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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The Democrats' naked power grab — “Congress is broken,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday before holding a party-line vote that disposed of rules that have guided and protected the chamber since 1789. — If Congress wasn't broken before, it certainly is now.
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Mother Jones:
3 Charts Explain Why Democrats Went Nuclear on the Filibuster — No one has completely clean hands when it comes to filibusters in the Senate. Democrats have used them and Republicans have used them. But hoo boy, Republicans sure have used them more. That's why Democrats went nuclear on Thursday.
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Taylor Marsh and Liberaland
John Fund / National Review:
Reid's Law — It may sound like congressional “inside baseball,” but yesterday's decision by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to limit the power of the minority to block nominees for Executive Branch and most judicial vacancies is momentous. Ezra Klein, a liberal Washington Post columnist …
New York Times:
Democracy Returns to the Senate
Democracy Returns to the Senate
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Manu Raju / Politico:
Harry Reid's gambit
Harry Reid's gambit
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Talking Points Memo, National Review, Slate, Rush Limbaugh, First Read and Reuters
Patterico's Pontifications:
Hysterical Hypocrisy on Filibusters from the New York Times
Hysterical Hypocrisy on Filibusters from the New York Times
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Power Line, ProfessorBainbridge.com, National Review and Hot Air
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Norm Ornstein: Republicans Forced Reid's Hand On The Nuclear Option
Norm Ornstein: Republicans Forced Reid's Hand On The Nuclear Option
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Senate's filibuster rule change should help Obama achieve key second-term priorities
Senate's filibuster rule change should help Obama achieve key second-term priorities
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Democracy in America, PostPartisan, Wonkblog, The Plum Line, The Daily Caller, The BLT, NBCNews, Booman Tribune and New York Times
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
‘FLASH PRESIDENT DEAD’: How News Of The JFK Assassination Broke In Real Time — To watch the coverage of the Kennedy assassination 50 years later is to see just how raw and unformed so many parts of the news media that we now take for granted were, and to marvel at the ways in which our technology …
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Washington Monthly, Taylor Marsh, The Moderate Voice and Poynter
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Reuters:
On 50th anniversary of JFK death, Dallas holds first memorial
On 50th anniversary of JFK death, Dallas holds first memorial
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The Gateway Pundit, his vorpal sword, The Week, Shakesville and Patterico's Pontifications
Adam Clymer / New York Times:
‘Kennedy Has Been Shot’: Memories From Nov. 22, 1963
‘Kennedy Has Been Shot’: Memories From Nov. 22, 1963
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Taylor Marsh and Towleroad News #gay
Fox News:
Round 2 of ObamaCare enrollment to be delayed until after 2014 midterms — The Obama administration plans to delay the start of next year's ObamaCare enrollment period, a move pitched as a way to give consumers and insurance companies more time to study their options …
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CNN, Wonkblog, American Spectator, Washington Monthly, Fox News Insider, Scared Monkeys and The Gateway Pundit
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Z. Byron Wolf / CNN:
Extended: Obamacare enrollment deadline for January 1 coverage
Extended: Obamacare enrollment deadline for January 1 coverage
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Reuters and The Heritage Foundation
Susan Levine / Politico:
HHS to delay 2015 Obamacare enrollment by a month
HHS to delay 2015 Obamacare enrollment by a month
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Hot Air and National Review
Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE — MCCONNELL: TEA PARTY ‘BULLIES’ WHO NEED PUNCH IN NOSE — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on a conference call organized by Karl Rove's Crossroads organization for large donors and their advisers on Oct. 30 that the Tea Party movement, in his view, is a …
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Washington Monthly, Liberaland, Rush Limbaugh, Riehl World News and Weasel Zippers
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John Dickerson / Slate:
The Old Senate Was Already Dead
The Old Senate Was Already Dead
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The Moderate Voice, Washington Post, Booman Tribune, The Plum Line and The Dish
Aaron Rupar / The Blotter:
Stewart Mills, GOP congressional candidate, hits a beer bong [PHOTOS] — In June, we broke the news that Stewart Mills is a Packers fan. That being the case, perhaps nobody should be surprised to learn that dude knows how to party. — Photos obtained by City Pages show Mills …
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Politico, Talking Points Memo and Taegan Goddard's …
Scott Walker / Wall Street Journal:
How to Win the Obama-Walker Voters — If conservative principles are the problem, then why are so many Republicans in office who campaigned on them? — In the wake of the 2012 elections, Republicans are being warned once again that they need to compromise their principles to win at the ballot box.
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Washington Monthly, New York Times, Right Turn and First Read
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Charles Babington / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Wisconsin's Gov. Walker hopes to split Chris Christie, tea partyers, in GOP presidential hunt
Wisconsin's Gov. Walker hopes to split Chris Christie, tea partyers, in GOP presidential hunt
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Talking Points Memo
Lauren McGaughy / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Mary Landrieu approval ratings drop, Bobby Jindal's rise in latest polling data — U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu's approval rating dropped and Gov. Bobby Jindal's rose over the last six months, according to polling data released Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013 from Southern Media & Opinion Research.
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National Review and Mock Paper Scissors
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Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Bill Cassidy staffer tweets Mary Landrieu-Mussolini picture
Bill Cassidy staffer tweets Mary Landrieu-Mussolini picture
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Talking Points Memo, FIRST DRAFT and PoliticusUSA
kff.org:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: November 2013 — The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds the public's views souring on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in November, with about half having an unfavorable view of the law and a third having a favorable view, a gap that was seen only once before …
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Firedoglake, Post Politics, National Review, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Expanding Social Security — For many years there has been one overwhelming rule for people who wanted to be considered serious inside the Beltway. It was this: You must declare your willingness to cut Social Security in the name of “entitlement reform.” It wasn't really about the numbers …
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Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, Liberaland, susiemadrak.com and Taegan Goddard's Wonk Wire
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
The South's New Lost Cause — Before he was immortalized for saving the union, freeing the slaves and giving the best political speech in American history, Abraham Lincoln was just an unpopular new president handed a colossal crisis. Elected with 39.7 percent of the vote, Lincoln told a big lie in his inaugural address of 1861.
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TruthRevolt.org and Washington Monthly
ThinkProgress:
Levitating Train Between DC And NYC Would Leave The Rest Of America Behind — Many Americans have long nursed a pipe dream of one day riding a super-high-speed train just like the engineering marvels that have cropped up in Japan, China, and Europe. With a newly publicized offer from Japan …
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
Militia nut openly calls for Obama's assassination on Facebook — The head of the Christian American Patriots Militia has put out an open call on Facebook for the assassination of President Obama. — “We now have authority to shoot Obama, i.e., to kill him,” writes Everest Wilhelmsen on his personal Facebook page.
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Daily Kos and Liberaland