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Bruce Parker / Watchdog.org:
But wait, there's more: Fifth video shows Gruber mocking Vermonters — GIMME FIVE: Video from a 2011 Vermont House committee meeting shows Obamacare guru Jonathan Gruber insulting a Vermont citizen. — A video from Vermont shows Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber mocking a Vermonter …
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Daily Signal, “The Lid”, Hot Air, Mediaite, Fox News, Bloomberg Politics, The Daily Caller and The PJ Tatler
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Newly Insured Through Exchanges Give Coverage Good Marks — Story Highlights — PRINCETON, N.J. — Over seven in 10 Americans who bought new health insurance policies through the government exchanges earlier this year rate the quality of their healthcare and their healthcare coverage as “excellent” or “good.”
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Did Jonathan Gruber earn 'almost $400,000′ from the Obama administration? — MIT economist Jonathan Gruber “was paid almost $400,000 by this administration.” — Republicans are demanding hearings into videos that have emerged in recent days of MIT professor Jonathan Gruber making impolitic remarks …
S.E. Cupp / CNN:
The guy who thinks voters are ‘stupid’ — Editor's note: S.E. Cupp is the author of “Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media's Attack on Christianity,” co-author of “Why You're Wrong About the Right,” a columnist at the New York Daily News and a political commentator for Glenn Beck's The Blaze.
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Midterm Calculus: For Democrats, Turnout Efforts Look Successful (Though Not Elections)
Midterm Calculus: For Democrats, Turnout Efforts Look Successful (Though Not Elections)
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Washington Monthly, The Daily Caller and Bloomberg Politics
Jake Tapper / CNN:
Obamacare architect in 6th video: ‘Mislabeling’ helped us get rid of tax breaks
Obamacare architect in 6th video: ‘Mislabeling’ helped us get rid of tax breaks
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ABC News and Washington Post
Noah Rothman / Hot Air:
Has Gruber-gate scuttled Mitt, 2016?
Has Gruber-gate scuttled Mitt, 2016?
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Wall Street Journal, Ed Driscoll and EconLog
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The Gruber Confession — It's not exactly the Ems Dispatch …
The Gruber Confession — It's not exactly the Ems Dispatch …
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Wall Street Journal, National Review, Fox News, Bloomberg View, New York Times and TIME
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
WaPo fact check: Yes, Gruber got $400,000 for ObamaCare work
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
In U.S., 55% of Uninsured Plan to Get Health Coverage
In U.S., 55% of Uninsured Plan to Get Health Coverage
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Washington Post
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Orrin Hatch: GOP Ready To Give Democratic ‘Blunderheads’ A ‘Taste Of Their Own Medicine’ — WASHINGTON — Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) came out swinging against Democrats Friday, telling a room of conservative lawyers that Republicans were ready to give the other party “a taste of their own medicine.”
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Hullabaloo
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
How Obama Could Skirt SCOTUS And The Lawsuit To Kill O-Care — The specter of the Supreme Court gutting Obamacare and putting health coverage for millions of people at risk is back in a very real way, with the justices taking up the lawsuit that would prohibit tax subsidies from being given …
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Reno Gazette-Journal and Daily Kos
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A SCOTUS ruling against Obamacare: Health care for the poor, but not for the working middle class? — If the Supreme Court kills Obamacare's subsidies to people in the states on the federal exchanges, more than four million people in those states would likely see their premiums rise …
Discussion:
Washington Monthly, No More Mister Nice Blog and GOVERNING
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
The Loneliest President Since Nixon — Facing adversity, Obama has no idea how to respond. — Seven years ago I was talking to a longtime Democratic operative on Capitol Hill about a politician who was in trouble. The pol was likely finished, he said. I was surprised.
Discussion:
Washington Monthly and VodkaPundit
Rick Klein / ABC News:
Secret Emails of Potential Clinton Campaign Managers Revealed … For the past five years, a prominent Democratic operative who is a leading contender to manage a Hillary Clinton presidential campaign has maintained a private email listserv for friends and associates that carries a provocative name: the “Mook Mafia.”
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Fox News, Where Conservative Senior Citizens Get to Look At Half-Naked ‘Girls’ — There's something almost endearing about the fact that in an age when there are literally millions of images and videos of humans without their clothes on available instantaneously to anyone with an internet connection …
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The Atlantic Online and Washington Monthly
Billy House / National Journal:
Dems Deny Duckworth a Proxy Vote in Democratic Leader Elections — The pregnant Illinois congresswoman and wounded war veteran is unable to travel to D.C. — Rep. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, who is expecting a baby in December, is being denied a request to vote by proxy …
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Ranking member contest is early test of Pelosi's power in new Congress
Ranking member contest is early test of Pelosi's power in new Congress
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Booman Tribune, ABC News and Prairie Weather
Elana Schor / Politico:
House passes Keystone bill — all eyes shift to Senate — As expected, the House easily passed a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday — setting the stage for drama next week in the Senate, where supporters are inching close to the filibuster-proof majority needed to send the measure to President Barack Obama's desk.
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Liberaland and Gawker
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Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Duckworth interested in challenging Kirk for Senate seat in 2016 — WASHINGTON — Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., is interested in a 2016 Senate run against Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., but for now is focused on the impending birth of her daughter, who is due any day.
Discussion:
Hot Air and Outside the Beltway
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Dahlia Lithwick / The New Republic:
Yale, Harvard, Yale, Harvard, Yale, Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, Columbia — The thing that scares me most about the Supreme Court — Under Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court has emerged as one of the most ideologically aggressive in decades, and its rightward trajectory …
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Bush Tells Hannity Why He Refuses to Criticize Obama — Sean Hannity dedicated his entire show Thursday night to an extended interview for former President George W. Bush. At one point, Hannity expressed a little frustration over the fact that Bush is so reluctant to offer up any criticisms of President Barack Obama.
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Bloomberg:
Putin Calls Pope ‘Annoying.’ Also, Looks Like the Onion May Be Up for Sale — Everything in this story is actually, honestly true. — Onion Inc., owner of the satirical news site the Onion and the entertainment site the A.V. Club, has hired a financial adviser for a possible sale, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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Mediaite, Mashable and Gawker, more at Mediagazer »
Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Walmart Workers Promise Biggest Black Friday Strike Ever — A Black Friday protest outside of a St. Paul, Minnesota Walmart in 2013 — Walmart employees who are organizing as part of OUR Walmart are promising the biggest strikes ever on Black Friday, saying more employees will participate than the previous two years.
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Daily Kos
The Huffington Post:
HUFFPOLLSTER: Three Theories For Why Polls Underestimated The GOP — Poll and poll averages generally understated Republican margins at the end of campaign 2014. We examine three theories that may explain why. This is HuffPollster for Friday, November 14, 2014.
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RedState