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Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
White House to Allow Insurers to Continue Canceled Health Plans — Obama to Deliver Statement — WASHINGTON—The White House on Thursday will announce a plan for allowing insurance companies to continue offering existing individual insurance policies even if they fall short …
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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
LOCKED IN THE CABINET — The worst job in Barack Obama's Washington. — Steven Chu is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a brilliant innovator whose research fills several all-but-incomprehensible paragraphs of a Wikipedia entry that spans his achievements in single-molecule physics …
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Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Fix: Keep current plans — President Barack Obama offered a proposal Thursday aimed at making it easier for Americans whose health insurance plans were slated to be cancelled at the end of the year keep the same coverage through 2014. — Obama's announcement is an attempt to head off …
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CNN, The Heritage Foundation and White House Dossier
USA Today:
Obamacare credibility going up in smoke: Our view — New HealthCare.gov data show just how broken it is. — CONNECT — The health insurance signup numbers the White House released Wednesday afternoon were deeply disappointing, though not particularly surprising.
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CNN:
First on CNN: Obama to push fix for insurance cancellations — Sources close to the insurance industry tell CNN's Gloria Borger that it looks like insurance companies will cooperate with President Barack Obama's proposed solution to the problem of health care plan cancellations due to Obamacare.
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
The Democrats Need to Stop Freaking Out About Obamacare and Take Charge — Well, here we are again—the Democrats are ‘in disarray,’ flailing on Obamacare. It's a potent story line, but this time Obama must crack the whip, stop the panicking, and make it work.
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Voters May Cancel Democratic Coverage in 2014 — In a Quinnipiac poll, just 30% of independents approve of ObamaCare. — A few minutes into last Thursday's interview with NBC's Chuck Todd, President Obama said of the millions whose health insurance was canceled, “I am sorry that they …
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Insurance Industry Rips White House Obamacare Fix — “This doesn't change anything other than force insurers to be the political flack jackets for the administration,” says an insider. — Joe Skipper / Reuters — WASHINGTON — The health insurance industry is already attacking …
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Wonkblog, Weasel Zippers and National Review
Brian Beutler / Salon:
GOP's big Obamacare trap: Not as brilliant as they think! — GOP has set several, but fortunately it's done them poorly — Democrats on Capitol Hill are badly in need of a lodestar. — Their hysteria over the state of the Affordable Care Act plays to stereotype, but it's actually somewhat justified in this case.
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The Hill:
House Dems about to ‘go crazy’
House Dems about to ‘go crazy’
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
How The White House Wants To ‘Fix’ Obamacare
How The White House Wants To ‘Fix’ Obamacare
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The Volokh Conspiracy
Wall Street Journal:
The GOP starts to offer Americans a better alternative.
The GOP starts to offer Americans a better alternative.
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David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
Republican Party Weighs a 2016 Shakeup With ‘Midwestern Primary’
Republican Party Weighs a 2016 Shakeup With ‘Midwestern Primary’
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BuzzFeed
Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
How Obamacare Accomplishes The Unthinkable
How Obamacare Accomplishes The Unthinkable
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American Prospect, Wonkblog, The Dish, The Daily Caller and The Heritage Foundation
Politico:
Obamacare decision time for Democrats: Fight or flight
Obamacare decision time for Democrats: Fight or flight
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The Plum Line, The Fix, Reuters, First Read, Daily Kos and New York Times
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Darrell Issa's Obamacare kangaroo court
Politico:
GOP plan: Don't blow it
GOP plan: Don't blow it
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Stuart Rothenberg / Rothenblog:
A Critical Few Weeks for Democrats? It Could Get Worse
A Critical Few Weeks for Democrats? It Could Get Worse
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The Reaction
Jonathan Strong / National Review:
Boehner: Upton Bill a Step On Path to Obamacare Repeal — Before the government shutdown in July, as the defund push from Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee was just starting to gain steam, Speaker John Boehner laid-out his preferred Obamacare strategy to House Republicans in a closed-door conference meeting …
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DownWithTyranny!, PoliticusUSA and Daily Kos
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James C. Capretta / Weekly Standard:
The Upton Bill Is No Small Matter
The Upton Bill Is No Small Matter
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National Review, Betsy's Page and Power Line
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Obamacare Schadenfreudarama — To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, you'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at the unraveling of Obamacare. — First, the obligatory caveats. It is no laughing matter that millions of Americans' lives have been thrown into anxious chaos as they lose their health insurance …
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Washington Monthly, Conservatives4Palin, The Other McCain, Ed Driscoll and Instapundit
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Americans' Approval of Healthcare Law Declines — Currently 40% approve and 55% disapprove — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' views of the 2010 healthcare law have worsened in recent weeks, with 40% approving and 55% disapproving of it. For most of the past year, Americans have been divided on the law …
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CNN:
Palin apologizes for not being ‘clearer’ in comments about Pope — (CNN) - Sarah Palin attempted to clarify comments she made about the Pope in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, saying on Facebook Thursday that she was not trying to be critical of Pope Francis when she said some of his statements sound “kind of liberal.”
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Politico, FP Passport and Gawker
Washington Post:
Two Secret Service agents cut from Obama's detail after alleged misconduct — A call from the Hay-Adams Hotel this past spring reporting that a Secret Service agent was trying to force his way into a woman's room set in motion an internal investigation that has sent tremors through …
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In the Loop, TIME, Shakesville, NBCNews, The Week, The Daily Caller and New York Times
Marisa Taylor / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Americans' personal data shared with CIA, IRS, others in security probe — McClatchy Washington BureauNovember 14, 2013 Updated 48 minutes ago — Facebook Twitter Google Plus Reddit E-mail Print — WASHINGTON — U.S. agencies collected and shared the personal information of thousands …
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Journalism.org:
News Use across Social Media Platforms — How do different social networking websites stack up when it comes to news? How many people engage with news across multiple social sites? And what are their news consumption habits on traditional platforms? As part of an ongoing examination …
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Ring of House Republicans to call for impeachment of Holder — Washington (CNN) - A group of 11 House Republicans will introduce a resolution Thursday calling for the impeachment of Eric Holder, saying the Attorney General has lost credibility and trust over a string of issues in recent years.
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Politico and Outside the Beltway
Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
Boehner Calls ENDA ‘Unnecessary’ — House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on Thursday called the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Senate-passed legislation extending workplace protections to LGBT people, “unnecessary,” and as such would lead to “frivolous lawsuits.”
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