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• Health Care Vote: Not Enough Passes

  
  FITSNews — Authority: 648
  U.S House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is said to have received roughly sixty written requests from House Democrats asking for permission to vote against a controversial socialized medicine proposal – or twenty more requests than she could handle. That’s when a pitched battle allegedly began within Pelosi’s Democratic ...
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• Obama Urges Congress to End Fort Hood Probe

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 174
  President Barack Obama is urging Congress to hold off on any investigation into the Fort Hood rampage. (Nov. 14)
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• GOP Bashes Dems Health Care Proposals

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 174
  A Republican lawmaker says House Democrats missed opportunities to improve the House-passed health care bill by not listening to GOP suggestions. (Nov. 14)
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• House Democrats Botched Health Care Bill, Republican Says

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 502
  Delivering the Republicans weekly radio and Internet address, Rep. Mark Kirk of Illinois said health care costs could be lowered by "reining in lawsuits" and allowing consumers to buy coverage from across state lines. 
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• Republican bashes Dems over health care proposals (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 516
  AP – House Democrats missed opportunities to improve the House-passed health care bill when they rejected Republican ideas to limit lawsuits and give states more flexibility to enact innovative changes, a GOP lawmaker said Saturday. See the rest here:  (AP)"> (AP)">Republican bashes Dems over ...
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• Republican bashes Dems over health care proposals (AP)

  
  Blogger — Authority: 165
  AP – House Democrats missed opportunities to improve the House-passed health care bill when they rejected Republican ideas to limit lawsuits and give states more flexibility to enact innovative changes, a GOP lawmaker said Saturday. Original post: (AP)"> (AP)">Republican bashes Dems over health ...
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• Open Letter From the Peace Movement to President Obama on His Upcoming Decision Regarding the Afghan War

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 571
  by Cynthia McKinney Dear Mr. President: According to press reports, you intend to decide between November 7 and November 11 whether or not to send tens of thousands of American soldiers to Afghanistan. We are writing in advance of that decision to add our voice to those of Sen. Feingold, many House Democrats, and ...
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• Pelosi Bill Has a 69% Capital Gains Tax Hike

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 564
  House Democrats are funding their new entitlement with a 5.4% surtax on incomes above $500,000 for individuals and above $1 million for joint filers. That surtax takes effect on January 1, 2011, or the day the Bush tax rates of 2001 and 2003 expire. Today’s capital gains tax rate of 15% would bounce back to 20% ...
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• GOP ends abortion insurance for staff

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 502
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chagrined leader of the opposition Republican Party has told Republican National Committee staff to immediately stop providing RNC employees with insurance for elective abortions -- an option that Republicans strongly oppose as Democrats try to pass a health care overhaul bill. The Republican ...
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• Virginia News Stand: November 12, 2009

  
  FamilyFoundationBlog.com — Authority: 136
  Annotations & Elucidations The Slow Time It’s a slow political news cycle this time of year, especially right after a gangbusters election, as things settle down. Soon, however, it will be special election time in Fairfax and Virginia Beach for two Virginia Senate seats (vacated by the elections of ...
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• The Misfits: Eight Politicians Who Really Ought to Switch

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 815
  Filed under: Senate , House , Democrats , Republicans , Congress , Conservatives , Liberals , Moderates RINOs and conservadems are cutting quite a swath these days -- making demands, frustrating their colleagues, wielding clout and even influencing elections. Not surprisingly, the nicknames arent terms of ...
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• The Geography of the House Democrats Health Care Vote

  
  ElectionDissection.com — Authority: 109
  Ive created the above map to provide a visual sense of how the House Democratic caucus voted on the Health Care Reform measure. Its not quite as sharp as Id like given the map I had to work with and Microsoft Paints less than precise coloring, but it still works. Those districts colored green are the House Democrats ...
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• Obama and Democrats Don’t Understand ‘Sacrifice’

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 706
  -By Warner Todd Huston The jihadi movement has never made any bones about the fact that it intends to destroy western civilization from within using the West’s own principles as weapons against it. This is why, for instance, that radical Islamists have been angling to institute Sharia “law” inside England and ...
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• Health Reform Faces Difficult Senate Tests

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  The Senate is also working on a health bill, and, while it is similar in many ways to what House Democrats passed, some of the differences are fundamental.
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• Many Previously Pro-Choice Dems Voted for Stupak Amendment

  
  FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right — Authority: 779
  When I first learned that the Stupak Amendment , which would prevent abortion from being covered under any publicly-subsidized health care plan, had passed by a 240-194 margin in the House, I assumed that something like the following happened: anybody who was either pro-life or who disapproved of the health ...
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• House Democrats: A tale of two mendacities.

  
  POWIP — Authority: 595
  Today we bring you a double-your-pleasure example of the mendacity of the House Democrats. The first is an outgrowth of last week’s election of Bill Owens in NY-23. He ran on a platform of being opposed to the public option, medicare reduction, taxing health care benefits as well as any increases in middle-class ...
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• Obama Has Harder Task Ahead Lobbying Tougher Senate on Health Care

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 502
  President Obama got deeply involved in lobbying House Democrats in person to pass the health care bill this weekend, but the close vote Saturday night may make it more difficult for the president to convince Senate lawmakers to approve their version of insurance reform.
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• 41 House Dems Pledge To Vote Against Bill With Abortion Amendment

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 683
  By GottaLaff Via Greg Sargent , we get a peek at a no-wiggle-room letter to Nancy Pelosi has been signed by 41 House Democrats (emphasis mine): The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker U.S. House of Representatives H-232 Capitol Washington, DC 20515 Dear Madam Speaker: As members of the Congressional ...
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• Health Care: Not Close to Over

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  The fat lady hasn’t even started to warm up yet. The narrow 220-215 victory in the House on Saturday night was a step forward on the road to a government takeover of the health care system.  But as close and dramatic as that vote was, that was the easy part.  The Senate must still pass its version of ...
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• You’ve got to dance with the one that brung you

  
  Mountain Sage — Authority: 134
  After losing a couple of state governorships, the Democratic Party has appeared perplexed about what happened.  I can with some certainty say that in Virginia what happened is Creigh Deeds moved to the right and distanced himself from the voters who voted for Barack Obama.  Mostly younger, educated voters, put ...
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