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Obama & Dean Laud Senate Health Reform Compromise, Liberal Democrats Fall in Line

9 hours ago ago from DOCTOR PUNDIT

It is well known by now that the Senate version of the healthcare bill has now become a compromise bill. Gone is the original definition of the so-called public option in favor of a politically acceptable range of alternatives pushed as a mechanism to just get the bill passed. Former Governor and 2004 presidential candidate Howard Dean, MD is on board as supporting the Medicare proposal. He apparently proposed this element as part of a ...

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Obama, Health Care poll numbers cratering

11 hours ago ago from American Conservative

Yesterday it was Gallup, which showed Obama's approval rating at the lowest level of any president at this point in a first term since WWII. The White House promptly likened Gallup to a 6 year-old with crayons (how very adult). Today it is Quinnipiac with another all-time low. First the president's number's. American voters give President Barack Obama a split 46 44 percent job approval, his lowest ever . . .. President Barack ...

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14 hours ago ago from Dissecting Leftism Backup

BLOGROLL I don't suppose anybody has noticed but I am in the midst of editing my blogroll (under "INTERESTING BLOGS" in the side column here). I am deleting links to blogs that no longer are being updated or which have vanished completely. And there are a lot of those. I have had over 300 links to go through, however, so it will take me a while yet to get through them all. Meanwhile, I might as well add some new blogs while I am about it ...

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Obama To Republicans; Stop Trying To Frighten Americans

4 hours ago ago from Big Dogs House

Copyright 2009 Big Dog . Visit the original article at http://www.onebigdog.net/obama-to-republicans-stop-trying-to-frighten-americans/ . Members of both parties met with Barack Obama at the White House and he told the Republicans; Stop trying to frighten the American people. President Barack Obama told House Republican leaders to stop trying to frighten the American people even as he and Democrats said they see a possibility for ...

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Obama praises Senate Democrats’ health care deal (NorthWest Cable News)

6 hours ago ago from Barack Obamas Health Care

A deal negotiated by Senate Democrats to drop the controversial government-run public insurance option for a package of health care alternatives won praise Wednesday from President Barack Obama, but opposition from key interest groups.

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AP Political NewsBrief at 11:05 a.m. EST

11 hours ago ago from Good News Now

TSA places employees on leave over online posting WASHINGTON (AP) An Obama administration official says some Transportation Security Administration employees have been placed on administrative leave after it was discovered that sensitive guidelines about airport passenger screening were posted on the Internet. Assistant Homeland Security secretary David Heyman has told senators a full investigation into the security lapse is under way. ...

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Oslo gears up for Obama visit

12 hours ago ago from NBC

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GOP Leaders to Obama: Your Policies Hinder Business Hiring - Washington Wire - WSJ

9 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal

By Jonathan Weisman When President Barack Obama summoned the bipartisan leadership of Congress to talk jobs, this probably wasn't what he had in mind. In an apparently tense exchange, Republican leaders lectured Obama on his policies, saying uncertainty over energy, health care and financial legislation was freezing business hiring. Obama fired back, according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi : Stop trying to frighten the American people. ...

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Obama Wears Out the Welcome Mat

3 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal

On the very morning Senate Democrats claim to have reached a "broad agreement" on a health care bill that will allow Americans over age 55 to "buy" into Medicare, a new Quinnipiac poll shows just how little support the Senate efforts inspire among the American people. Voters oppose the bill by 52% to 38%, and President Obama's handling of health care gets even more of a thumbs down, with 56% of those surveyed registering disapproval. By ...

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