US Politics

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• More on the new cancer screening recommendations

  
  TORQOPIA - Abundance All Around Us — Authority: 135
  Dr. Robert Truog weighs in on the controversy in The New England Journal of Medicine : Screening mammography for women in their 40s is clearly effective. The problem is that the benefit is tiny and expensive. A recent cost–benefit analysis showed that adherence to the current guidelines from the American Cancer ...
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• Quote Of The Day

  
  IntoxiNation — Authority: 516
  "We are tired of watching as year after year candidates offer up detailed health care plans with great fanfare and promise only to see them crushed under the weight of Washington politics and drug and insurance lobbying once the campaign is over." Candidate Obama Here is the video of candidate Obama saying this, ...
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• The Democratic Deficit Problem

  
  Matt Zeitlin: Impetuous Young Whippersnapper — Authority: 112
  Jamelle Bouie has an excellent post noting the nuttiness of conservatives suggesting that the only way to cut the deficit is through reducing spending, and, more generally, that someone who cares about the deficit can even consider tax cuts to be a good idea. In any foreseeable political climate, there is very ...
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• Snowe: Health Bill Deals Earn ‘No’ Vote

  
  Breitbart.tv — Authority: 755
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• The grim theme that links the year’s main events

  
  Gideon Rachman's Blog — Authority: 569
  The oddest thing about 2009 was how normal it was. At the beginning of the year, the global economic crisis was still causing panic in prime ministers’ offices and presidential palaces across the world. Many politicians were looking anxiously back to the 1930s.Those fears of a return to a world of soup kitchens and ...
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• Obama’s gay commie balls enrage right-wingnuts

  
  unrepentant old hippie — Authority: 479
  It’s simple math… take one White House Christmas tree, add: One decoration with an image of drag performer Hedda Lettuce + one decoration with a repro of an old Warhol print + one decoration with Obama’s image superimposed on Mt.Rushmore = This is what wingnuts are peaking and freaking ...
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• How the CBO Calculated the Health Care Deficit Reductions

  
  Breitbart.tv — Authority: 755
  
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• Beautiful in Bronze: Republicans Defend Our Right to Get Tan

  
  Alternative Tulsa — Authority: 128
  T hose silly Senate Republicans. Ever eager to defend the status quo , theyve jumped at the chance to complain about a tax increase on tanning. Thats right, Sooner fans, you ought to have the right to tan without any pesky federal taxes , the GOP says. To be fair, the GOP leadership always goes after new ...
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• States Pushing Investigations Into Nelson’s Deal

  
  IntoxiNation — Authority: 516
  Another court battle over the health care reform is brewing: The top prosecutors in seven states are probing the constitutionality of a political deal that cut a funding break for Nebraska in order to pass a federal health care reform bill, South Carolinas attorney general said Tuesday. Attorney General Henry ...
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• obama & supreme court agree: detainees are not "persons" and torture is logical consequence of detention

  
  we move to canada — Authority: 432
  [redsock guest post] In the ever-growing list of ideologies shared by both Barack Obama and the Cheney administration - not to mention some of the most brutal dictators in history - we can add this : The Obama administration had asked the [U.S. Supreme] court ... [to] let stand an earlier opinion by the D.C. ...
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• Obamacare numbers fall apart

  
  The right-wing liberal — Authority: 519
  Just when a leading “Blue Dog” Dem says he and his buddies will roll over on Obamacare so long as the cost numbers balance ( The Conservatives.com ), the numbers . . . become unbalanced ( Fox News  via The Corner ): Savings from Medicare touted by Democrats as a means to pay for the Senate health care bill ...
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• Gregg: Health Bill a ‘Pure and Simple Scam on the American People’

  
  Breitbart.tv — Authority: 755
  
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• Senator Cites New Budget Letter to Argue Health Care Bill Will Hike Deficit

  
  Breitbart.tv — Authority: 755
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• Quote of the Day: PJ ORourke on God and Santa Claus

  
  Mad Minerva 2.0 — Authority: 141
  Oh, PJ : I have only one firm belief about the American political system, and that is this: God is a Republican and Santa Claus is a Democrat. God is an elderly or, at any rate, middle-aged male, a stern fellow, patriarchal rather than paternal and a great believer in rules and regulations. He holds men strictly ...
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• ‘He Promised’: Progressive Group Slams Obama in New Health Care Ad

  
  Breitbart.tv — Authority: 755
  
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• As I Was Saying About HCR Being Viewed As A Democratic Electorate Guarantee

  
  IntoxiNation — Authority: 516
  I hate playing the game of “i told ya so”, but it looks like that is what’s going to happen. Last Friday I wrote a post in which I said: I’m just spit-balling here, but something has struck me. For years we have talked about how banning abortion was a necessity for Republican victory, as backed up by the ...
  15 hours ago

• Green Party of New York Decries US Senate Health Care Sellout

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 437
  The Green Party of New York State decries the “historic” deal reached in the US Senate as historic only in the sense of its betrayal of American working people, women, and democracy.Green Party members across the United States still demand single-payer, universal health care, which is the  most efficient and ...
  16 hours ago

• Not Under the Bus!

  
  mirabile dictu — Authority: 127
  Check it out! Posted in Healthcare, reproductive health, US Politics Tagged: Feminism, health care, Not Under the Bus, US Politics
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• Blue Dog Breaks from the Pack

  
  Anti-BVBL — Authority: 137
  From Politico :   Democrats got a punch in the gut on Tuesday when freshman Congressman Parker Griffith (D-AL) announced he would switch parties.  Griffith is what is known as a blue dog Democrat, or a Democrat who is more fiscally conservative than the average Democrat.  He stated as his reason for switching ...
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• The Obstruction Gang: GOP Abuses the Filibuster to Stop Progress

  
  Alternative Tulsa — Authority: 128
  T he current version of the Republican Party has a well-deserved reputation as The Party of No. Whatever President Obama and the Democrats propose, the GOP is against it. But theres more to it than simple political opposition. The Republicans play games with the filibuster , deliberately gumming up the ...
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