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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Republican Mega-Donors Quietly Celebrate Chris Christie's Marriage Surrender — Activists are angry, but GOP elites are praising Christie's step away from culture war. “I mean, he's a rare guy who's been able to appeal to people with sincerely held beliefs on both sides of this issue.”
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The Daily Caller
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Reno Gazette-Journal:
Teacher Michael Landsberry, killed in Sparks Middle School shooting, called a hero — Full 11 a.m. press conference: Sparks Middle Schoo...: Full 11 a.m. press conference: Sparks Middle School shooting — Full 11 a.m. press conference: Sparks Middle Schoo... Sparks Middle School parents
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Talking Points Memo and Los Angeles Times
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ABC News:
2 Dead, 2 Boys Hurt in Nevada School Shooting — Police say two people are dead and two more are injured in a shooting at Sparks Middle School in northern Nevada Monday morning. — Washoe County School District Police didn't immediately offer details of the identities of the dead.
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Talking Points Memo
Travis Gettys / The Raw Story:
Palin: Obamacare website glitches are a feature, not a bug, and will push U.S. into socialism — Sarah Palin says the glitches in the online rollout of the Affordable Care Act are a feature, not a bug. — The former half-term Alaska governor and failed vice presidential candidate suggested Sunday …
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BREITBART.COM and Conservatives4Palin
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Politico:
Obama on ACA website: ‘No excuse for these problems’ — President Barack Obama on Monday tossed aside months of messaging about how easy it would be to sign up for health care under his signature law and sought to remind Americans that the Affordable Care Act has benefits far beyond the chance to apply for insurance online.
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CNN, PERRspectives and Power Line
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Texas Judge Quits GOP Over Social Issues, Shutdown (VIDEO) — Carlo Key, a Republican judge in Bexar County, Texas, announced Monday in a campaign ad that he was leaving the Republican party and will run for re-election as a Democrat. — “I cannot tolerate a political party that demeans Texans based …
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Liberaland
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Eva Ruth Moravec / MySanAntonio.com:
Local elected official to switch parties
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Tod Lindberg / The New Republic:
There's a New Political Story Line—and it's Good for Republicans — Better to be two warring tribes than a single reviled one. — The story most Democrats and progressive have long told about the GOP is that it's a party that has been captured by its right wing. It's a fairly simple story to tell.
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Washington Monthly
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Jon Favreau / The Daily Beast:
The Tea Party, Not Democrats or Republicans, Is the Problem — It's de rigueur to decry ‘partisanship’ as Washington's ‘real problem.’ Let's get real—the most destructive force in American politics today is the Tea Party, says Jon Favreau. — So now that our government is open and able to pay its bills …
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Wonkblog
Jim Siegel / The Columbus Dispatch:
Medicaid expansion funding gets approval — Ending months of debate, a legislative oversight panel approved spending $2.56 billion in federal money today to expand Medicaid coverage to about 275,000 low-income Ohioans. — Almost immediately after the bipartisan 5-2 vote …
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Wonkblog, Talking Points Memo and GovBeat
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Caroline May / The Daily Caller:
Of the 13 people who flanked President Obama during his speech defending Obamacare in the Rose Garden Monday, just three had successfully registered for the new Obamacare exchanges. — A list of the people who joined Obama on stage provided by the White House included people who have or …
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Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit and VodkaPundit
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
At the White House: Obamacare success stories that aren't
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The Huffington Post, Ed Driscoll, The Heritage Foundation and The PJ Tatler
Rose Garden / The White House:
Remarks by the President on the Affordable Care Act
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Power Line, Balloon Juice, White House.gov Blog, PoliticusUSA, Wonkblog and Taylor Marsh
Chris Jones / KUTV-TV:
Goblin Toppler Files Personal Injury Lawsuit Prior To Incident — (KUTV) One of the men infamously nicknamed the “goblin toppler,” is forced to answer even more questions tonight. — You might remember the uproar created Thursday when video surfaced of three men, Glenn Taylor …
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Los Angeles Times, NPR and The Raw Story
Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Why Obama Should Be Freaked Out Over Obamacare — It's worse than we know, this is the easy part, and millions of Americans could be hurt. — President Obama said Monday he's “frustrated” by the disastrous launch of an online computer marketplace for Obamacare. Here are five reasons why frustration isn't enough.
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Power Line and Yahoo! News
Darryl Isherwood / New Jersey Online:
Lonegan: The government shutdown cost me the election — Former Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Lonegan (Saed Hindash/The Star-Ledger) — Though Republican Steve Lonegan publicly supported the shutdown of the federal government during his campaign for U.S. Senate …
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Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Politico and Ballot Box
Adam Goldenberg / Slate:
And that's a good thing. — See Slate's complete coverage of Obamacare. David Auerbach explains what's gone wrong with healthcare.gov, and David Weigel explains why Republicans are calling for Kathleen Sebelius to be fired. — Last week Canada's Supreme Court ruled that doctors …
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Power Line, Weasel Zippers and National Review
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
As Obamacare runs into problems, Americans still want to give it a chance — A new Washington Post/ABC News poll once again drives home a core truth about our politics right now: Disapproval of Obamacare does not translate into support for GOP tactics against the law. We've long known that to be the case.
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Liberal Values, Hullabaloo and Washington Monthly
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
GOP, Boehner take shutdown hit in new CNN poll — Washington (CNN) — Just over half the public says that it's bad for the country that the GOP controls the House of Representatives, according to a new national poll conducted after the end of the partial government shutdown.
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Embattled Sebelius to testify next week on ObamaCare rollout — Embattled Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will testify before Congress next week about the botched rollout of ObamaCare's insurance exchanges after rejecting GOP demands to appear this week.
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The Right Scoop and Conservatives4Palin
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Kaiser Health News:
Thousands Of Consumers Get Insurance Cancellation Notices Due To Health Law Changes — Health plans are sending hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters to people who buy their own coverage, frustrating some consumers who want to keep what they have and forcing others to buy more costly policies.
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ThinkProgress, Business Insider, protein wisdom and Weasel Zippers
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Associated Press Fires Two Journalists Over Erroneous Terry McAuliffe Report — NEW YORK — The Associated Press has fired a reporter and editor over an erroneous Oct. 9 report that Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe lied to an investigator in a federal fraud case, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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