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7:20 PM ET, February 5, 2014

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Paul Ryan Fact-Checks Republicans On Obamacare Job ‘Costs’ — At least one Republican is setting the record straight on what the Congressional Budget Office actually said this week about Obamacare and its effect on jobs. — House Budget Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) explained in a Wednesday hearing …

Discussion: Liberal Values, ThinkProgress, The Baffler, Daily Kos, Liberaland, Fox News and Washington Monthly

Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:

CBO director: Obamacare will reduce unemployment — As noted here yesterday, Republicans went mad with glee at the new Congressional Budget Office report on deficits and the Affordable Care Act, with multiple GOP officials claiming it showed the law will kill over two million jobs. That was false.

Discussion: Ross Douthat, JustOneMinute, Liberaland, The New Republic, New York Magazine, Economix, Mediaite, Daily Kos, Paul Krugman, The Dish and Hullabaloo

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: Taylor Marsh, The Plum Line, Outside the Beltway, Scared Monkeys, No More Mister Nice Blog, Power Line, The PJ Tatler and Politico

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: Ed Driscoll, PostPartisan, Liberal Values, Mediaite, Daily Kos, The Mahablog, Shakesville, Weasel Zippers, Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post, JustOneMinute, americanthinker.com, Commentary Magazine, The Plum Line and The Fix, more at Mediagazer »

Bloomberg:
Will Obamacare Kill Jobs?

Discussion: VodkaPundit and The Federalist

Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Republicans Wanted To Free Workers From Bad Jobs Until Obamacare Did It

Discussion: National Review and Business Insider

Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Government will pocket $8B profit from ObamaCare ‘bailout’ program, CBO says

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Washington Monthly and Mother Jones

Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:

Christie's ‘High School’ Attack On Wildstein Has One Big Flaw — An article published Tuesday by The Bergen Record called into question the accuracy of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's (R) attack against the character of former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey executive David Wildstein.

Discussion: NorthJersey.com and Firedoglake

Wayne Slater / Trail Blazers Blog:
Chris Christie leaves Bridgegate and heads to Texas to help GOP — Rick Perry and Greg Abbott send regrets

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Capital New York and Reuters

Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Is Chris Christie Being Treated Unfairly?

Discussion: Washington Monthly and nbcnewyork.com

Steve Strunsky / New Jersey Online:
Port Authority eliminates ‘director’ job created for Wildstein

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Capital New York, Mediaite and Daily Kos

James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
A reporter jumps to conclusions, and hilarity ensues.

Discussion: Instapundit, americanthinker.com and ABC News

Dylan Howard / RADAR:

Hurley's Ex-Lover Caught On Bombshell Audio Recording Revealing Ex-Prez's White House Sex Romps Behind Wife Hillary's Back — As Hillary Clinton prepares to run for President in 2016, RadarOnline.com has uncovered bombshell new information that could torpedo her White House dreams …

Discussion: NY Daily News, National Review, Mediaite, Weasel Zippers, Gawker, CANNONFIRE, The Daily Caller, The Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money and PerezHilton

Alicia Dennis / People.com:

Dylan Farrow's Brother Moses Defends Woody Allen — Dylan Farrow's Feb. 1 open letter to The New York Times detailing sexual molestation she says she suffered at the hands of her father Woody Allen reignited a controversy that has divided their family bitterly for more than 20 years.

Discussion: Shouts & Murmurs, Guardian, The Daily Banter, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Althouse, Sky Dancing, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and PerezHilton, more at Mediagazer »

Jake Sherman / Politico:

House GOP stymied on debt limit — It's almost time to reach for the kitchen sink. — All week, House Republican leaders have been stymied in crafting a debt-limit package that could pass with only Republican support. — Now, Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) and other top Republicans …

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Robert Costa / Post Politics:
Boehner urges allies to consider linking military benefits to debt limit

Discussion: Washington Monthly, American Prospect, CNN, Daily Kos, TIME, Hullabaloo, PostPartisan and The Fix

Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Hoyer backs CBC on judicial nominees

Discussion: ThinkProgress and CNN

Ashley Killough / CNN:

Biden's one reason NOT to run for President — (CNN) - As he considers another run for the White House, Vice President Joe Biden laid out one reason why he wouldn't want to be the nation's next chief executive. — “Everybody wants to know whether or not I'm going to run for president.

