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11:00 AM ET, November 19, 2013

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Washington Post:
Obama's ratings tumble after health-care flaws  —  The flawed rollout of the Affordable Care Act has pushed President Obama to the lowest point of his presidency, with dwindling faith in his competence and in many of the personal attributes that have buoyed him in the past, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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New York Times:
A New G.O.P. Excuse for Doing Nothing  —  With unrestrained glee, Republicans are using the calamitous debut of the Affordable Care Act as their latest justification for undermining all of health care reform.  But they're not stopping there.  The Obama administration's fumbling is apparently …
Discussion: Yahoo! News and The Plum Line
Washington Post:
Private consultants warned of risks before HealthCare.gov's Oct. 1 launch  —  The Obama administration brought in a private consulting team to independently assess how the federal online health-care enrollment system was developing, according to a newly disclosed document …
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Botched ACA Rollout Hammers Obama; Job Disapproval Reaches a Career High  —  Barack Obama has been hammered by the botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act, with disapproval of his job performance reaching a career high, opposition to the new healthcare law up sharply and evidence …
Robert Kuttner / The Huffington Post:
Obama's Gift to the Republicans  —  The ancient Greeks liked to say that character is fate.  —  The colossal mess that Obamacare has become reflects both the character of the legislation and that of the president who sponsored it.  —  The Affordable Care Act, as a government mandate …
Michael Catalini / NationalJournal.com:   Landrieu: The Art of Backing Away
Erik Smith / Washington State Wire:
Rude Awakening for Federal Way Woman Who Got Shout-Out From President - Can't Afford Obamacare Policy After All  —  After Jessica Sanford Sends Fan Letter to Obama for Making Insurance Affordable, State Says She Must Pay Full Ticket  —  Jessica Sanford, the Federal Way woman who got a shout …
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Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Healthcare plan enrollment surges in some states after rocky rollout  —  Healthcare insurance enrollment increases in some states that run their own exchanges, boosting hopes of Obamacare backers.  —  Peter Lee, director of the Covered California health insurance exchange, discusses enrollment.
Jim Acosta / CNN:
Woman cited by President as Obamacare success story frustrated by sign up process
Discussion: Politico
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:   Woman Hailed by President as Obamacare Success Story Now Can't Afford Obamacare
John Crudele / New York Post:
Census ‘faked’ 2012 election jobs report  —  In the home stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign, from August to September, the unemployment rate fell sharply — raising eyebrows from Wall Street to Washington.  —  The decline — from 8.1 percent in August to 7.8 percent in September — might not have been all it seemed.
Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Iowa GOP to Christie: Don't skip caucuses  —  Iowa Republicans are urging New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) to contest the state's first-in-the-nation caucuses if he runs for president in 2016, warning a decision to ignore the Hawkeye State would do more harm than good to his campaign.
Discussion: First Read
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Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Chris Christie Knocks GOP, Says Washington Is Full of ‘Absolutists’  —  WASHINGTON — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had some harsh words for Washington, D.C. Monday night, telling a group of CEOs that “both parties” in Washington are the problem, but still harshly criticizing the GOP …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Liberaland
Dan Merica / CNN:
Christie to GOP: 'If being me isn't good enough, then fine, I will go home'
Adambrickley / Twitchy:
Obama's conference call on Obamacare goes about as well as HealthCare.gov rollout  —  President Obama is participating in an online conference call on Obamacare tonight with his friends at Organizing For Action (OFA).  However, in an interesting twist, numerous reporters had difficulty logging into the call on the OFA website.
Discussion: Ed Driscoll
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Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren Calls For Expanding Social Security  —  American values demand that Congress boost retirement benefits rather than shrinking them to satisfy deficit hawks, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said on the Senate floor Monday afternoon.  “We should be talking …
Discussion: Liberaland and Taylor Marsh
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Elizabeth Warren: Don't cut Social Security. Expand it!
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and The Impolitic
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The analogy is less telling than who is employing it.  —  Granted, it's an imperfect analogy.  So is every other analogy, but there are some particularly glaring differences here.  As Karl Van Zandt observes on Twitter, President Bush didn't push Hurricane Katrina through Congress without a single vote from the other party.
