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• When Is Enough Enough?

  
  Broadway Carl's Blog-O-Mania — Authority: 138
  Leave it to the Senate to take a good idea and turn it into a pile of shit within the blink of an eye. A gang of ten Democratic senators, five progressive and five conservative, worked their asses off over the last few days in an attempt to hash out a system whereby they could agree on a form of health care that ...
  4 hours ago

• ArtPOWER!

  
  OlyBlog - 'We Are the Media' — Authority: 437
  Start: Dec 12 2009 - 10:00am End: Dec 13 2009 - 6:00pm POWER will be hosting ArtPOWER this weekend at Whittle. Come shop for unique gifts for friends and family! All proceeds benefit artists and POWER (Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights). Whittle will be open throughout. Coffee, desserts, ...
  4 hours ago

• Dems to shit-can [a|the] [strong|robust]? public [health insurance]? [option|plan] -- ?

  
  Corrente — Authority: 627
  [David Espo. AP only. Nothing at McClatchy. Then again, its not Politico... ] AP : Democratic senators say they have a tentative deal to drop a government-run insurance option from health care legislation. No further details were immediately available. But liberals and moderates have been discussing an ...
  7 hours ago

• FITS Evening Post: Blasts, Ice, Spiller, Etc.

  
  FITSNews — Authority: 647
  For those of you who are colorblind – or afflicted with chronic cocklaphobia (fear of hats) – we’d like to take this opportunity to draw your attention to our holiday “flair.”  Specifically, we’ve got a minty new green background and our founding editor’s cartoon caricature has donned a Santa hat. ...
  8 hours ago

• The 7 Democrats Who Voted to Restrict Access to Abortion (and the 2 Republicans Who Didn’t)

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 442
  A few moments ago, the U.S. Senate voted 54-45 (with Robert Byrd ill) to kill the Nelson-Hatch Amendment . The Senate equivalent of the Stupak Amendment , it would have prohibited abortion coverage in health care plans. Under the Nelson-Hatch Amendment, if just one single person gets a partial federal subsidy ...
  9 hours ago

• Stand-up comedian Chris Kent at The Gate – Sunday 20th December

  
  YoughalOnline.com — Authority: 138
  Comedy Night at the Gate starts about 9pm on Sunday December 20th. Like ripples across a lazy pond Ireland’s comedy stand-up circuit is slowly spreading from urban centres across the rural hinterland. By Christy Parker Chris Kent As far as East Cork is concerned, the past year saw stand-up reach ...
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• Webb joins bipartisan group in prescription-drug plan

  
  Augusta Free Press — Authority: 479
     Staff Report www.webb.senate.gov Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) today joined a bipartisan group of 19 senators in proposing an amendment to the health care reform bill to lower prescription drug costs and save the federal government nearly $20 billion over the next ten years. Originally introduced earlier this ...
  11 hours ago

• Down and dirty with the Dirty Birds

  
  Spew — Authority: 485
  MATT DRISCOLL: PLUS THE RETURN OF A SURF GUITAR LEGEND >>> Tacoma is no stranger tosurf guitar superhero Dick Dale . He’s been to T-Town many times, playing atHell’s Kitchen, and the results have always been loud and  memorable –unless you drank so much PBR that it’s all a “Miserlou” ...
  14 hours ago

• Duck The Malls Art, Craft and Bake Sale

  
  OlyBlog - 'We Are the Media' — Authority: 437
  Start: Dec 12 2009 - 11:00am End: Dec 12 2009 - 4:00pm BUY LOCALDuck the Malls 7th annual Arts, Craft and Bake SaleSaturday, Dec. 12th 11-4 pmCapitol Theater206 5th Ave SE, Olympia WADont miss this Olympia tradition! Over 45 of our finest local artists and craftsman bring you unique handmade items just in time ...
  14 hours ago

• Snowe Seeks Repeal of ARC Loans

  
  As Maine Goes — Authority: 148
  OMB estimated 60 percent of ARC borrowers may default on their loans. Read More... read more
  19 hours ago

• Roundup: An Amendment By Any Other Name Smells Just As Bad

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 717
  Sometimes you just have to wonder if you are stuck in the movie " Groundhogs Day ."  Here we are, five weeks later, with the same amendment pushed by another group of congressmen, this time, senators, over the same objections over it being a sexist amendment that only applies to and harms women, especially poor ...
  19 hours ago

• Yo AWD Senators: Let men pay abortion rider for women they impregnate

  
  Writes Like She Talks — Authority: 488
  Click here to view the embedded video. And here’s another great idea: health care plans allowed to coerce women to get sterilized in order to get health care coverage: Click here to view the embedded video. Floor transcript of floor speech today by U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) during Senate debate ...
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• Snowe Miffed that Harry Reid Slighted Her

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 799
  The "worlds greatest deliberative body" is increasingly being laid bare for what it is--utterly dysfunctional because of the massive egos and personal foibles of narcissists like Joe Lieberman , who can hijack the most critical of issues for their own narrow, personal reasons. In that vein, today Roll Call [sub. ...
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• Senate Possibly Looking at Early Medicare Buy In

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 727
  Fifty-five saves lives (photo: rogue3w) [ Ed. Note : Dave Dayen also has something to say about this.] There has been multiple unsourced reports that at least some Senate Democrats are considering a possible early Medicare buy in for older Americans. The numbers I have seen indicate that the idea would be ...
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• Senate Reform Bill Faces Tweaks Amid Presidential Push

  
  Political Buzz — Authority: 425
  A rapidly dwindling pre-holiday calendar and increasingly direct pressure from the White House has the Senate working feverishly towards a health care compromise that can secure 60 votes and score Democrats and President Obama a major victory before the new year. The president made a Sunday visit to Capitol Hill ...
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• Time’s 2009 Person Of The Year: Olympia Snowe?

  
  Pine Tree Politics — Authority: 466
  Time is currently conducting their search for 2009’s per  son of the year, and they are asking us to give our input on how influential their chosen candidates are. Going through the list we find that #5 is none other than Maine Senator Olympia Snowe.  Currently, the public has given her a rating of 26 out of ...
  2 days ago

• 15 Most Beautiful Classic Designer Shoes …

  
  All Women Stalk — Authority: 440
  While I’m not as much of a shoe addict as some people I know, I do love finding gorgeous pairs to show off and there’s nothing that makes you feel sexier than a pair of high heels! I’ve been looking to top up my collection recently, and found lots of classically influenced shoes, which are divine! Here are my ...
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• 5 Things To Do: Sunday

  
  Spew — Authority: 485
  MICHAEL SWAN: SUNDAY, DEC. 6, 2009 >>> 1. Maia Santell and House Blend will be performing their annual Holiday Jazz and Blues Show from 7-10 p.m. at Jazzbones. 2. The Tacoma Glassblowing Studio hosts a Hand-blown Glass Sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 3. Create one-of-a-kind fused-glass holiday ...
  3 days ago

• Snowe Back at the Negotiating Table with Dems, Lincoln, Pryor Float Another Idea

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 799
  Everybodys getting in the negotiating game . Snowe, emerging from a meeting on the first floor of the Capitol, Saturday afternoon, told a few reporters hovering outside the room that she had been approached earlier that morning about attending. She said that no agreement had yet been reached, but that the ...
  3 days ago

• Senate Vote Clears Way for Home Health Care Cuts

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, at a news conference Saturday on Capitol Hill.
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