Failing Ahead of Schedule — THIS is not the column about the Obamacare rollout I expected to write. — If you had told me, months ago, that weeks after the health care law's coverage expansion went into effect I would be writing about the problems its launch had exposed …
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Four Things We Think We Know About Obamacare — I've been seeing a few things floating around the blogosphere about Obamacare that aren't true. They're not really conservative or liberal talking points; they're just misconceptions that people may have about how the health-care law works.
ThinkProgress:
Marco Rubio: Obama Has Undermined Immigration Reform By Refusing To Defund Obamacare — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) suggested on Sunday that President Obama's refusal to compromise with Republicans on Obamacare to re-open the government and raise the nation's debt ceiling has jeopardized …
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Greg Clary / CNN:
Rubio weighs in on McConnell's election fight — Washington (CNN) - One-time tea party favorite Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, said Sunday he supports Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's bid for re-election in 2014. — McConnell is facing a primary challenge in his home state of Kentucky …
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Cruz to CNN: 'I don't work for the party bosses in Washington' — (CNN) - Back in his home state after the reopening of the government, Sen. Ted Cruz didn't rule out the idea of again staging the strategy that helped lead to the 16-day partial shutdown and bashed his fellow Senate Republicans …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Cruz defiant on stopping ObamaCare — A defiant Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that he would “continue to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare,” hinting that he could again seek to complicate efforts to pass a long-term budget deal.
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ThinkProgress and Prairie Weather
Laura Koran / CNN:
Ted Cruz, back in Texas, rails against fellow Senate Republicans
Ted Cruz, back in Texas, rails against fellow Senate Republicans
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Politico
Edward Klein / New York Post:
Even Oprah isn't on board with ObamaCare — As the White House was gearing up to sell ObamaCare to the American people last summer, Valerie Jarrett, the president's pointwoman on a host of issues, phoned Oprah Winfrey. — She invited the Queen of All Media to join celebrities …
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Joanne Kenen / Politico:
Obamacare figures leave a lot unsaid — About a half million people have taken the first step toward enrolling in Obamacare health coverage, creating applications on the exchanges, administration officials said late Saturday. — The “almost half million” figure the officials reported …
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Independent Journal Review and Weasel Zippers
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Julie Pace / ABC News:
AP Sources: 476,000 Obamacare Applications Filed
AP Sources: 476,000 Obamacare Applications Filed
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Washington Wire, Right Wing News, Weasel Zippers, The Reaction and Hullabaloo
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Pelosi: ACA site problems ‘unacceptable’ — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that the glitches and technical problems that have plagued the rollout of President Obama's landmark health reform law were “unacceptable” and have to be fixed.
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Justin Sink / Ballot Box:
Clinton decries ‘scorched-earth politics’ in Washington
Clinton decries ‘scorched-earth politics’ in Washington
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Politico and Taylor Marsh
New York Times:
Fiscal Crisis Sounds the Charge in G.O.P.'s ‘Civil War’ — After the budget standoff ended in crushing defeat last week and the political damage reports began to pile up for Republicans, one longtime party leader after another stepped forward to chastise their less seasoned, Tea Party-inspired colleagues who drove the losing strategy.
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National Review, The Caucus, No More Mister Nice Blog and Hullabaloo
Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post:
Alan Greenspan still thinks he's right — Steven Pearlstein is a business and economics columnist for The Washington Post and a Robinson professor of political and international affairs at George Mason University. — Alan Greenspan's last book, “The Age of Turbulence,” …
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Brad DeLong and Paul Krugman
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Jeb Bush urges Cruz to show ‘self-restraint’ — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) said in an interview airing Sunday that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) needs to “ have a little bit of self-restraint” if the Republican Party is to succeed in repealing ObamaCare. — The brother of former President …
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DealBook:
Tentative Deal Hands JPMorgan Chase a Record Penalty — JPMorgan Chase and the Justice Department have reached a tentative $13 billion settlement over the bank's questionable mortgage practices leading up to the financial crisis, a record penalty that would cap weeks of heated negotiating …
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Gothamist, USA Today, naked capitalism, The Week, NPR and Balloon Juice
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