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Norm Ornstein / NationalJournal.com:
Buck Stops With Obama on Rocky Rollout of Health Care Plan — The HealthCare.gov debacle has been thoroughly dissected so far by America's best health journalists and policy analysts. To be sure, every major rollout of a new or changed social policy, including Medicare itself, is rough and takes weeks or months to resolve.
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Washington Wire and First Read
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Washington Post:
Here's how the White House just tweaked Obamacare — The Obama administration confirmed to The Washington Post a little bit ago that it is indeed tweaking the way the individual mandate works as to not penalize anyone who purchases coverage during this first open enrollment period.
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Wonkblog, Right Wing News, National Review, The Week, PoliticusUSA, Liberaland and Weasel Zippers
Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
Americans will have an extra six weeks to buy health coverage before facing penalty
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americanthinker.com and Daily Kos
Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
Frustrated Dems lament damage from website bugs
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CNN, his vorpal sword, Yahoo! News, The Hill, Talking Points Memo and American Power
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
White House may ‘align’ Obamacare signup dates
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The Hill, Office of the West … and CNN
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Two House Dems call for firings over healthcare rollout
Discussion:
Connecting.the.Dots, Hot Air, CNN and Reuters
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama to go on post-shutdown fundraising blitz for Democrats
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The Hill and The Daily Caller
Jen Wieczner / MarketWatch:
Obamacare mandate may be delayed
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The Daily Caller, The Week, Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler, National Review, Moe Lane, msnbc.com and VodkaPundit
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
ObamaCare website contractors blame Obama administration — Principal contractors hired to build the ObamaCare website HealthCare.gov are hitting back at the Obama administration for the site's overwhelming technical problems. — The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) …
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The Mahablog and Hot Air
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Contractors Assign Blame, but Admit No Faults of Their Own, in Health Site — WASHINGTON — Contractors that built President Obama's health insurance marketplace point fingers at one another and at the government, but each insists that it is not responsible for the problems that infuriated millions …
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First Read
New York Times:
Republicans, Sensing Weakness in Health Law Rollout, Switch Tactics — WASHINGTON — Emboldened by the intense public criticism surrounding the rollout of the online insurance exchange, Republicans in Congress are refocusing their efforts from denying funds for the health care law to investigating it.
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Little Green Footballs, Talking Points Memo and The Plum Line
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
A Wife Committed to Cruz's Ideals, but a Study in Contrasts to Him — WASHINGTON — At first glance, Senator Ted Cruz's wife, Heidi Nelson Cruz, seems to be just the sort of person the Tea Party supporters who celebrate her husband's anti-establishment positions love to hate.
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The Hinterland Gazette and Washington Post
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Ted Cruz's Wife Confirms He's Covered Under Her Blue-Chip Health Plan — The wife of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who led a vocal effort to defund the Affordable Care Act, confirmed in a New York Times interview published Wednesday that the senator receives health care coverage through her blue-chip employer insurance plan.
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Liberaland
Politico:
GOP reconsiders Obamacare tactics — Some Republicans say a unified focus on spending levels could prove to be the strongest ground on which to fight. Democrats loathe sequester-level spending — their 2014 budget totaled $1.058 trillion. If all Republicans demand a clean government funding bill …
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Talking Points Memo
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Why Obamacare Is Like Three Mile Island — I've been blogging a lot over the past week or so about the risk of an insurance market “death spiral” — where young people stay away, so the only people buying insurance are old and sick, causing the cost of insurance to rise over time and pushing ever …
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National Review, AEIdeas and PostPartisan
EndPlay / WIVB-TV:
Hillary Clinton speaks at UB, is heckled … AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) - Former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke to a large crowd at the University at Buffalo Wednesday night, as part of the university's Distinguished Speaker Series.
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, Taylor Marsh, Mediaite and RealClearPolitics Video Log
John G. Taft / New York Times:
The Cry of the True Republican — I AM a genetic Republican. — Five generations of Tafts have served our nation as unwaveringly stalwart Republicans, from Alphonso Taft, who served as attorney general in the late 19th century, through William Howard Taft, who not only was the only person …
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NewsBusters, The Star-Ledger Editorial Page, Crooked Timber and Hit & Run
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Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
The Decline And Fall Of Christianism
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The Moderate Voice, Washington Monthly, Booman Tribune and ProfessorBainbridge.com
Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
Trash-talking the president — No matter how many times you've been there, the White House is a pretty awesome place, conferring on every president what “The West Wing” creator Aaron Sorkin once called “the single greatest home-court advantage in the modern world.”
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Power Line, Weasel Zippers and National Review
Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
REPORT: SENATE DEMS UP FOR RE-ELECTION IN 2014 TO BACK DELAY OF OBAMACARE ENROLLMENT DEADLINE — On Wednesday, CNN's Dana Bash tweeted that all Senate Democrats up for re-election in 2014 will reportedly support a delay of Obamacare's enrollment deadline. — Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) …
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Manchin Working On Bill To Delay Obamacare Individual Mandate
Discussion:
Scared Monkeys, Outside the Beltway, Josh Blackman's Blog, The PJ Tatler and The Reaction
David Nather / Reuters:
Obamacare hearings: Oversight or heckling? — There's congressional oversight that answers everyone's most urgent questions - and then there's just heckling from the partisan peanut gallery. — Over the next few weeks, Republicans are going to have to decide which path they're …
Discussion:
CNN and First Read
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Darrell Issa to introduce immigration bill — Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is planning to release legislation next week that would provide legal status for six years to undocumented immigrants in the United States, he said in an interview Wednesday. — Issa, an influential Republican …
Washington Post:
Secret memos reveal explicit nature of U.S., Pakistan agreement on drones — Despite repeatedly denouncing the CIA's drone campaign, top officials in Pakistan's government have for years secretly endorsed the program and routinely received classified briefings on strikes and casualty counts …
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emptywheel, Hot Air, New York Times and The Raw Story
Guardian:
Angela Merkel's call to Obama: are you bugging my mobile phone? — Germany sees credible evidence of US monitoring of chancellor as NSA surveillance row intensifies — Live coverage of reaction to reports of Merkel surveillance — The furore over the scale of American mass surveillance revealed …
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BBC, Gizmodo, The Daily Caller, The Reaction and Liberaland
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