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• Resurrecting reconciliation

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 161
  The completely predictable (and often predicted) post-cloture breath-holding from LIeberman, Lincoln, et al., in which they loudly insist they wont allow a health care bill with a public option to go forward, has begun. And with it has come renewed calls for the use of the budget reconciliation process to pass the ...
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• Midday Open Thread

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 161
  Dick Lugar, the ranking republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said we should set aside the health care debate and focus on Afghanistan. Four Washington police officers were gunned down in an ambush at a coffee shop this morning. None of the patrons or employees were hurt. A Canadian ...
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• Council seeks reaction on Kilbirnie makeover

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 138
  KILBIRNIE residents are finally getting to see what’s proposed for their suburb, described by Wellington City Council as being on the city’s “growth spine”. A Wellington City Council draft town plan outlining a makeover is just out and Kilbirnie people have been asked for their views. The council has a ...
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• Book review: Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Bright-Sided”

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 161
  Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America By Barbara Ehrenreich Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt: New York Hardcover, 256 pages, $12.42 October 2009 In the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century, positive thoughts were flowing out into the universe ...
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• The Venus Syndrome

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 161
  Its that most wonderful time of the year! Christmas decorations are going up all over America. Those colorful little strings of twinkling lights racing down eaves and winding artfully around tree trunks can do more than paint pretty holiday vistas. We can use them as an intuitive probe to look at our nearest neighbor ...
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• A Purity Test for Democrats

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 161
  The RNC is pushing a purity test for Republicans.  True to form, the modern GOP has enshrined an off-the-cuff remark of St. Ronnie the Intolerant and declared that anyone who doesnt leap over at least 8 of 10 newly-created hurdles is no longer welcome at the elephant trough. You dont have to read past the preamble ...
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• Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 161
  Sunday funnies punditry. Nicholas Kristof : John’s story is not so unusual. A Harvard study, to be published next month in the American Journal of Public Health, suggests that almost 45,000 Americans die prematurely each year as a consequence of not having insurance. John may become one of them. If a ...
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• Sunday Talk - BROKEN News!!!

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 161
  On the heels of several embarrassing " production errors " that have recently occurred, Fox News Channel this week instituted a new zero tolerance policy . And while its probably a little too early to deem this new policy a success, 193% of Republicans surveyed say its working like gangbusters. However, not ...
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• Open Thread and Diary Rescue

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 161
  This evenings Rescue Rangers are jlms qkw, dadanation, shayera, sunspark says, dopper0189, and YatPundit, with watercarrier4diogenes at the wheel of the Editmobile The rescued diaries are: Giving life to Heraclitus statement that "No one steps in the same river twice," trail runner erratic explores the ...
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• New Report: A Trigger of a “Strong” Public Option better than the Existing Public Option

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 161
  Igor Volsky writes about on a new report from the Urban Institute , which concludes that a trigger of a "strong" public option would work better than the current public option provisions in either bill. Igor: The report says that the Senate and House’s public option provisions (which require the public plan ...
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• NY-23: Eyeing 2010, Hoffman Makes Weak Attempt at Conciliation and Lies in the Process

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 161
  While most of us were preparing to spend time with family and friends and gorge ourselves on wondrous foodstuffs and televised sporting events, Doug Hoffman was busy laying the groundwork for a political comeback. In Wednesdays edition of the Polling and Political Wrap , I pointed out that CQ was reporting that ...
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• Late afternoon and early evening open thread

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 161
  Whats coming up on Sunday Kos .... Devilstower will demand that all potential Democratic candidates must meet his 10-point test of purity before they can place a holy donkey next to their names. With the recent drama in the New York 23rd, and the news this week about the GOPs new "purity test" for ...
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• BlueCross BlueShield’s Anti-Public Option, HCR Campaign

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 161
  BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina is getting some unwelcome attention for a recent mailer and robo-calls they deployed to their customers in the state, urging them to call Sen. Kay Hagan and tell her to oppose the public option. Today, a group of 20 state legislators asked Attorney General Roy Cooper and ...
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• ‘Black Friday’: Best Not to Buy the Hype

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 161
  The stories say "Black Friday" is looking good . Not good if you are one of those who participated in the anti-consumerist, pro-environment Buy Nothing Day . But, rather, good in the sense that shoppers are filling their carts, which may help boost a battered economy and eventually lead to millions of out-of-work ...
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• Midday open thread

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 161
  Jacob Weisberg on Obamas Brilliant First Year : About one thing, left and right seem to agree these days: Obama hasnt done anything yet. ... This conventional wisdom about Obamas first year isnt just premature—its sure to be flipped on its head by the anniversary of his inauguration on Jan. 20. If, as seems ...
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• Saturday hate mail-apalooza

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 161
  Rumsfeld! Below the fold.
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• Saturday hate mail-apalooza

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 801
  Rumsfeld! Below the fold.
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• Home Job a Good Gig, If You Can Find One

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 161
  I had a boss a decade ago who hated the idea of employees working from home. Hated it. Glared at me every time I suggested we let a few of our team work at home at least a couple of days a week. That team mostly comprised editors and, with an Internet hook-up, they could easily have accomplished their tasks in the ...
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• White House Considers Conrad’s “Entitlement Reform” Commission

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 161
  Kent Conrad is trying to sell his Social Security/Medicare cutting commission idea to the White House, and they seem to be listening, to a degree. To briefly recap: Senators from both parties on Tuesday put new pressure on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to turn the power to trim entitlement benefits over to an ...
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• This Week in Science

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 161
  One of the funniest emails Ive read in weeks. Its referring to the swift-boat attacks now in play on climate scientists which could soon be the subject of a congressional (Yes, Im cereal ) investigation: Since youre BFF with that liar Michel Mann [sp?], why dont you explain to him theres this thing called ...
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