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Carter Evans / CBS News:
Arrival of Obamacare forcing insurers to drop customers with low coverage — The Affordable Care Act was signed by President Obama in 2010 and since then he has repeated one reassuring phrase: “If you like your insurance plan you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you.
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
10 Senate Democrats Now Calling For Extension Of Obamacare Enrollment Period — Ten Senate Democrats have signed a letter urging the Obama administration to extend Obamacare's open enrollment period beyond March 31. — The letter, which follows a similar letter that Sen. Jeanne Shaheen …
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Mediaite, Hot Air, Washington Examiner, National Review and The PJ Tatler
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Strassel: Democrats Run for ObamaCare Cover
Strassel: Democrats Run for ObamaCare Cover
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Post Politics, Politico, The Week, American Power, Power Line, Heritage Action for America and americanthinker.com
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
DNC chief: Democrats can run and win on ObamaCare in 2014
DNC chief: Democrats can run and win on ObamaCare in 2014
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Jeanne Shaheen, Politico, Weasel Zippers and BizPac Review
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Racism Out of Context — I had planned on ignoring the furor over North Carolina Republican precinct chairman Don Yelton, who was pushed into resigning after stupidly making racist remarks to a Daily Show camera. I mean, the guy is a precinct chairman, not a county chair or an elected official …
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Hollywood Reporter and @NCCapitol
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
NC GOPer Who Resigned Over Racist Remark Says Party Is ‘Gutless’ (AUDIO)
NC GOPer Who Resigned Over Racist Remark Says Party Is ‘Gutless’ (AUDIO)
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News Radio 570 WWNC, Gawker, Little Green Footballs, Mediaite, ThinkProgress and FIRST DRAFT
Politico:
House GOP plans no immigration vote in 2013 — House Republican leadership has no plans to vote on any immigration reform legislation before the end the year. — The House has just 19 days in session before the end of 2013, and there are a number of reasons why immigration reform is stalled this year.
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
GOP comfortable ignoring Obama pleas for vote on immigration bill
GOP comfortable ignoring Obama pleas for vote on immigration bill
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Pundits Blog, Politico, Infowars, americanthinker.com and Liberaland
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Leader Of HealthCare.Gov Tech Surge: We'll Have It Fixed In A Month — Enrollment site for Obamacare should be good to go by “the end of November,” says Jeff Zients. — President Obama and Jeffrey Zients in April. — Larry Downing / Reuters — WASHINGTON — The man in charge of fixing …
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Liberaland and ABC News
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Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Obama Admin. Taps Contractor to Fix Health Website
Obama Admin. Taps Contractor to Fix Health Website
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Jason Millman / Politico:
Jeff Zients: HealthCare.gov working by end of November
Jeff Zients: HealthCare.gov working by end of November
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TechCrunch and National Review
ThinkProgress:
CNN Anchor Challenges Congresswoman To Substantiate Obamacare Criticism, Hilarity Ensues — On Friday morning, CNN anchor Carol Costello challenged Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) to substantiate her claim that HealthCare.gov will endanger Americans' medical privacy.
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Hullabaloo, Mediaite, The Raw Story and Connecting.the.Dots
Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Sen. Paul threatens to hold Yellen nomination: Source — Sen. Paul threatens Yellen nomination — CNBC's Steve Liesman reports Sen. Rand Paul has threatened to put Janet Yellen's Fed nomination on hold in exchange for an audit of the Federal Reserve. — Sen. Rand Paul is threatening …
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Sabrina Siddiqui / The Huffington Post:
Rand Paul Threatens To Hold Up Janet Yellen Nomination To Fed: Report
Rand Paul Threatens To Hold Up Janet Yellen Nomination To Fed: Report
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Politico, Little Green Footballs, The World's Greatest … and Daily Kos
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Obamacare Fiasco Isn't a Single-Payer Conspiracy — I'm spending my morning listening to various contractors testify before Congress. Back in the day, when I worked for a tech consultancy, the technical term for what is going on in this hearing was “Not it!”
