memeorandum: GOP Blockade Sells Even Old-School Dems On Nuking Filibuster (Sahil Kapur/Talking Points Memo)

11:05 AM ET, November 8, 2013

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Chuck Todd / U.S. News:

Exclusive: Obama personally apologizes for Americans losing health coverage — In an exclusive interview with NBC's Chuck Todd, President Obama said that he is “sorry” that some Americans are losing their current health insurance plans. “We've got to work hard to make sure that they know we hear …

Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:

I'm Sorry, Too, Mr. President — Obama apologizes for breaking promise on health care reform. — I'm sorry, too, Mr. President. — I'm sorry you couldn't finesse a single Republican vote for health insurance reform in 2010. — I'm sorry Republicans decided to re-litigate the law rather …

Discussion: Right Turn, Associated Press, The Gateway Pundit, Politico and Conservatives4Palin

The Daily Beast:

Exclusive: Obama's Secret Iran Détente — Long before a nuclear deal was in reach, the U.S. was quietly lifting some of the financial pressure on Iran, a Daily Beast investigation reveals. How the sanctions were softened. — The Obama administration began softening sanctions …

Discussion: Taylor Marsh and The Gateway Pundit

Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:

Noonan: 'I'm Gonna Be the Republican Nominee' — Mitch McConnell on the shutdown's failure, ObamaCare's future, and his own primary challenge. — Washington — It is a month since the government shutdown and a day after the election. The minority leader of the U.S. Senate …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, No More Mister Nice Blog, Hot Air and First Read

Andrew Kohut / Wall Street Journal:

The GOP Is in Better Shape Than You Think — Independents favor the GOP on handling the economy by a whopping 46%-30% margin. — Tucked away in recent polls—which have documented the extraordinary anger directed at the Republican Party during the shutdown crisis—are measures of clear disappointment with the Democratic Party.

New York Times:

CBS Correspondent Apologizes for Report on Benghazi Attack — The correspondent for the disputed “60 Minutes” segment about the attack on the United States Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year apologized on the air Friday morning, saying it was a “mistake” to put …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Raw Story and The Huffington Post, more at Mediagazer »

New York Times:

Accounts Differ to F.B.I. and CBS on Benghazi — Dylan Davies, a security officer hired to help protect the United States Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya, told the F.B.I. he did not go there the night terrorists attacked it on Sept. 11, 2012, an account that contradicts a version of events …

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David Simpson / CNN:
‘We were wrong’: CBS's Lara Logan apologizes for Benghazi report

Discussion: Voices and The Raw Story

Washington Post:

Iran is offered temporary relief from some sanctions if it freezes uranium enrichment — A deal that would give Iran limited relief from economic sanctions in exchange for a temporary freeze of some of its nuclear activities was near completion late Thursday, and Secretary of State John F. Kerry …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Jerusalem Post, Power Line, National Review and Prairie Weather

New York Times:
Kerry Joins Iran Nuclear Talks in Push for Initial Deal

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Wall Street Journal:
Iran Nuclear Deal Expected as Early as Friday

Discussion: New York Times, Hot Air and Roger L. Simon

Peter Foster / Telegraph:
US offers short-term nuclear deal allowing Iran to continue enriching uranium

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Israel Matzav

Noah Rothman / Mediaite:

Former MSNBC Host's Health Plan Cancelled, New Plan Costs 3.5 Times More — “Thnx Mr. President.” That's all former MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan had to say to President Barack Obama on Thursday when he announced that the health insurance plan he purchased on the individual market after leaving the news network was being cancelled.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, No More Mister Nice Blog and Instapundit

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

The Mutilated Economy — Five years and eleven months have now passed since the U.S. economy entered recession. Officially, that recession ended in the middle of 2009, but nobody would argue that we've had anything like a full recovery. Official unemployment remains high …

Discussion: Campaign for America's Future

Frank Newport / Gallup:

Most Uninsured Americans Ignoring Health Exchange Sites — Three in 10 are familiar with the exchanges — PRINCETON, NJ — In the midst of widespread news coverage of problems with the federal health exchange website, relatively few uninsured Americans (18%) — the primary target population …

Discussion: Politico, Post Politics, Talking Points Memo, First Read and Right Wing News

Jordan Weissmann / The Atlantic Online:

Yep, Being a Young, American Adult Is a Financial Nightmare — Here are the graphs to prove it. — Poverty is an astonishingly common experience here in the world's richest country. As I wrote this morning, almost 40 percent of American adults experience it for at least a year by age 60.

Discussion: The Dish

Jeff Cox / CNBC:

Shutdown slowdown? Job creation soars in October — Santelli, Liesman duel over jobs — CNBC's Rick Santelli and Steve Liesman battle over the positive jobs number this morning. — Forget the shutdown: Job creation surged in October despite dimmed expectations from the impasse in Washington.

Discussion: New York Times, The Gateway Pundit, Outside the Beltway, aflcio.org, Hot Air, Daily Kos, National Review and Calculated Risk

Tal Kopan / Politico:

Bill O'Reilly: Chris Christie won't do my show — Fox News host Bill O'Reilly complained Friday that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie refuses to appear on his show. — “He won't submit to an interview with me,” O'Reilly said on “CBS This Morning.” “Christie will not. He just won't do it.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

New York Times:

Rules to Require Equal Coverage for Mental Ills — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday will complete a generation-long effort to require insurers to cover care for mental health and addiction just like physical illnesses when it issues long-awaited regulations defining parity in benefits and treatment.

Discussion: ThinkProgress and Post Politics

Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:

GOP Blockade Sells Even Old-School Dems On Nuking Filibuster — From young newbies to the old guards, Democratic senators are clamoring for filibuster reform, and insist that a mass Republican blockade of three judges to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals may be the final straw before going nuclear.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Liberaland and Daily Kos

Reuters:

Snowden Persuaded Other NSA Workers To Give Up Passwords, Sources Claim — Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden used login credentials and passwords provided unwittingly by colleagues at a spy base in Hawaii to access some of the classified material he leaked to the media, sources said.

Discussion: Liberaland

Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:

Fraternity Pledge Loses Testicle In Hazing Ritual — Ohio cops probe battering in basement of “Gobbler House” — Ohio cops are investigating a college fraternity hazing incident that left a 19-year-old pledge short one testicle, records show. — Three Wilmington College students seeking induction …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The Raw Story, Liberaland and Balloon Juice

Jenn Taylor / Twitchy:

Freak-out in full swing over ‘rich, white’ racists mocking Obamacare at the CMAs — Once again, Twitter was prescient. — After Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood mocked Obamacare on the CMA Awards, whiners immediately twisted their knickers over the stars who “slandered” Obamacare.

Discussion: Mediaite, Weasel Zippers and Washington Free Beacon

Sasha Bogursky / Fox News:
CMA Awards 2013: Country singers rip ObamaCare website, ‘Duck Dynasty’ stars surprise with ‘Blurred Lines’ cover

Discussion: Firedoglake, Scared Monkeys and Politico

New York Times:

Hollywood Donors Set to Cast Hillary Clinton in Top Role — LOS ANGELES — In the prelude to the 2008 Democratic presidential primary season, the split between the Hollywood mogul David Geffen and Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton represented an early and embarrassing sign of trouble for Mrs. Clinton.

Discussion: ABC News

Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:

Joe Biden Called A Second Wrong Number Searching For Boston Mayor-Elect Marty Walsh — WASHINGTON — If your phone number has a 617 area code, check your messages — there's a chance you got a call from Joe Biden Tuesday night. — That's because the vice president was having all sorts …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo