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12:30 PM ET, November 1, 2013

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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
What Really Happens To People Whose Insurance Is ‘Canceled’ Because Of Obamacare  —  President Obama wasn't entirely right in 2009 when he said that if you like your health care plan, then you can keep it.  Some people are going to have their health insurance plans canceled, and it does have something to do with Obamacare.
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kff.org:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: October 2013  —  The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, conducted October 17-23, finds that the public reported paying more attention this month to the political fights over the government shutdown and raising the debt ceiling than technical problems with the opening …
Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
Obamacare enrollments got off to very slow start, documents show  —  (CBS News) WASHINGTON - For 31 days now, the Obama administration has been telling us that Americans by the millions are visiting the new health insurance website, despite all its problems.
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Book Details Obama Aides' Talks About Replacing Biden on 2012 Ticket  —  President Obama's top aides secretly considered replacing Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. with Hillary Rodham Clinton on the 2012 ticket, undertaking extensive focus-group sessions and polling in late 2011 when Mr. Obama's re-election outlook appeared uncertain.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
A War on the Poor  —  John Kasich, the Republican governor of Ohio, has done some surprising things lately.  First, he did an end run around his state's Legislature — controlled by his own party — to proceed with the federally funded expansion of Medicaid that is an important piece of Obamacare.
Discussion: THEROOT.COM
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Why Bill Kristol left Fox News  —  Bill Kristol, the editor and publisher of The Weekly Standard, ended a decade-long run as Fox News contributor this summer two years after he and Roger Ailes got into a disagreement that had a cooling effect on their relationship, sources with knowledge of the relationship told POLITICO.
Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
The Obamacare sabotage campaign  —  To the undisputed reasons for Obamacare's rocky rollout — a balky website, muddied White House messaging and sudden sticker shock for individuals forced to buy more expensive health insurance — add a less acknowledged cause: calculated sabotage by Republicans at every step.
Discussion: NewsBusters blogs
Ben Geman / The Hill:
Obama takes on climate-fueled storms  —  President Obama on Friday demanded “new strategies” to boost the nation's resilience to powerful storms, drought, heat waves and other dangerous weather linked to climate change.  —  Obama issued a wide-ranging executive order designed to support …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Weasel Zippers
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Justin Gillis / New York Times:
White House Will Focus on Climate Shifts While Trying to Cut Greenhouse Gases
Discussion: Yale Environment 360
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Congress governs self under ‘Obamacare’  —  FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2013, file screenshot, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' main landing web page for HealthCare.gov. Members of Congress are governing themselves under President Barack Obama's signature law …
Discussion: First Read
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
‘Agitated’ Dems vent on ObamaCare woes
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Patricia Millett, Key Obama Nominee, Filibustered By Senate Republicans
Erica Fink / CNNMoney.com:
Sex workers embrace Obamacare  —  A burlesque dancer dressed as a nurse taunts her co-performer with a toy syringe, dangling the medicine seductively in an act that's meant to reflect the cat-and-mouse game of U.S. healthcare.  They shimmy and eventually end up topless.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and NewsBusters
Culture Desk:
Cover Story: Barry Blitt's “Reboot”  —  “When I heard that the troubled Obamacare Web site was built by a Canadian company, of course I felt personally responsible,” says the Montreal-born Barry Blitt, who drew this week's cover, “Reboot.”  “I'll be happy when the glitches are all worked …
Tennessean.com:
Southern secessionist group lists two TN lawmakers as weekend speakers  —  Niceley, Matheny were set to speak at group's meeting  —  Two Tennessee lawmakers were scheduled to speak at a Southern secessionist group's meeting this weekend, and while a representative for one claims he's spent …
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Troubled Start for Health Law Has Democrats Feeling Anxious  —  WASHINGTON — Already under fierce attack from Republicans over the new health care law, President Obama now faces broad and mounting Democratic concerns that the troubled start of the insurance program will cut into the political benefit …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
President Obama, off the record  —  President Barack Obama is often accused of being insular.  He's not a schmoozer.  He doesn't like meeting with lawmakers, and he doesn't particularly care for talking to reporters, either.  —  But get him in an off-the-record setting with a small group …
Tjfang / CBS San Francisco:
Google's Secret Revealed: Barge To Offer High-End Showrooms, Party Deck  —  SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) - Google's mysterious floating barge on San Francisco Bay will feature luxury showrooms and a party deck for the tech giant to market Google Glass and other gadgets to invitation-only clients, multiple sources told KPIX 5.
Chris Frates / CNN:
Senate Democrats supported rule that led to insurance cancellations  —  Washington (CNN) - Senate Democrats voted unanimously three years ago to support the Obamacare rule that is largely responsible for some of the health insurance cancellation letters that are going out.
Politico:
2013: Year of the liberal billionaire  —  Democrats and liberal interest groups spent much of 2012 bemoaning an avalanche of outside spending from billionaires on the right, warning that ideological tycoons like the Koch brothers and casino magnate Sheldon Adelson could threaten the legitimacy of the American electoral system.
Discussion: NewsBusters blogs
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and his supporters emit a fog of equivocation and euphemism.  —  “If you like your plan, you can keep it.”  That assertion, repeated with small variations, was Barack Obama's central pledge when he was campaigning for president and then for the enactment of health-care “reform.”
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Defense Secretary Orders States To Provide Same-Sex Benefits To National Guard Servicemembers  —  After the Supreme Court overturned the Defense of Marriage Act, the Pentagon ordered that the same-sex spouses of servicemembers be entitled to the same benefits as other spouses.
Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Obama's Credibility Is At Risk  —  The troubled health care rollout and disclosures that the NSA spied on allies have damaged the public's view of the president's ability to do his job.  —  President Obama's allies are alternately wincing over, or shaking their heads at …
Discussion: First Read
Niels Lesniewski / The World's Greatest …:
Biden Open to Filibuster Changes After Republicans Block Watt, Millett Nominations (Updated)  —  (Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call File Photo)  —  Updated 2:56 p.m. |  The nomination wars are officially back.  —  Just minutes after the swearing-in of New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker …
emptywheel:
Feinstein's Fake Fix May Expand Use of the Phone Dragnet  —  Dianne Feinstein and 10 other Senate Intelligence Committee members approved a bill yesterday that purports to improve the dragnet but actually does almost nothing besides writing down the rules the FISA Court already imposed on the practice.
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
The American Health Care System Sucks  —  Politicians say a lot of dumb things, but perhaps the dumbest thing they say is that the U.S. has “the finest health care system in the world.”  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said that in 2012, echoing a common Republican talking point in opposition to health care reform.
 
 
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Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
In first month, the vast majority of Obamacare sign-ups are in Medicaid
Guardian:
US surveillance has gone too far, John Kerry admits
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Research shop stocks up on Hillary Clinton aides
Henry J. Aaron / NY Daily News:
The truth about those Obamacare coverage letters
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Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Memo Reveals Only 6 People Signed Up for Obamacare on First Day
Discussion: ABC News
Reuters:
Obamacare marketing push on hold
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GOP Congressman Hands Out Copies Of Book Calling For Obama's Impeachment
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Elizabeth Harrington / Washington Free Beacon:
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ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Three Bush-Appointed Judges Reinstate Texas' Anti-Abortion Law
Discussion: Liberaland and The Raw Story