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• Sheriffs Refusing to Enforce Colorado Gun Laws
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• Three Strikes and You’re Out

“If it doesn’t work, then good intentions are not enough.”

— Democratic strategist Al From, quoted by ABC News, on how Obamacare implementation problems threaten to undermine the Democratic Party’s case for government.

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Some great clicks over at Wonk Wire:

• Supreme Court Takes Up Obamacare Again
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• HealthCare.gov is the Case for Single-Payer
• Are We Splintering the U.S. Healthcare System?
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“Leadership is gonna come out of the states, not Washington. Look at the governors.”

— Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R-IA), quoted by the Washington Post, nixing the idea that a Member of Congress should be the GOP nominee in 2016.

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• Obamacare Battle Centers on Fear it Will Take Hold

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“We have a disability right now — it’s called in the Senate ’55 of them and 45 of us.’ I’m not great at math, but 55 is more than 45.”

— Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), in an interview with Peggy Noonan, on the GOP’s inability to repeal Obamacare.

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), “drawn and clearly shaken” by plagiarism charges, “offered a mix of contrition and defiance,” the New York Times reports.

Said Paul: “What we are going to do from here forward, if it will make people leave me the hell alone, is we’re going to do them like college papers. We’re going to try to put out footnotes. We’re going to have them available. If people want to request the footnoted version, we’re going to have it available.”

Paul also “attributed some of the sloppiness to the hectic life of a senator in high demand.”