memeorandum: Chu: Decision to build Keystone XL pipeline a political one (Curtis Williams/ogj.com)

6:30 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.

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Right Turn, Liberal Values, OpenMarket.org, CNN, JustOneMinute, The Gateway Pundit, The PJ Tatler and The New Editor

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.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Fix, Taylor Marsh, Mediaite, CBO's Publications, Washington Free Beacon, Ross Douthat, The Other McCain, NPR, Wonkblog, Riehl World News and Rush Limbaugh

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.

Discussion: Right Turn, Wonkblog, Washington Wire, ThinkProgress, NPR, The Heritage Foundation and Mediaite

Annie Lowrey / New York Times:

Health Care Law May Result in 2 Million Fewer Full-Time Workers — WASHINGTON — The Affordable Care Act will result in more than 2 million fewer full-time workers in the next several years, according to an analysis released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Washington Monthly, Gawker and National Review

Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
White House On Obamacare Report: If There Were No Medicare, 95-Year-Olds Would Work More

Discussion: Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit

Politico:
Report reignites debate over Obamacare and jobs

Discussion: The National Memo and Mediaite

Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Health-care law expected to take greater toll on workforce

Discussion: The Fact Checker, CNBC, Washington Wire, Washington Times, Hot Air, PoliticusUSA, National Review and National Republican …

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

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

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

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, PoliticusUSA, Talking Points Memo and The Mahablog

Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:

McConnell Pours Cold Water On Immigration Reform: ‘Irresolvable’ — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday said immigration reform poses an “irresolvable conflict” between the two chambers and predicted that it won't be completed in 2014. — “I think we have a sort …

Discussion: The Plum Line, Washington Monthly, Hot Air and The Daily Caller

Robert Costa / Washington Post:

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 …

Discussion: Firedoglake, Talking Points Memo, The National Memo, Political Insider blog, Hot Air, Washington Monthly, Daily Kos and CNN

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

Discussion: Politico

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

Rogers: Greenwald illegally sold docs — A top lawmaker argued Tuesday that journalist Glenn Greenwald is illegally selling stolen material by asking news organizations to pay for access to U.S. intelligence secrets taken from the National Security Agency. — “For personal gain …

Discussion: Guardian and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »

Associated Press:
US Official: Snowden Leaks Lead to Pentagon Change

Discussion: Politico, more at Mediagazer »

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.

Discussion: The Fix, The Baffler, The Daily Caller, The Hugh Hewitt Show, PoliticusUSA, The Raw Story, Mediaite and americanthinker.com

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

Discussion: Generation Progress, Talking Points Memo, PostPartisan, BuzzFeed 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, Lawyers, Guns & Money, National Review, No More Mister Nice Blog, Gawker, Washington Post, Mediaite and alicublog

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: Politico, Hot Air, First Read, Reuters and The PJ Tatler

Curtis Williams / ogj.com:
Chu: Decision to build Keystone XL pipeline a political one

Discussion: Daily Kos and Weekly Standard

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

Bridget_anne_kelly.Jpg / New Jersey Online:

Bridge scandal: Bridget Kelly refuses to turn over documents subpoenaed by legislative committee — Bridget Anne Kelly, left, at a cabinet meeting in November, is a former deputy chief of staff to Gov. Chris Christie. Kelly was fired from her position by the governor in January …

Discussion: Firedoglake

NorthJersey.com:
Bridget Kelly invokes Fifth Amendment, declines to produce subpoenaed documents

Discussion: TIME, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, susiemadrak.com, Shakesville, New York Times, Associated Press, Politico, Post Politics, The Reaction and CNN

Dan Merica / CNN:

D.C. takes step toward legalizing pot for private use — (CNN) - The Washington City Council passed a measure on Tuesday that would move the District of Columbia one step closer to decriminalizing marijuana in most cases. — Members approved the bill 11-to-1 in the first of two votes likely this month.

Discussion: Associated Press and Liberaland

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Discussion: RIA Novosti, CNN, Business Insider and PJ Media

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

Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast:

BYU to Undergrads: Self-Love Is A Battlefield — The Mormon university is urging its students to narc on chronic masturbators, whose fight against self-pleasure is like rescuing a fallen soldier during war. — “The temptations of the Great War are many. The battles are real, and the strategies are clever.

Discussion: Mediaite

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

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.) …

Discussion: The Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, Taylor Marsh, ThinkProgress, The PJ Tatler, Mediaite, BREITBART.COM, Roll Call, TIME, National Review, Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Fix

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