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12:55 PM ET, November 14, 2013

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Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
White House to Allow Insurers to Continue Canceled Health Plans  —  Obama to Deliver Statement  —  WASHINGTON—The White House on Thursday will announce a plan for allowing insurance companies to continue offering existing individual insurance policies even if they fall short …
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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
LOCKED IN THE CABINET  —  The worst job in Barack Obama's Washington.  —  Steven Chu is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a brilliant innovator whose research fills several all-but-incomprehensible paragraphs of a Wikipedia entry that spans his achievements in single-molecule physics …
CNN:
First on CNN: Obama to push fix for insurance cancellations  —  Sources close to the insurance industry tell CNN's Gloria Borger that it looks like insurance companies will cooperate with President Barack Obama's proposed solution to the problem of health care plan cancellations due to Obamacare.
USA Today:
Obamacare credibility going up in smoke: Our view  —  New HealthCare.gov data show just how broken it is.  —  CONNECT  —  The health insurance signup numbers the White House released Wednesday afternoon were deeply disappointing, though not particularly surprising.
Discussion: National Review
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Obamacare Schadenfreudarama  —  To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, you'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at the unraveling of Obamacare.  —  First, the obligatory caveats.  It is no laughing matter that millions of Americans' lives have been thrown into anxious chaos as they lose their health insurance …
Brian Beutler / Salon:
GOP's big Obamacare trap: Not as brilliant as they think!  —  GOP has set several, but fortunately it's done them poorly  —  Democrats on Capitol Hill are badly in need of a lodestar.  —  Their hysteria over the state of the Affordable Care Act plays to stereotype, but it's actually somewhat justified in this case.
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
The Democrats Need to Stop Freaking Out About Obamacare and Take Charge  —  Well, here we are again—the Democrats are ‘in disarray,’ flailing on Obamacare.  It's a potent story line, but this time Obama must crack the whip, stop the panicking, and make it work.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
The Hill:
House Dems about to ‘go crazy’  —  House Democrats on Wednesday expressed increasing frustration at the Obama administration's inability to improve the rollout of ObamaCare.  —  Democrats said they're worried about “being dragged into this non-stop cycle” of bad news about the ObamaCare rollout …
Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Fix: Keep current plans  —  President Barack Obama offered a proposal Thursday aimed at making it easier for Americans whose health insurance plans were slated to be cancelled at the end of the year keep the same coverage through 2014.  —  Obama's announcement is an attempt to head off …
Wall Street Journal:
The GOP starts to offer Americans a better alternative.
Discussion: National Review
Erick Erickson / RedState:
It's a Trap!  —  Republicans are walking into a trap and they don't even realize it.
James C. Capretta / Weekly Standard:
The Upton Bill Is No Small Matter
Stuart Rothenberg / Rothenblog:   A Critical Few Weeks for Democrats? It Could Get Worse
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:   Darrell Issa's Obamacare kangaroo court
The Hill:
Vulnerable Dems scramble to keep distance from ObamaCare
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Ring of House Republicans to call for impeachment of Holder  —  Washington (CNN) - A group of 11 House Republicans will introduce a resolution Thursday calling for the impeachment of Eric Holder, saying the Attorney General has lost credibility and trust over a string of issues in recent years.
Discussion: Politico and Outside the Beltway
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John Bresnahan / Politico:   House Republicans to call for Eric Holder impeachment
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Americans' Approval of Healthcare Law Declines  —  Currently 40% approve and 55% disapprove  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' views of the 2010 healthcare law have worsened in recent weeks, with 40% approving and 55% disapproving of it.  For most of the past year, Americans have been divided on the law …
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Voters May Cancel Democratic Coverage in 2014  —  In a Quinnipiac poll, just 30% of independents approve of ObamaCare.  —  A few minutes into last Thursday's interview with NBC's Chuck Todd, President Obama said of the millions whose health insurance was canceled, “I am sorry that they …
Washington Post:
Two Secret Service agents cut from Obama's detail after alleged misconduct  —  A call from the Hay-Adams Hotel this past spring reporting that a Secret Service agent was trying to force his way into a woman's room set in motion an internal investigation that has sent tremors through …
Journalism.org:
News Use across Social Media Platforms  —  How do different social networking websites stack up when it comes to news?  How many people engage with news across multiple social sites?  And what are their news consumption habits on traditional platforms?  As part of an ongoing examination …
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Rand Paul: Chris Christie Won Because ‘He Got A Lot Of Federal Money For His State’  —  An ongoing feud between potential 2016 contenders bubbled to the surface again Wednesday when Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) took a pointed shot at New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's (R) use of federal funds for Hurricane Sandy relief.
Discussion: Liberaland
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Rand Paul / CBS Philly:
Sen. Rand Paul: Christie Reelected Because ‘He Got A Lot Of Federal Money’ Following Sandy
Discussion: Politico and First Read
Marisa Taylor / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Americans' personal data shared with CIA, IRS, others in security probe  —  McClatchy Washington BureauNovember 14, 2013 Updated 48 minutes ago  —  Facebook Twitter Google Plus Reddit E-mail Print  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. agencies collected and shared the personal information of thousands …
Discussion: Firedoglake
Wall Street Journal:
Obama open to health-law change  —  The government released numbers Wednesday showing that far fewer Americans had enrolled in private insurance plans under the new health law than expected and, in a marked shift, the Obama administration signaled it was open to legislation to fix the troubled rollout.
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Woman With Cancer Dropped from Insurance Due to Obamacare  —  WFTV in Florida reports that a woman with cancer has been dropped from her insurance plan due to Obamacare:  —  “A woman in a life and death battle with cancer was dealt another devastating blow,” says the Florida anchor.
 
 
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CNN:
Palin apologizes for not being ‘clearer’ in comments about Pope
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
North Carolina Man Reportedly Fires Gun During Second Amendment Discussion
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Jonathan Strong / National Review:
Boehner: Upton Bill a Step On Path to Obamacare Repeal
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Fox News:
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Quentin Hardy / New York Times:
IBM to Announce More Powerful Watson via the Internet
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Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Why President Obama's sinking job approval numbers matter. A lot.
James Hohmann / Politico:
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Discussion: CNN and Outside the Beltway