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Stupak Abortion Language to Be Substituted for Senate Language in Deal to Secure Health Care Votes
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made a deal with Rep. Bart Stupak in order to secure his vote and that of other anti-choice Democrats for the health care bill, which is ...via Dave Palmer's Facebook Feed -
Dennis Kucinich Will Return Money to Donors
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I spoke with Dennis following his speech, and his campaign will return the money to those who have donated in support of his pledge to vote against any health care bill that ...via Peter Daou -
Supreme Court Backs Corporatism
(Blog Post) Now that the Supreme Court has decided that corporations have First Amendment rights, we need to examine our rhetoric–specifically the word “corporatism.” Many liberals ...Posted by Doug Greer -
Writing about Politics is Hard
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by Jane HamsherDave Weigel writes: Rep. Vic Snyder (D-Ark.) announced his retirement today, mixed-but mostly dire-news for Democrats, who were hopeful that he could hold on ...via NewsRack -
Federal Enforcement To Be Used Against You, But Not To Protect You From The Insurance Companies
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There is no better proof that the Senate bill is a massive giveaway to the health care industry than the radically different enforcement mechanism for the individual mandate ...via NewsRack -
Right & Left Agree: Mandates are the Road to Neofeudalism
There is tremendous fear rising on both the right and the left that the announced intention of Congress — to force every American to pay tribute to private corporations, ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
The Incredibly Stupid Politics Of Delaying Benefits
If there was any one single completely terrible political decision made by Democrats during this health care debate, it was to “save money” by delaying the start of ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Sick of Corporate Control Over Your Food?
When a market is competitive, everyone wins. Businesses that can innovate or grow more efficient rise to the top while consumers get the best products for the best price. ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
10 Reasons to Kill the Senate Bill
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FDL has become the go-to place for coverage of the health care bill due to the work of our incredible team. Jon Walker’s second-to-none knowledge of the health care bill ...via Greg Sargent -
Kill the Senate Bill
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When urging its passage today, President Obama said two things that are manifestly untrue. He says that the bill fulfills all of the promises he made in his September speech ...
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The WaPo Declares Itself Unable to Find the Truth
The WaPo wants you to know that it--one of the most storied newspapers in American history--is absolutely incapable of sorting through the facts about whether Khalid Sheikh ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Lil Debbie Says Washington Post Should Criticize Obama More to Please Conservatives
The Washington Post's Deborah Howell has a long history of sending readers to the dictionary to determine whether the term "ombudsman" entails systematically perverting ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
A Line Was Crossed At Postville
an essay by Erik Camayd-Freixas, a Spanish-language court interpreter...called in to help process detainees in the raid...[supports the the observation that] the Department of ...Posted by Beth Wellington -
That's Some Catch, That Catch-22.' 'It's The Best There Is'
That pretty much describes the nativist approach to immigration in general. And in the process of fixing something by making it worse, they're conveniently disenfranchising ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
Clinton Supporter Ejected From Rules Meeting, 'McCain Will Be Our Next President'
Things grew increasingly contentious toward the end of the Rules Committee meeting, and a Clinton supporter -- who identified herself as Harriet Christian -- was ejected from ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Our Lady of the Law
Mario Cuomo gave a speech on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving to 2,000 of the most influential lawyers in NYC. The program didn't give a title for the speech, but Gov. Cuomo ...Posted by Robert M Schacht -
Burying the truth about Bush
The credibility of the Washington Post's editorial page took another hit today with Charles Lane's nasty hit piece attacking Dan Rather -- suggesting he's not in his right ...Posted by Robert M Schacht -
More Than Ever, Impeachment Is the Cure
Last night we heard the President of the United States declare that he would refuse to allow US troops to come home from Iraq until they achieved "success" as he and only he ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
The Consequences Of Inaction
Many in the Gulf Coast live, day in and day out, in the shadows of George Bush's many failures. In the aftermath of all those enabling decisions for no oversight and no ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Late Nite FDL: Why the Republicans are Running From YouTube
Let's get something straight here. The reason the Republicans are running from a YouTube debate has nothing to do with embarrassing themselves and everything to do with the ...Posted by Fabrice Florin
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