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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
What Really Happens To People Whose Insurance Is ‘Canceled’ Because Of Obamacare — President Obama wasn't entirely right in 2009 when he said that if you like your health care plan, then you can keep it. Some people are going to have their health insurance plans canceled, and it does have something to do with Obamacare.
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Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: October 2013 — The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, conducted October 17-23, finds that the public reported paying more attention this month to the political fights over the government shutdown and raising the debt ceiling than technical problems with the opening …
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Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
CHART: ‘Winners And Losers From Obamacare’
CHART: ‘Winners And Losers From Obamacare’
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Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
Obamacare enrollments got off to very slow start, documents show — (CBS News) WASHINGTON - For 31 days now, the Obama administration has been telling us that Americans by the millions are visiting the new health insurance website, despite all its problems.
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Book Details Obama Aides' Talks About Replacing Biden on 2012 Ticket — President Obama's top aides secretly considered replacing Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. with Hillary Rodham Clinton on the 2012 ticket, undertaking extensive focus-group sessions and polling in late 2011 when Mr. Obama's re-election outlook appeared uncertain.
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Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
The Obamacare sabotage campaign — To the undisputed reasons for Obamacare's rocky rollout — a balky website, muddied White House messaging and sudden sticker shock for individuals forced to buy more expensive health insurance — add a less acknowledged cause: calculated sabotage by Republicans at every step.
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Troubled Start for Health Law Has Democrats Feeling Anxious — WASHINGTON — Already under fierce attack from Republicans over the new health care law, President Obama now faces broad and mounting Democratic concerns that the troubled start of the insurance program will cut into the political benefit …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
‘Agitated’ Dems vent on ObamaCare woes
‘Agitated’ Dems vent on ObamaCare woes
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Niels Lesniewski / The World's Greatest …:
Biden Open to Filibuster Changes After Republicans Block Watt, Millett Nominations (Updated) — (Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call File Photo) — Updated 2:56 p.m. | The nomination wars are officially back. — Just minutes after the swearing-in of New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker …
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Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Patricia Millett, Key Obama Nominee, Filibustered By Senate Republicans
Patricia Millett, Key Obama Nominee, Filibustered By Senate Republicans
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Susan Davis / USA Today:
Reid says he will try again to push Watt nomination
Reid says he will try again to push Watt nomination
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Threatens Mass Blockade Of Obama's Top Judges
GOP Threatens Mass Blockade Of Obama's Top Judges
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Culture Desk:
Cover Story: Barry Blitt's “Reboot” — “When I heard that the troubled Obamacare Web site was built by a Canadian company, of course I felt personally responsible,” says the Montreal-born Barry Blitt, who drew this week's cover, “Reboot.” “I'll be happy when the glitches are all worked …
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Tennessean.com:
Southern secessionist group lists two TN lawmakers as weekend speakers — Niceley, Matheny were set to speak at group's meeting — Two Tennessee lawmakers were scheduled to speak at a Southern secessionist group's meeting this weekend, and while a representative for one claims he's spent …
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The Raw Story
Irin Carmon / msnbc.com:
'I'm showing my son mercy' — On their last night in Dallas, the ramen noodles and microwave popcorn were finished. The money for the motel had run out too. So on a hot August night Jessica and Erick Davis and their three young kids slept in the Mazda rented for the trip.
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
GOP State Rep. Calls Clarence Thomas ‘The Black Judge’
Tjfang / CBS San Francisco:
Google's Secret Revealed: Barge To Offer High-End Showrooms, Party Deck — SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) - Google's mysterious floating barge on San Francisco Bay will feature luxury showrooms and a party deck for the tech giant to market Google Glass and other gadgets to invitation-only clients, multiple sources told KPIX 5.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
A War on the Poor — John Kasich, the Republican governor of Ohio, has done some surprising things lately. First, he did an end run around his state's Legislature — controlled by his own party — to proceed with the federally funded expansion of Medicaid that is an important piece of Obamacare.
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Research shop stocks up on Hillary Clinton aides — The research super PAC American Bridge has made a string of hires from within Clintonland for an offshoot project called “Correct the Record,” an effort whose goal is protecting potential 2016 Democratic candidates - with Hillary Clinton chief among them.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
In the Clintons' talk of brokering compromise, an implicit rebuke of Obama years
In the Clintons' talk of brokering compromise, an implicit rebuke of Obama years
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Why Bill Kristol left Fox News — Bill Kristol, the editor and publisher of The Weekly Standard, ended a decade-long run as Fox News contributor this summer two years after he and Roger Ailes got into a disagreement that had a cooling effect on their relationship, sources with knowledge of the relationship told POLITICO.
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Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Obama's Credibility Is At Risk — The troubled health care rollout and disclosures that the NSA spied on allies have damaged the public's view of the president's ability to do his job. — President Obama's allies are alternately wincing over, or shaking their heads at …
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Politico:
2013: Year of the liberal billionaire — Democrats and liberal interest groups spent much of 2012 bemoaning an avalanche of outside spending from billionaires on the right, warning that ideological tycoons like the Koch brothers and casino magnate Sheldon Adelson could threaten the legitimacy of the American electoral system.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
President Obama, off the record — President Barack Obama is often accused of being insular. He's not a schmoozer. He doesn't like meeting with lawmakers, and he doesn't particularly care for talking to reporters, either. — But get him in an off-the-record setting with a small group …
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Chris Frates / CNN:
Senate Democrats supported rule that led to insurance cancellations — Washington (CNN) - Senate Democrats voted unanimously three years ago to support the Obamacare rule that is largely responsible for some of the health insurance cancellation letters that are going out.
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and his supporters emit a fog of equivocation and euphemism. — “If you like your plan, you can keep it.” That assertion, repeated with small variations, was Barack Obama's central pledge when he was campaigning for president and then for the enactment of health-care “reform.”
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