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• Nuke Power Boost Becoming "Obvious" As Motive For Lindsey Grahams Love Affair With Climate Change Legislation. SHOCKED?

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 145
  I wonder what kinds of graham cracker crumbs are lingering along this money trail? AFP reports ~ Nuclear energy high on Senates climate agenda After shrugging off a boycott by Republicans who opposed the measure and mostly shunned the debate, Democrats pushed the legislation through the Senate ...
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• Copenhagen climate talks: US refusal to rush gives Obama time to get Senate onside

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  • Ratification of new treaty needs two-thirds majority • Delay could win big prize: bringing China on board Barack Obamas admission that next months crucial climate talks in Copenhagen will not provide a legally binding treaty is the best thing – and the worst thing – the world needed to hear. On the ...
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• If The House Bill Will Not Rein In Future Health Care Cost Growth Rates, What Will? (Well, Besides Single-Payer, DUH)

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 145
  The Wonk Room takes a look at the Center on Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)s “ estimate of the financial and coverage effects of the non-tax provisions” in the House health care bill " and concludes that it does little to contain costs. Rather than complain about a fictitious ...
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• Religious Correctness Bedamned After Catholics Act To Block Access To Legal Abortions And Threaten Services To DC Poor Over Teh GAY

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 145
  When church and state collide... Locally, friends are wondering aloud how much the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wilmingtons bankruptcy may interrupt the flow of government contracts for reentrys job training, life skills, housing, mentoring and other services to those in need. But take a look at the ...
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• Stakes in the Ground?

  
  Lahdee's World — Authority: 116
  Democrats may have put some stakes in the ground for 2010. The first would be the President’s intention to seek domestic spending cuts.President Obama is expected to make post-recession spending restraint a key theme of his State of the Union address in January and an important element of the budget he submits to ...
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• If Recent Congressional Amendments Are To Be Believed

  
  Welcome to The Now — Authority: 138
  Republicans not only dont want to prevent rape (their objection to the Franken Amendment), they want the victim to be forced to have the child (the flap over the Stupak Amendment).
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• The Environmental Defense Fund Has A New Ad For Their Climate Vote Campaign

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 145
  From the inbox: You cant live without water, and thats a problem in a warming world. Billions of people get their fresh water from mountain glacier meltwater flows. The trouble is the planets glaciers are receding at alarming rates. Nowhere is this threat more acute than in China and India where huge ...
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• Frieda Berryhill Writes: More Contamination

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 145
  Guard our water Toxic waste trickles toward New Mexico s water sources Radioactive debris has been found in canyons that drain into the Rio Grande , but officials at the Los Alamos National Laboratory say theres no health risk. Radioactive debris has been found in canyons that drain into the Rio ...
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• Good News Is Coming On The Job Front (Crosses Fingers And Prays)

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 145
  Despite Larry Summers apparent lack of concern for putting Americans back to work, Congress is finally stepping up to the plate ~ Reid: Senate will take up 2010 jobs bill As Tim Fernholz at the American Prospect blog pointed out this morning ( via Atrios ) ~ Congress is ...
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• Time for men to make a sacrifice | Katha Pollitt

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 157
  Women are being asked to shut up and accept the ban on abortion funding in the US healthcare reform bill. We wont You know what I dont want to hear right now about the Stupak-Pitts amendment banning abortion coverage from federally subsidised health insurance policies? That its the price of reform , and pro-choice ...
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• A Model For Building Healthy Communities

  
  The MountainGoat Report — Authority: 92
  Theres a great read at Kaiser Health News today on how two counties in rural Kentucky are delivering health services in the "worst health care region in America" and that despite the health care reform debate, some area experts dont anticipate much changing as a result of these current proposals.  Instead citizen ...
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• Michele Bachmann – GOP Rising Star

  
  ARRA News Service — Authority: 565
  by Ellen Sauerbrey: There is a new star in the GOP firmament and she is principled, savvy, articulate and beautiful. No, I dont mean Sarah, though the former Alaska Governor has already demonstrated the ability of a conservative woman to connect with the voters. The rising star is Michele Bachmann, the ...
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• Campaign for Community Change Writes: CALL TOM CARPER TODAY And Ask Him For Decent Health Care For Americans NOW

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 145
  I got this email today and I agree: theres no better person to make the call to Carper than YOU~! From the inbox: I work with the Campaign for Community Change as part of Health Care for America Now (HCAN). We are pushing for progressive healthcare reform, including the public option. We saw your great ...
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• ACORN Fights Back; Sues US For Legislative Determination Of Guilt Without A Trial

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 145
  From DKos ~ ACORN is suing the U.S. government: Saying a resolution by the House of Representatives that barred Acorn from receiving federal aid violated the Constitution by singling the antipoverty group out for punishment, lawyers for Acorn filed a lawsuit on Thursday that seeks to restore ...
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• The Blue Dogs explained | Michael Tomasky

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Heres my latest in the New York Review of Books , which is about the Blue Dog Democrats. Not behind a firewall or anything.   I wrote it before last weekends vote, so it doesnt go into the whole Stupak business, although it does flag abortion as a looming unsettled matter. But I think its fairly informative and ...
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• Pass Health Reform, But Not Like This

  
  Public Advocate's Corner — Authority: 414
  OnSaturday, the House of Representatives passeda landmark health care reform bill , 220-215, shifting focus to the Senate.If not for one amendment, such news would call for celebration. Unfortunately,the bill includes an amendment that would set strict, unprecedented restrictionson coverage for abortions under ...
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• Peter Jesson Writes: Please Support Joe Sestak For Senate

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 145
  Rafi and Iffat Zaman Invite You to a Reception for: Joe Sestak Armed Services Committee Education & Labor Committee Small Business Committee (Vice Chairman) ~*~ Saturday from 3-5PM. At the home of Rafi and Iffat Zaman 11 Carriage Path (which is in the Waterford ...
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• Are The Centrists Starting To Sweat Yet? Carper In The Spotlight Again As A National Disgrace

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 145
  My, my the Senate is flummoxed about those darned liberal activists. From DKos ~ Senate aide: Dems hush-hush on Carpers triggered co-ops to avoid progressive pushback ...Congress Dailys article about Tom Carpers plan to replace the public option with what amounts to state-level ...
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• Why Mike Castle Must Be Denied The Senate - Comment Rescue

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 145
  Delaware Liberal comment rescue by xstryker ~ 1. Castle voted against the Stimulus (jobs) 2. Castle voted against the Lily Ledbetter Act (wage equality for women) 3. Castle voted for the Stupak-Pitts Amendment (anti-choice) 4. Castle voted against health care reform 5. Castle’s ...
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• Liberal hardball from MoveOn, Kos | Michael Tomasky

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 157
  Progressive pressure groups are pulling what may prove to be a slick move. From HuffPo : In the past few weeks, several separate groups have announced they will withhold fundraising money and political support from any Democrats who either vote against the bill in the House or support a GOP filibuster of the bill ...
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