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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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Hot Air, Mediaite, Washington Examiner, The PJ Tatler and National Review
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Strassel: Democrats Run for ObamaCare Cover — After weeks of vowing they wouldn't cave on the president's signature legislation, some Democrats are doing just that. — Jeanne Shaheen doesn't sound like a Democrat who just won a government-shutdown “victory.”
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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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Politico, BizPac Review and Weasel Zippers
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 — For President Obama and advocates hoping for a House vote on immigration reform this year, the reality is simple: Fat chance. — Obama repeatedly since the shutdown has sought to turn the nation's focus to immigration reform …
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Politico, Liberaland and americanthinker.com
Jason Millman / Politico:
Jeff Zients: HealthCare.gov working by end of November — The troubled Obamacare enrollment website should be working smoothly for most users by the end of November, according to the longtime White House economic adviser tapped to oversee the repair effort.
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TechCrunch and National Review
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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
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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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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Brian Beutler / Salon:
Republicans' embarrassing Obamacare overreach backfires
Republicans' embarrassing Obamacare overreach backfires
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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, The Raw Story, Mediaite and Connecting.the.Dots
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, Liberaland and The Moderate Voice
Reuters:
Germany wants a German Internet as spying scandal rankles — (Reuters) - As a diplomatic row rages between the United States and Europe over spying accusations, state-backed Deutsche Telekom wants German communications companies to cooperate to shield local internet traffic from foreign intelligence services.
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
CBO finds much less savings from raising Medicare age — The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Thursday dramatically lowered its estimate of the amount of budget savings to be gained from raising the Medicare eligibility age. — The CBO now says that raising the Medicare age slowly …
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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 …
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
NC GOPer Who Resigned Over Racist Remark Says Party Is ‘Gutless’ (AUDIO) — The North Carolina GOP official who was asked to resign Thursday over a racially charged comment he made in a “Daily Show” interview doesn't regret the remark — rather, he thinks the Republican Party has “no guts.”
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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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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
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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Erick Erickson / RedState:
Follow the Law — Vladimir Lenin is said to have observed, “the worse, the better,” meaning the worse things got for Russians the better it was for the communists. — Lately, the left has taken to calling conservatives “Leninists” for our refusal to fix Obamacare.
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Jeff Himmelman / New York Times:
A Game of Shark and Minnow — In a remote corner of the South China Sea, 105 nautical miles from the Philippines, lies a submerged reef the Filipinos call Ayungin. — SCROLL — Satellite imagery: NASA — In most ways it resembles the hundreds of other reefs, islands …
CNN:
JonBenet Ramsey details coming — JonBenet Ramsey — (CNN) — Previously sealed court documents released Friday show that a Colorado grand jury voted in 1999 to indict the parents of murdered 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey on charges of child abuse resulting in death and being accessories to a crime.
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Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Exclusive: Feds confiscate investigative reporter's confidential files during raid — A veteran Washington D.C. investigative journalist says the Department of Homeland Security confiscated a stack of her confidential files during a raid of her home in August — leading her to fear that a number …
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americanthinker.com, The Other McCain and The PJ Tatler
Alex Seitz-Wald / NationalJournal.com:
Grover Norquist Gives Thumbs Up to Pot Taxes — The anti-tax advocate tells National Journal that taxing marijuana does not violate his pledge. — Good news for Republicans who want to legalize marijuana: Taxing pot is A-OK with Grover Norquist, the keeper of the anti-tax pledge that hundreds of GOP lawmakers have signed.
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