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CBS News:
Poll: Obamacare support, Obama approval sink to new lows — President Obama's job approval rating has plunged to the lowest of his presidency, according to a new CBS News poll released Wednesday, and Americans' approval of the Affordable Care Act has dropped it's lowest since CBS News started polling on the law.
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama hits new low with Dems — President Obama's relationship with congressional Democrats has worsened to an unprecedented low, Democratic aides say. — They are letting it be known that House and Senate Democrats are increasingly frustrated, bitter and angry with the White House …
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Jeffrey Young / The Huffington Post:
Obama Administration Maps Out Detour Around HealthCare.gov — WASHINGTON — People interested in buying health insurance under Obamacare could soon skip the HealthCare.gov website and apply for coverage and financial assistance directly with private insurance companies and online brokers …
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The Dish, ThinkProgress and The Volokh Conspiracy
Brian Beutler / Salon:
The right's in a box: Here's how GOP loses Obamacare fight — The amazing politics of Obamacare's success stories — especially in Kentucky — could cost the GOP their leader — The fact that Affordable Care Act enrollments are spiking in states that have functioning exchange websites …
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The Week, The Impolitic, NewsBusters, Daily Kos, Mediaite, Taylor Marsh and Liberal Values
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Jonathan Kaminsky / Reuters:
Oregon healthcare exchange website never worked, has no subscribers
Oregon healthcare exchange website never worked, has no subscribers
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Hit & Run, Washington Post and Weekly Standard
Jason Furman / White House.gov Blog:
New Report from the Council of Economic Advisers: The Recent Slowdown in Health Care Cost Growth …
New Report from the Council of Economic Advisers: The Recent Slowdown in Health Care Cost Growth …
Peter Berkowitz / Real Clear Politics:
Obama's Slow Learning Curve
Obama's Slow Learning Curve
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Questions and Observations and JustOneMinute
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Obamacare Crisis — Health care as a necessity comes …
The Obamacare Crisis — Health care as a necessity comes …
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Hot Air, Via Meadia, The Incidental Economist, Power Line and American Spectator
Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Utah town forgets to hold election — again — Wallsburg » New recorder forgot to announce opening of filing period. — | The Salt Lake City — In the Wasatch County town of Wallsburg, the city employee responsible for oversight of elections brought new meaning to the job description by overlooking the election altogether.
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ThinkProgress and The Daily Caller
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Paul Foy / MiamiHerald.com:
Nobody home: Utah town forgets to hold election
Nobody home: Utah town forgets to hold election
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Talking Points Memo
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Utah Town Forgot To Hold Municipal Election In November
Utah Town Forgot To Hold Municipal Election In November
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ThinkProgress:
Illinois Governor Signs Marriage Equality Into Law — Wednesday afternoon, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D) signed marriage equality into law, making Illinois the 16th state to allow same-sex couples to marry. It was originally expected to be the 15th, but Hawaii technically completed the passage …
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Michael Sneed / Chicago Sun Times:
Gov. Quinn to sign same-sex marriage bill on Abe Lincoln's desk
Gov. Quinn to sign same-sex marriage bill on Abe Lincoln's desk
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ABC News:
Exclusive: US May Have Let ‘Dozens’ of Terrorists Into Country As Refugees … Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees, according to FBI agents investigating …
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Hot Air, The Raw Story, Jihad Watch, Weasel Zippers, Washington Free Beacon, Atlas Shrugs and Israel Matzav
Washington Post:
Three nearby hospitals with psychiatric units had room for Deeds's son on Monday — At least three hospitals near Bath County had available beds the day before the son of Virginia state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds apparently stabbed his father and then shot himself to death, officials confirmed Wednesday.
