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• The Health Reform Battle Yet To Come: Pelosi Must Face Off With Displeased House Left

  
  On The Hill — Authority: 496
  The endgame for healthcare reform likely soon will be in Nancy Pelosis hands, and the battle it may bring could make Harry Reids fight in the Senate look mild by comparison -- and may well define the strength of her speakership. With final passage of the Senate health reform package looking probable this week, action ...
  2 days ago

• Exiting as City Comptroller, William C. Thompson Jr. Has Options by Sam Roberts - NYTimes.com

  
  Lost in the Ozone... — Authority: 132
  Read original... William C. Thompson Jr., the city comptroller, weighed the options for his political future in an interview this week in his office. Ruth Fremson - NY Times Having made last month’s mayor’s race much closer than most anyone had expected, Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. has been ...
  2 days ago

• Health Care Round-up

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 155
  Original Author:  Kenneth Quinnell Lots of good debate on the Senate health care “reform” bill. Here’s the important stuff I’ve read and come across, in reverse chronological order… Down With Tyranny: Is the Conventional Wisdom on health care winners and losers ...
  4 days ago

• The Health Care Bill Sucks--and What to Do About It

  
  Corrente — Authority: 620
  Crossposted on Firedoglake The public option was always a fig leaf. Thus, its demise will not really change the fundamental nature of the health care bill, in my opinion. It merely pushes the bill a small step further down the road. Id argue that a more important issue is the funding, which is changed in the ...
  5 days ago

• Every Vote Is Important...

  
  Broadway Carl's Blog-O-Mania — Authority: 138
  ...not just Joe Liebermans, or Ben Nelsons, or Olympia Snowes. And while these Senators are wielding their power because of an elusive 60th vote and making health care legislation exponentially weaker in the process, the White House assumes that the liberal votes will be there in the end. They shouldnt be so quick ...
  6 days ago

• Matthews: Change Constitution To Make Senate More Democratic - And Pass ObamaCare

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 815
  Chris Matthews asked a New York Congressman Thursday if we should " change the Constitution to make the Senate a more democratic body ." At issue of course was the difficulty Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is having getting 60 Democrats to sign on to any version of a healthcare reform bill. Clearly ...
  1 week ago

• Why They Dont Want To Use Reconciliation

  
  Corrente — Authority: 620
  The solid front of Democratic Party progressives supporting the Senates health care form bill, has now cracked wide open with Howard Deans call to kill the Senate bill and start over in the House with reconciliation. Deans call hasnt cracked open the floodgates among the Senate and House Democrats and in recent days ...
  1 week ago

• Progressives Fight Back

  
  Broadway Carl's Blog-O-Mania — Authority: 138
  Im expecting (hoping) more progressives push back on the acquiescence of the "get anything passed" mindset just to show that they cant be pushed around. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said late Wednesday that he cannot support the Democrats healthcare reform legislation in its current form. Asked by ...
  1 week ago

• ‘Where’s the Reform?’

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  Where is Clara Peller now that we need her? For those who do not remember this icon of political history, Clara was the actress who played the little old lady in a Wendy’s commercial that looked an oversized hamburger bun and snapped back, “ Where’s the beef? ” Walter Mondale then used it as a ...
  1 week ago

• Howard Dean Advises To Kill the Bill that’s "A Bigger Bailout for the Insurance Industry than AIG"!

  
  Corrente — Authority: 620
  Howard Dean said to George Stephanpolous this morning, “This is a bigger bailout for the insurance industry than AIG.” Could he have been any clearer? Now, a number of high profile Congressional Dems are all over the media today playing mollifiers for the Trojan Horse bill that Obama is pressuring to have ...
  1 week ago

• Keith Olbermann joins the self-destruction chorus and tries to lead Democrats off a cliff

  
  NorthCoastBlog.com — Authority: 118
  Here’s another example of why progressives can’t govern. If they don’t get what they want, many of them get self-righteous and go home. It’s pitiful. I’m watching Keith Olbermann, and he’ll soon be giving a “special comment” and it looks like he agrees with Howard Dean. Dean’s notion that we can ...
  1 week ago

• Anthony Weiners take on Howard Deans take on health care reform

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 647
  By GottaLaff Liveblog of Rep. Anthony Weiner on Countdown : Lieberman expects the Stockholm Syndrome to take over. The same people who want to contain costs want to remove public option, that would contain costs. I think there should be a mandate. Its been a frustrating experience. We worship at the altar ...
  1 week ago

• Former Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean urges defeat of emerging health care bill

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 514
  By Associated Press December 16, 2009, 8:40AM WASHINGTON — Former Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean argued Wednesday that the health care overhaul bill taking shape in the Senate further empowers private insurers at the expense of consumer choice. Associated Press Former DNC chairman Howard Dean ...
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• The Gospel Truth

  
  Florida Blog — Authority: 146
  When some anonymous blogger somewhere, such as Pensacola Beach, harbors the suspicion the Obama White House secretly has been undermining the public option in its own health care reform initiative, we tend to dismiss that thought as just a stray synapse of paranoia. When veteran congressmen John Conyers (D-MI), David ...
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• Pensacola: “Don’t Go Near the Water”

  
  Florida Blog — Authority: 146
  Judging from their published comments, local utility and tourist-promotion big-wigs might have some pretty snappy suggestions for promoting Pensacola as a safe place to live and visit. Just don’t go near the drinking water: Dale Perkins, veteran ECUA director: ‘Yes, we have no enviro-liberal wacko safe water.’ ...
  1 week ago

• The spite of a deeply immoral senator

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 802
  By now most everyone has seen this : Mr. Lieberman said that he grew apprehensive when a formal proposal began to take shape. He said he worried that the program would lead to financial trouble and contribute to the instability of the existing Medicare program. And he said he was particularly troubled by the ...
  1 week ago

• Lieberman: Liberals are FOR Medicare buy-in? That does it. Im against it!

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 647
  By GottaLaff As Steve Benen suggests, maybe its time for Democrats to " keep ones cards a little closer to the vest ". If the Dems say yes, the Traitor is compelled to say no. Thats the kind of trigger he supports: And he said he was particularly troubled by the overly enthusiastic reaction to the proposal ...
  1 week ago

• Weiner: NYC Cell Phone Taxes, Fees Are Outrageous

  
  NYConvergence - A digest of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut digital media technology news — Authority: 561
  NYC has the second highest cell-phone tax rate in the United States, according toa study released by Representative Anthony Weiner , the Vice Chair ofthe House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications,Technology, and the Internet. His report, the highlights of which are available here , shows that New ...
  1 week ago

• Time to Spank Some Democrats (Updated)

  
  Mouth of the Potomac - NY Daily News Blogs — Authority: 593
  Don’t blow it, President Obama will tell Democrats today, because they won’t get another chance to reform health care for at least a decade, and probably more. “President Obama will tell senators that that they’ve come much farther than any previous reform effort, and that the lion’s share of the work is ...
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• My Report from the New York Health Care Forum

  
  Corrente — Authority: 620
  On Sunday, I attended the New York Health Care Forum, hosted by Physicians for a National Health Care Plan. The panelists were Dr. Oliver Fein, Dr. Leonard Rodberg, and Dr. Martha Livingston, co-editor of 10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care . Dr. Livingston (yes, I know) was kind enough to agree to be ...
  1 week ago

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