NBCNews.com: “Obama rebukes 'irresponsible' Republicans in health care speech.”
USA Today: “Obama denounces 'irresponsible' health care critics.”
The Wall Street Journal: “Obama: GOP Worried Obamacare Will Succeed.”
Msnbc.com: “Obama defends health care law–and delays it.”
Suzanne Gamboa of NBCLatino.com: “Obama: Ignore critics and prepare to shop for health care insurance.”
What was Obama’s Fugitive Slave Act reference? The Concord Monitor: “President Obama took a potshot today at New Hampshire state Rep. Bill O’Brien over his comparison of Obamacare to the 19th century Fugitive Slave Act. At an Aug. 1 rally in Concord, O’Brien, a Mont Vernon Republican and former House speaker who at the time was considering a run for Congress, criticized Obama’s 2010 healthcare reform law. ‘What is Obamacare? It is a law as destructive to personal and individual liberty as the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, that allowed slaveowners to come to New Hampshire and seize African-Americans and use the federal courts to take them back to ... slave states,’ O’Brien said.”
The Detroit News: “The feds are coming to bankrupt Detroit today bearing as much as $300 million in targeted government spending, but a massive federal bailout for another failed Detroit institution is not going to happen. Three cabinet officers, including Attorney General Eric Holder, are expected to confirm that new and already awarded federal dollars for Detroit include grants to bolster public safety and transportation, funding for blight removal and $70 million in Community Development Block Grants over this year and next — much of it matched by local corporate and foundation support.”