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At around noon on Sunday, the world stopped turning for me. I was listening to the Senate debate on CSPAN on my phone and what I heard made me stop everything and just listen. I’ve watched the video twice since then and listened twice without the visual. I recommend you listen without the visual first, [...]
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I never thought health care reform would be a slam-dunk. My private ideas about what I consider to be a health care reform victory look nothing like what passed the House of Representatives Saturday. In some ways, my expectations were exceeded. In others, I was deeply disappointed. One belief was strongly affirmed: the reform process [...]
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Right on cue, and according to plan, Betsy “Death Panel” McCaughey has spewed onto the pages of the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal with her new set of lies and hysteria about the merged House health care reform bill – HR 3962 – scheduled for a vote late Saturday. For Betsy and her handlers, [...]
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A pretty ironic title for a post on a site called Bipartisan Report, isn’t it? Back in January I joined this site with a strong belief that it is possible to have a conversation around issues and not personalities. I even spent time on the phone with Michael P. Leahy, one of the proponents of [...]
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How partisan operatives plan to kill funding disclosures with the full blessing of the FEC.
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Senator Edward Kennedy has died, one year to the day after he gave a rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention. In that speech, he restated the cause he has fought for consistently throughout his years of public service.
And this is the cause of my life — new hope that we will break the old [...]
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During the election I immersed myself in history as a way of understanding the tactics and divisions that arose during the primaries and the general election. One of the most brilliant was Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland. The lessons I learned from that book and a look-back at the history of Nixon’s rise, spectacular fall, and emergent [...]
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The progressive blogosphere is rumbling with outrage today over the allegation that the White House made a deal with pharma to kill Medicare Part D negotiations in exchange for closure of the “donut hole” on price breaks for medication for seniors.
Tommy Christopher reports the following:
Beneath it all is the fact that the government dealt away [...]
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Twitter can be a great source of information. Or not, depending. As marketers have discovered, it’s wonderful for getting a message out and spread virally, whether it’s true or not. Political operatives have discovered the same thing. In fact, the Twitter API is so robust and friendly that it can become a 24/7 propaganda machine, [...]
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My Grandma’s got a message for John Boehner: Don’t make assumptions about other people’s lives and how they want them to end. The latest asshattery from Boehner immediately sent echoes into my head about how utterly offended my Grandma was to have to fight (and have my Mother fight on her behalf) to die [...]
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William on Conservatives, please don’t fill out your census forms!
Anonymous on Conservatives, please don’t fill out your census forms!
mark on Spreading Fear about the faith of Islam- who’s responsible
@dmooney9 on Cigna executive proves case for public healthcare option
Dan on Conservatives, please don’t fill out your census forms!
Dan on Conservatives, please don’t fill out your census forms!
@dmooney9 on Nihilism 1 American People Nil
JimH on Time to boycott Rush Limbaugh sponsors
Rosann Rommelfaenger on Cigna executive proves case for public healthcare option
Rosann Rommelfaenger on Cigna executive proves case for public healthcare option
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