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10:30 AM ET, November 21, 2013

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Senate Democrats Poised to Block Filibusters of Presidential Picks  —  WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats are on the verge of moving to eliminate the use of the filibuster against most presidential nominees, aides and senior party leaders said Wednesday, a move that would deprive Republicans …
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Senate Could Go Nuclear As Soon As Today: Sources  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate could go nuclear as soon as Thursday morning, according to three Democratic Senate sources close to the decision.  —  Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is prepared to change Senate filibuster rules by invoking the …
William Yeomans / Politico:
Nuke 'Em, Harry: Why Democrats Should Kill the Filibuster  —  Democrats, it's time to bid farewell to the filibuster as we've known it.  Your restraint has gone beyond admirable to foolish.  The institution for which you have shown extraordinary respect over the past four years, as Republicans flouted its best traditions, is no more.
Discussion: CNN and Taylor Marsh
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Senate Democrats threaten to change filibuster rules on a party-line vote
Discussion: Liberaland and The Huffington Post
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:   Voter suppression the new GOP strategy
New York Times:
G.O.P. Maps Out Waves of Attacks Over Health Law  —  WASHINGTON — The memo distributed to House Republicans this week was concise and blunt, listing talking points and marching orders: “Because of Obamacare, I Lost My Insurance.”  “Obamacare Increases Health Care Costs.”
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Nicole L. Hopkins / Wall Street Journal:   Nicole Hopkins: ObamaCare Forced Mom Into Medicaid
George W. Bush / The Fix:
Why re-selling Obamacare won't be easy
Discussion: Washington Post
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:   Report: Healthcare spending growing at slowest pace on record
Jason Zengerle / Politico:
The race that broke the Cheney family  —  What happened when a gay sister came between Liz Cheney and a Senate seat.  —  Liz Cheney just wanted to enjoy her milkshake.  It was a Friday afternoon in early November, and the shadows were growing longer over the flat expanse of eastern Wyoming as a hard week dragged on.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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First Read:
First Thoughts: Democrats poised to deploy the ‘nuclear option’  —  Senate Democrats poised to deploy “nuke option” to get up-or-down votes on Obama's judicial nominees... Debating the residual forces in Afghanistan... Christie takes over the RGA reins... The GOP governors' rebranding efforts …
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Hot Air and CNN
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Florida poll: Charlie Crist leads Rick Scott
Discussion: CNN and Taegan Goddard's …
Nancy Gibbs / TIME:
Obama's Race for the Cure  —  The President's second term may hinge on how fast his health care reform can recover  —  A good President needs a big comfort zone.  He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
Discussion: Business Insider
Washington Post:
Insurers restricting choice of doctors and hospitals to keep costs down  —  As Americans have begun shopping for health plans on the insurance exchanges, they are discovering that insurers are restricting their choice of doctors and hospitals in order to keep costs low, and that many of the plans exclude top-rated hospitals.
Discussion: Hot Air, Cafe Hayek and Betsy's Page
Bloomberg:
Blame Rich, Overeducated Elites as Our Society Frays  —  Complex human societies, including our own, are fragile.  They are held together by an invisible web of mutual trust and social cooperation.  This web can fray easily, resulting in a wave of political instability, internal conflict and, sometimes, outright social collapse.
Discussion: Washington Wire and Althouse
NY Daily News:
Queens Congresswoman Grace Meng violently mugged for her Gucci handbag near Capitol Hill  —  Meng was walking home after having dinner at a restaurant when she was knocked on the head.  She was taken to a hospital where she underwent a CT scan.  —  Rep. Grace Meng was hit on her head …
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WJLA-TV:
Rep. Grace Meng attacked, robbed near Eastern Market
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Arne Duncan tries to turn the page  —  In his first live television interview since making controversial comments about “white suburban moms,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan apologized on Thursday for the “clumsy” remarks as he tried to turn the page.  —  Facing repeated questioning …
Discussion: Althouse
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP on ObamaCare: Let it self-destruct  —  Republican lawmakers who pushed the government shutdown to stop ObamaCare say their new plan is to sit back and watch the law self-destruct.  —  Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and other Tea Party allies of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) say the threat of a shutdown …
Discussion: Hot Air
Project Veritas / James O'Keefe's Project Veritas:
Enroll America Director Conspires to Release Private Data  —  Do you know where your personal data is going?  —  After meeting with several Obamacare Navigators who openly encouraged our undercover reporters to lie about income status, health history and more, it became clear that personal data was also being “cross-pollinated.”
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama administration looks to scrub security clearance list  —  The Obama administration has ordered a government-wide reassessment of how almost 5 million Americans have been granted classified information security clearances and whether each person currently approved to see sensitive national …
Discussion: BluegrassBulletin.com
Mark Silva / Political Capital:
Perry on Presidential Debate Overhaul: 'Hell, Yeah"  —  Photograph by Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images  —  Texas Governor Rick Perry during a press conference on the sidelines of the Republicans' State Party Convention in Anaheim, California, on Oct. 4, 2013.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Scott Walker treads own path on ACA  —  Scott Walker hates Obamacare.  But Scott Walker also needs Obamacare.  —  The Wisconsin Republican governor, a potential 2016 contender for the White House, has drawn national attention to his ambitious health reform effort to cover the poor …
Discussion: First Read and JSOnline
Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
Applicants Find Health Website Is Improving, but Not Fast Enough  —  DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — Tilda Elias had reason to be optimistic when she opened the HealthCare.gov website on Monday, ready to help her first client of the week find health insurance.  Technicians had made fixes to the online insurance exchange over the weekend.
Matt Baker / Tampa Bay Times:
Statement: Police warned accuser about pursuing Jameis Winston matter  —  A Tallahassee detective told an accuser's attorney that Tallahassee is a “big football town” and her client's life could “be made miserable” if she pursued a sexual assault case against Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston …
Colin Lecher / Popular Science:
Vancouver Banned Doorknobs.  Good.  —  Levers are the way of the future.  —  Doorknob Jim Simonson  —  In Vancouver, the humble doorknob is being phased out.  Kind of.  Effective in March, new housing will be required to install levers on doors and faucets, instead of the good-ol' round knobs of our forefathers.
 
