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11:15 AM ET, July 2, 2012

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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell: Covering 30 million uninsured is ‘not the issue’  —  Mitch McConnell's appearance today on Fox News Sunday was remarkably revealing — it showed as clearly as you could want that the Supreme Court decision is finally forcing Republicans to declare what, exactly …
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Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
Obamacare Support Rises After Supreme Court Ruling, Poll Finds … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Barack Obama , Supreme Court, Barack Obama 2012 , Congress, Health Care, Health Care Law, Video, Health Care Ruling, Obamacare, Supreme Court Health Care Ruling, Supreme Court Obamacare Ruling, Politics News
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
No, Obamacare Isn't the Biggest Tax Increase in History  —  Republicans have eagerly taken to the airwaves to say that the Supreme Court has proven that Democrats are liars.  After all, Democrats have long insisted that Obamacare's penalty for not buying health insurance isn't a tax …
Austin Frakt / The Incidental Economist:
Obamacare is the biggest tax increase in history ... if you ignore history
Donovan Slack / Politico:
W.H. gets unexpected backup: Romney camp says it's a penalty, not a tax  —  Prominent Dems including White House chief of staff Jack Lew and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have repeatedly argued in recent days that the fee for not buying insurance under the health care law is in fact a penalty and not a tax.
Discussion: CNN and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Dems target vulnerable GOP lawmakers over health law repeal vote  —  The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is launching a new campaign Monday targeting vulnerable GOP lawmakers on healthcare ahead of the House vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Emily Heil / Washington Post:
Obama campaign call affirms money anxiety
Discussion: ABCNEWS, msnbc.com and Hot Air
Amie Parnes / The Hill:   Boehner pushes repeal, wants health law ‘ripped out by its roots’
Wall Street Journal:
A Vast New Taxing Power  —  The Chief Justice's ObamaCare ruling is far from the check on Congress of right-left myth.  —  The commentary on John Roberts's solo walk into the Affordable Care Act wilderness is converging on a common theme: The Chief Justice is a genius.
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Jan Crawford / CBS News:
Roberts switched views to uphold health care law
Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:   Who Leaked?  —  Jan Crawford's remarkable story on the Chief …
Associated Press:
Armando Montano, AP summer intern, dies in Mexico City at age 22  —  Eduardo Verdugo/Associated Press - In this June 4, 2012 photo, Armando Montano, 22, poses for an ID photo at the Associated Press office in Mexico City.  Montano, an aspiring journalist who was working this summer …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Europe's Great Illusion  —  Over the past few months I've read a number of optimistic assessments of the prospects for Europe.  Oddly, however, none of these assessments argue that Europe's German-dictated formula of redemption through suffering has any chance of working.
Lexi Stemple / Fox News:
Gov. Scott: Florida will not implement insurance exchanges or expand Medicare  —  Florida, the state the led the fight against President Obama's health care law, will not comply with the Supreme Court opinion.  —  Gov. Rick Scott tells Fox News that he and his Attorney General, Pam Bondi …
Susan Saulny / New York Times:
Economy Cuts Into Obama's Youth Support  —  Maria Verdugo, a 20-year-old graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, barely remembers the presidential election of 2008 — the one that spawned a youth movement that was singular in its scope and political effectiveness — except for …
J. Bradford DeLong / Brad DeLong:
Eric Rauchway: Megan McArdle Says Something Wrong on the Internet  —  One of the distressing things about the global weblogging community is the way that smart, quirky, and thought-provoking conservatives have lost their smarts, their quirkiness, and their thought-provokingness as they have advanced careerwise.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Associated Press:
Privately devout Romney worships with his family  —  WOLFEBORO, N.H. (AP) — Every year, Mitt Romney and his family spend a week at his estate on the picturesque Lake Winnipesaukee.  They go boating, play games — and attend church, an expression of the faith that's fundamentally shaped the Republican presidential candidate.
Discussion: Politico and Business Insider
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Vice president hopefuls play the name game  —  The vice-presidential selection process is not merely the act of each nominee picking a running mate.  It's also the political equivalent of the Oscars.  —  Just as aspiring movie stars covet being among the nominees for cinema's ultimate prize …
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Half of U.S. Hispanics Identify as Political Independents  —  But more than half identify as or lean Democratic  —  PRINCETON, NJ — A majority of U.S. Hispanics identify as political independents (51%) rather than as Democrats (32%) or Republicans (11%).  However, once their partisan leanings …
Discussion: NBC Latino, CNN and Politico
Reuters:
Mexico's old rulers claim presidential election win  —  (Reuters) - Mexican opposition candidate Enrique Pena Nieto's campaign team claimed victory in the country's presidential election on Sunday after exit polls showed him winning by a comfortable margin.  —  Pena Nieto, 45 …
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Randal C. Archibold / New York Times:
In Mexico, Voting Amid a Sense of Nostalgia
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
 
 
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