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22 hours ago ago from Pat Dollard | Young Americans
Real Clear Politics: Health reform is shuffling toward its endgame, and even though the bill's popularity resembles George Bush's circa 2007, Democrats seem determined to push the bill through. Browse through certain liberal blogs, or listen to Democratic leadership speeches, and you'll read the same justification again and again: However bad passing this bill might be, politically speaking, not passing it would be much, much worse. ...
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33 minutes ago ago from Randy's Right
Dec 20, 7:13 PM (ET) By DAVID ESPO 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 ...
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22 hours ago ago from AAA-Fund Blog
Could the Aloha State's newest member of Congress win with as little as one-third of the vote? Last week, Congressmember Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) announced he was resigning his seat in order to run for Hawai'i Governor setting off seismic waves from Honolulu to Washington DC. Because the state must now hold a special election to fill Abercrombie's 1st Congressional District seat. The price tag: a cool $2 million money the state's ...
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3 hours ago ago from MB Lockhart's Blog
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16 hours ago ago from Rational Resistance
As a lobbyist I'm often in the position of trying to figure out an answer to this question: should we fight, and hold our for what we want, or should we take what we think is the best we can get now, even though it's a lot worse than what we want, and try to get more later? This is the question that activists are addressing on the health care bill. On the one hand we have people like born-again Democrat Howard Dean and many posters at GMD , ...
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3 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
WASHINGTON 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 legislation. This process is corruption," said Sen. Tom ...
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50 minutes ago ago from The New York Times
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10 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
With a lot of fanfare, but very little reason for it, it looks like Obama is going to get his top domestic policy accomplished this year. Health Care for most. And since I can't really put things in sarcastic finger quotes here, I'll just say it like this: "Huzzah." This is a mutt of a bill - a frankenstein mish-mash of ideas that could have been, and should have been, a hell of a lot better than it actually is. Yes, Harry Reid had to ...
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The story about the GOP-branded URL shortening service that we brought you earlier was really just one of several major Internet flubs pulled off by the Republican party this year. The party of John McCain and George Bush is playing catchup with the Democrats when it comes to leveraging the Web to recruit and organize members, and is clearly learning as it goes. From the misuse of its most powerful technological tool, the Voter Vault, by ...
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