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12:30 PM ET, April 1, 2014

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Politico:
Obamacare and jobs: CBO adds fuel to fire  —  The Republicans just got a big gift from the Congressional Budget Office: It's going to be a lot easier for them to call Obamacare a “job killer.”  —  That's because the budget office's new economic report, released Tuesday …
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CNN:
Official: Surge puts Obamacare on track for 7 million  —  Washington (CNN) — After a surge of sign-ups on the last day for open enrollment, Obamacare is on track to hit the White House's original target of 7 million people signing up, a senior administration official said Tuesday.
Politico:
Obamacare enrollment period ends with massive surge  —  The first open enrollment season of Obamacare ended at midnight Monday, a day that saw millions of Americans click onto Obamacare sign-up portals, dial into call centers and stand in long lines at assistance sites nationwide.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Associated Press:
BREAKING: Obamacare Sign-Ups on Track to Hit 7 Million on Final Day
Brian Beutler / Salon:
GOP's self-defeating myopia: Why its Obamacare mania is now a gift to Democrats
Discussion: The New Republic, The Plum Line and CNN
Fox News:
ObamaCare sign-ups reportedly on track to hit 7 million - but will they pay?
Discussion: Fox News Insider and Althouse
USA Today:
Glitches in race to meet health insurance deadline
Discussion: Firedoglake and American Spectator
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Health Website Failures Impede Signup Surge as Deadline Nears
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Deadline Dash: Health Care Sign-Ups Amid Glitches
Discussion: Liberaland and ACASignups.net
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
CIA misled on interrogation program, Senate report says  —  A report by the Senate Intelligence Committee concludes that the CIA misled the government and the public about aspects of its brutal interrogation program for years — concealing details about the severity of its methods …
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Intel probe: CIA misled on interrogation program
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Jersey GOPer Failed To File For Senate Race Because He Was Stuck In Traffic  —  A would-be Republican Senate candidate won't be challenging Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) because of traffic problems.  —  The candidate, ex-FBI agent Rob Turkavage, was unable to file for the Republican primary …
Discussion: Liberaland
Peter Schorsch / SaintPetersBlog:
The bizarre double life of conservative congressional hopeful Jake Rush  —  Running for the U.S. Congress can be the role of a lifetime for a budding politician, which would seem on the surface to fit right in with “conservative” Republican candidate Jacob A. Rush.
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
How Republicans Rationalize Voter Suppression  —  The GOP's claims of defending “voter integrity,” “fairness,” and “uniformity” are complete nonsense.  —  Since 2011, Republican lawmakers in swing states have pushed hard for new restrictions on voting, from voter identification to new rules on early voting and ballot access.
CBS Sacramento:
Covered California Sends Deaf Callers To Hotline Offering ‘Hot Ladies’  —  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — On the deadline to sign up for health coverage through Covered California, some hearing-impaired residents were sent to a chat line offering ‘hot ladies’ instead of an insurance navigator.
New York Times:
U.S. Is Weighing Release of a Spy for the Israelis  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is discussing the release of an American convicted of spying for Israel more than a quarter of a century ago, American officials said Monday, as it struggles to avert a collapse in peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
The Dissing of the President  —  The world is treating Obama like another failed American leader.  —  I've never liked the word diss—not as a verb, much less as a noun.  But watching the Obama administration get the diss treatment the world over, week-in, week-out, I'm beginning to see its uses.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Conservatives to women: Lean back  —  The conservative minds of the Heritage Foundation have found a way for Republicans to shrink the gender gap: They need to persuade more women to get their MRS degrees.  —  The advocacy group held a gathering of women of the right Monday afternoon to mark …
Guy Taylor / Washington Times:
CIA officer confirmed no protests before misleading Benghazi account given  —  Information on ground rejects protest account  —  Before the Obama administration gave an inaccurate narrative on national television that the Benghazi attacks grew from an anti-American protest …
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Ryan Budget Would Cut Food Stamps and Medicaid Deeply  —  WASHINGTON — Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin on Tuesday will lay out a tough, election-year budget that purports to come into balance by 2024, in large part through steep cuts to Medicaid and food stamps and the full repeal …
Discussion: The Week and Wall Street Journal
Holly Watt / Telegraph:
British sniper in Afghanistan kills six Taliban with one bullet  —  Lance Corporal in the Coldstream Guards hit trigger switch of suicide bomber whose device then exploded, Telegraph learns  —  A British sniper in Afghanistan killed six insurgents with a single bullet after hitting …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Minimum wage deal emerging?  —  Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is struggling to stop Senate Democrats from backing a plan to undercut President Obama's $10.10 minimum wage target.  —  Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) has been reaching out to Democrats to agree on a compromise that is threatening …
Discussion: Hot Air
Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn:
Rand Paul trashed military option for Iran and blamed the U.S. for WWII  —  Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul's push to be a Reaganite on foreign policy is eviscerated by remarks caught on video last year in which he denigrates the potential use of force in Iran and bizarrely claims …
Steve Annear / Boston Magazine:
Saudi Man Investigated After Marathon Bombings Sues Glenn Beck for Defamation, Slander  —  In a court filing, Abdulrahman Alharbi claims the political commentator smeared his name.  —  A Boston man searched by authorities in the days following the Marathon bombings is suing a national media outlet …
John Harwood / New York Times:
Democrats Scramble to Stave Off Midterm Disaster  —  WASHINGTON — If it were only President Obama's flagging poll numbers, the problem for Democrats of how to mobilize core supporters to vote this fall would be bad enough.  Midterm elections for an unpopular president's party are almost always bleak.
David Dayen / The New Republic:
Someone Else's Debt Could Ruin Your Credit Rating  —  Debt collectors are pursuing one in seven Americans—and often screwing up  —  Last month, Amrit Singh, an adjunct professor at Hostos Community College in the South Bronx, received a letter from the New York City Marshal, advising him that he owed $10,000, due within 20 days.
Discussion: susiemadrak.com
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Plenty of ammo for anti-Obamacare ads in New York Times  —  OBAMACARE THE NEW YORK TIMES AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY  —  Some conservative political groups have run into trouble making ads that criticize Obamacare.  The ads were intended to showcase “horror stories” from the Democrats' national …
 
 
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John Schwartz / New York Times:
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