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Washington Post, Wonkblog, Booman Tribune and Right Wing Watch
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Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
This Isn't the First Time Obama Ignored Health Care Warnings
This Isn't the First Time Obama Ignored Health Care Warnings
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The Dish and First Read
Chris Mooney / Mother Jones:
The Science of Tea Party Wrath — Jonathan Haidt on the psychology of politics, the emotions behind the Tea Party—and why as a self-described centrist, he thinks a Republican crackup may be coming. — Fibonacci Blue/Flickr — If you want to understand how American politics changed for the worse …
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Washington Monthly
David Frum / david-frum:
How Ted Cruz Can Win in 2016 — Forget what you think you know about the next presidential election. David Frum details how the junior senator from Texas can take the White House. — Three years out, few bets in U.S. politics looked as sure as Hillary Clinton's election to the presidency in 2016.
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Jennifer Hlad / Stars & Stripes:
Marines shoot down Internet story on Obama's alleged push for ‘girly hats’ … The story is sweeping the Internet: President Barack Obama is trying to emasculate male Marines by making them wear a girly cover with their famed dress uniforms. The only problem? It's not true.
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Washington Times, JIMROMENESKO.COM, The Week, Daily Kos and New York Post
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The implosion of the GOP brand, in one chart — Republicans successfully converted the 2010 elections into a referendum on President Obama, the economy, and liberal overreach. As a result, they won big. Now Democrats are hoping to turn the 2014 elections into a referendum on the GOP brand …
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The Dish, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Moderate Voice
Jonny Scaramanga / Salon:
Darwin inspired Hitler: Lies they teach in Texas — And that's not the only whopper students are being taught as history in some Texas charter schools — When Joshua Bass, an engineer, sent his son to iSchool High, a Houston charter school, he was expecting a solid college preparation …
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The Mahablog and The Raw Story
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
GOP Lawmaker Says Obama Not a Traitor to Kenya — North Carolina state Rep. Larry Pittman (R) was videotaped telling a crowd of supporters that President Obama isn't a trator to his country — if that country is Kenya. — Said Pittman: “Someone had posted something with a picture …
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Liberaland and PoliticusUSA
Peter Hamby / CNN:
The return of Sarah Palin — (CNN) — The Republican establishment can't stand her. The media mocks her. But Sarah Palin isn't going anywhere. — Far from it. — After laying low for much of this year, Palin is gingerly stepping back into the public arena with a national book tour …
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Daily Kos and No More Mister Nice Blog
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Addicted to the Apocalypse — Once upon a time, walking around shouting “The end is nigh” got you labeled a kook, someone not to be taken seriously. These days, however, all the best people go around warning of looming disaster. In fact, you more or less have to subscribe to fantasies …
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Business Insider and TheBlaze.com
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
‘Joe The Plumber’ Says Democrats ‘Have A History Of Lynching Black Americans’ — Samuel “Joe The Plumber” Wurzelbacher, the conservative activist and failed Ohio congressional candidate who rose to prominence after he had a campaign trail confrontation with President Barack Obama before his election in 2008 …
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Liberaland and Mediaite
Ben Terris / NationalJournal.com:
How Kirsten Gillibrand Shed Her Past on the Way to Liberal Stardom — New York's junior senator was once a rural populist. Now people call her the next Hillary Clinton. How she got from there to here. — SYRACUSE, N.Y.—It's closer to breakfast than lunch, but Kirsten Gillibrand …
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Talking Points Memo, ABC News, First Read and Politicker
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
MSNBC Panel Brawls Over Who to Blame for Obamacare Website Failure: Obama or GOP — The guests and fill-in host on MSNBC's Now tangled during a discussion over just which party was to blame for the failed roll-out of HealthCare.Gov. Some of the guests suggested that the White House was solely …
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Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
Ktvtdeborah / CBS Dallas:
Woman Forced To Strip And Serve Jail Time For Overdue Ticket — NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) - A North Texas woman was handcuffed, stripped down and booked into jail - all because of an overdue traffic ticket. — It was just a ticket. Sarah Boaz was cited in August after an officer said she ran a stop sign.
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