memeorandum: Will ACA Problems Hurt Democrats as Much as the Shutdown Hurt the GOP? (Charlie Cook/NationalJournal.com)

11:10 AM ET, November 5, 2013

Top Items:

Obama: “What We Said Was You Can Keep It If It Hasn't Changed Since The Law Passed” — PRESIDENT OBAMA: Now, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it if it hasn't changed since the law passed.

Discussion: Firedoglake, The Daily Caller, Twitchy, NewsBusters, Scared Monkeys, The Lonely Conservative, Right Wing News, Power Line, Conservatives4Palin and Clayton Cramer's Blog

The Lead with Jake Tapper:

Obamacare ‘War Room’ docs: We're concerned next media story is some consumers getting on website and finding fewer options, higher prices — Washington (CNN) - Officials expressed concern that the next shoe to drop in the evolving story about the Affordable Care Act would be disappointment …

Discussion: The PJ Tatler, Hot Air, Betsy's Page, The Hill, Scared Monkeys, CNN and Weasel Zippers

Tim Cavanaugh / The Daily Caller:
Twitter keeps suspending account critical of Obamacare

Discussion: VodkaPundit and The Jawa Report

Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:

Maybe Pain Will Teach You Millenials Not To Vote For Your Own Serfdom — You Millenials voted for Obama by a margin of 28 percent, which will make it a lot easier for me to accept the benefits you will be paying for. We warned you that liberalism was a scam designed to take the fruits …

Discussion: The Daily Caller and VodkaPundit

Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:

HealthCare.gov ducked final security requirements before launch — (CBS News) WASHINGTON — The health care website went down again Monday for an hour and a half, and no one is sure why. It's being taken offline on purpose every night from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. for repairs.

Discussion: Hot Air, Washington Free Beacon and Doug Ross

Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:

Senators Grapple With Health Care Rollout Woes — A month into the rollout of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and no end to problems, the senior administration official closest to the law's implementation will answer questions Tuesday from a Senate panel that wrote much of it.

Discussion: Politico

Jonathan Capehart / PostPartisan:
Decrying GOP sabotage of HealthCare.gov

Discussion: Wonkblog, Los Angeles Times and Firedoglake

Lachlan Markay / Washington Free Beacon:

Democratic Robo-Calls Claim Cuccinelli Supports Obamacare, Abortion — Virginia Democrats are allegedly misrepresenting the positions held by Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli in an attempt to depress conservative turnout and using peer pressure to boost voter turnout among …

Discussion: VodkaPundit, Weasel Zippers, LifeNews.com and The Lonely Conservative

Michael O'Brien / NBCNews:
It's Election Day: From N.J. to Va., what contests to watch

Discussion: Washington Post, ABC News, Politico, A plain blog about politics, Taegan Goddard's …, First Read and New York Times

Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Two Days until Brief Explosion of Christie Mania

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Politico, No More Mister Nice Blog, Taylor Marsh, The Week, Hot Air, Slate, PostPartisan and The Daily Beast

Politico:
Final sprint in Election 2013

Discussion: CNN, Talking Points Memo, Guardian and Hullabaloo

Peggy Noonan's Blog:

Obama's Catastrophic Victory — A few years ago John McPhee wrote a great book about Bill Bradley called “A Sense of Where You Are.” I keep thinking about that title. You have to know where you are in time and space, you have to know who you are and what you're doing …

Discussion: Samizdata, Forbes, Daily Kos, Hot Air, Connecting.the.Dots, National Review, Ace of Spades HQ and Weasel Zippers

Frank Bruni / New York Times:

Hillary in 2016? Not So Fast — Hillary Clinton of all people knows how political fortunes turn on a dime. But she must be puzzled nonetheless, and spooked, that over a six-month period when she made no big news whatsoever, her popularity took a double-digit tumble.

Discussion: Power Line and Ken Cuccinelli …

Carla Marinucci / blog.sfgate.com:

We Call B.S.! Hillary's big S.F. events closed to press — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hasn't even started her 2016 presidential campaign yet — and she's already shutting out the press. — Clinton's much-anticipated speech at the Moscone Center on Saturday …

Discussion: Erik Wemple and Taegan Goddard's …

Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:

Will ACA Problems Hurt Democrats as Much as the Shutdown Hurt the GOP? — Democratic dreams of long-term Republican fallout may be fading as Obamacare rollout issues grab the spotlight. — People look at a sign informing them that the Statue of Liberty is closed due to the government shutdown …

CNN:

New Jersey mall gunman found dead hours after shooting — (CNN) — A gunman who opened fire at a New Jersey mall Monday night later holed up in a back room and shot himself in the head, authorities say. — No one else was injured in the mall shooting. — Richard Shoop's body was found …

Discussion: Liberaland, CBS New York and Runnin' Scared

nbcnewyork.com:
Police Sweep Garden State Plaza Mall in Search for Gunman

Discussion: NBCNews and Scared Monkeys

Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:

Sections Of Rand Paul's Op-Ed On Drug Sentencing Plagiarized From Article Week Earlier — Portions of the Kentucky senator's op-ed in The Washington Times appear to be copied word-for-word from an article published a week earlier. — Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, New York Times, Politico, Conservative Intelligence …, Mediaite, Liberaland, The Raw Story and Washington Free Beacon

Chris Rauber / bizjournals:

Blue Shield forced by state to delay its Obamacare cancellations — California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones will announce Tuesday an agreement with a “major health insurance company” in California to delay by three months cancellation of more than 115,000 individual policies due to Affordable Care Act rules.

Discussion: Politico and ProPublica

Wall Street Journal:

Early Buyers of Health Coverage Are Older Than Expected, Raising Expense Concerns — Insurers say the early buyers of health coverage on the nation's troubled new websites are older than expected so far, raising early concerns about the economics of the insurance marketplaces.

Discussion: The Plum Line and The Hugh Hewitt Show

New York Times:

Toward Ending Workplace Discrimination — An overdue measure to outlaw employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity cleared a procedural hurdle on Monday night in the Senate. The move is one step toward putting into federal law a basic principle most Americans support …

Discussion: Shakesville, Daily Kos and Taking Note

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Bill Advances to Outlaw Discrimination Against Gays

Discussion: The World's Greatest …, The Week, Taegan Goddard's …, Outside the Beltway and Politico

Examiner:

Exclusive: Teacher calls parent a ‘neo-nazi’ after he challenged indoctrination — Josh Barry, the parent of an eighth grader at the East Pennsboro Area School District in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, told the Examiner that an assignment his eldest daughter brought home from school was clear political indoctrination.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller and Weasel Zippers

The Independent:

Revealed: Britain's ‘secret listening post in the heart of Berlin’ — Claims that GCHQ has maintained spying operations even after US pulled out — Concerns were raised tonight that Britain operates a top-secret listening post from its Berlin embassy to eavesdrop on the seat of German power.

Discussion: BBC and The Verge

Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:

Stephens: Does Environmentalism Cause Amnesia? — Climate-change alarmists warn us about coming food shortages. They said the same in 1968. — Warming is becoming a major problem. “A change in our climate,” writes one deservedly famous American naturalist, “is taking place very sensibly.”