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Nancy Pelosi says she doesn't know who Jonathan Gruber is. She touted his work in 2009. — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that, not only did Jonathan Gruber not play a significant role in drafting Obamacare, but that she doesn't even “know who he is.”

Discussion: Twitchy, Hit & Run, Mediaite, RedState, CBS DC, The Daily Caller, Rush Limbaugh, National Review, Daily Signal, The Lonely Conservative, Bloomberg Politics, American Spectator and Talking Points Memo

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.

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Sarah Kliff / Vox:

The Jon Gruber controversy and what it means for Obamacare, explained — Over the past three days, conservative news outlets have posted multiple videos of Jonathan Gruber, an MIT health economist who worked on Romneycare and Obamacare, crediting the “stupidity” of American voters as one reason that the health law passed.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Washington Monthly, Hot Air, New York Magazine, Bloomberg View, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, Washington Post, Althouse, New Urban Legends, Daily Kos, Betsy's Page, Weekly Standard, RedState, Fox News, Washington Examiner, Twitchy and Bloomberg Politics

JakeTapper / CNN:

Obamacare architect discussed misleading public in 4th newly uncovered video — Washington (CNN) — As Congress voted on the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, in 2010, one of the bill's architects, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, told a college audience that those pushing the legislation pitched …

Discussion: Washington Post, ThinkProgress, National Review and Hot Air

Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Pelosi on Jonathan Gruber: 'I don't know who he is. He didn't help write our bill.'

Discussion: Firedoglake, Power Line and The Daily Caller

Washington Post:
GOP's anti-Obamacare push gains new momentum in wake of Gruber video

Discussion: Hot Air, Daily Kos, Fox News, Talking Points Memo, Fox News Insider, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, BuzzFeed, The Dish, Marginal REVOLUTION, Ed Driscoll, The New Republic, MichelleMalkin.com, Daily Signal and National Journal

Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House disagrees with ‘stupidity’ remarks

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Fox News Insider and BizPac Review

New York Times:

Harry Reid Gets an Earful Before Being Re-Elected to Lead Democrats — WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats voted on Thursday to keep Senator Harry Reid of Nevada as their leader, but his victory came only after a nearly four-hour closed-door meeting in which 28 caucus members expressed their frustration …

Discussion: Hullabaloo

The Huffington Post:

Elizabeth Warren Gets Senate Democratic Leadership Spot — WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) gained a leadership position in the Senate Democratic caucus Thursday, giving the prominent progressive senator a key role in shaping the party's policy priorities.

Discussion: Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, The PJ Tatler, The New Civil Rights Movement, Diane Ravitch's blog and Politico

Manu Raju / Politico:
Claire McCaskill rejects Harry Reid's leadership

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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Hillary Clinton left out by liberal donor club

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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
McCaskill won't back Reid for leader

Discussion: Roll Call, Politico and Hot Air

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

Discussion: Hot Air and Politico

New York Times:

Obama Aides Say Moves Will Avert 5 Million Deportations — WASHINGTON — President Obama will ignore angry protests from Republicans and announce as soon as next week a broad overhaul of the nation's immigration enforcement system that will protect up to five million undocumented immigrants …

Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems warn Obama: Don't back down on immigration

Discussion: Politico and Weekly Standard

Fox News Insider:
Fox News Obtains Drafts of Obama's Immigration Plan; Krauthammer Reacts

Discussion: Washington Post

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.

Discussion: Washington Post, Liberaland and Hot Air

Ted Barrett / CNN:
Reid to Obama: Wait on immigration orders until after CR passes

Discussion: Bloomberg Politics

Lauren French / Politico:
Pelosi calls out media for sexism

Discussion: The Hill

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: Bloomberg Politics, BizPac Review, CNN, Liberaland, Gawker, The Daily Caller, New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo, ABC News and Fox News

Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Arkansas governor to pardon own son

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

Barbara Bowman / Washington Post:

Bill Cosby raped me. Why did it take 30 years for people to believe my story? — Only when a male comedian called Cosby a rapist did the accusation take hold. — In 2004, when Andrea Constand filed a lawsuit against Bill Cosby for sexual assault, her lawyers asked me to testify.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The FriskyThe Frisky, NewsCut, Raw Story and Mediaite

Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:

Is this the political map of the future? — BARACK OBAMA CAMPAIGNS RACE AND DIVERSITY HISPANICS — If you're a political junkie — or at least if you're a conservative political junkie — you've probably seen the map. It's a map of the United States showing the congressional districts won …

Discussion: VodkaPundit

Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:

The Republican Obsession With ‘Restoring’ America — Why so many conservatives have nostalgia for an era that wasn't all that golden — Next January, just in time for a potential presidential bid, Marco Rubio will publish a book. It's called American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone.

Jjesselli / The Smoking Gun:

“Drunk Girl” Video Is Latest Viral Hoax — Purported “social experiment” was staged by its Los Angeles creators — The viral video claiming to show a series of men plotting to take advantage of a drunk Los Angeles woman was staged by the clip's creators, who fed lines to the purported predators …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The FriskyThe Frisky, LA Weekly, Hot Air, The Federalist, Daily Mail, Mediaite and New York Magazine

Ken Ward Jr. / Charleston Gazette:

Longtime Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship indicted — Don Blankenship, the longtime chief executive of Massey Energy, was indicted today on charges that he violated federal mine safety laws at the company's Upper Big Branch Mine prior to an April 2010 explosion that killed 29 miners.

Discussion: ThinkProgress

Michael Lewis / The New Republic:

Extreme Wealth Is Bad for Everyone—Especially the Wealthy — Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust by Darrell M. West (Brookings) — When I was fourteen I met a man with a talent for restoring a sense of fairness to a society with vast and growing inequalities in wealth.

Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:

The Big Question Democrats Need to Ask Themselves Before They Nominate Hillary — By most accounts, Hillary Clinton had a good election night. Or at least her 2016 chances did. The New York Times reported that voters and operatives woke up the next day counting on her to “resurrect the Democratic Party.”

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

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

Discussion: Politico, The Hill, Taylor Marsh, Washington Post and Gallup

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.