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8 hours ago ago from Billy Rubin\'s Blog
Today's Boston Globe reads, " Health Win in Hand ." You can almost feel the exclamation point coming off the page. It follows with the caution, "Hurdles Ahead." Noting that the healthcare bill still faces the challenge of reconciling the two substantively different bills passed by both houses of Congress, not to mention Constitutional challenges and whatever other dirty tricks the Senate Republicans can muster between now and the passage of ...
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14 hours ago ago from Muccings
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19 hours ago ago from Bsoetoro.com
For some time now here , here , and here I have been arguing what at first must have seemed counterintuitive: that a great political realignment may be in the works. Today, in The Washington Post , William M. Daley warns his fellow Democrats that they are in danger of bringing just such a realignment about. After alluding to the announced retirements of four centrist Democrats in the House and to Parker Griffith's switch to the Republican ...
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