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1:40 PM ET, November 13, 2014

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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Law in the Raw  —  Nearly a week has gone by since the Supreme Court's unexpected decision to enlist in the latest effort to destroy the Affordable Care Act, and the shock remains unabated.  “This is Bush v. Gore all over again,” one friend said as we struggled to absorb the news last Friday afternoon.
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Washington Post:
GOP's anti-Obamacare push gains new momentum in wake of Gruber video  —  The Republican Party's ardent campaign against President Obama's health-care law gained new momentum on Wednesday as lawmakers reacted angrily to assertions by an architect of the policy that it was crafted in a deliberately deceptive way in order to pass Congress.
The Hill:
Voter stupidity remark gives GOP new ammo on ObamaCare  —  Comments about voter stupidity made by an ally of the Obama administration are turning into conservatives' newest weapon against the president's healthcare law.  —  A series of unearthed videos of ObamaCare consultant Jonathan Gruber …
Discussion: Hot Air
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
White House: Gruber's Comments About O-Care Are ‘Simply Not True’
Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
The Obamacare Debate Was One of the Most Transparent in Recent Memory
Joanne Kenen / Politico:   The selling of Obamacare 2.0  —  TV's out; hashtags are in.
New York Times:
Obama Aides Say Moves Will Avert 5 Million Deportations  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama will ignore angry protests from Republicans and announce as soon as next week a broad overhaul of the nation's immigration enforcement system that will protect up to five million undocumented immigrants …
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Lucas Tomlinson / Fox News:
Source: Obama to announce 10-point immigration plan via exec action as early as next week  —  EXCLUSIVE: President Obama is planning to unveil a 10-part plan for overhauling U.S. immigration policy via executive action — including suspending deportations for millions — as early as next Friday …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama veers left after red wave  —  President Obama has taken significant steps to the left since his party's devastating losses in the midterm elections.  —  In a surprise, he announced a major deal on climate change with China during a trip to Beijing Tuesday.
Discussion: Washington Post and Hot Air
Wall Street Journal:
New GOP Push to Block Immigration Action by Obama
Elicia Dover / KATV-TV:
Gov. Mike Beebe says he will pardon his own son  —  Gov. Mike Beebe says he will pardon his son, Kyle, for a felony crime from his past.  —  “Mr. Governor, I am asking for a second chance at life.  I am asking for a second chance to be the man that I know that I can be,” Kyle Beebe wrote in his pardon application to his father.
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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Arkansas governor to pardon own son
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Ed Payne / CNN:
Arkansas governor to pardon son on drug charges
Discussion: Gawker and New York Magazine
The Huffington Post:
Elizabeth Warren Gets Senate Democratic Leadership Spot  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) gained a leadership position in the Senate Democratic caucus Thursday, giving the prominent progressive senator a key role in shaping the party's policy priorities.
Manu Raju / Politico:
Claire McCaskill rejects Harry Reid's leadership  —  Sen. Claire McCaskill has become the first Democratic senator to publicly announce her opposition to Harry Reid as minority leader.  —  The second-term Missouri Democrat said before leadership elections Thursday that Reid …
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
McCaskill won't back Reid for leader
Discussion: Hot Air
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats fault leaders for brushing off 2014 midterm losses
Discussion: Politico
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
The Big Question Democrats Need to Ask Themselves Before They Nominate Hillary  —  By most accounts, Hillary Clinton had a good election night.  Or at least her 2016 chances did.  The New York Times reported that voters and operatives woke up the next day counting on her to “resurrect the Democratic Party.”
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Alex Seitz-Wald / msnbc.com:
Robert Reich's advice to Hillary Clinton: Ride the populist wave
Discussion: The Hill, Politico, Taylor Marsh and Gallup
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
The Rudy Giuliani guide to beating Hillary Clinton
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Mary Landrieu: Dead Woman Walking?  —  As lawmakers return to Capitol Hill this week in a flurry of lame duck activity, one last Democrat has yet to lose her reelection campaign: Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana.  She's not going down without a fight, but Louisiana Democrats remain skeptical she can pull it off.
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Barbara Bowman / Washington Post:
Bill Cosby raped me.  Why did it take 30 years for people to believe my story?  —  Only when a male comedian called Cosby a rapist did the accusation take hold.  —  In 2004, when Andrea Constand filed a lawsuit against Bill Cosby for sexual assault, her lawyers asked me to testify.
Discussion: Mediaite, NewsCut and Raw Story
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
The Republican Obsession With ‘Restoring’ America  —  Why so many conservatives have nostalgia for an era that wasn't all that golden  —  Next January, just in time for a potential presidential bid, Marco Rubio will publish a book.  It's called American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone.
Jay Root / The Texas Tribune:
Internal Memos Detail Davis Campaign Dysfunction … Feb. 11 Letter From Prism Communications Jan. 6 Memo About Davis Campaign Disarray  —  Consultants for Democrat Wendy Davis warned her campaign months ago that the Fort Worth senator was headed for a humiliating defeat in the Texas governor's race unless …
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
In Climate Deal With China, Obama May Set 2016 Theme  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama's landmark agreement with China to cut greenhouse gas pollution is a bet by the president and Democrats that on the issue of climate change, American voters are far ahead of Washington's warring factions …
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Axelrod Calls Martha Coakley ‘A Demonstrably Bad Candidate’  —  Democratic strategist David Axelrod isn't finished burying Martha Coakley.  —  The Massachusetts Democrat who blew a 2010 Senate special election to Republican Scott Brown and nearly cost President Barack Obama his signature health-care law …
Discussion: OnPolitics and Bloomberg Politics
Michael Lewis / The New Republic:
Extreme Wealth Is Bad for Everyone—Especially the Wealthy  —  Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust by Darrell M. West (Brookings)  —  When I was fourteen I met a man with a talent for restoring a sense of fairness to a society with vast and growing inequalities in wealth.
 
 
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