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Senate Committee Vote on Healthcare- A Victory?

My first instinct is to say no, no, no (with apologies to Amy Winehouse). That’s because the bill that passed the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday didn’t contain a public option. We keep being told that it could be negotiated as different bills come together, but there doesn’t seem to be the guts among Democrats to [...]

Obama vs. Fox News; Limbaugh vs. Sharpton- Important to You?

We interrupt your valid concerns about the Senate Finance Committee vote on healthcare reform, President Obama’s deliberations on Afghanistan, and how to put the country back to work for a couple of stories that got quite a bit of ink over the past 48 hours or so.

On the one hand, it looks like the [...]

Public Option Punked? And By Whom?

So the Senate Finance Committee decided to vote no on two proposals that would have put a public option in their versions of a healthcare reform bill. Both proposals, one by Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and the other, from Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, went down to defeat because of the treachery [...]

Progressives…Time to Stop Playing
The signs are everywhere, from North Carolina to Indiana to the hallowed halls of Congress. North Carolina votes NO to gay marriage Those who want to take America back to the 19th century are girding their loins for the battle ahead. Their endgame is obvious, and has been for some time. The question […]
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Land and Nugent- American Idiots
Perhaps Perhaps we should have expected that as the presidential race got clear and focused, we’d be hearing more nonsense coming from those who want to see Barack Obama lose. Trouble is, these surrogates (as opposed to supporters) can’t even get their crazed rants straight. Two of the latest are the aged rocker Ted […]
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First, let’s face facts. A lot of people, including most of the media, wrote off the Occupy Movement as elected officials and law enforcement shut down encampments and started treating them like terrorists. Even as the movement came out of hibernation and into the unusually warm end of winter sun, the skepticism remained. Yet […]
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