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• Partisan Health Care Politics Gives The Finger To Seniors! Outraged Yet?

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 163
  By ERICA WERNER AP (Senate Minority Asshole Mitch McConnell) WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans forced Democrats to vote in favor of cutting billions from providers of home care for older people as partisan debate flared Saturday during a rare weekend session on President Barack Obama’s health care ...
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• NBC’s Historian Goodwin Campaigns for Democratic Senate Candidate

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 505
  Before the Democratic primary vote on Tuesday in Massachusetts to replace the late Senator Ted Kennedy, a chance to catch up with how just before Thanksgiving, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin -- a Bay State resident and a favorite of NBC News where she regularly pops up to deliver conventional liberal wisdom in the ...
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• ALG to People for the American Way: "Show us the lies"

  
  Press Releases — Authority: 445
  "Barack Obama, with the explicit collusion of Valerie Jarrett, nominated a line-up of radicals to be in pivotal government positions.  Their policy positions are a matter of record." – ALG President Bill Wilson December 4 th , 2009, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government (ALG) President Bill ...
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• Partisan Discrimination at the Election Assistance Commission

  
  Big Government — Authority: 812
  So you’ve found the right candidate for the job.  He’s got a long history of exemplary service, familiarity with the subject matter that the position is responsible for, and would be an excellent addition to your office.  There’s only one problem, he’s a Republican. Sadly this isn’t a hypothetical, it ...
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• Can the Republicans Gain Control of Congress in 2010?

  
  Wake up America — Authority: 575
  As usual that depends upon how good a year the Republicans will have in 2010. If it is just a normal mid-term year in which the opposing party has the White House, the answer is there is no way to gain control of either house. In a year like 1994, there would be a decent chance of gaining control of the House. ...
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• What constitutes corruption?

  
  CHICAGO ARGUS — Authority: 122
  At what point is a government official guilty of criminal behavior, rather than just stupidity or laziness? To me, it is apparent that many people have no problem considering “laziness” and “criminality” to be the same, although what I really suspect is that some people are willing to use the criminal justice ...
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• He can’t please anybody

  
  CHICAGO ARGUS — Authority: 122
  President Barack Obama is expected Tuesday to inform the world that the United States is sending another 30,000 troops (that figure comes from the Associated Press) to Afghanistan in an attempt to bolster the military forces already there in the war against extremist elements of Islam. Which means shortly thereafter, ...
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• Does it matter any longer?

  
  CHICAGO ARGUS — Authority: 122
  The Washington Post is miffed that Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., didnt get a more harsh penalty than the letter of admonition that the Senates leadership sent him last week concerning the circumstances under which he got the ability to complete the Senate term to which Barack Obama was elected in 2004. Personally, I ...
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• Do Media Refs Do This Too? It Would Explain a Lot

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 122
  If “winning” and not good governance is all the most vicious partisans care about, their political game plan would look just like the Illini’s foul play and it would work out for them, especially on tv. A theory with excellent predictive value! ESPN dot comNovember 23, 2009Associated PressThey don’t all need ...
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• When will immigration be loved?

  
  The South Chicagoan — Authority: 118
  It was intriguing to learn of Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and his recent comments that the Democrats pushing for health care reform are eager to have the issue resolved before New Year’s Day. According to Durbin, Democrats are viewing 2009 as the year they focused on revamping the health care system so as to ...
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• DNC - SEN. GREGG LIES ABOUT PRICE OF HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM...AGAIN

  
  Press Releases — Authority: 445
  This evening on CNN Senator Judd Gregg again repeated his earlier debunked claim that the actual cost of Health Insurance Reform is $2.5 trillion, which he earlier made this morning:  “I genuinely believe we need health care reform but it has to be done on a step-by-step basis and thought fully, not in a way ...
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• Health Care Reform Framed by Politics - Without Consideration of the General Public

  
  Massachusetts Conservative Feminist | Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity — Authority: 420
  Although the Health Care Reform bill currently before the Senate will be modified several times prior to a final vote; the current version does not deliver adequate coverage and or cost savings for consumers according to an AP report released today. The rush to push the bill through the Senate lately, has less to do ...
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• THIS MIGHT HURT: Managerial Wisdom From an Unlikely Source.

  
  The National Networker (TNNW) Blog — Authority: 135
  A Conservative View Of Political Priorities -- This Could be MANAGERIAL WISDOM From an Unlikely Source ... “Words are Tools; Words are Weapons.” – Douglas Castle This Article written and © by Douglas Castle and originally published in THE NATIONAL NETWORKER™ Newsletter. All rights ...
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• Terrorism turns to partisan politics

  
  CHICAGO ARGUS — Authority: 122
  Call it the campaign strategy for 2010 – any Democrat who doesn’t play along with the GOP attempt to scare Chicago with talk of terrorists hitting the Willis Tower or O’Hare International Airport is going to get attacked anyway. Now I understand that campaigns are about criticism and trying to differentiate ...
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• Who seriously wants the trade embargo?

  
  The South Chicagoan — Authority: 118
  I got a kick out of reading the results of a new poll taken of the Cuban people (as in the ones still living on the island, not the exile community centered spiritually around Miami). For it seems that this particular survey shows the bulk of the island’s population is ready to see the United States as their ...
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• It’s all about Election Day, nothing more

  
  CHICAGO ARGUS — Authority: 122
  It doesn’t matter whether Todd Stroger prevails in his attempt to keep in place an increase in the sales tax that Cook County government approved just over a year ago. This is an issue that ultimately will be decided by the courts, and it is one whose primary purpose is to keep the issue of taxes in the minds of ...
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• Critics See Health Care Rationing Behind H1N1 Vaccine Comments

  
  Stageleft: life on the left side — Authority: 472
  Some lawmakers at Queens Park are blasting comments by Dr. Alain Poirier that " there is no evidence yet a [H1N1] booster shot is necessary " for " children between the ages of six months and 9 years old ", questioning whether the comments are tantamount to health care "rationing" in the fight against H1N1.
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• Will Palin become a political figure on the national scene, or just a bad memory?

  
  CHICAGO ARGUS — Authority: 122
  There are those who think that Sarah Palin is destined to become a leader of the conservative political movement, even though one poll taken recently shows only 23 percent of the electorate thinks favorably of the one-time Alaska governor. Actually, that figure sounds about right to me. One in four people is about ...
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• Scarlet “A” will dominate immigration reform rhetoric

  
  The South Chicagoan — Authority: 118
  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (also the one-time governor of U.S./Mexico border state Arizona) has stirred up the pot before the immigration reform debate has even begun. She made it clear that President Barack Obama has enough sense to realize that the 12 million so-called “illegal aliens” already ...
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• Could “THOMSON, Ill.” become one of the hotspot datelines on the planet?

  
  CHICAGO ARGUS — Authority: 122
  To me, one of the great shames of Illinois government of the past decade is that we are the state with serious prison crowding issues that built a new maximum-security correctional facility – only to discover that we couldn’t afford to operate it. We’re like the lottery winner who spends their one-time riches ...
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