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• For Pelosi, Many Paths to 218

  
  FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right — Authority: 761
  Are Democrats (well, some of them ) celebrating too soon? Could the health care bill have gotten 60 votes in the Senate only to be doomed to failure in the House, which much reconcile its own, more liberal version of the legislation with that passed by the Upper Chamber? As Ramesh Ponnuru argues , there are ...
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• In Senate Vote on Health Care Overhaul, New Partisan Vitriol – New York Times

  
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  Globe and Mail In Senate Vote on Health Care Overhaul, New Partisan Vitriol New York Times WASHINGTON — The vote on Monday, in the dead of night, was 60 to 40. Read the rest here: In Senate Vote on Health Care Overhaul, New Partisan Vitriol – New York Times
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• McCain, GOP secretly courting another Dem to switch

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Republicans are stepping up their efforts to persuade more House Democrats to switch parties and are zeroing in on a second-term Pennsylvanian who is not ruling out such a move. Democratic Rep. Chris Carney received a phone call Wednesday from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) asking him to consider becoming a Republican, a ...
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• McCain, GOP secretly courting another Dem to switch

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Republicans are stepping up their efforts to persuade more House Democrats to switch parties and are zeroing in on a second-term Pennsylvanian who is not ruling out such a move. Democratic Rep. Chris Carney received a phone call Wednesday from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) asking him to consider becoming a Republican, a ...
  3 days ago

• Two Evil(?) Santas

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 421
  Len Burman (who is now at the Maxwell School at Syracuse, contrary to what the Washington Times printed ) has a “festive” and “spirited” take on fiscal policy for the holiday season: he argues that Republicans and Democrats and their fiscally irresponsible ways are like two “evil Santas”–”evil” ...
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• 2009s Most Valuable Democrat Is...

  
  FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right — Authority: 761
  This was supposed to be a brief column on Parker Griffiths defection to the GOP , but its turned into something a little more ... involved. However, since weve been getting into the weeds a little bit lately on health care policy, I thought it was worth turning our focus back to our traditional political nerdery. ...
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• Advice for Obama on Health Care: “When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!”

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 463
  By John W. Lillpop Although recent news concerning ObamaCare has generally been to the president’s liking, that may change dramatically after the senate has officially approved its 2,000+ page monster and said monster is scheduled for reconciliation with the equally goofy and bloated House version. As former New ...
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• Welcome to the GOP Congressman Griffith!

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 138
  Congressman Parker Griffith (D-AL) is expected to announce today that he is switching parties.  Politico broke the story this morning : The switch represents a coup for the House Republican leadership, which had been courting Griffith since he publicly criticized the Democratic leadership in the wake of raucous ...
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• Official: Rep. Griffith to switch to GOP

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 463
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Freshman Democratic House member Parker Griffith of Alabama is switching to the Republican Party, his office said Tuesday, another blow to Democrats facing a potentially tough midterm election. Griffith, 67, was narrowly elected last year from a region of northern Alabama that includes Huntsville ...
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• What Has Happened To Legislators With Principals

  
  Garnering Right Ideas — Authority: 128
  This is not a post about healthcare reform, this is not a post about abortion, this is not a post about members of a specific party, it just happens that this latest example of a legislator selling their stated principals for pork is Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska. Every piece of legislation, that reaches the ...
  6 days ago

• Strassel: Democrats on the Health-Care Precipice – Wall Street Journal

  
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  Globe and Mail Strassel: Democrats on the Health-Care Precipice Wall Street Journal Enacting health-care legislation in the face of overwhelming public disapproval may cost the party its chance of forging a sustainable majority. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Barack Obama emerged from his meeting with ...
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• Franken shuts down Lieberman on Senate floor – The Associated Press

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 172
  Telegraph.co.uk Franken shuts down Lieberman on Senate floor The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Al Franken took the unusual step Thursday of shutting down Sen. Joe Lieberman on the Senate floor. Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, currently is the target of liberal wrath over ...
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• A Typology for Congressional Retirements

  
  FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right — Authority: 761
  Lost amid the attention to the health care bill this week are the ramifications of Tennessee Democratic Congressman Bart Gordons announcement Monday of his pending retirement. Chris Cilliza and Dan Balz wrote a detailed piece in the Washington Post Tuesday about the larger issue of Democratic retirements and party ...
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• Dems: GOP takeover just hyperbole

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  From NBC’s Domenico MontanaroDespite a noxious political environment and recent retirements of members in competitive districts, the man tasked with trying to stave off a terrible midterm election for House Democrats says his party will hold onto a majority. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris ...
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• Liberals Ready to ‘Fight’ Over Concessions in Senate Health Bill – FOXNews

  
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  Reuters Liberals Ready to Fight Over Concessions in Senate Health Bill FOXNews Liberal outrage over the Senates health care reform bill is reaching a boiling point, with a number of organizations, unions and House Democrats warning that the watered-down version they see creeping toward a vote will ...
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• Liberals Ready to ‘Fight’ Over Concessions in Senate Health Bill

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 463
  Liberal outrage over the Senates health care reform bill is reaching a boiling point, with a number of organizations, unions and House Democrats warning that the watered-down version they see creeping toward a vote will not survive in its current form. 
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• Three Undemocratic Temptations

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  As the Democrats in Congress approach the end of a frustrating first years legislative effort, their leaders and the White House are being tempted by three possible shortcuts around the regular lawmaking process. Though the Democrats have a majority of 20 seats in the Senate and 79 seats in the House, now, just a week ...
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• Pelosi says rallying votes for troop surge in Afghanistan will be Obama’s job – Washington Post

  
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  Washington Post Pelosi says rallying votes for troop surge in Afghanistan will be Obamas job Washington Post President Obama will have to argue his own case to House Democrats as he seeks support for a planned surge of 30000 troops into Afghanistan, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said ...
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• Pelosi “Promises” to Send Health Bill to Obama–Before SOU!

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 463
  By John W. Lillpop Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, the thrill of victory! Speaker Nancy Pelosi has finally allowed a slight ray of truth to permeate her moon-bat existence, if ever so briefly. Just weeks after “celebrating” passage of the most bloated, wrong-minded piece of communist prattle ever debated on U.S. soil, the ...
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• Congress Settles for $300B Increase in Debt Ceiling Until Next Year

  
  Roni Deutch: The Tax Lady Blog — Authority: 436
  From the Examiner.com: House Democrats settle for a $300 Billion increase in the national debt ceiling in order to avoid limits on spending. Moderate Democrats had intended to attach amendments to the initial $1.8 Trillion increase that would have required congress to pay for any new ...
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