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2:15 PM ET, November 13, 2013

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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Troubled HealthCare.gov unlikely to work fully by end of November  —  Software problems with the federal online health insurance marketplace, especially in handling high volumes, are proving so stubborn that the system is unlikely to work fully by the end of the month as the White House has promised …
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
It's Good That You Can't Keep Your Insurance Plan  —  Obama was wrong to mislead people but right to scrap dysfunctional insurance products.  —  “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.”  That was the promise Barack Obama made to insured Americans when stumping for his signature health insurance overhaul back in 2009 and 2010.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Obama is boxed in by Bill Clinton  —  President Obama scrambled to find a coherent response Tuesday after former President Clinton jammed the administration by saying it should keep its promise that people could keep their health insurance plans if they liked them.
Discussion: Politico, Althouse and Instapundit
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Two Dems join ‘keep your plan’ bill
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Merkley, Feinstein Back Landrieu's Bill To Unwind Obamacare Market Reforms
Brett Norman / Politico:
Issa attacks Obamacare website
Phillip M. Bailey / WFPL:
Mitch McConnell Wants Kentucky Senate Race to Focus on Obamacare Woes
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Politico
Abby D. Phillip / ABC News:
Exclusive: Obamacare's Mystery Woman Says She Fell Victim to Cyberbullies … The smiling woman who was once the face of the Affordable Care Act's website has come out of the shadows to stand up to the “cyberbullying” she says she suffered after the law's flawed kickoff.
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Jim McElhatton / Washington Times:
WebMD's healthy deal with Obamacare: Kind words for law, millions from feds
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Health care website photo: The face of Obamacare speaks out
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Controversy over Richard Cohen's comments on the de Blasio family  —  Richard Cohen has a knack for making venom-spewing enemies out of people who should be his allies.  —  Like on Tuesday, when The Washington Post columnist wrote about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's chances …
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Alan Taylor / The Atlantic Online:
Richard Cohen in Context
First Read / NBCNews:
Boehner draws another hard line on immigration reform  —  House Speaker John Boehner says he will not allow any House-passed immigration legislation to be blended with the Senate's sweeping reform bill, further quashing the chances of comprehensive immigration reform legislation being signed into law anytime soon.
Discussion: The Plum Line and Mediaite
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ThinkProgress:
Teens Confront Speaker Boehner On Immigration Reform
Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
Boehner: We Have ‘No Intention Of Ever’ Taking Up Senate Immigration Bill
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
Washington Post:
Democrat Mark Herring gets a leg up in Va. attorney general's race in late ballot count  —  State Sen. Mark R. Herring padded his still-narrow lead over state Sen. Mark D. Obenshain on Tuesday night in the race for Virginia attorney general, giving the Democrat an apparent 163-vote advantage …
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Jose DelReal / Politico:
Charles Krauthammer: Death of ‘liberalism’  —  Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer sees “the collapse of American liberalism” in sight, in no small part because of the troubled rollout of the Affordable Care Act.  —  “We have not just Obamacare unraveling, not just the Obama administration unraveling …
Dallas News:
One fired, three suspended after undercover health care video  —  By: myfoxdfw.com Staff - email  —  The Urban League of Greater Dallas fired one person and suspended three others after a video from a conservative activist reportedly showed the workers encouraging health care applicants to lie.
Soopermexican / Twitchy:
Former Obama speechwriter deletes late-night tweets about disastrous Obamacare website [screenshot]  —  Jon Lovett, a former speechwriter for President Obama, seems to have gone all #bqhatevwr mode with some middle-of-the-night tweets about the Obamacare website.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid lacks the votes to go nuclear (VIDEO)  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is short of the 50 votes he would need to advance President Obama's stalled judicial nominees via the “nuclear option,” according to sources who have advocated for filibuster reform.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Republicans Again Reject Obama Pick for Judiciary
Kurtis Lee / Denver Post:
PRO-OBAMACARE ADS TARGETING MILLENNIALS STIR CONTROVERSY IN COLORADO  —  A new round of advertisements unveiled by supporters of Colorado's health insurance exchange has ignited controversy that rippled through social media Tuesday and launched debate over their portrayal of women.
ThinkProgress:
India's Top Police Official: 'If You Can't Prevent Rape, You Enjoy It'  —  India erupted in outrage Tuesday after the nation's top police official casually commented, “'If you can't prevent rape, you enjoy it.”  —  Ranjit Sinha, chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation …
Peggy Noonan's Blog:
ObamaCare Is the Story  —  Republicans should stop taking the boob bait of the press.  The story of the day is ObamaCare and the pain it is causing the Democrats.  That story is not being fully explored.  We are not seeing pieces on Captol Hill Democrats rethinking their four-year-long lockstep backing …
Discussion: Mediaite
Ben White / Politico:
The Jeb Bush boomlet — Blankfein on Christie — Yellen hearing prep  —  THE JEB BUSH BOOMLET — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gets all the love as the current GOP front-runner for 2016 (to the extent there can even be a front runner three years out.)  But there is growing chatter in elite …
 
 
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Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
ObamaCare Questions Nobody Asked
Discussion: VodkaPundit
Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux / American Prospect:
The Supply-Side Economics of Abortion
Discussion: Feministing
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Premiere spikes liberal radio show
Scot Lehigh / The Boston Globe:
Romney's prescription for the GOP
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
What About US?  —  It goes without saying that the only near-term deal …
Discussion: Mondoweiss
 Earlier Items: 
Al Kamen / In the Loop:
Tina Turner formally ‘relinquishes’ U.S. citizenship
Sarah Desprat / Twitchy:
Do you got ‘Ho-surance’? ‘Brosurance’ creators branch out, set their sights on lady parts [pics]
James Carville / TheHill:
Not so fast, my friend  —  In my column two weeks ago …
Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
Sarah Palin ‘Surprised’ By Pope Francis' ‘Liberal’ Sounding Statements
Discussion: Liberaland
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is considering replacing CEO Bob Bakish with an “Office of the CEO” made up of division heads on an interim basis

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Sources: Amazon Prime Video has a framework deal for NBA broadcast rights for at least a decade, starting in 2025-26; ESPN/ABC is expected to keep the finals

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Memo: CNN's Poppy Harlow is leaving the network; she joined in 2008 and most recently co-hosted CNN This Morning, which was effectively canceled earlier in 2024
 
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