Monday, December 2, 2013

This Morning's Leads

++The Supreme Court rejected Liberty University's challenge to Obamacare's individual mandate.

++SCOTUS also rejected Amazon's challenge to the New York State sales tax.

++George Will says Obama's next challenge will be Medicaid.

++The Post tells us Syria is Obama's Rwanda.

++The Post says that the Obama administration is trying to save the Iran deal, which is endangered not by Iran but the U.S. Senate.

++Brian Beutler in Salon says that all attempts to repeal Obamacare are dead. He argues that once January 1 comes,congresscritters will have to vote to take away health insurance from millions of people. Not the place you want to be politically.

++Bloomberg reports that 100,000 signed up on the website when it wasn't working right.

++Even Ezra Klein repeats the new meme that the website has serious "back end problems" connecting to insurance companies. But he like others expect that will be fixed pronto.

++The Texas GOP has their convention and they noted that the average age for their delegates was 58. Doesn't seem a young type.

++Former Senator Bob Smith, a very conservative Republican, has announced he is challenging Jeanne Shaheen for governor this year.

++It's official. This Congress will be the least productive in American history. It has only passed 80 laws. While Sweeney Todd and others of the corporate media have targeted Barack Obama for their criticism,the Congress only has nine days left to pass a raft of laws. One is the Farm Bill, which the Senate passed last year and the House has repeatedly delayed it. So not only will foodstamps be cut but milk prices could sky-rocket. The Pentagon budget hasn't passed either. While Patty Murray has been optimistic about a small budget deal,that depends on Congress playing the ping-pong it played during the shutdown. We face another shutdown because of time constraints.

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