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12:30 PM ET, October 30, 2013

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Washington Post:
Obama accused of breaking promise to consumers as health plans cancel policies  —  A new controversy over the president's health-care law is threatening to overshadow the messy launch of its Web site: Notices are going out to hundreds of thousands of Americans informing them that their health insurance polices …
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Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Senate Democrats Struggle to Defend Health Insurance Promises
Michelle Malkin / Townhall.com:
The Thuggery of Obamacare Czarina Kathleen Sebelius
Ian Swanson / The Hill:   White House struggles to defend Obama healthcare claim
CNN:
WH warned about website  —  Washington (CNN) — The Obama administration was given stark warnings just one month before launch that the federal healthcare site was not ready to go live, according to a confidential report obtained by CNN.  —  Read documents
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Associated Press:
GOV'T DOCUMENT: HEALTH SITE POSED SECURITY RISK  —  You are here  —  Home » United States government » Gov't document: Health site posed security risk  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — An internal government memo obtained by The Associated Press shows administration officials were concerned …
Politico:
Hill aides can quietly stay off health exchanges
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Obama's pledge that ‘no one will take away’ your health plan  —  “That means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period.  If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period.
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Wall Street Journal:
Americans are losing their coverage by political design.  —  For all of the Affordable Care Act's technical problems, at least one part is working on schedule.  The law is systematically dismantling the individual insurance market, as its architects intended from the start.
Aparnes / The Hill:
Annoyed Obama demands fix  —  An agitated President Obama has expressed frustration to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius about the faulty ObamaCare enrollment website.  —  A visibly annoyed Obama behind closed doors has made clear to Sebelius that it's her responsibility …
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Matthew Cooper / NationalJournal.com:
Why Obama Won't Fire Sebelius
Amy Argetsinger / Washington Post:
Kathleen Sebelius, welcome to an unwelcome Washington tradition: The deathwatch.
New York Times:
Spying Known at Top Levels, Officials Say  —  WASHINGTON — The nation's top spymaster said on Tuesday that the White House had long been aware in general terms of the National Security Agency's overseas eavesdropping, stoutly defending the agency's intelligence-gathering methods …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Where the Buck Stops, Some See a Bystander
Leslie Bentz / CNN:
EU delegation to meet at White House over NSA spying concerns
Discussion: The Week
Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail  —  October 30, 2013 - Mcauliffe Up By 4 Points In Close Virginia Gov Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Libertarian Has 9 Percent  —  The Virginia governor's race is going down to the wire with Democrat Terry McAuliffe clinging to a slight 45 - 41 percent likely voter lead …
Adam C. Smith / Tampa Bay Times:
Alex Sink is running for C.W. Bill Young's congressional seat, will move to Pinellas  —  ST. PETERSBURG — Alex Sink is running for Congress.  —  Florida's former chief financial officer and Democratic gubernatorial nominee on Tuesday confirmed exclusively to the Tampa Bay Times that she is jumping …
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
27 GOP Senators ‘Disapprove’ Of Their Own Vote To Raise Debt Ceiling  —  Twenty-seven Republican senators voted with Democrats on Oct. 16 to lift the debt ceiling and avert a catastrophic default.  And each one of those 27 senators voted Tuesday to “disapprove” of their own votes.
Sean Whaley / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Nevada group seeks to draw GOP convention to Las Vegas in 2016  —  (File, JOHN GURZINSKI/LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL)  —  CARSON CITY — A newly formed Nevada group announced Tuesday that it will make a formal bid to bring the 2016 Republican National Convention to Las Vegas.
Discussion: TheHill and GovBeat
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Tal Kopan / Reuters:
Las Vegas bids for 2016 Republican National Convention
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and CNN
Caroline Howard / Forbes:
The World's Most Powerful People 2013  —  Who's more powerful: the autocratic leader of a former superpower or the handcuffed commander in chief of the most dominant country in the world?  This year the votes for the World's Most Powerful went with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
David Edwards / The Raw Story:
12-year-old ‘suffragette’ fires back at NC gov. for voter suppression: ‘I am not a prop!’  —  A 12-year-old North Carolina girl fired back at Gov. Pat McCrory on Monday (R-NC) after he called her a “prop” because she had accused him of voter suppression for signing a voter ID law that stripped pre-registration rights for young people.
Discussion: Liberaland and Mock Paper Scissors
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr / The Atlantic Online:
Letters From Camelot's Historian  —  Arthur Schlesinger Jr. remembers what Jackie Kennedy thought of Hillary Clinton, upbraids John Boehner for misquoting Lincoln, and denies JFK's philandering.  —  Over the course of a long career as an historian, public intellectual, speechwriter …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Mhooper / The Hill:
Republican: Many in GOP don't live in political reality  —  A House Republican lawmaker says many of his fellow GOP colleagues in Congress, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), don't live in “political reality.”  —  Rep. Scott Rigell (R-Va.) said that shutting down the government “over a deep matter of principle” didn't add up.
Discussion: First Read
 
 
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