Discussion: Politico, Weasel Zippers and The Daily Caller

The Lead with Jake Tapper:
John Kerry a no on 2016: This is my last stop

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Politico, Weasel Zippers and Mediaite

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: Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, Washington Wire, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, The PJ Tatler, Taylor Marsh, TIME, National Review and Roll Call

Boston Globe:

Realistic statue of man in his underwear at Wellesley College sparks controversy — Tony Matelli's Sleepwalker, is part of an art exhibit at Wellesley College's Davis Museum. — By Jaclyn Reiss, Boston.com Staff — A realistic-looking statue of a man sleepwalking in his underwear near …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Mashable, The Daily Caller, The Federalist, Washington Post, Voices and Gawker

Democrat And Chronicle:

Russia won't let Chobani yogurt in Sochi for Olympics — A shipment of New York-made Greek yogurt waiting in a New Jersey airport might just go to waste. — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer has sent a letter to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and International Olympic Committee head Thomas Bach urging …

Discussion: BuzzFeed, CBS New York, Talking Points Memo and The World's Greatest …

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: Right Turn, Hot Air, americanthinker.com, National Republican …, National Review and Shakesville

Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:

Email: IRS's Lerner, Treasury Department secretly drafted new rules to restrict nonprofits — The Obama administration's Treasury Department and former IRS official Lois Lerner conspired to draft new 501(c)(4) regulations to restrict the activity of conservative groups in a way that would …

Discussion: FreedomWorks blogs, The PJ Tatler, American Spectator and TPNN

David Weigel / Slate:

Kansas Senator Wants Indian-American Nominee to Meet His Cool Indian Friends — For reasons I completely understand, the confirmation hearing of surgeon general nominee Vivek Murthy has not gotten a ton of attention. Factor one: The filibuster reform of late last year will let Murthy be confirmed by a simple majority vote.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, ABC News, Gawker, Washington Post, The National Memo, NPR and Federal Eye

Tal Kopan / Politico:

Jesse Ventura hiding from drones — Former wrestler and Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura says he has gone “off the grid” in Mexico to avoid drones knowing where he is. — Ventura spoke with CNBC's “Closing Bell” from an “undisclosed location in Mexico” on Tuesday, prompting the hosts to ask him where he was and why he was there.

Discussion: The Verge, Talking Points Memo and The Huffington Post

Rebecca Smith / Wall Street Journal:

April attack that knocked out California power station raises fear that U.S. power grid is vulnerable to terrorism. — A sniper attack in April that knocked out an electrical substation near San Jose, Calif., has raised fears that the country's power grid is vulnerable to terrorism.

Discussion: Power Line, Jihad Watch, NPR and Washington Free Beacon

Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:

Don't Go It Alone, Obama — The president's new unilateral approach is bad politics — On Tuesday the president trekked to a middle school in suburban Maryland to unveil $750 million worth of corporate grants for wiring schools across the country. In keeping with his general theme …

Discussion: The Dish

Raf Sanchez / Telegraph:

Barack Obama's ‘hard-working American’ is actually a London Overground commuter — New advert by Organising for Action, an Obama campaign group, accidentally features footage from a British train — President Barack Obama's political action group, Organizing for Action …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller and The PJ Tatler

info.cvscaremark.com:

CVS Caremark to Stop Selling Tobacco at all CVS/pharmacy Locations — CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) announced today that it will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products at its more than 7,600 CVS/pharmacy stores across the U.S. by October 1, 2014, making CVS/pharmacy the first national pharmacy chain …