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19 hours ago ago from Abortion
Take a break from serious politics and enjoy! Don't bother reading the following unless you have watched the ENTIRE video. Match the number of the joke/picture in the video with the number here for explanations. 1. If they're on an island, how do they speak English? Its a joke. 2.Pigs are more civilized than Democrats. 3. Democrats are always saying how they really are good people deep down although they never show it. 4. ...
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12 hours ago ago from Barack Obama | Obama Politics | President Barack Obama
This 2008 democratic presidential nominee race is turning out to be one of the closest races in a long time. Many of the state primaries were decided by a small margin and there were not many blowouts in large states. As it stands now, Hillary Clinton has a slight lead in delegates over Barack Obama with each hovering around 1100 each. The democrats award delegates on a proportional basis to the percentage of votes they get in each state and ...
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7 hours ago ago from blurbat
from Washington Post : So Obama's plan amounts to this: partial coverage of the uninsured; modest improvements (possibly) in their health; sizable budgetary costs worsening a bleak outlook; significant, unpredictable changes in insurance markets; weak spending control. This is a bad bargain. Health benefits are overstated, long-term economic costs understated. The country would be the worse for this legislation's passage. What it's become ...
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21 hours ago ago from hopelessly partisan
Buy Our Book Here! Monday, 21 December 2009 HEALTH CARE: THE BOTTOM LINE Ken Berwitz There is a terrific opinion piece about the health care monstrosi..er, bill, in the "review and outlook" section of today's Wall Street Journal. It's long, but definitely worth the read, so I urge you to click on the link I've provided above and do so. But if you read nothing ...
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14 hours ago ago from AMERICAblog News
Ezra Klein thinks the Senate health care bill reflects Obama's campaign promises. But, he begins his post with this: The public option did not survive the Senate. The individual mandate, which Obama campaigned against, was added after key members of Congress and the administration realized that the plan wouldn't function in its absence. Drug reimportation was defeated, and a vague effort to have government pick up some catastrophic costs was ...
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Health care bill clears Senate hurdle with 60 votes
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WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats won a crucial test vote on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, putting them on track for passage before Christmas of the historic legislation to remake the nation's medical system and cover 30 million uninsured. All 58 Democrats and the Senate's two independents held together early Monday against unanimous Republican opposition, providing the exact 60-40 margin needed to shut down a threatened GOP ...
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8 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Nobody seems happy. Not the democrats who want to get out of Afghanistan; not the Republicans who want to bomb devils and wipe out evil. Not the prophets of non-violence and not the advocates of strength. Obama's autumn strategy is a collage of contradictions. On the one hand, he is for peace; on the other hand he is engaged in the escalation of war. On the one hand he is for the public option in health care and on the other he holds to the ...
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1 day ago ago from The New York Times
COPENHAGEN On any list of tough sales jobs in American politics, tax increases, higher energy prices and foreign aid would rise to the top. Doug Mills/The New York Times President Obama in Copenhagen on Friday. He and Congressional Democrats have seen poll ratings sag. The worldwide negotiations on curbing climate change involve all three while Americans suffer 10 percent unemployment. Yet talks here in Copenhagen ...
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2 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
A forty-vote Republican minority in the United States Senate controls the destiny of all legislation aimed at addressing the nation's most pressing needs after eight miserable years of Republican misrule and malfeasance. Welcome to California America! Here in Sacramento only thirteen Republican state senators control legislation relating to the state's finances. In Washington it's the filibuster; in Sacramento it's the two-thirds rule. In ...
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13 hours ago ago from BBC
Healthcare reform is President Obama's main domestic priority US President Barack Obama has hailed the Senate's healthcare vote as a big victory for the American people . Senators voted in the early hours of Monday to end debate on a compromise bill, putting the legislation on course to face a final vote on Christmas Eve. President Obama has set health reform as a key plank of his first term. The legislation, which aims to cover 31 ...
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