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• Most transparent WH: Do you know anything about 17 WH parties or 11 open houses

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 133
  Nice to include 50,000 in WH holiday events but how secure is the White House? The Obamas’ first Christmas in the White House looked set to be a white one after Washington woke up yesterday to its biggest snowfall in years, leading the mayor to declare a state of emergency. It will also prove gruelling for the ...
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• Hope? Change? Dems hope they can ram socialized HC thru B4 XMAS

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 133
  No change in Dems buying votes so they don’t have to talk to their constituency about Obamacare. Legislators in the US senate have passed a highly contentious healthcare reform bill that could lead to significant changes in the countrys medical system. Democrats unanimously backed the bill in a vote that began at ...
  16 hours ago

• ‘Dr.’ Coburn Finally Tempers His ‘Bye, Bye Byrdie’ Remark

  
  The Satirical Political Report — Authority: 432
  “I NEVER MEANT SENATOR BYRD ANY SERIOUS HARM; JUST THAT THE OLD GUY MISS THE VOTE DUE TO A SERIOUS BOUT OF CONSTIPATION, THEN OVERCOMPENSATE WITH AN OVERDOSE ON PRUNE JUICE.”
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• If you’re hoping anyone thinks you have class, you haven’t got a prayer

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 469
  From Dana Milbank at The Washington Post : Going into Monday morning’s crucial Senate vote on health-care legislation, Republican chances for defeating the bill had come down to a last, macabre hope. They needed one Democratic senator to die — or at least become incapacitated. At 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon ...
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• When will the men in the white coats with butterfly nets come for Tom Coburn -- and the rest of the right-wing crazies?

  
  DownWithTyranny! — Authority: 620
  Its time to stop pussyfooting around the reality that the Evil Doctor is either hopelessly insane or a sociopathic liar, and either way needs to be straitjacketed and institutionalized immediately. "At 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon -- nine hours before the 1 a.m. vote that would effectively clinch the legislations ...
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• Did Coburn Offer Prayer for Byrds Timely Demise?

  
  Velvetpark | Dyke Culture in Bloom — Authority: 142
  In the wee hours of the morning, the U.S. Senate gathered to vote on cloture, the first of three motions, for the health care reform bill in order to move the process on to the next step.
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• Pelosi: No Votes on "Controversial" DADT or ENDA in 2010

  
  Rod 2.0:Beta — Authority: 618
  Cant say there havent been several warnings. House and Senate Democratic leadership are concerned about the Partys vulnerability in the mid-term elections. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told her caucus that they will not vote on "controversial bills" such as...
  23 hours ago

• Health Care Reform Survives First Procedural Hurdle

  
  Progress Illinois - — Authority: 576
  Supporters of health care reform can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Late last night, by a 60-40 roll call, the Senate voted to end debate on the managers amendment to the Democratic health care bill, thefirst of three cloture votes required to pass the historic piece oflegislation. On Friday night, Senate ...
  1 day ago

• Morning Joe Furthers Durbin Complaint, Ignores Another Dem Senators Aryan Charge

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 823
  There was something very important that I did not see on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” this morning. The very first bump-in on the show was a montage of Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.): COBURN: What the American people ought to pray, is that somebody can’t make the vote tonight. That’s what ...
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• Coburn To America: Pray That A Democratic Senator Cant Make The Vote

  
  TPM LiveWire — Authority: 788
  During the Sunday Senate debate on health care, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) called on the American people to pray that a Democratic Senator would be unable to vote on the health care bill, in order to force Democrats to work with Republicans on the issue. "What the American people oughtta pray is that somebody cant make ...
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• Noted Christian Senator Calls on Wingnut Masses to Pray for Death of Other Senator

  
  ANIMAL — Authority: 670
  Oh hey did you hear the Senate passed a health care reform bill last night at 1am? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s a shit bill that everybody hates, but hey they did SOMETHING, so now they can all go home for Christmas and brag about that. Oh, and then there’s this: In the hours leading up to the vote, renowned Jesus ...
  1 day ago

• Durbin Suffering Memory Loss

  
  JammieWearingFool — Authority: 715
  This is precious. Dick "The Turban" Durbin is criticizing Republican lawmakers for the coarsening language in the debate. Durbin of course is a victim of some sort of memory loss. Lets jut refresh the senators memory by replaying the speech he made on the floor of the Senate in 2007 comparing our troops to Nazi storm ...
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• Republicans and what they pray for

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 801
  Via Think Progress , we learn about the very Christian values Tom Coburn put on display yesterday when he was discussing the upcoming cloture vote on the health care reform bill: What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can’t make the vote tonight. That’s what they ought to pray. Nice ...
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• Senate votes at 1:08 a.m. on health bill; clears first hurdle on 60-40 party line roll call

  
  Lynn Sweet — Authority: 684
  WASHINGTON--The Senate advanced historic health care legislation on a 60-40 party line vote at 1:08 Monday morning, clearing a critical procedural hurdle. Illinois Democratic Senators Dick Durbin and Roland Burris voted yes. Sixty votes were needed to avoid a filibuster on the legislation. The vote on the bill could ...
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• Coburn: American People Ought to Pray

  
  FREEDOM EDEN — Authority: 512
  The Left is pretending to be horrified by something that Sen. Tom Coburn said during his remarks from the floor of the Senate on Sunday. Dick Durbin took to the floor to express his shock. What a joke! Video. Transcript SEN. TOM COBURN: So, its not about being bipartisan. Its about... You get to take ...
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• Orwellian: Health Care Cloture Vote Scheduled for 1:00 AM

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 574
  This is so Orwellian. These tyrants voting away our rights in the middle of the night. I won’t be staying up, regardless of what they’re doing in DC some of us still have to get up and go to work in the morning. This is just terrible, what these democrats are doing. Some time shortly after 1:00 AM the democrats ...
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• Expose Him To Reality, Now!

  
  Corrente — Authority: 628
  Bill Moyers hosted an interesting conversation the other day among Robert Kuttner, Matt Taibbi, and himself about health care reform, the performance of the Administration to this point, and the relations of progressives with the President. The conversation focused in part on how Taibbi and Kuttner would vote on the ...
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• Now if he can only figure out how to wrap it…

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 469
  Washington ( CNN ) — Senate Democrats braved the aftermath of a blizzard Sunday to continue their push to pass a sweeping health care bill before Christmas. Original DVD cover The Senate began an all-day session to be followed by a crucial vote scheduled for after midnight on changes crafted by Majority ...
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• Sen. Tom Coburn hopes for Senator Byrd’s death so Byrd can’t vote tonight

  
  WHITE NOISE INSANITY — Authority: 430
  This video is of Sen. Dick Durbin asking Coburn to come to the floor to explain his remark (he never does because he’s a right wing pussy), which was: “What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can’t make the vote tonight. That’s what they ought to pray.”. Coburn said this on the floor of ...
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• Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 20 December 2009

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  The Talk Shows Sunday, December 20th, 2009 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): White House senior adviser David Axelrod; Howard Dean, former national Democratic ...
  2 days ago

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