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• Under the radar, Obama pushes for Patriot Act renewal

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 532
  Source: Lake Land Times With key sections of the U.S. Patriot Act set to expire Dec. 31, the Obama administration – essentially tiptoeing through the corridors of Congress and using the raucous health care debate as cover – has quietly maneuvered for renewal of the controversial provisions, which he opposed ...
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• Poster Of The Day: Bend Over America

  
  Evaluation — Authority: 143
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• Senate shelves Christmas Eve health care vote; final roll call Thursday morning

  
  Lynn Sweet — Authority: 690
  WASHINGTON-There will be no Christmas Eve final vote on the Democrats health care bill after all. The office of Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the number two Senate leader, announced that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nv.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) agreed that the votes will start at 8 ...
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• Christmas Deal! Thursday Morning Health Reform Vote Scheduled

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 736
  Senate leaders have struck a deal to stage an 8 a.m. Thursday vote to finalize both health care reform and an expansion of the debt limit, Sen. Richard Durbin’s (D-Ill.) office just announced. That agreement, struck between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ...
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• The Art Of Buying Votes

  
  The Political and Financial Markets Commentator — Authority: 125
  The pre-vote wrangling appears to be over, and Harry Reid looks like he has the 60 votes in the Senate to move the healthcare bill forward. I suppose it is typical Washington, but those Democrats who held the bill hostage got the payday that they wanted in order to swing their votes over to the yay column. In the ...
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• Coburn: "People ought to pray" that a senator can’t show up and vote

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 177
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• Most transparent WH: Do you know anything about 17 WH parties or 11 open houses

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  Nice to include 50,000 in WH holiday events but how secure is the White House? The Obamas’ first Christmas in the White House looked set to be a white one after Washington woke up yesterday to its biggest snowfall in years, leading the mayor to declare a state of emergency. It will also prove gruelling for the ...
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• Hope? Change? Dems hope they can ram socialized HC thru B4 XMAS

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  No change in Dems buying votes so they don’t have to talk to their constituency about Obamacare. Legislators in the US senate have passed a highly contentious healthcare reform bill that could lead to significant changes in the countrys medical system. Democrats unanimously backed the bill in a vote that began at ...
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• ‘Dr.’ Coburn Finally Tempers His ‘Bye, Bye Byrdie’ Remark

  
  The Satirical Political Report — Authority: 432
  “I NEVER MEANT SENATOR BYRD ANY SERIOUS HARM; JUST THAT THE OLD GUY MISS THE VOTE DUE TO A SERIOUS BOUT OF CONSTIPATION, THEN OVERCOMPENSATE WITH AN OVERDOSE ON PRUNE JUICE.”
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• If you’re hoping anyone thinks you have class, you haven’t got a prayer

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 468
  From Dana Milbank at The Washington Post : Going into Monday morning’s crucial Senate vote on health-care legislation, Republican chances for defeating the bill had come down to a last, macabre hope. They needed one Democratic senator to die — or at least become incapacitated. At 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon ...
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• When will the men in the white coats with butterfly nets come for Tom Coburn -- and the rest of the right-wing crazies?

  
  DownWithTyranny! — Authority: 615
  Its time to stop pussyfooting around the reality that the Evil Doctor is either hopelessly insane or a sociopathic liar, and either way needs to be straitjacketed and institutionalized immediately. "At 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon -- nine hours before the 1 a.m. vote that would effectively clinch the legislations ...
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• Did Coburn Offer Prayer for Byrds Timely Demise?

  
  Velvetpark | Dyke Culture in Bloom — Authority: 143
  In the wee hours of the morning, the U.S. Senate gathered to vote on cloture, the first of three motions, for the health care reform bill in order to move the process on to the next step.
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• Pelosi: No Votes on "Controversial" DADT or ENDA in 2010

  
  Rod 2.0:Beta — Authority: 613
  Cant say there havent been several warnings. House and Senate Democratic leadership are concerned about the Partys vulnerability in the mid-term elections. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told her caucus that they will not vote on "controversial bills" such as...
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• Health Care Reform Survives First Procedural Hurdle

  
  Progress Illinois - — Authority: 577
  Supporters of health care reform can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Late last night, by a 60-40 roll call, the Senate voted to end debate on the managers amendment to the Democratic health care bill, thefirst of three cloture votes required to pass the historic piece oflegislation. On Friday night, Senate ...
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• Morning Joe Furthers Durbin Complaint, Ignores Another Dem Senators Aryan Charge

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 821
  There was something very important that I did not see on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” this morning. The very first bump-in on the show was a montage of Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.): COBURN: What the American people ought to pray, is that somebody can’t make the vote tonight. That’s what ...
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• 8 U.S. Senators Ask Pres. Obama to Keep America’s AIDS Commitments

  
  ONE — Authority: 578
  On Friday, eight US senators sent a letter to President Obama asking him to fund global AIDS programs in 2011 at levels consistent with Lantos-Hyde HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria Reauthoration Act of 2008. This is the concluding paragraph of the letter. “America has, with bipartisan support from Congress, made ...
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• Coburn To America: Pray That A Democratic Senator Cant Make The Vote

  
  TPM LiveWire — Authority: 789
  During the Sunday Senate debate on health care, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) called on the American people to pray that a Democratic Senator would be unable to vote on the health care bill, in order to force Democrats to work with Republicans on the issue. "What the American people oughtta pray is that somebody cant make ...
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• Noted Christian Senator Calls on Wingnut Masses to Pray for Death of Other Senator

  
  ANIMAL — Authority: 674
  Oh hey did you hear the Senate passed a health care reform bill last night at 1am? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s a shit bill that everybody hates, but hey they did SOMETHING, so now they can all go home for Christmas and brag about that. Oh, and then there’s this: In the hours leading up to the vote, renowned Jesus ...
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• Durbin Suffering Memory Loss

  
  JammieWearingFool — Authority: 716
  This is precious. Dick "The Turban" Durbin is criticizing Republican lawmakers for the coarsening language in the debate. Durbin of course is a victim of some sort of memory loss. Lets jut refresh the senators memory by replaying the speech he made on the floor of the Senate in 2007 comparing our troops to Nazi storm ...
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• Republicans and what they pray for

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 801
  Via Think Progress , we learn about the very Christian values Tom Coburn put on display yesterday when he was discussing the upcoming cloture vote on the health care reform bill: What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can’t make the vote tonight. That’s what they ought to pray. Nice ...
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