memeorandum: Ending ObamaCare, Part One (Wall Street Journal)

10:15 AM ET, May 6, 2017

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France's Macron campaign emails appear to be leaked online — A large trove of emails from the campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was posted online late on Friday, 1-1/2 days before voters go to the polls to choose the country's next president in a run-off against far-right rival Marine Le Pen.

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Mark Scott / New York Times:

U.S. Far-Right Activists Promote Hacking Attack Against Macron — After months of trying to move the political needle in favor of Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election, American far-right activists on Saturday threw their weight behind a hacking attack against her rival …

Discussion: The Independent, Althouse, VentureBeat and The Week

Reuters:
French candidate Macron claims massive hack as emails leaked

Discussion: Politico

James McAuley / Washington Post:
France starts probing ‘massive’ hack of emails and documents reported by Macron campaign

Discussion: Hot Air and Politico

Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Le Pen Is Just A Gargantuan Polling Error Behind Macron

Discussion: Bloomberg, Outside the Beltway and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Aurelien Breeden / New York Times:
Macron Campaign Says It Was Target of ‘Massive’ Hacking Attack

Discussion: The Week and Mother Jones

BBC:
Macron condemns ‘massive’ hacking attack

Discussion: The Verge and The Atlantic

Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine: Trumpcare Destroys Any Notion That American Conservatism Gives a Damn

Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:

Blame it on Trumpcare — Call it Obamacare, Trumpcare or GOPcare, but Republicans now own health care. — The House Republican vote Thursday to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act means the GOP now has to answer for every problem with the health care law: the premium increases due …

Discussion: The Atlantic, Washington Post, ThinkProgress, Washington Free Beacon and MSNBC

CNN:

Republicans defend having no women in health care group — Cassidy: Health bill should pass Kimmel test — Washington (CNN)Just hours after House Republicans managed to pass a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, the Senate is signaling it will write its own proposal …

Discussion: BillMoyers.com, The Atlantic, Mediaite and NBC News

Wall Street Journal:
Ending ObamaCare, Part One

Discussion: Instapundit

Jonathan Martin / New York Times:

G.O.P. House Candidate in Montana Is Caught on Tape Praising Health Bill — WASHINGTON — When Greg Gianforte, the Republican running for an open House seat in Montana, was asked on Thursday whether he would have supported the bill repealing the Affordable Care Act that passed the House that day, he declined to answer.

Discussion: Occupy Democrats and Political Wire

Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Gov. Scott Walker would consider dropping fed pre-existing condition coverage rules for Wisconsin

Discussion: Liberal Values and Talking Points Memo

David Nather / Axios:
Walker considers waiving pre-existing condition rules

Discussion: Joe.My.God.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Hit & Run:
No, the AHCA Doesn't Make Rape a Preexisting Condition

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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
What Democrats' Losses in 2010 Can Tell Us About G.O.P.'s Chances in 2018

Discussion: Hot Air, Washington Monthly, CNN and Washington Post

The Daily Beast:

Trump and Bannon ‘Personally Intervened’ to Save Seb Gorka … When the White House backed off its efforts to dump Sebastian Gorka on another federal agency, the controversial counterterrorism advisor had the president himself to thank, The Daily Beast has learned.

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Elena Schneider / Politico:

Georgia special election smashes all-time spending record — It's official: Georgia's special election will be the most expensive House race in U.S. history. — Candidates and outside groups have aired or reserved more than $29.7 million worth of TV ads in the race to replace HHS Secretary Tom Price …

Ari Berman / The Nation:
Georgia Can't Block New Voters From Registering in the Ossoff-Handel Runoff

Discussion: Daily Kos, New York Magazine, Politicus USA and New York Times

Jeff Stein / Vox:
“I've never seen anything like this”: progressives see huge donation spike after AHCA vote

Discussion: Business Insider, Missoulian, Daily Kos, Washington Post and Politico

Washington Post:

Flynn was warned by Trump transition officials about contacts with Russian ambassador — Former national security adviser Michael Flynn was warned by senior members of then President-elect Donald Trump's transition team about the risks of his contacts with the Russian ambassador weeks …

Discussion: Business Insider, Mediaite, Raw Story, Axios and Political Wire

Stephanie McNeal / BuzzFeed:

This Teen's Dad Told Her She Was Dead To Him For Going To Prom With A Black Friend — Anna Hayes is a high school senior from a small town in southern Arkansas called Lake Village. She told BuzzFeed News that racism is a big issue in her community. … Unfortunately, Anna said that bigotry extends to her own family.

Discussion: Raw Story and PerezHilton

New York Times:

Police Officer Who Fatally Shot 15-Year-Old Texas Boy Is Charged With Murder — BALCH SPRINGS, Tex. — A police officer in a Dallas suburb who fired his rifle into a car full of teenagers leaving a party last Saturday, killing a boy in the front passenger seat, was charged with murder on Friday.

Mark Hensch / The Hill:

FCC to investigate, ‘take appropriate action’ on Colbert's Trump rant — Late night talk show host Stephen Colbert's controversial joke about President Trump drew the attention of the Federal Communications Commission. The agency received “a number” of complaints about Colbert's commentary earlier …

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Elizabeth Preza / Raw Story:

CNN's Hughes demands apology from ‘bully’ Sam Bee for mocking her ‘mazel tov cocktail’ defense of Trump — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — CNN contributor and Donald Trump booster Scottie Nell Hughes thinks comedian Samantha Bee “bullied” her last weekend during the …

Discussion: RADAR

New York Times:

Trump's 2nd Nominee for Army Secretary Withdraws — WASHINGTON — Mark E. Green, President's Trump's second nominee to be secretary of the Army, withdrew from consideration on Friday. In a statement, Mr. Green said his nomination had become a distraction because of “false and misleading attacks against me.”

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Travis J. Tritten / Washington Examiner:
Army secretary nominee Mark Green: Public healthcare stops people from being saved by Christianity

Discussion: Slate, Raw Story, The Week, Joe.My.God. and God and Country

Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:

‘The time has come to treat the Second Amendment as a real constitutional right’ — From today's Fisher v. Kealoha opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit (and Judge Alex Kozinski's separate opinion, though he also joined the panel opinion) — like many judicial opinions …

Discussion: Above the Law

Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:

Kurt Eichenwald: I Want Republicans To Watch Their Families Lose Insurance And Die — MSNBC Guest Reamed Out After Dropping The S-Bomb On Live TV — ICE Seeks To Deport Soccer Coach Accused Of Sexually Assaulting 7-Year Old Girl — 'IT'S RACISM!' Wanda Sykes Knows The Real Reason Republicans Want To Repeal Obamacare

Discussion: Geller Report

JSOnline:

Hacked records show Bradley Foundation taking its conservative Wisconsin model national — By Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel — Long a player on the national stage, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee has been quietly using its vast resources to construct state …

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