US politics

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• The healthcare social contract

  
  Clive Crook's blog — Authority: 584
  Rereading my column on healthcare from yesterday, I was unfair to one strand of progressive opposition to the Senate healthcare bill. The left has two main arguments. The first is that private insurance companies are such scoundrels that anything which puts business their way must be bad. On this view, the public ...
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• Democratic Rep Switches to GOP

  
  Breitbart.tv — Authority: 751
  
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• Democratic congressman from Alabama switches parties

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Parker Griffith, who voted against Obamas healthcare bill, will become a Republican 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 ...
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• The conference negotiations | Michael Tomasky

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  TPMs Christina Bellantoni delivers a solid report more on the likely shape of the conference negotiations between House and Senate on the final shape of the bill. Very much worth a read. Basically, almost everything is going to go the Senates way, her sources tell her. Its the more conservative bill, and Pelosi et ...
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• Who switches to the minority party? | Michael Tomasky

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Parker Griffith, a Democratic congressman from Alabama, has announced hes switching to the GOP. Bad news for the Dems, to be sure, to lose someone. Anyone. But its kind of an odd move. Who joins the minority party, giving up some power, 11 months away from an election? Its weird. Weirder is that Eric Erikson of red ...
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• Republicans Demand Expansion of Government Funding for Healthcare

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 432
  The Republican party is now taking a political position radically opposed to their entire philosophical and strategic posture during the healthcare debate. Upset to learn that Sen. Ben Nelson may have won special funding guarantees to help his state provide funding for Medicaid in an economic climate where the state ...
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• Do You Tell 30 Million to Wait for Perfection?

  
  Cleveland Leader - Cleveland News & More! — Authority: 569
  Medical care for 30 million people who do not have medical care now. 30,000,000. That’s one more than 29,999,999. What do those who want to kill the health bill because it doesn’t go far enough say to these 30,000,000 Americans? Wait longer? Not good enough for me because I have mine and I want you to have ...
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• BREAKING: Rep. Parker Griffith To Switch Parties

  
  IntoxiNation — Authority: 516
  Rep. Parker Griffith (D-AL-5) is expected to announce today that he is switching from Democrat to Republican: According to a senior GOP aide familiar with the decision, the announcement will take place in this afternoon in his home district in northern Alabama . Griffith’s party switch comes on the eve of a ...
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• Harkin ‘Surprised’ at Lieberman Claim He Wasn’t Pushed On Public Option

  
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• ‘Sleazy’: Graham Slams Senate Deal-Making

  
  Breitbart.tv — Authority: 751
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• Burris Slams Republicans in Reworked ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas’

  
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• Gibbs Takes Shot at RNC Chair’s Speaking Fees

  
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• Harken: Vote Bribes ‘Small Stuff’

  
  Breitbart.tv — Authority: 751
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• Says it all | Michael Tomasky

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Great headline from the Gawker yesterday : News of first major progressive legislation in 30 years enrages liberals.   And the post under the hed is pretty good too, to wit (coarse language ahead):   [Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders] would prefer universal single-payer! He introduced an amendment to that end! It ...
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• Justice Dept. Should Investigate Bush-era Congressional ‘Deal-making’

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 432
  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is alleging “back-room dealmaking” and what he believes to be a misuse of office in Sen. Ben Nelson’s securing additional federal funding for his state’s Medicaid program, which is facing a severe budget shortfall. He wants the attorney general of his state to investigate whether ...
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• Hidden Clause: Reid Bill Says Future Congresses Cannot Repeal Parts of Reid Bill

  
  Breitbart.tv — Authority: 751
  
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• Election debates: five key lessons from the US for Brown, Cameron and Clegg | Andrew Sparrow

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Many countries hold election debates – but we know the most about Americas America is not the only country in the world that has televised debates between political leaders and last night Mark Pack at Liberal Democrat Voice had a pop at the Guardian for ignoring the fact that there are other countries in the ...
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• Cartoon of the Day

  
  Lakeshore Laments — Authority: 139
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• After Copenhagen II: Whither progressive politics?

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 568
  A predictable response to the Copenhagen fail has been calls from Australian business for *even more* ‘compensation’ as a condition for continued support of the Rudd government’s ETS. I’ll save the domestic politics of the Copenhagen washup for a later post, but I think it’s also worth reflecting on what ...
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• Does Detroit Suck? Does it Matter?

  
  CKA Canadian Forums — Authority: 160
  by xerxes Id say its mostly spot on. Though, the last I heard the average house price in Detriot was $18000.... You can also spread blame to the entire American manufacturing industry which shipped manufacturing jobs overseas as fast as they could in order to escape from unions who were trying to preserve something ...
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