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3:40 PM ET, November 25, 2013

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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Dems worry leaders in denial on Obamacare  —  Democratic leaders claim the bungled launch of Obamacare is just the latest news sensation — a media-stirred tempest that looks in the heat of the moment like it could upend the midterm election, but ends up fizzling well before voters head to the polls.
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Filibuster's end imperils Sebelius  —  Kathleen Sebelius may become the biggest loser in the Senate's approval of filibuster reform.  —  The Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary has kept her job despite the botched rollout of ObamaCare's insurance exchanges, but it will now be easier for Obama to replace her.
The Fix:
Republicans embrace Wag-the-Dog-ism
Discussion: CBS DC and Washington Post
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
For flailing Obama, it's fixing healthcare, stupid
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Gershom Gorenberg / American Prospect:
Bibi's Agreement Anxiety Disorder  —  To explain Benjamin Netanyahu's frenzied reaction to the Geneva agreement on Iran's nuclear program, let me begin with the stack of brown cardboard boxes under my wife's desk.  —  Each of the five cartons contains a gas mask and related paraphernalia …
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Wall Street Journal:
Tehran can continue to enrich uranium at 10,000 working centrifuges.
Discussion: The Hugh Hewitt Show
Brian Beutler / Salon:
Right-wing extremists face new moral conundrum  —  When Healthcare.gov actually starts working, GOP will have to choose between politics or their constituents' health  —  The confluence of two pieces of news last week will place Republicans at a moral crossroads — either by this weekend …
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Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Top U.S. hospital laying off staff due to Obamacare  —  The Cleveland Clinic, which is ranked among the top four U.S. hospitals, is making layoffs and cutting its budget more than $100 million as a direct result of the Affordable Care Act, the Daily Caller has learned.
Discussion: BizPac Review
Franklin Foer / The New Republic:
Obamacare's Threat to Liberalism  —  There's a term of art that the Obama White House uses to describe its neurotic supporters who instantly race to the worst-case scenario: They are known as “bed-wetters.”  Two months into the dysfunctional life of healthcare.gov, however, that seems a perfectly appropriate physiological reaction.
CNN:
President's marks as manager take hit in new CNN/ORC poll  —  Washington (CNN) - Only four out of 10 Americans believe President Barack Obama can manage the federal government effectively, according to a new national poll.  —  And a CNN/ORC International survey released Monday morning …
Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Four Adults Charged With Helping Cover Up The Steubenville Rape Case  —  CREDIT: AP Photo/Steubenville Herald-Star, Michael D. McElwain  —  On Monday, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced that the grand jury investigating the Steubenville rape case has charged four adults in the community …
Eric W. Dolan / The Raw Story:
Noam Chomsky slaps down 9/11 truther: People spend an hour on the Internet and think they know physics  —  MIT professor Noam Chomsky doesn't know what happened to “Building 7″ of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.  —  But he is convinced that so-called “9/11 Truthers” don't have the answer.
Discussion: Mediaite
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Pressure builds on Boehner  —  If Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) put the Senate's immigration bill to a vote in the House, it wins.  —  The math is pretty simple.  It will take 218 votes to pass it.  All 200 Democrats are on board as well as three Republican co-sponsors.
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Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Top Dems, Republicans blast Obama's nuke deal with Iran
Yahoo:
Welcome aboard, Katie.  Anchors aweigh!  —  Today, I am incredibly excited to announce that Katie Couric is joining Yahoo as our Global Anchor.  Starting in early 2014, Katie will lead a growing team of correspondents at Yahoo News who will cover the world's most interesting stories and newsmakers.
Philip Rucker / Post Politics:
Obama: I'm ‘not a particularly ideological person’  —  MEDINA, Wash. - Opening a three-day campaign swing to raise money for fellow Democrats, President Obama charged here Sunday night that House Republicans are the biggest impediment to the nation's progress.
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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Obama: 'I'm not a particularly ideological person'
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Shakesville
Economics Policies for the 21st Century:
No Grounds for Claim that Obamacare Lowers Healthcare Costs  —  Public support for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has plummeted now that the oft-repeated claim that “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it” is widely understood to be untrue.  Despite previous assurances …
Discussion: National Review
Jeff Weiner / Orlando Sentinel:
George Zimmerman drops public defender, asks for return of knife & phones  —  Video: George Zimmerman arrested after disturbance call  —  911 audio: Shellie Zimmerman says George is threatening everyone  —  George Zimmerman's attorney gives statement  —  George Zimmerman's wife says he threatened her
Discussion: Global Grind and ThinkProgress
Mark Joseph / USA Today:
No, Oprah, America isn't racist: Column  —  President Obama isn't loathed for his skin color.  —  CONNECT  —  Shortly before receiving the medal of freedom from President Obama, Oprah Winfrey gave an interview to the BBC in which she seemed to chalk up much of the opposition to the president to racism …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
California, Here We Come?  —  It goes without saying that the rollout of Obamacare was an epic disaster.  But what kind of disaster was it?  Was it a failure of management, messing up the initial implementation of a fundamentally sound policy?  Or was it a demonstration that the Affordable Care Act is inherently unworkable?
 
 
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Cheney features daughters in new TV ad
Discussion: The Hill
Chicago Tribune:
Employers could drop health care
Discussion: Hot Air
Brittney Martin / Dallas Morning News:
Voter ID woes could soar in higher-turnout elections, officials fear
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
Christie ready to back Cuomo challenger
Rob Crilly / Telegraph:
Afghanistan ‘plans to reintroduce public stoning as punishment for adultery’
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Herring wins Virginia attorney general race, elections board announces
 Earlier Items: 
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Reid Laughs At Claim That Filibuster Reform Will Worsen Gridlock
Discussion: Daily Kos
Financial Times:
US banks warn Fed interest cut could force them to charge depositors
Discussion: Pat Dollard
Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:
Shaken NSA Grapples With an Overhaul
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and AEIdeas
David Jesse / USA Today:
Government books $41.3 billion in student loan profits
Lawrence R. Jacobs / New York Times:
Right vs. Left in the Midwest
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Court Confronts Religious Rights of Corporations
Discussion: Unfogged
 

 
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