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8:45 AM ET, February 6, 2014

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The media's massive revisions on CBO-Obamacare story  —  The Post's Glenn Kessler today published a fact-checking post breaking some news: No, he wrote, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) never, ever reported that Obamacare would somehow or other kill more than 2 million U.S. jobs.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
CBO director: Obamacare will reduce unemployment
Bloomberg:
Will Obamacare Kill Jobs?
Brian Beutler / Salon:
Anatomy of a media disaster: Why the press is botching the latest Obamacare story
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate GOP buoyant about midterms  —  Politics was at the forefront of Republicans senators' minds at their annual retreat on Wednesday.  —  After hearing from a congressional handicapper and conservative observers at the Library of Congress, there's growing optimism among GOP lawmakers …
Discussion: Politico
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Cantor takes mission impossible  —  House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) is taking the lead on crafting the GOP's Obama-Care replacement proposal.  —  The extraordinarily tough task faces many obstacles and is complicated by election-year politics and an unruly GOP conference.
Discussion: Politico
Politico:
John Boehner and Mitch McConnell's role reversal  —  Speaker John Boehner spent weeks carefully trying to revive prospects for immigration legislation this year, believing House Republicans needed to make an honest effort to consider the politically charged issue ahead of the midterm elections.
Politico:
How John Podesta is changing Obama's White House  —  John Podesta doesn't have a standing appointment with President Barack Obama.  He doesn't join chief of staff Denis McDonough for the nightly “wrap” meeting with the president.  He doesn't have a defined portfolio of assignments.
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Key Democratic Group Will Sit Out Midterm Elections  —  Priorities USA Action, the super PAC now backing Hillary Clinton, won't spend to help Democrats in the House and Senate this year, a spokesperson confirms.  —  Mike Theiler / Reuters  —  The Democratic Party's biggest super PAC …
Dylan Howard / RADAR:
Hurley's Ex-Lover Caught On Bombshell Audio Recording Revealing Ex-Prez's White House Sex Romps …
James Carville / The Hill:
Days ahead for Dems not so dark  —  When one has retired from the ranks of American domestic political consulting, as I have, you are not really allowed to just quit.  You become emeritus, of counsel, senior status and God knows what.  Basically your role becomes one of trying …
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New York Times:
Democrats Grab for a Chance to Halt Christie's Rise
Discussion: Democratic Strategist
Wayne Slater / Trail Blazers Blog:
Chris Christie leaves Bridgegate and heads to Texas to help GOP — Rick Perry and Greg Abbott send regrets
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
James Gordon Meek / ABC News:
Olympic Threat: US Warns Airlines About Toothpaste Tube Bomb … The Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning to U.S. and some foreign airlines traveling to Russia for the Olympic Games to be on the lookout for toothpaste containers, which some intelligence indicates …
John Bingham / Telegraph:
Head of Mormon church Thomas Monson summoned by British magistrates' court over Adam and Eve teaching  —  Thomas S Monson, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ordered to appear before British magistrate's court amid claims that the organisation's teaching amounts to ‘fraud’
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Scott Kaufman / The Raw Story:
Legal experts gobsmacked after British judge orders Mormon leader to prove faith's origins
Boston Globe:
Realistic statue of man in his underwear at Wellesley College sparks controversy  —  Tony Matelli's Sleepwalker, is part of an art exhibit at Wellesley College's Davis Museum.  —  By Jaclyn Reiss, Boston.com Staff  —  A realistic-looking statue of a man sleepwalking in his underwear near …
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Romney floats Martinez, others for 2016  —  Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Wednesday expanded his list of possible 2016 GOP presidential candidates — floating a number of dark horses, including New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez (R).  —  Romney named a laundry list …
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Karl Rove: The Numbers That Scare Senate Democrats  —  Voting with Obama 97% of the time is going to end some careers.
Mark Bittman / New York Times:
Just Say No  —  President Obama indicated in his State of the Union address last week that he will exercise his admittedly limited executive powers in this “year of action.”  Though most of the mild proposals he made are welcome, one still wonders why he doesn't say “no” more often.
Discussion: Washington Post
Robert Stacy McCain / American Spectator:
The Worst Idea in the World  —  Five years after the Bolshevik Revolution, Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises predicted that the Soviet project was doomed to fail.  In his classic work Socialism, Mises explained that the attempt to replace the market system with central economic planning could not succeed …
Discussion: The Other McCain and Cafe Hayek
Ed O'Keefe / Post Politics:
Obama not ‘offended’ if vulnerable Dems stay away  —  President Obama huddled with Senate Democrats at a ballpark Wednesday, but the only game they discussed were the 2014 midterm elections.  —  Obama spent about an hour Wednesday afternoon behind closed doors at the Diamond Club …
David Hawkings / Hawkings Here:
Republican Hedges His Bets by Targeting House Seats in 4 States  —  There have been a fair share of congressional carpetbaggers in history, but Allan Levene may be the first to assemble an entire set of matched luggage.  And he's using it to run this year for no fewer than four open House seats in four different states.
Dan Merica / CNN:
Paul says GOP infighting is a good thing  —  Washington (CNN) - Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky told a crowd of social conservatives Wednesday that fighting within the GOP is for the best.  —  Although Paul pointed out that the debate should not be “impolite” or “rude,” …
Mother Jones:
The Koch Brothers Left a Confidential Document at Their Last Donor Conference—Read It Here  —  A list of one-on-one meetings between VIP donors and the Kochs and their operatives offers a revealing look into their mighty political machine.  —  Charles Koch: Bo Rader/ZUMA; David Koch: Sonia Moskowitz/ZUMA
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Even Pat Robertson Thinks Young Earth Creationism Is A ‘Joke’  —  Back in 2012, televangelist Pat Robertson provoked the ire of Young Earth Creationists when he rejected their claim that the earth is approximately 6,000 years old.  Today on the 700 Club, Robertson responded to the debate between Bill Nye …
 
 
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Louise Brown / Toronto Star:
U of T student loses bid to avoid class with women because he's shy
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Raw Story
Lindsey Rupp / Bloomberg:
CVS to Stop Selling Cigarettes, Tobacco Products by October
Discussion: The Agonist
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Obamacare's Attack on the Work Ethic
Josh Eidelson / Salon:
Breaking: Union rule despised by right-wingers now roaring back to life
Discussion: Daily Kos
Colleen Jenkins / Reuters:
‘American Idol’ singer Clay Aiken to run for Congress in North Carolina
Discussion: Liberaland
 Earlier Items: 
Ryan Holeywell / Fuel Fix:
Former Obama official: Fracking has never been an environmental problem
Discussion: Mediaite, ABC News and The Daily Caller
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post's Brad Plumer, Sarah Kliff Joining Ezra Klein's Vox Venture
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Republicans Wanted To Free Workers From Bad Jobs Until Obamacare Did It
Discussion: National Review
Dvogel / Sunlight Foundation Blog:
How 60,000 bills tried to become law - in one graph
Discussion: Bangor Daily News
Robert Costa / Post Politics:
Boehner urges allies to consider linking military benefits to debt limit
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
Don't Go It Alone, Obama  —  The president's new unilateral approach is bad politics
Discussion: The Dish