memeorandum: House GOP finalizes debt-limit playbook (Robert Costa/Post Politics)

4:50 PM ET, February 4, 2014

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Erik Wasson / The Hill:

CBO: O-Care slowing growth, contributing to job losses — The new healthcare law will slow economic growth over the next decade, costing the nation about 2.5 million jobs and contributing to a $1 trillion increase in projected deficits, the Congressional Budget Office said in a report released Tuesday.

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Washington Post:

CBO: Health-care law will mean 2 million fewer workers — The Affordable Care Act will reduce the number of full-time workers by more than 2 million in coming years, congressional budget analysts said Tuesday in the most detailed analysis of the law's impact on jobs.

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CBO's Publications:

The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2014 to 2024 — The federal budget deficit has fallen sharply during the past few years, and it is on a path to decline further this year and next year. CBO estimates that under current law, the deficit will total $514 billion in fiscal year 2014, compared with $1.4 trillion in 2009.

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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:

White House On Obamacare Report: If There Were No Medicare, 95-Year-Olds Would Work More — A senior administration official dismisses Republican gloating over a Congressional Budget Office report, saying it doesn't prove the Affordable Care Act hurts the job market. — Mike Segar / Reuters / Reuters

Discussion: Hot Air

Annie Lowrey / New York Times:
Health Care Law May Result in 2 Million Fewer Full-Time Workers

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Politico: Report reignites debate over Obamacare and jobs

Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Obamacare will reduce incomes of most Americans

Discussion: The Daily Caller, americanthinker.com and Hot Air

Paul Steinhauser / CNN:

First on CNN: Conservative group pushes to topple GOP leaders in Congress — Washington (CNN) - A conservative group is launching a new campaign which calls on “the GOP leadership in both the House and the Senate to step aside.” — ForAmerica told CNN that it's putting six figures behind its …

Discussion: Politico, Talking Points Memo, PoliticusUSA and The Mahablog

Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:

Brent Bozell Will Try To Remove Every GOP Leader From Office — There's no shortage of conservative groups that take aim at Republicans, be it to drag incumbents further to the right or out of office entirely. But now one group is targeting the biggest fish they can fry.

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, susiemadrak.com and Politico

Robert Costa / Post Politics:

House GOP finalizes debt-limit playbook — Several House members told The Washington Post on Monday that Republican leaders have narrowed their list of possible debt-limit strategies to two options: trading a one-year extension for approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, or trading …

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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
McConnell Pours Cold Water On Immigration Reform: ‘Irresolvable’

Discussion: Washington Monthly and The Daily Caller

Daniel Newhauser / Roll Call:
Boehner: 'No Sense Picking a Fight We Can't Win' on Debt Limit (Updated)

Discussion: PoliticusUSA

Alexander Bolton / The Hill: McConnell: Immigration reform not going to happen in 2014

Fox News:

TRANSCRIPT: Full interview between President Obama and Bill O'Reilly — BILL O'REILLY - One of my, uh, points on the Factor is that poverty is driven by the dissolution of the American family, that is the prime mover, okay. On your watch, median income has dropped seventeen percent among working families in this country.

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Bill O'Reilly / Fox News:
Unedited: Bill O'Reilly's EXCLUSIVE Interview with President Obama

Discussion: Generation Progress, PostPartisan, BuzzFeed, Talking Points Memo and Washington Post

Ruth R. Wisse / Wall Street Journal:

Ruth Wisse: The Dark Side of the War on ‘the One Percent’ — Stoking class envy is a step in a familiar, dangerous and highly incendiary process. — Two phenomena: anti-Semitism and American class conflict. Is there any connection between them? In a letter to this newspaper …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, No More Mister Nice Blog, National Review, Gawker, Washington Post, Mediaite, Lawyers, Guns & Money and alicublog

Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:

Obama Aides Doubt Clinton Strategy — “She doesn't need this,” says Benenson. — Mike Theiler / Reuters — Top advisers and former aides to Barack Obama say Hillary Clinton is repeating the mistakes she made in 2008, building a machine in lieu of a message and lumbering toward …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Week, Taylor Marsh, The Dish, ABC News, Hot Air and Wall Street Journal

Aaron Blake / Post Politics:

Sandra Fluke files in California for congressional bid — Women's rights activist Sandra Fluke appears to be moving forward with a run for Congress. — Fluke has filed with the California state Democratic Party to seek its endorsement in the race for retiring Rep. Henry Waxman's (D-Calif.) …

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NorthJersey.com:

Bridget Kelly invokes Fifth Amendment, declines to produce subpoenaed documents — Governor Christie's former deputy chief of staff, Bridget Kelly, will not turn over documents in response to a legislative subpoena, her lawyer said Monday, making her the second person to invoke constitutional protections against self-incrimination.

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Bridget_anne_kelly.Jpg / New Jersey Online:
Bridge scandal: Bridget Kelly refuses to turn over documents subpoenaed by legislative committee

Discussion: Firedoglake

Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:

The Case for Socialized Law — Inequality has bent American justice. Here's a radical way to fix it. — Maintain and refine, maintain and refine. That's how progressives talk about the welfare state these days. After nearly a century of expanding government with programs like Social Security …

Discussion: Washington Monthly and Liberaland

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Todd Starnes / Fox News:

You can't celebrate America, school says — Students and parents at a Colorado high school are outraged after administrators turned down their request for a spirit week day honoring America because it might offend non-Americans. — “They said they didn't want to offend anyone from other countries …

Discussion: The Daily Caller and Right Wing Watch

The Hill:

Greens warn base will sit out election — Environmental groups are warning President Obama that his liberal base might stay home on Election Day if he approves the Keystone XL oil pipeline. — Proponents of the $5.4 billion Canada-to-Texas pipeline say their case is buoyed …

Discussion: Hot Air, Weekly Standard, First Read, The PJ Tatler and Reuters

CNN:

'We can't answer that...' … 'There's no hiding' … ‘Anger? Anger’ … ‘I could hurt them, too’ … Isolation in Alaska contributes to the state's high rate of reported rape. … The lawless ‘end of the land’ — Nunam Iqua — which means “end of the land” …

Discussion: ThinkProgress and Erik Wemple

Aaron Blake / Post Politics:

NAACP leader: Tea party seeks minorities to use as ‘mouthpieces’ — An NAACP leader in North Carolina said Tuesday that the tea party is actively seeking out minorities to use as “mouthpieces.” — “They frantically seek out people of color to become mouthpieces for their particular agenda …

Discussion: Liberaland, Mediaite and National Review

Katherine Connell / National Review:

Wendy Davis's Media Meltdown — It's been a rocky rollout for the Wendy Davis campaign in Texas. She announced for governor four months ago on the strength of the massive public attention paid to her 13-hour filibuster of a bill limiting abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy.

Discussion: Business Insider

David Dayen / The New Republic:

The Farm Bill Still Gives Wads of Cash to Agribusiness. It's Just Sneakier About It — The Senate passed on Thursday a farm bill that took two years to complete. Most of the discussion around the bill—and the reason for the delay—concerns the level of cuts to food stamps …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, Wonkblog, Firedoglake and Hullabaloo

Ed Rogers / PostPartisan:

The Insiders: Obamacare - The incompetence and denials keep coming — Two stories converge today to illuminate how the White House and the Democratic establishment are attempting to hide the next wave of Obamacare failures. Both Post stories reveal how the president and Democratic leaders …

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