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ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo, Weasel Zippers and DCist
Ed O'Keefe / Post Politics:
Radel didn't inform Boehner of arrest until Tuesday — Rep. Trey Radel (R-Fla.) did not vote Wednesday afternoon on a series of procedural matters hours after pleading guilty to possession of cocaine in D.C. Superior Court. — Rep. Trey Radel (R-Fla.) (AP)
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TIME:
Tea Party Protestors Demand Obama Impeachment Outside White House — By Maya Rhodan @m_rhodanNov. 19, 2013 — Less than 100 Tea Party-affiliated protesters gathered in Lafayette Square on Tuesday to call for Obama's impeachment, just steps from the White House where President Obama …
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Crooks and Liars and Right Wing Watch
Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
The three things we learned from today's Obamacare update — Every day, usually around 2 p.m. or so, the Center for Medicare Services hosts a half-hour long call on the status of the insurance marketplace. Now, every day, we here at Wonkblog will update you on what the federal government told us about how Obamacare is going.
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Bloomberg, National Review and Health Care Policy …
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Twisted Sister, and Brothers — WASHINGTON — And I thought my family Thanksgivings were rough. — My sister, who loved W. and worked on his 2000 convention, made it clear that I was not welcome in her guest room when I was writing about the phony run-up to the Iraq war.
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The Moderate Voice
Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
Poll: Americans Think Obamacare Will Help the Poor, Not the Country — United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll finds public opinion on the health law remarkably steady despite rollout troubles. — More Americans continue to say that President Obama's health care law …
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Washington Monthly, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Plum Line
Washington Post:
Obama says Republicans share some blame for health-care law's failures — President Obama on Tuesday sought to redirect some of the political blame for the botched rollout of the federal health insurance exchange to Republicans, characterizing GOP lawmakers as rooting for the law's failure.
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Hot Air, NewsBusters, The Impolitic, Ed Driscoll, The Week, Conservatives4Palin and NBCNews
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
New York Times D.C. shake-up — New York Times Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt will step down and be replaced by political editor Carolyn Ryan, sources familiar with the decision told POLITICO on Wednesday. — Leonhardt, who was appointed bureau chief shortly after Jill Abramson …
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WJLA-TV:
Rep. Grace Meng attacked, robbed near Eastern Market — WASHINGTON (WJLA) - Police say a U.S. congresswoman was attacked and robbed Tuesday night near Eastern Market. — Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., who represents the 6th congressional district in Queens, was walking home from dinner Tuesday night …
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Politico and The Daily Caller
CBO's Publications:
Federal Debt and the Statutory Limit, November 2013 — The debt limit—commonly referred to as the debt ceiling—is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. That amount is set by law and has been increased …
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Politico, Washington Monthly, Wonkblog, Washington Wire and Federal Eye
Fox News:
Palin kills Matt Lauer interview over Martin Bashir slur — It's no secret that Sarah Palin is mighty steamed at MSNBC and Martin Bashir over his despicable remarks about the abusive treatment he imagines for her. — And now she's doing something about it.
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Weasel Zippers, Mediaite, Conservatives4Palin, TVNewser and NewsBusters blogs
Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
Sex in the Senate — Bobby Baker's salacious secret history of Capitol Hill. — On Jan. 1, 1943, Robert Gene Baker arrived in Washington at the height of World War II to become a Senate page. Two decades later, this son of a mailman from Pickens, S.C., had become the reigning Washington wheeler-dealer …
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Taylor Marsh and Hullabaloo
Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
HealthCare.gov Greets Sebelius With Error Message While Touting Law In Miami (VIDEO) — The plagued federal health exchange website HealthCare.gov greeted President Barack Obama's top health official with an embarrassing error message while on a trip promoting the Affordable Care Act in Miami on Tuesday.
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Healthcare Reform and Outside the Beltway
Spokesman.com:
Aryan Brotherhood may target teen suspects, police say — Two Spokane teenagers accused of killing a World War II veteran during a parking lot robbery may have been targeted by the Aryan Brotherhood, a California-based white supremacist prison gang. — Court documents indicate Spokane police learned …
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