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23 hours ago ago from dablog
It does me. "The courtship period is over. Sen. Olympia Snowe, a key Republican moderate Democrats have been courting for months, has announced she will oppose and filibuster health-care reform. Snowe was the only Republican to vote for the reform in the Finance Committee, but cited the new “artificial and arbitrary deadline of completing the bill before Christmas” as a dealbreaker. “That is shortchanging the process on this monumental and ...
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1 hour, 58 minutes ago ago from Georgia Liberal
Republicans are at it again, trying to use Religious Rhetoric to condemn Democrats. This is nothing new, but it seems like Sen. Coburn is hoping people will pray for Democratic Senator's misfortune. I do not see any other reason a Democrat would miss such an important vote: Sen. Coburn (R): What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can’t make the vote tonight. That’s what they ought to pray. Sen. Durbin (D): I have ...
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1 hour, 44 minutes ago ago from The Sconz
It looks as if the Senate Democrats in Washington are about to do what people who want health care reform have been wishing they would do since Barack Obama's election: Treat the Republican Party like the minority party it is. Democrats have already surrendered so much since 2008; the least they can do is try to push forward the issue that defined their campaign rhetoric and is supposed to be one of the distinguishing points between them and ...
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19 hours ago ago from Politics or Poppycock
Monday, December 21, 2009; 2:00 AM By Dana Milbank Going into Monday morning's crucial Senate vote on health-care legislation, Republican chances for defeating the bill had come down to a last, macabre hope. They needed one Democratic senator to die or at least become incapacitated. At 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon nine hours before the 1 a.m. vote that would effectively clinch the legislation's passage Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) went ...
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10 hours ago ago from No More Mister Nice Blog
Digby! or "A National Party Once More." I want to add something to what Digby had to say this morning about bipartisanship the Health Care Bill. Digby argues, with some interesting examples, that partisanship is important--that is, that each party ought to and should vote its conscience and that its good for us, as a country, to have a choice between two very different philosophies of government because that means that the legislation we ...
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The political world's winners and losers in health-care reform
14 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Politics
With all 60 Senate Democrats (finally) lined up behind the health-care bill, the legislation looks likely to be approved by the world's greatest deliberative body by Christmas Eve. The Fix's gift to you, loyal reader? A look back on the fight that was -- and what a fight it was! -- to see who won and who lost. Winners -- President Obama: Did the White House underestimate the challenge of reforming the health-care system? Absolutely. ...
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20 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Health Care bill faces key Senate test vote WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democrats confidently advanced heath care legislation Sunday toward a make-or-break test vote in a push for Christmas-week passage. Republicans vowed to resist what they appeared unable to stop. In the run-up to the vote, the escalation in rhetoric was remarkable on both sides of an issue that has divided the two political parties for months. "This process is not ...
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