memeorandum: Robert Reich's advice to Hillary Clinton: Ride the populist wave (Alex Seitz-Wald/msnbc.com)

11:10 AM ET, November 13, 2014

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GOP's anti-Obamacare push gains new momentum in wake of Gruber video — The Republican Party's ardent campaign against President Obama's health-care law gained new momentum on Wednesday as lawmakers reacted angrily to assertions by an architect of the policy that it was crafted in a deliberately deceptive way in order to pass Congress.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine, Marginal REVOLUTION, BuzzFeed, National Journal and NPR

Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:

Law in the Raw — Nearly a week has gone by since the Supreme Court's unexpected decision to enlist in the latest effort to destroy the Affordable Care Act, and the shock remains unabated. “This is Bush v. Gore all over again,” one friend said as we struggled to absorb the news last Friday afternoon.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, SCOTUSblog, Los Angeles Times, Patterico's Pontifications, Washington Post, NPR, Prairie Weather, The Incidental Economist and Hullabaloo

The Hill:

Voter stupidity remark gives GOP new ammo on ObamaCare — Comments about voter stupidity made by an ally of the Obama administration are turning into conservatives' newest weapon against the president's healthcare law. — A series of unearthed videos of ObamaCare consultant Jonathan Gruber …

Discussion: Hot Air

Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
The Obamacare Debate Was One of the Most Transparent in Recent Memory

Discussion: Hot Air, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Post and Washington Free Beacon

Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
White House: Gruber's Comments About O-Care Are ‘Simply Not True’

Discussion: MichelleMalkin.com, The PJ Tatler, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, The Moderate Voice, Washington Free Beacon and The Hill

Joanne Kenen / Politico: The selling of Obamacare 2.0 — TV's out; hashtags are in.

Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Hearings floated as Hill Republicans seize on Gruber Obamacare comments

Discussion: ThinkProgress, alicublog, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Incidental Economist, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, The PJ Tatler, No More Mister Nice Blog and National Journal

Neil Irwin / New York Times:
The Jonathan Gruber Controversy and Washington's Dirty Little Secret

Discussion: NBC News, Fox News, The Dish, MichelleMalkin.com, Washington Post, Vox and NewsBusters

Elicia Dover / KATV-TV:

Gov. Mike Beebe says he will pardon his own son — Gov. Mike Beebe says he will pardon his son, Kyle, for a felony crime from his past. — “Mr. Governor, I am asking for a second chance at life. I am asking for a second chance to be the man that I know that I can be,” Kyle Beebe wrote in his pardon application to his father.

Discussion: Liberaland, Talking Points Memo, ABC News and Fox News

Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Arkansas governor to pardon own son

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

Ed Payne / CNN:
Arkansas governor to pardon son on drug charges

Discussion: Gawker and New York Magazine

Lucas Tomlinson / Fox News:

Source: Obama to announce 10-point immigration plan via exec action as early as next week — EXCLUSIVE: President Obama is planning to unveil a 10-part plan for overhauling U.S. immigration policy via executive action — including suspending deportations for millions — as early as next Friday …

Discussion: Weekly Standard, BizPac Review, RedState, The Daily Caller, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Free Beacon and The Lonely Conservative

Justin Sink / The Hill:

Obama veers left after red wave — President Obama has taken significant steps to the left since his party's devastating losses in the midterm elections. — In a surprise, he announced a major deal on climate change with China during a trip to Beijing Tuesday.

Wall Street Journal:
New GOP Push to Block Immigration Action by Obama

Discussion: New York Magazine

Alex Seitz-Wald / msnbc.com:

Robert Reich's advice to Hillary Clinton: Ride the populist wave — Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich is not running for president, but he thinks any Democrat who is - including his “old friend” Hillary Clinton - should worry about Republicans outflanking them on populism.

Discussion: Politico, Taylor Marsh and Gallup

Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
The Big Question Democrats Need to Ask Themselves Before They Nominate Hillary

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Politico, Shakesville and BillMoyers.com

Kyle Cheney / Politico:
The Rudy Giuliani guide to beating Hillary Clinton

Discussion: Washington Post and ABC News

Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:

House, Senate to vote on Keystone XL pipeline — Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) moved quickly on Wednesday to force the U.S. Senate to pass a long-stalled bill allowing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Senate leaders agreed to hold a vote as early as next Tuesday.

Discussion: Firedoglake, BuzzFeed, American Spectator, Politico and Liberaland

Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:

Mary Landrieu: Dead Woman Walking? — As lawmakers return to Capitol Hill this week in a flurry of lame duck activity, one last Democrat has yet to lose her reelection campaign: Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana. She's not going down without a fight, but Louisiana Democrats remain skeptical she can pull it off.

Discussion: CNN, Daily Kos, The Hill, Outside the Beltway, Politico, NOLA.com topics and Bloomberg Politics

Michael C Bender / Bloomberg Politics:
Democrats Leave a Body on the Campaign Trail

Discussion: Politico, Washington Post, NOLA.com topics, American Spectator, US News and Talking Points Memo

Coral Davenport / New York Times:

In Climate Deal With China, Obama May Set 2016 Theme — WASHINGTON — President Obama's landmark agreement with China to cut greenhouse gas pollution is a bet by the president and Democrats that on the issue of climate change, American voters are far ahead of Washington's warring factions …

Discussion: JustOneMinute and The PJ Tatler

Christopher Flavelle / Bloomberg View:
Obama Outmaneuvers Republicans on Climate Change

Discussion: Washington Monthly, New York Times, The New Republic, The Federalist, Weekly Standard, Daily Kos, Business Insider and Reuters

Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
Best APEC summit ever

Discussion: New York Times, The Daily Caller, DownWithTyranny! and Bloomberg View

Politico:

Harry Reid wants Warren in Senate leadership — Senate Democrats want to enlist a progressive firebrand as a member of their leadership: Elizabeth Warren. — The incoming Senate minority leader, Harry Reid, is engaged in private talks with the Massachusetts freshman to create …

Discussion: US News, Washington Times, Hot Air, PoliticusUSA and Booman Tribune

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats fault leaders for brushing off 2014 midterm losses

Discussion: Political Wire and Politico

Jay Root / The Texas Tribune:

Internal Memos Detail Davis Campaign Dysfunction … Feb. 11 Letter From Prism Communications Jan. 6 Memo About Davis Campaign Disarray — Consultants for Democrat Wendy Davis warned her campaign months ago that the Fort Worth senator was headed for a humiliating defeat in the Texas governor's race unless …

Discussion: Fox News and Talking Points Memo

Zeke J Miller / TIME:

Eric Cantor's Secrets for Negotiating with Joe Biden — “The Guy's Awesome” — Last week's Republican victories may have had the paradoxical effect of increasing the influence of the consummate Congressional Democrat, Joe Biden. GOP leaders looking to show they can get things done …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Booman Tribune, Washington Times, Political Wire and Politico

Katy Steinmetz / TIME:

Which Word Should Be Banned in 2015? — If you hear that word one more time, you will definitely cringe. You may exhale pointedly. And you might even seek out the nearest the pair of chopsticks and thrust them through your own eardrums like straws through plastic lids. What word is this?

Discussion: Liberaland, The FriskyThe Frisky, The Huffington Post, Shot in the Dark, Mashable, Gawker and Shakesville

Numbers / Pew Research Center's Religion …:

Religion in Latin America — Widespread Change in a Historically Catholic Region — Latin America is home to more than 425 million Catholics - nearly 40% of the world's total Catholic population - and the Roman Catholic Church now has a Latin American pope for the first time in its history.

Discussion: Christian Today, New York Times and Crux