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Troubled HealthCare.gov unlikely to work fully by end of November — Software problems with the federal online health insurance marketplace, especially in handling high volumes, are proving so stubborn that the system is unlikely to work fully by the end of the month as the White House has promised …
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Talking Points Memo, Politico, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, “The Lid” and White House Dossier
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It's Good That You Can't Keep Your Insurance Plan — Obama was wrong to mislead people but right to scrap dysfunctional insurance products. — “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.” That was the promise Barack Obama made to insured Americans when stumping for his signature health insurance overhaul back in 2009 and 2010.
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First Read, The Week, Business Insider and New York Times


Obama's critic-in-chief strikes again — President Bill Clinton — the man President Barack Obama once dubbed his “Secretary of Explaining Stuff” — once again has some explaining of his own to do with the Obama White House. — In an interview released Tuesday, Clinton called for a fix …
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The Jawa Report, CNN, Wonkblog, Taylor Marsh, Hot Air, Mediaite, BizzyBlog, The Moderate Voice and Rush Limbaugh


Obama's Image as “Strong and Decisive Leader” Takes a Hit — Public approval of his handling of the economy and healthcare largely steady — PRINCETON, NJ — After six messy weeks — defined chiefly by the partial government shutdown and troubled rollout of the federal government's …
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Politico, Post Politics and PostPartisan


Obama is boxed in by Bill Clinton — President Obama scrambled to find a coherent response Tuesday after former President Clinton jammed the administration by saying it should keep its promise that people could keep their health insurance plans if they liked them.
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Feinstein becomes 5th Dem on bill fixing ObamaCare — Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Tuesday became the fifth Senate Democrat to formally call for a rewrite of ObamaCare so people who like their health insurance can keep it. — Feinstein announced that she would join Sen. Mary Landrieu's bill …
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The Hugh Hewitt Show and Ozymandias

Bill Clinton Is Wrong. This Is How Obamacare Works.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, American Spectator, The Daily Caller, Scared Monkeys, Politico, Sister Toldjah, BuzzFeed, ABC News, CNN and BBC


Democrat Mark Herring gets a leg up in Va. attorney general's race in late ballot count — State Sen. Mark R. Herring padded his still-narrow lead over state Sen. Mark D. Obenshain on Tuesday night in the race for Virginia attorney general, giving the Democrat an apparent 163-vote advantage …
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With 106 Vote Attorney General Victory, Virginia Democrats Sweep State — The difference between a vote cast and a vote counted was nowhere clearer than in the Virginia race for attorney general — The difference between a vote cast and a vote counted was nowhere clearer than in the Virginia race …
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Taylor Marsh, Outside the Beltway, Washington Post and Talking Points Memo


Exclusive: Obamacare's Mystery Woman Says She Fell Victim to Cyberbullies … The smiling woman who was once the face of the Affordable Care Act's website has come out of the shadows to stand up to the “cyberbullying” she says she suffered after the law's flawed kickoff.
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, Weasel Zippers, Mediaite, National Review and ABC News


Not so fast, my friend — In my column two weeks ago, I bet that Terry McAuliffe would have a decisive win in Virginia but that it wouldn't be enough for the Washington media elite. — Look, I'm not one of those people who always has to be right — when I'm wrong, I fess up.

A reversal of fortune for Democrats after Obamacare — Two months ago, polls showed Democrat Kay Hagan leading prospective opponents by double digits in her quest for a second term representing North Carolina in the Senate. — So why is she so nervous? — Well, her problem begins with Obamacare …
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Washington Times, Hit & Run, Taylor Marsh, Wall Street Journal, Betsy's Page, National Review and AEIdeas
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NC Senate race tightens up
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Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo

Dianne Feinstein joins push to keep health plans
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ThinkProgress and Scared Monkeys


One fired, three suspended after undercover health care video — By: myfoxdfw.com Staff - email — The Urban League of Greater Dallas fired one person and suspended three others after a video from a conservative activist reportedly showed the workers encouraging health care applicants to lie.
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National Review, Twitchy, UrbanGrounds, James O'Keefe's Project … and “The Lid”

Why It's Not Too Late for the ‘Keep Your Health Plan’ Act — With millions of Americans losing their health insurance because of Obamacare, bills have been introduced in Congress to let people keep their plans. — But health industry consultant Bob Laszewski says it's too late for these measures …
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Hot Air
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Calif. Insurance Commissioner: More Than 1M Californians Having Insurance Cancelled Due To ACA
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit

GOP about to hurt itself again!: New ploy to kill Obamacare will blow up
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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Mahablog and Daily Kos


Richard Cohen Defends Column: ‘Word Racist Is Truly Hurtful’ — Richard Cohen says that his latest piece was not intended to be and shouldn't be read as racist. — “The word racist is truly hurtful,” he told The Huffington Post on Tuesday. “It's not who I am. It's not who I ever was.
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Kurt Schrader's “grossly misleading” ObamaCare hypocrisy — In an interview with Laural Porter about the disastrous roll-out of ObamaCare, Congressman Kurt Schrader was asked explicitly about the President's line, “if you like your health care plan you can keep it,” which millions of Americans are learning is not true.
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Oregonian, Power Line, Hot Air, Yahoo! News and National Review
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Dem. Rep: Obama ‘misleading’ on ACA
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The Week, Real Clear Politics and The Daily Caller


Republicans Again Reject Obama Pick for Judiciary — WASHINGTON — President Obama's latest choice to fill one of the vacancies on a powerful appeals court went down in a filibuster on Tuesday as Senate Republicans blocked another White House nominee — the third in two weeks …
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Master Feed and Washington Post


Tina Turner formally ‘relinquishes’ U.S. citizenship — This item just in via an “activity” report from the U.S. Embassy in Bern, Switzerland, headlined “Soul Legend Relinquishes U.S. Citizenship.” — “Long-time Swiss resident Tina Turner” was in the embassy Oct. 24 to sign her …
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Liberaland and ImmigrationProf Blog


Sarah Palin ‘Surprised’ By Pope Francis' ‘Liberal’ Sounding Statements — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said Tuesday that some of the pope's statements “sounded kind of liberal,” but assured CNN's Jake Tapper that she wouldn't necessarily trust her ears nor the “lamestream media” until she did her “own homework” on the matter.
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Cobb GOP chairman concerned about (those) people coming to Braves' games — I just got back from Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed's press conference on the Braves' move to a transportation-challenged site in Cobb County, and will have a lot more to say on that later. But I can't let this pass without notice:
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Washington Monthly and Esquire