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3:50 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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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.
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.
Dana Bash / CNN:
White House officials get earful from Democrats on Obamacare  —  [Adds breaking news update 2:10 p.m.]  —  White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Wednesday the Obama administration believes HealthCare.gov will be working smoothly for the vast majority of users by the end of the month as planned.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Two Dems join ‘keep your plan’ bill
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
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Democrats To Introduce Bill To Prevent States From Restricting Abortion  —  Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday will introduced a bill that would prevent states from creating standards for abortion clinics that would make it more difficult for women to obtain an abortion, according to the Huffington Post.
Discussion: Liberaland and Washington Post
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Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
Historic Pro-Choice Bill To Be Introduced In Congress  —  Following an unprecedented three-year wave of state legislative attacks on abortion and family planning services, a group of Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate plan to go on the offensive Wednesday with a historic bill …
Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux / American Prospect:
The Supply-Side Economics of Abortion
Discussion: Feministing
Politico:
Boehner dashes hopes of immigration talks  —  House Republicans will not negotiate over the Senate's immigration reform bill, Speaker John Boehner said, dealing another blow to the chances of an overhaul being signed into law this year.  —  “Frankly, I'll make clear, we have no intention …
Discussion: CNN, The Plum Line and Daily Kos
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Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
Boehner: We Have ‘No Intention Of Ever’ Taking Up Senate Immigration Bill
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
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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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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TIME:
With 106 Vote Attorney General Victory, Virginia Democrats Sweep State
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Washington Post
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.
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 …
Discussion: Guardian, India & World and Shakesville
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
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
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.
Carol Vogel / New York Times:
At $142.4 Million, Triptych Is the Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold at an Auction  —  It took seven superrich bidders to propel a 1969 Francis Bacon triptych to $142.4 million at Christie's on Tuesday night, making it the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction.
Caitlin McDevitt / Politico:
Spotted: Jennifer Garner on the Hill  —  Actress Jennifer Garner was back in Washington on Wednesday.  —  The movie star, who serves as an ambassador for Save the Children, was on hand for the introduction of the “Strong Start for America's Children Act” at the Capitol Visitor Center.
Discussion: CNN
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.
 
 
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RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Carney On “Keep Your Plan” Bills: “Throwing The Baby Out With The Bath Water”
Discussion: National Review and Weasel Zippers
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
ObamaCare Questions Nobody Asked
Discussion: VodkaPundit
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
What About US?  —  It goes without saying that the only near-term deal …
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Al Kamen / In the Loop:
Tina Turner formally ‘relinquishes’ U.S. citizenship
James Carville / TheHill:
Not so fast, my friend  —  In my column two weeks ago …
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Sarah Palin ‘Surprised’ By Pope Francis' ‘Liberal’ Sounding Statements
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