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8 hours ago ago from Liberal Vision
Barack Obama's first year in office has not been a resounding success. In The World Today , Chatham House's superb monthly, Nicholas Bouchet rounds up Obama's First Year Blues . Let's start at the opinion polls. Obama ranks midway between his two democratic predecessors. At similar stages of their presidencies Carter was at 56% and Clinton was at 49%. Obama comes in at 52%. More importantly is the fall in his approval rating between ...
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7 hours ago ago from Barack Obamas Health Care
"President Barack Obama on Monday praised the Senate for clearing a key hurdle after midnight Sunday on the health care reform package, calling it a victory against 'special interests' that will reduce costs and the deficit," Roll Call reports. "'By standing up to the special interests - who've prevented reform for decades and who are furiously lobbying against it now - the Senate has moved us ...
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7 hours ago ago from Democracia's Blog
Last Call on Reforming Health Reform Bill I recently sat in on the daily meeting of a palliative care team at a hospital — doctors, nurses, a social worker, a chaplain and others, all working with seriously ill patients in extreme pain. One of the patients was a middle-aged man whose advanced cancer had destroyed a major bone in his leg. His wife had already done heroic work caring for him, and more was going to be needed in the months ...
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7 hours ago ago from Mathrubhumi - English News
Home | Kerala | India | World | Business | Sports | Entertainment | Science & Technology | Health | Indians Abroad | Features | Articles | Editor's Pick | Column | Photogallery | IST: Home World Posted on: 23 Dec 2009 Obama postpones Christmas break for health reform vigil Washington: US President Barack Obama has vowed to remain in ...
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21 hours ago ago from TriBlog
This time around, “health care reform” has meant several things: These primary goals have at times been forgotten during the reform sideshows: death panels, public options, abortion coverage. But the key question remains, Will the new law make progress towards those three goals? First, will it provide more people with health care coverage? Ten years from now, a higher percentage of those living in America will have health care ...
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Mitchell Bard: Political Labels 101: A Lesson for Republicans and Tea Baggers
2 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
I am a big believer in open political debate. While my views may be solidly progressive, I have the utmost respect for anyone interested in making honest arguments as to how to proceed on the issues of the day. I admire Jurgen Habermas's view of democracy requiring a public sphere in which citizens come to the table not just with arguments for their side, but with an open mind to hear the views of opponents. I was reminded of how far the ...
Related contentRobert Scheer: Demonizing Dean Won't Absolve This Health Care Sham
10 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
How dare a progressive suggest a vote against the Senate health bill? When Howard Dean did just that last week he was roundly condemned for casting aspersions on what even many of its more ardent supporters admit is an obviously flawed bill. Instead of focusing their wrath on the few obstructionists in the Senate who blackmailed the majority into dropping a much needed public option in order to avoid a filibuster, they made Dean the villain ...
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2 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Last month, history was made. The House passed a health care bill that gave the American people what they want. In poll after poll , people want to have the choice of a public option, to keep their health care benefits untaxed, and to have affordable health care. The House bill came very close to those goals. The Senate took its first step towards passing a health care bill. While the Senate bill includes significant reforms, it looks ...
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8 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
I'm looking forward to the 2010 elections. We need them. Many dread how badly the election is shaping up. Commentators predict double digit Democratic losses in the House and further retreat from the sixty vote threshold in the Senate. We fear a progressive era strangled in its infancy. But there's a sunny side too. The election can bring the fight out of us. We can turn complaints about how bad things are into complaints about how we got ...
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23 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Politics
SCOTT WILSON: Thank you very much for this to talk about your legislative years. I spoke with some presidential scholars yesterday -- Robert Dallek, David Kennedy and some other people I think you know well -- and got a range of opinions, putting your achievements into context. I heard health care legislation will be the most significance social piece of legislation since social security and Medicare and I heard a sense of incompleteness on ...
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