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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
NUCLEAR OPTION TRIGGERED: Dems Make Historic Change To Filibuster Rules — After years of threats and warnings, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and his Democratic majority on Thursday executed the “nuclear option” to eliminate the filibuster for executive branch and judicial nominees, except for the Supreme Court.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Landmark Senate Vote Limits Filibusters — WASHINGTON — The Senate voted on Thursday to eliminate the use of the filibuster against most presidential nominees, a move that will break the Republican blockade of President Obama's picks to cabinet posts and the federal judiciary.
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Nine reasons the filibuster change is a huge deal — 1. The change the Senate made today is small but consequential: The filibuster no longer applies to judicial or executive-branch nominees. It still applies to bills and Supreme Court nominations. — Goodbye, filibuster. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Reid, Democrats trigger ‘nuclear’ option; eliminate most filibusters on nominees — The partisan battles that have paralyzed Washington in recent years took a historic turn Thursday, as Senate Democrats eliminated filibusters for most presidential nominations, severely curtailing …
ThinkProgress:
Why Senate Democrats Had To Invoke The ‘Nuclear Option’ — President Obama introduces three nominees to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit — Well, it finally happened. — After five years of filibusters, obstruction, lengthy waits for confirmation …
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
Why Harry Reid Went Nuclear — Fed up with an unrelenting stream of blocked nominations, the Democratic leader makes a historic change to Senate filibuster rules. — Like an actual nuclear weapon, the Senate's “nuclear option” was long thought to be most effective not as a weapon but as a deterrent.
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Guardian and Prairie Weather
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
A Move Years in the Making, With Lasting Ramifications — WASHINGTON — The curtailment of the filibuster, probably the most well-known aspect of the Senate in popular culture, came in a politically charged vote Thursday that had been years in the making. It will have significant ramifications …
TIME:
Reid Blocks First G.O.P. Offer on Filibuster Reform, Leaves Nuclear Option on Table
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Don't Believe the Republican Cries of Vengeance
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Politico:
Senate goes for ‘nuclear option’
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate guts filibuster power
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
McCain: Dems Will Pay ‘Heavy, Heavy Price’ For Changing Filibuster
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Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
New York Times:
G.O.P. Maps Out Waves of Attacks Over Health Law — WASHINGTON — The memo distributed to House Republicans this week was concise and blunt, listing talking points and marching orders: “Because of Obamacare, I Lost My Insurance.” “Obamacare Increases Health Care Costs.”
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John Boehner / Speaker.gov:
My Attempt to Sign Up For Health Care … Earlier this afternoon, I sat down to try and enroll in the DC exchange under the president's health care law: — Like many Americans, my experience was pretty frustrating. After putting in my personal information, I received an error message.
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Nicole L. Hopkins / Wall Street Journal:
Nicole Hopkins: ObamaCare Forced Mom Into Medicaid
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James Oliphant / NationalJournal.com:
Love It or Hate It, Obamacare Redistributes Americans' Wealth
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Ed Driscoll and Hot Air
Richard Kim / The Nation:
The problems with the Affordable Care Act stem from government being too small and weak, not too big and powerful.
Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Doctors Fire up the Obamacare Waaambulance
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protein wisdom, Ross Douthat, Weekly Standard and Twitchy
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Obama approval rating sinks to new low in CNN poll — Washington (CNN) - As President Barack Obama's approval rating hits another all-time low, a new national survey also indicates that Americans say the President has less power than congressional Republicans when it comes to shaping events over the next year.
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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Obama's Image Machine: Monopolistic Propaganda Funded by You — News organizations protest White House restrictions on independent photo coverage. — New York Times photographer Doug Mills strode into Jay Carney's office Oct. 29 with a pile of pictures taken exclusively …
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Jason Zengerle / Politico:
The race that broke the Cheney family — What happened when a gay sister came between Liz Cheney and a Senate seat. — Liz Cheney just wanted to enjoy her milkshake. It was a Friday afternoon in early November, and the shadows were growing longer over the flat expanse of eastern Wyoming as a hard week dragged on.
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Advocate, ABC News, Truth Wins Out and Talking Points Memo
Ari Shavit / New York Times:
How Bush Let Iran Go Nuclear — AMERICAN and Iranian negotiators yesterday began a second round of talks in Geneva, seeking a deal on Iran's nuclear program. — If such an agreement were signed, it would represent an Iranian victory — and an American defeat.
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TruthRevolt.org, Israel Matzav and Liberaland
Nancy Gibbs / TIME:
Obama's Race for the Cure — The President's second term may hinge on how fast his health care reform can recover — A good President needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
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Capital New York and Business Insider
Colum Lynch / Foreign Policy:
Exclusive: Inside America's Plan to Kill Online Privacy Rights Everywhere — The United States and its key intelligence allies are quietly working behind the scenes to kneecap a mounting movement in the United Nations to promote a universal human right to online privacy …
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