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10:40 AM ET, October 24, 2013

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Norm Ornstein / NationalJournal.com:
Buck Stops With Obama on Rocky Rollout of Health Care Plan  —  The HealthCare.gov debacle has been thoroughly dissected so far by America's best health journalists and policy analysts.  To be sure, every major rollout of a new or changed social policy, including Medicare itself, is rough and takes weeks or months to resolve.
Discussion: Washington Wire and First Read
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Washington Post:
Here's how the White House just tweaked Obamacare  —  The Obama administration confirmed to The Washington Post a little bit ago that it is indeed tweaking the way the individual mandate works as to not penalize anyone who purchases coverage during this first open enrollment period.
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Daley: ObamaCare rollout ‘a big embarassment’
Discussion: Politico
Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
Americans will have an extra six weeks to buy health coverage before facing penalty
Discussion: americanthinker.com and Daily Kos
Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
Frustrated Dems lament damage from website bugs
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
White House may ‘align’ Obamacare signup dates
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Two House Dems call for firings over healthcare rollout
Justin Sink / The Hill:   Obama to push House on immigration reform
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama to go on post-shutdown fundraising blitz for Democrats
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Caller
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
ObamaCare website contractors blame Obama administration  —  Principal contractors hired to build the ObamaCare website HealthCare.gov are hitting back at the Obama administration for the site's overwhelming technical problems.  —  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) …
Discussion: The Mahablog and Hot Air
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Contractors Assign Blame, but Admit No Faults of Their Own, in Health Site  —  WASHINGTON — Contractors that built President Obama's health insurance marketplace point fingers at one another and at the government, but each insists that it is not responsible for the problems that infuriated millions …
Discussion: First Read
New York Times:
Republicans, Sensing Weakness in Health Law Rollout, Switch Tactics  —  WASHINGTON — Emboldened by the intense public criticism surrounding the rollout of the online insurance exchange, Republicans in Congress are refocusing their efforts from denying funds for the health care law to investigating it.
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Ted Cruz's Wife Confirms He's Covered Under Her Blue-Chip Health Plan  —  The wife of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who led a vocal effort to defund the Affordable Care Act, confirmed in a New York Times interview published Wednesday that the senator receives health care coverage through her blue-chip employer insurance plan.
Discussion: Liberaland
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Ashley Parker / New York Times:
A Wife Committed to Cruz's Ideals, but a Study in Contrasts to Him  —  WASHINGTON — At first glance, Senator Ted Cruz's wife, Heidi Nelson Cruz, seems to be just the sort of person the Tea Party supporters who celebrate her husband's anti-establishment positions love to hate.
Politico:
GOP reconsiders Obamacare tactics  —  Some Republicans say a unified focus on spending levels could prove to be the strongest ground on which to fight.  Democrats loathe sequester-level spending — their 2014 budget totaled $1.058 trillion.  If all Republicans demand a clean government funding bill …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Why Obamacare Is Like Three Mile Island  —  I've been blogging a lot over the past week or so about the risk of an insurance market “death spiral” — where young people stay away, so the only people buying insurance are old and sick, causing the cost of insurance to rise over time and pushing ever …
EndPlay / WIVB-TV:
Hillary Clinton speaks at UB, is heckled … AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) - Former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke to a large crowd at the University at Buffalo Wednesday night, as part of the university's Distinguished Speaker Series.
Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
Trash-talking the president  —  No matter how many times you've been there, the White House is a pretty awesome place, conferring on every president what “The West Wing” creator Aaron Sorkin once called “the single greatest home-court advantage in the modern world.”
John G. Taft / New York Times:
The Cry of the True Republican  —  I AM a genetic Republican.  —  Five generations of Tafts have served our nation as unwaveringly stalwart Republicans, from Alphonso Taft, who served as attorney general in the late 19th century, through William Howard Taft, who not only was the only person …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
The Decline And Fall Of Christianism
New York Times:
The United States, Falling Behind
Discussion: News Desk and Liberaland
Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
REPORT: SENATE DEMS UP FOR RE-ELECTION IN 2014 TO BACK DELAY OF OBAMACARE ENROLLMENT DEADLINE  —  On Wednesday, CNN's Dana Bash tweeted that all Senate Democrats up for re-election in 2014 will reportedly support a delay of Obamacare's enrollment deadline.  —  Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) …
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David Nather / Reuters:
Obamacare hearings: Oversight or heckling?  —  There's congressional oversight that answers everyone's most urgent questions - and then there's just heckling from the partisan peanut gallery.  —  Over the next few weeks, Republicans are going to have to decide which path they're …
Discussion: CNN and First Read
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Darrell Issa to introduce immigration bill  —  Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is planning to release legislation next week that would provide legal status for six years to undocumented immigrants in the United States, he said in an interview Wednesday.  —  Issa, an influential Republican …
Jeane MacIntosh / New York Post:
Obama wants Marines to wear ‘girly’ hats  —  A change to the Marine Corps' uniform hats could take the hard-nosed Leathernecks from the Halls of Montezuma to the shops of Christopher Street.  —  Thanks to a plan by President Obama to create a “unisex” look for the Corps …
Guardian:
Angela Merkel's call to Obama: are you bugging my mobile phone?  —  Germany sees credible evidence of US monitoring of chancellor as NSA surveillance row intensifies  —  Live coverage of reaction to reports of Merkel surveillance  —  The furore over the scale of American mass surveillance revealed …
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Beth Reinhard / NationalJournal.com:
Inside the Messy but Moneyed Republican Plan to Neutralize the Tea Party
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Case Explores Rights of Fetus Versus Mother
Discussion: Law Blog
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Time Warner Cable Reaches Agreement to Distribute Al Jazeera America
Danielle / Congressman Darrell Issa:
8 Cats Who Called 1-800-ObamaCare but Still Couldn't Get Healthcare
Discussion: Daily Kos, ABC News and Twitchy
Heather Higgins / National Review:
History of a Shutdown
Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
UC Davis pepper-spray officer awarded $38,000
Washington Post:
Secret memos reveal explicit nature of U.S., Pakistan agreement on drones
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Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
Poof goes the middle class
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters:
‘Very, Very Major’ Social Media Site Co-Founder: Obamacare Technology ‘Sucks’
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Morgan Freeman Says WTF to GOP, Dishes on ‘Last Vegas,’ ‘12 Years a Slave,’ and Batfleck