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• Americas Metastasizing Intelligence Apparatus

  
  Corrente — Authority: 625
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• Congressional Transparency Reveals… the New Watergate?

  
  The Mudflats — Authority: 594
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made good on her promise to put congressional spending records online for the first time ever.  Score one for transparency in government! As long as a Representative stays within the guidelines, they have broad latitude about how to spend their alloted money.  At first glance ...
  4 days ago

• Authority to Spy on Americans Unclear as Patriot Act Expires

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 567
  Editor’s Note: Unclear my ass. Read the Bill of Rights Source: ABC News Rushed into law by Congress just weeks after Sept. 11, 2001 three controversial provisions of the Patriot Act granting officials far-reaching surveillance and seizure powers in the name of national security, are due to expire this ...
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• Royalty Bill’s Chances Fading

  
  Radio 2020 — Authority: 122
  Washington Research Group Concept Capital ’s Paul Gallant says in a new report that chances of the Performance Rights Act passing have downgraded from a 60% likelihood to 40%. The Performance Rights Act would force radio stations to pay royalties for playing music on top of the usual array of song writer ...
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• Loudon: Barack Obama and the Socialist Healthcare Scamsters

  
  RBO — Authority: 527
  Physicians for a National Health Program National Coordinator Dr. Quentin Young with Sen. Barack Obama at Dr. Young’s 80th birthday celebration in 2003.Trevor Loudon writes on his New Zeal blog:Despite little public clamor for government controlled health care, the US Senate is looking increasingly likely to pass ...
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• Constitutional Law’s Tyranny of Complexity

  
  Pajamas Media — Authority: 821
  If we don’t stop rewriting our basic law into gobbledygook that the average person can’t understand, this country faces a dark future.
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• Single payer at the National Press Club and the days news

  
  Corrente — Authority: 625
  Statement of Russell Mokhiber President, Single Payer Action Good morning. My name is Russell Mokhiber. I’m the president of Single Payer Action. Single Payer Action is a non-profit 501c.4 organization. Our mission is a simple one: – secure single payer Medicare for all national health insurance for the ...
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• The Democrats don’t want to abolish the private insurance industry. They are capitalists.

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 126
  “For the Democrats, with the exception of John Conyers and a few others, they simply don’t want to abolish the private insurance industry. They are capitalists and believe in the capitalist system that makes health care a commodity to be bought and sold. For them, health care is not a human right. … One minute ...
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• Who Is “Nutty”?

  
  The American Sector — Authority: 128
  Representative John Conyers Jr., Democrat of Michigan and the second-most senior member of the House, today ripped into President Obama and Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, accusing them of “bowing down” to “nutty right-wing” proposals just to get a health care bill passed. “I’m getting tired ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obama Isnt Just Losing Support In the Polls

  
  Cutting Through The Fog — Authority: 132
  For the first time since Obama took office, the majority of political polls now show him at a level that is below a 50% favorability rating -- that theoretical level at which any President can still be considered popular.But, more than polling, Obama is losing popularity with his own political party. There are ...
  2 weeks ago

• Conyers: Obama "Bowing Down" to the Right on Healthcare

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 459
  Across the nation many Progressives have been disillusioned with the leadership shown by President Obama on Healthcare. As a former single-payer proponent himself we simply hoped that he would fight harder for a better bill. Instead, he allowed the Congress to mostly write the healthcare bill and far from gave a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Friday Talking Points [102] — Harry Reid's Glacial Progress Grinds On

  
  ChrisWeigant.com — Authority: 420
  Our illustrious (cough, cough) White House press corps showed it could get to the bottom of a story with impressively journalistic and probative skills this week. The story that so obviously required multiple questions to President Obama on his trip to Asia? Whether hes eating enough, and whether hes losing weight. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Top black Democrat complains, “I’m getting tired of saving Obama’s can”

  
  I Hate the Media Article Feed — Authority: 577
  When leftist Democrat Congressman John Conyers told reporters, “I’m getting tired of saving Obama’s can,” you may have thought it was just a slip of the tongue. But no, according to The Hill, Conyers was just getting warmed up: President Barack Obama is “bowing down” to Republicans and corporate ...
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• Authors Stand Up Against Piracy

  
  Music Technology Policy — Authority: 115
  I heard a leading novelist asked where he got the ideas for his books. He said that he kept a journal and wrote down every detail of his life. Hed keep a very precise account of what he did every day and what he thought every day and then one day he began to lie. And hed lie a little more and a little more and then ...
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• Audio: Rep. John Conyers (D-MI): I’m getting tired of saving Obama’s can

  
  Mofo Politics | Hoping Obama Fails — Authority: 537
  
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• Conyers: "Im getting tired of saving Obamas can in the White House"

  
  Corrente — Authority: 625
  (x-posted at ePluribus media ) Via The Hill, John Conyers hammers Obamas weak stance in the healthcare battle in a radio interview: "Im getting tired of saving Obamas can in the White House," Conyers said on the liberal Bill Press radio show . "He only won by five votes in the House, and this bill wasnt even ...
  2 weeks ago

• Just give us anything and we will declare victory, this is health care reform

  
  This Week With Barack Obama — Authority: 141
  Look, whether you are for single payer, the public option, moderate changes in the health care legislation, everyone on here knows how Rahm Emanuel operates. I am not mad at him, he is who he is. A moderate, corporatist democrat. He was successful in bringing in massive Democrats like, Heath Shuler, to our party. ...
  2 weeks ago

• AUDIO- Conyers: "Im getting tired of saving Obamas can in the White House."

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 682
  By GottaLaff Via Taegan, a podcast from Bill Presss show: Ouch. Conyers is not at all happy with the White House, and doesnt hold back. He straight up accuses President Obama of caving to the wingnuts and Rahm Emanuel of "settling for anything." The Democratic party is diverse, all right.... but ...
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• Conyers: Im getting tired of saving Obamas can

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Conyers: Im getting tired of saving Obamas can By Michael OBrien - 11/19/09 11:16 AM ET President Barack Obama is "bowing down" to Republicans and corporate interests on health reform, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) said Thursday. Conyers, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a longtime advocate of ...
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• Conyers calls for rebuilding financial regulations

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 609
  Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, had an op-ed column in the Detroit Free Press on Tuesday calling for the financial industry to be re-regulated in the wake of multiple scandals and trillions of taxpayer dollars being used to keep banking and investment companies from going ...
  2 weeks ago

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