Discussion: Yahoo! News and alicublog
Scott Stump / Today:
'I'm not perfect': Defiant Toronto Mayor Rob Ford insists he can lead  — Facebook - Twitter - Reddit - Pinterest - Email  —  In a TODAY interview that aired Tuesday, embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted flaws, but blasted his critics and insisted he's fit to serve the city.
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Jane Gerster / Toronto Star:
Ford Nation hits the airwaves
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Arne Duncan / ED.gov Blog:
High Standards for All Schools and Students, Everywhere  —  We have a tendency in our fast-moving world to focus on controversial-sounding soundbites, instead of the complex policy debates that underlie them.  Unfortunately, I recently played into that dynamic.
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NationalJournal.com:
DHS Still Hasn't Fired Black Supremacist Who Called for Mass Murder of Whites  —  Almost four months after he was unmasked as a militant black nationalist who called for murdering “Uncle Tom race traitors,” Ayo Kimathi is still employed.  —  The black-nationalist Department of Homeland Security employee …
Reuters:
Suicide bombings kill 23 near Iran embassy in Beirut  —  (Reuters) - Two suicide bombings rocked Iran's embassy compound in Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at least 23 people including an Iranian cultural attaché and hurling bodies and burning wreckage across a debris-strewn street.
Discussion: emptywheel and The Agonist
Fox News:
Martin Bashir apologizes for dirty, disgusting slam at Sarah Palin  —  FILE: Martin Bashir on the second day of Michael Jackson's child molestation trial in Santa Maria.reuters  —  When I first saw a headline about what Martin Bashir said, I figured it must be exaggerated.
Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
Court order that allowed NSA surveillance is revealed for first time  —  Fisa court judge who authorised massive tapping of metadata was hesitant but felt she could not stand in the way  —  A secret court order that authorised a massive trawl by the National Security Agency of Americans' email …
Zelie Pollon / Reuters:
Albuquerque Election: Voters Deciding Whether To Outlaw Late-Term Abortions  —  Voters in Albuquerque on Tuesday will decide on an initiative to outlaw most late-term abortions in New Mexico's largest city, marking the first such measure placed on a municipal ballot.
WRAL-TV:
Edwards teaming up again with former law partner  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — Two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards will soon begin practicing law again with his former law partner, David Kirby, and his daughter Cate.  —  The Edwards Kirby law firm will have offices in Raleigh and Washington, D.C.
Sarah Mimms / NationalJournal.com:
Did the Shutdown Even Matter?  —  When budget negotiations began last month, Democrats felt confident that public opinion surrounding the government shutdown would force Republicans to the table, eager to prove their party could compromise.  —  But today, there's little sense of urgency on a budget deal.
Discussion: The Hill and New York Times
Nick Dutton / WTVR-TV:
Police: Sen. Deeds assaulted in home; 1 found dead  —  BATH COUNTY, Va. (WTVR) - A Virginia senator has been rushed to the hospital — and another person has died -after an assault at a Bath County home Tuesday morning.  —  Virginia State Police were called to Sen. Creigh Deeds' residence …
Discussion: Liberaland and The Raw Story
 
 
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Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter:
Holiday Classic 'It's A Wonderful Life' Set for Sequel
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Roy Edroso / alicublog:
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Burkhard Bilger / New Yorker:
AUTO CORRECT … - ARCHIVE - PHOTO BOOTH - DAILY SHOUTS …
Discussion: Althouse, The Verge and New York Times
Mike Schneider / Associated Press:
Judge To Decide If Zimmerman Is Released On Bail
Caren Bohan / Reuters:
No huge drop in Obamacare support despite rocky rollout: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
Stephens: From ‘Four Score’ to ‘Yes We Can!’
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Ted Johnson / Variety:
NFL, Major League Baseball Warn That Aereo Could Trigger End of Free TV Game Broadcasts
Discussion: Politico, Business Insider and Poynter
Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
Morose Obama asks his base for psychological intervention
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Obamacare flopped, but at least fracking works: Column
Discussion: Hit & Run and Ed Driscoll
BBC:
Monty Python to reunite for stage show
Discussion: Guardian and Gawker
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