memeorandum: Poll Shows One Welcome Trend for Chris Christie (Dante Chinni/Washington Wire)

10:05 AM ET, February 5, 2014

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John Podhoretz / New York Post:

Congressional Budget Office sends death blow to ObamaCare — The Affordable Care Act, a k a ObamaCare, became law almost four years ago. It became operational last Oct. 1. Yesterday, Feb. 4, 2014, the ACA may well have been dealt its death blow.

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog

Wall Street Journal:

The Jobless Care Act — Congress's budget office says ObamaCare will increase unemployment. — There are 7.8 million Americans working part-time who want full-time work, including a fry cook whose restaurant cut his hours to avoid Affordable Care Act mandates and confronted President Obama …

Discussion: NewsBusters, Betsy's Page, Washington Post and Washington Free Beacon

Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:

The Best Of The Bad Reporting On Obamacare, The CBO And Jobs — The Congressional Budget Office issued a new report Tuesday on the federal budget deficit, Obamacare and jobs — and Official Washington exploded. — It all centered on one line about how the health care reform law would affect employment.

Discussion: The Fix and Washington Monthly

Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:

Why the new CBO report on Obamacare is good news — An ACA informational kiosk in South L.A. last year. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times) — The Congressional Budget Office is out with its latest report on the Affordable Care Act, and here are a few bottom lines: — The ACA is cheaper than it expected.

Discussion: The Plum Line, Hullabaloo, The Raw Story, Daily Kos, CANNONFIRE and National Review

New York Times:

Freeing Workers From the Insurance Trap — The Congressional Budget Office estimated on Tuesday that the Affordable Care Act will reduce the number of full-time workers by 2.5 million over the next decade. That is mostly a good thing, a liberating result of the law.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Glenn Kessler / The Fact Checker:
No, CBO did not say Obamacare will kill 2 million jobs

Erik Wasson / The Hill:
CBO: O-Care slowing growth, contributing to job losses

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, Patterico's Pontifications, Right Turn, Talking Points Memo, OpenMarket.org, The Gateway Pundit, The PJ Tatler, CBO's Publications, Forbes, Weekly Standard, CNN, Liberal Values, JustOneMinute, The Other McCain and The New Editor

New York Times:
Health Care Law Projected to Cut the Labor Force

Discussion: Washington Wire, Power Line, Talking Points Memo, Commentary Magazine, Hot Air, National Republican …, National Review, Taylor Marsh and Gawker

The White House:
Statement by the Press Secretary on Today's CBO Report and the Affordable Care Act

Discussion: Democracy in America, Power Line and WRAL-TV

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

Discussion: CNBC, Hot Air, PoliticusUSA, Washington Wire, National Republican …, Viking Pundit 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, Conservatives4Palin and The Gateway Pundit

Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:

The Tyranny and Lethargy of the Times Editorial Page — Reporters in ‘semi-open revolt’ against Andrew Rosenthal — IT'S WELL KNOWN AMONG THE SMALL WORLD of people who pay attention to such things that the liberal-leaning reporters at The Wall Street Journal resent the conservative-leaning editorial page of The Wall Street Journal.

Discussion: Mediaite, Capital New York, Roger L. Simon, Power Line, Gawker, TheBlaze.com and Balloon Juice, more at Mediagazer »

Chad Terhune / Los Angeles Times:

Obamacare enrollees hit snags at doctor's offices — Many consumers faced hurdles signing up for Covered California health plans. Now they're having trouble finding in-network doctors. — Maria Berumen uses a device to manage the pain from bone spurs on her spine.

Discussion: americanthinker.com, National Republican … and National Review

Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:

Sandra Fluke forgoes congressional bid to run for state Senate — President Obama and Sandra Fluke wave at a campaign event at the University of Colorado in Aurora. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press / August 8, 2012) — Democratic attorney and activist Sandra Fluke has decided …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Weasel Zippers, National Review and Roll Call

Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:

Justice Antonin Scalia says World War II-style internment camps could happen again — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL SUPREME COURT ANTONIN SCALIA — Justice Antonin Scalia predicts that the Supreme Court will eventually authorize another a wartime abuse of civil rights such as the internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II.

Discussion: Althouse, The Gateway Pundit and Hit & Run

Bloomberg:
Resist the Siren's Call of ‘Originalism’

Discussion: Washington Post and National Review

Dante Chinni / Washington Wire:

Poll Shows One Welcome Trend for Chris Christie — The most recent Wall Street Journal/NBC poll data show an interesting wrinkle in voters' views on the Chris Christie bridge saga. — While the poll showed a drop in the positive feelings toward New Jersey Gov. Christie overall and a drop …

Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:

Exclusive: Florida Rep Helped Fugitive Embezzlers — Sen. Robert Menendez is under federal investigation for his advocacy on behalf of two Ecuadorian bankers convicted of embezzlement. Turns out he wasn't the only prominent lawmaker accepting donations and doing favors for the brothers.

Discussion: Yahoo! News

Rose Pastore / Popular Science:

How A Simple New Invention Seals A Gunshot Wound In 15 Seconds — An Oregon startup has developed a pocket-size device that uses tiny sponges to stop bleeding fast. — When a soldier is shot on the battlefield, the emergency treatment can seem as brutal as the injury itself.

Discussion: AEIdeas, The Raw Story, The Verge and Mental Floss

James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:

A reporter jumps to conclusions, and hilarity ensues. — The New York Times finally ran a correction today of its much-criticized Chris Christie scoop: … So, other than that the story was accurate? Not quite. Evidence exists tying reporter Kate Zernike to having erred.

Discussion: americanthinker.com, Instapundit, ABC News, Hot Air, Weekly Standard and Talking Points Memo

Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:

CVS to stop selling cigarettes by Oct. 1 — Pharmacy chain CVS said Wednesday it will stop selling tobacco products at its 7,600 locations across the United States, a move that public-health advocates hope will become a watershed and pressure other large drug store franchises to follow suit.

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Business Insider, Hot Air, Gawker and Mashable

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: Talking Points Memo, The Daily Beast, Just Security, New York Times, Mediaite and Guardian, more at Mediagazer »

Paul Schindler / gaycitynews.com:

LGBTQ Leaders, Allies Call on Mayor to Ban Uniformed City Personnel in Discriminatory St. Pat's Parade — Saved under Breaking News, Editor's Letter, Legal, NYC, Politics — More than twenty years ago, the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization sought to march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade on Fifth Avenue and was excluded.

Discussion: NY Daily News, New York Times, Catholic League, WNYC News, Capital New York and Mediaite

Jill Colvin / Politicker:
De Blasio Won't Stop Uniformed Workers from Marching in St. Patrick's Day Parade

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Capital New York

Anna Palmer / Politico:

Chris Christie's pain is Scott Walker's gain — As Chris Christie's star falls, the party is giving a second look to another brash blue-state governor who stared down unions at home: Scott Walker. — Republican strategists say no one is in a better position to get a boost …

Discussion: The Week

Matt Fuller / Roll Call:

Is Boehner's Gavel on the Line? — Labrador said Tuesday that the issue of immigration could cost Boehner his speakership. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) — Updated 8:15 p.m. | Speaker John A. Boehner should lose his gavel if he pursues immigration this year, a prominent tea party Republican …

Discussion: Poynter

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

McConnell: Immigration reform not going to happen in 2014 — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that he does not see any way the Democratic-controlled Senate and GOP-led House will agree on immigration reform legislation this year.