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4:15 PM ET, November 22, 2013

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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The Democrats' naked power grab  —  “Congress is broken,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday before holding a party-line vote that disposed of rules that have guided and protected the chamber since 1789.  —  If Congress wasn't broken before, it certainly is now.
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John Dickerson / Slate:
The Old Senate Was Already Dead  —  Passing filibuster reform just made it official.  —  If West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd were still in the Senate, it would be fascinating to see which side of the recent filibuster debate he would take.  Byrd was a defender of Senate traditions …
Mother Jones:
3 Charts Explain Why Democrats Went Nuclear on the Filibuster  —  No one has completely clean hands when it comes to filibusters in the Senate.  Democrats have used them and Republicans have used them.  But hoo boy, Republicans sure have used them more.  That's why Democrats went nuclear on Thursday.
Discussion: Liberaland
New York Times:
Democracy Returns to the Senate  —  For five years, Senate Republicans have refused to allow confirmation votes on dozens of perfectly qualified candidates nominated by President Obama for government positions.  They tried to nullify entire federal agencies by denying them leaders.
John Fund / National Review:   Reid's Law  —  It may sound like congressional “inside baseball …
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Norm Ornstein: Republicans Forced Reid's Hand On The Nuclear Option
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
‘FLASH PRESIDENT DEAD’: How News Of The JFK Assassination Broke In Real Time  —  To watch the coverage of the Kennedy assassination 50 years later is to see just how raw and unformed so many parts of the news media that we now take for granted were, and to marvel at the ways in which our technology …
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Reuters:
On 50th anniversary of JFK death, Dallas holds first memorial  —  (Reuters) - Dallas will observe the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination with its first official memorial on Friday, as the rest of the nation pauses to remember the event that changed history.
Merriman Smith / UPI:
Eyewitness account of John F. Kennedy assassination
Discussion: The Dish
Adam Clymer / New York Times:
‘Kennedy Has Been Shot’: Memories From Nov. 22, 1963
Discussion: Towleroad News #gay
CNN:
CNN Poll: JFK tops presidential rankings for last 50 years
Lauren McGaughy / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Mary Landrieu approval ratings drop, Bobby Jindal's rise in latest polling data  —  U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu's approval rating dropped and Gov. Bobby Jindal's rose over the last six months, according to polling data released Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013 from Southern Media & Opinion Research.
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Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Bill Cassidy staffer tweets Mary Landrieu-Mussolini picture
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Rep. Cassidy's Campaign Manager Tweets Photo Of ‘MussoLandrieu’
Discussion: FIRST DRAFT
Fox News:
Round 2 of ObamaCare enrollment to be delayed until after 2014 midterms  —  The Obama administration plans to delay the start of next year's ObamaCare enrollment period, a move pitched as a way to give consumers and insurance companies more time to study their options …
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Susan Levine / Politico:
HHS to delay 2015 Obamacare enrollment by a month
Discussion: Hot Air and National Review
Scott Walker / Wall Street Journal:
How to Win the Obama-Walker Voters  —  If conservative principles are the problem, then why are so many Republicans in office who campaigned on them?  —  In the wake of the 2012 elections, Republicans are being warned once again that they need to compromise their principles to win at the ballot box.
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Charles Babington / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Wisconsin's Gov. Walker hopes to split Chris Christie, tea partyers, in GOP presidential hunt
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Expanding Social Security  —  For many years there has been one overwhelming rule for people who wanted to be considered serious inside the Beltway.  It was this: You must declare your willingness to cut Social Security in the name of “entitlement reform.”  It wasn't really about the numbers …
kff.org:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: November 2013  —  The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds the public's views souring on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in November, with about half having an unfavorable view of the law and a third having a favorable view, a gap that was seen only once before …
ThinkProgress:
Levitating Train Between DC And NYC Would Leave The Rest Of America Behind  —  Many Americans have long nursed a pipe dream of one day riding a super-high-speed train just like the engineering marvels that have cropped up in Japan, China, and Europe.  With a newly publicized offer from Japan …
Discussion: Slate and Eschaton
Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
Dual Attacks Take On Voting Restriction Efforts In Arizona, Kansas  —  Well, that didn't take long.  —  Just weeks after Kansas and Arizona made clear their intentions to move ahead with two-tier voting systems, legal efforts are being mounted to fight those plans.
Discussion: ACLU and Feeds
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Martha T. Moore / Associated Press:
ACLU sues Kansas over voter registration requirements
Discussion: Feeds
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
The South's New Lost Cause  —  Before he was immortalized for saving the union, freeing the slaves and giving the best political speech in American history, Abraham Lincoln was just an unpopular new president handed a colossal crisis.  Elected with 39.7 percent of the vote, Lincoln told a big lie in his inaugural address of 1861.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE — MCCONNELL: TEA PARTY ‘BULLIES’ WHO NEED PUNCH IN NOSE  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on a conference call organized by Karl Rove's Crossroads organization for large donors and their advisers on Oct. 30 that the Tea Party movement, in his view, is a …
Brianna Keilar / CNN:
Key part of HeathCare.gov passed test, but Anonymous Shopper shelved anyway  —  Washington (CNN) — When the troubled federal health care website came online, the key “Anonymous Shopper” function was nowhere to be found — even though it passed a key test almost two weeks before HealthCare.gov launched.
 
 
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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
Militia nut openly calls for Obama's assassination on Facebook
Discussion: Daily Kos and Liberaland
Douglas Belkin / Wall Street Journal:
Tuition Crunch Takes Big Toll
Discussion: Via Meadia and Gawker
Jim Brunner / Seattle Times blogs:
State GOP chair Susan Hutchison cites ‘war on women’ in pay-raise spat
Sam Tanenhaus / New York Times:
In Kennedy's Death, a Turning Point for a Nation Already Torn
Dana Davidsen / CNN:
Democrats call Issa's Obamacare road show a ‘destructive’ political act
Discussion: Politico
Joe Gould / militarytimes.com:
Gay Army couple says chaplain barred them from marriage retreat
Michelle Cottle / Politico:
Leaning Out  —  How Michelle Obama became a feminist nightmare.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Hullabaloo
 Earlier Items: 
Rick Perlstein / thenation.com/blogs/171686:
Kennedy Week: JFK's Uncertain Path in Vietnam
USA Today:
Sticker shock hits health exchange shoppers
Discussion: National Review
WILX-TV:
Dangerous Games - “Point 'em Out, Knock 'em Out”
Kellan Howell / Washington Times:
Washington Times sues Homeland over seizure of reporter's notes
Discussion: FishbowlDC and The Daily Caller
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
House panel approves spying bill, targets leaks
Discussion: The Switch and Shakesville