memeorandum: One fired, three suspended after undercover health care video (Dallas News)

6:40 PM ET, November 13, 2013

Top Items:

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 …

Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:

Obamacare is in much more trouble than it was one week ago — 1. The Affordable Care Act's political position has deteriorated dramatically over the last week. President Bill Clinton's statement that the law should be reopened to ensure everyone who likes their health plans can keep them was a signal event.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, TalkLeft, The Federalist, The Plum Line and Hot Air

Josh Barro / Business Insider:

Here Comes The Real Government Takeover Of Health Care — For the last few weeks, Republicans have been full of schadenfreude over President Obama's broken “If you like your plan, you can keep it” promise. — Now, this issue is about to blow up in Republicans' faces.

Discussion: Firedoglake, cbpp.org, The Dish, Brad DeLong and Talking Points Memo

Mike Lillis / The Hill:

Dems double down in attack on Upton bill — House Democratic leaders are doubling down in their opposition to GOP legislation that would allow Americans to keep their healthcare plans, even as the party is taking a political drubbing over the contentious issue.

Discussion: BuzzFeed and Sister Toldjah

Erick Erickson / RedState:

It's a Trap! — Republicans are walking into a trap and they don't even realize it. — They are about to consider, in the House of Representatives, legislation by Congressman Upton that would allow people to keep their insurance plans. — There's a problem though.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, National Review and Hot Air

Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

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.

Discussion: Politico, Althouse, The Impolitic, Conservatives4Palin and Instapundit

Dana Bash / CNN:

White House officials get earful from Democrats on Obamacare — [Adds breaking news update 2:10 p.m.] — White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Wednesday the Obama administration believes HealthCare.gov will be working smoothly for the vast majority of users by the end of the month as planned.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Hot Air, Politico, The PJ Tatler, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Hullabaloo and Talking Points Memo

New York Times: Democrats Threaten to Abandon Obama on Health Law Provision

Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
It's Good That You Can't Keep Your Insurance Plan

Discussion: Fox News, JustOneMinute, Ross Douthat, The PJ Tatler, First Read, Roll Call, The World's Greatest …, The Week, VodkaPundit, Business Insider and Weekly Standard

Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn:
Obamacure worse than Obamacare

Discussion: Washington Post and Real Clear Politics

Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Merkley, Feinstein Back Landrieu's Bill To Unwind Obamacare Market Reforms

Discussion: Business Insider, The Hill, Wonkblog, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Monthly, Betsy's Page and The Daily Caller

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Reid calls special ObamaCare meeting — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Thursday will convene a special meeting of the Senate Democratic caucus and senior White Officials to discuss the troubled rollout of ObamaCare. — Reid on Wednesday told reporters he would not answer questions …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler

Burgess Everett / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren calls for filibuster changes

Discussion: Mediaite

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid lacks the votes to go nuclear (VIDEO)

Discussion: Booman Tribune and Talking Points Memo

Burgess Everett / Politico: Harry Reid: ‘Very confident’ Obamacare will improve

Abby D. Phillip / ABC News:

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.

ABC News:
Obamacare Website Targeted About 16 Times by Cyber Attacks

Discussion: National Review

Abby D. Phillip / ABC News:
Insurance Enrollment Far Short of Expectations at 106,185

Discussion: American Spectator

Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:

Historic Pro-Choice Bill To Be Introduced In Congress — Following an unprecedented three-year wave of state legislative attacks on abortion and family planning services, a group of Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate plan to go on the offensive Wednesday with a historic bill …

Discussion: The World's Greatest …, ThinkProgress, Taylor Marsh, Daily Kos and Shakesville

Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Democrats To Introduce Bill To Prevent States From Restricting Abortion

Discussion: Liberaland and Washington Post

Timwilliamspgh / CBS Pittsburgh:

Police: At Least 3 Shot Near Brashear High School — PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -Several suspects have been taken in for questioning in connection with a shooting that left three students injured near Brashear High School Wednesday afternoon. — According to police, the shooting happened on Crane Avenue around 3 p.m.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The Raw Story and Gawker

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
3 shot at Pittsburgh Brashear High School

Discussion: ThinkProgress

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

Controversy over Richard Cohen's comments on the de Blasio family — Richard Cohen has a knack for making venom-spewing enemies out of people who should be his allies. — Like on Tuesday, when The Washington Post columnist wrote about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's chances …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Guardian, Gawker, Daily Kos, NewsBusters, We are respectable negroes, The Huffington Post, TheBlaze.com, ThinkProgress, National Review, Mondoweiss, Esquire, AMERICAblog News, PostPartisan, The Atlantic Online, Wonkblog and Poynter

Kevin Gosztola / Firedoglake:

WikiLeaks Reveals Provisions of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Where Countries Oppose United States — Graphic posted on WikiLeaks' page for its release of a chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement — There are twelve countries that have been involved in the ultra-secretive process …

Discussion: Wired, more at Mediagazer »

WikiLeaks:
Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)

Discussion: Daniel W. Drezner, Politico and Business Insider

MyFoxBoston:

Sudbury girl wants Apple to remove derogatory definition from dictionary — SUDBURY, Mass. (MyFoxBoston.com) - A history essay on gay rights led a 15-year-old Sudbury girl to take a stand against a giant corporation. — Becca Gorman said she was writing her essay when she typed the word “gay” into her Macbook laptop's dictionary.

Discussion: AMERICAblog News, The Huffington Post, The Raw Story, Mediaite and The Daily Caller

Dallas News:

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.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, National Review, Mediaite, Weasel Zippers, James O'Keefe's Project …, Michelle Malkin, Twitchy, UrbanGrounds and “The Lid”

Kate Nocera / BuzzFeed:

Tea Party Group Will Primary 87 Republican “Traitors” — The Tea Party Leadership Fund is hoping to find “credible challengers” to any Republican who voted for the shutdown deal in October. At the top of the list: House Speaker John Boehner. — Via theteapartyleadershipfund.com

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Peggy Noonan's Blog:

ObamaCare Is the Story — Republicans should stop taking the boob bait of the press. The story of the day is ObamaCare and the pain it is causing the Democrats. That story is not being fully explored. We are not seeing pieces on Captol Hill Democrats rethinking their four-year-long lockstep backing …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog and Mediaite

Soopermexican / Twitchy:

Former Obama speechwriter deletes late-night tweets about disastrous Obamacare website [screenshot] — Jon Lovett, a former speechwriter for President Obama, seems to have gone all #bqhatevwr mode with some middle-of-the-night tweets about the Obamacare website.

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Washington Post:

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 …