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Aaron C. Davis / Washington Post:
D.C. insurance commissioner fired a day after questioning Obamacare fix — A day after he questioned President Obama's decision to unwind a major tenet of the health-care law and said the nation's capital might not go along, D.C. insurance commissioner William P. White was fired.
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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
David Plouffe to ABC: GOP Plan to Run Against Obamacare an ‘Impossibility’ — On This Week With George Stephanopoulos Sunday morning, former Obama advior David Plouffe dismissed the comparisons between the second terms of President Barack Obama and former President George W Bush …
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Washington Post:
Health-care law has changed game for Democrats looking to 2014 election
Health-care law has changed game for Democrats looking to 2014 election
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
In Fracas on Health Coverage, Some Democrats Feel Exposed
In Fracas on Health Coverage, Some Democrats Feel Exposed
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CNN:
Pelosi defends Obamacare claims, can't predict effect on Dems in midterms — Washington (CNN) - House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Sunday neither she nor President Barack Obama misled the American people when they said, during the run-up to the passage of Obamacare, that people could keep their health insurance plans.
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Pelosi: Dems ‘stand tall’ behind O-Care
Pelosi: Dems ‘stand tall’ behind O-Care
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Louisiana Republican Who Backs Obamacare's Medicaid Provision Wins Seat Over Party Favorite — Campaign ad for Rep.-Elect Vance McAllister (R) — Louisiana voters elected Republican Vance McAllister in a runoff to fill the state's vacant Fifth District U.S. House seat on Saturday.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
McAllister wins La. House runoff
McAllister wins La. House runoff
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Melinda Deslatte / Associated Press:
McAllister Wins 5th District Congressional Seat
McAllister Wins 5th District Congressional Seat
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Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Scott Walker: Next GOP presidential nominee must be a governor — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says Republicans must pick a governor or a former governor as its presidential nominee in 2016 to maintain a proper outsider ethos. — “I think its got to be an outsider, I think both the presidential …
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Jonathan Martin / The Caucus:
Dispute Over Gay Marriage Erupts in Cheney Family — Mary Cheney, a daughter of the former vice president, and her wife, Heather Poe, sharply criticized on Sunday a comment by by Ms. Cheney's sister, Liz Cheney, a candidate for the Senate in Wyoming, that they disagreed on the issue of same-sex marriage.
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Valerie Strauss / The Answer Sheet:
Arne Duncan: ‘White suburban moms’ upset that Common Core shows their kids aren't ‘brilliant’ — U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told a group of state schools superintendents Friday that he found it “fascinating” that some of the opposition to the Common Core State Standards has come from …
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Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Woodward: Obamacare not Watergate, but it ‘is going to get worse’ — President Barack Obama's mishandling of the Affordable Care Act rollout has been incompetent, Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward said, but it doesn't rise to past president-dooming scandals.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Three Burials of Obamacare — THE first time Obamacare seemed finished, doomed, doornail-dead, the voters of Massachusetts played the would-be executioner. In January 2010, they sent a pickup-driving Republican to the Senate to fill Ted Kennedy's seat, apparently depriving the health care bill …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Four years ago, GOP showed exactly what was false about Obama's keep-your-coverage promise — It is now painfully evident to millions of Americans that President Obama's promise that they could keep their current health coverage under Obamacare wasn't true.
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James Hohmann / Politico:
GOP's third shot at Senate: Charm or bust? — Sharron Angle. Christine O'Donnell. Todd Akin. Richard Mourdock. After Republican primaries produced that horror show of candidates in two consecutive elections, probably costing the party control of the Senate, GOP leaders vowed that 2014 must be different.
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Martin O'Malley Takes “Believe” Campaign To The Presidential Stage — In a speech to New Hampshire Democrats, the possible presidential hopeful turns his Baltimore campaign into a national argument. But for Warren and Clinton supporters, the focus isn't O'Malley. — AFP / Getty Images
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