 
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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Why Obamacare May Be Obama's Katrina, Iraq
Discussion: Wonkblog
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Feds consider new gun regs
Discussion: Hit & Run
John Vidal / Guardian:
Poor countries walk out of UN climate talks as compensation row rumbles on
Alex Pareene / Salon:
It's “Paul Ryan is a serious wonk” season again!
Discussion: Balloon Juice
ABC News:
Florida Rep. Trey Radel to Take Leave of Absence After Cocaine Charge
Discussion: ABC News, Firedoglake, Reuters and The Hill
Byron Tau / Politico:
Top lobbyist Gerry Cassidy to step down
Discussion: Post Politics
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Ariel Ben Solomon / Reuters:
Khamenei: ‘Israeli regime is doomed to failure, annihilation’
Discussion: Power Line and Israel Matzav
Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
Angry words of '63 Dallas now part of mainstream
Discussion: Politico and National Review
USA Today:
Gillibrand & Cruz: Stop sexual violence in the military
Discussion: Washington Post and PoliticusUSA
Erik Wemple:
Politico's Mike Allen, native advertising pioneer
Jeremy W. Peters / The Caucus:
In an Attack Ad, an Alaskan Voter Is Really an Actress From Maryland
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
ThinkProgress:
Illinois Governor Signs Marriage Equality Into Law
Discussion: Associated Press
Philadelphia News, Local News, Weather …:
Mom of Alleged Teen Shoplifter Accuses Police of Brutality
Discussion: The Raw Story, Techdirt and Hullabaloo
Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
Sex in the Senate  —  Bobby Baker's salacious secret history of Capitol Hill.
 

 
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