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11:17 AM, Jan 29, 2010 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

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The New York Times reports: "With Mr. Obama’s health care overhaul stalled on Capitol Hill, Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, said in an interview that Democrats would try to act first on job creation, reducing the deficit and imposing tighter regulation on banks before returning to the health measure, the president’s top priority from last year."

This may be the closest the White House has come to pronouncing Obamacare dead.

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