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• Copenhagen Conference Reaches Agreement on Global Emissions Framework

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 136
  When US president Barack Obama arrived in Copenhagen, there was no global agreement on how to address climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, and talks were described as being “in a state of chaos”. His morning schedule of face to face meetings was reorganized so he could attend an emergency conference of key ...
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• Al Franken, Joe Lieberman, and socks

  
  TORQOPIA - Abundance All Around Us — Authority: 130
  Kudos to Senator Franken for holding Joe "Windbag" Lieberman to his allotted ten minutes. And I agree with Senator McCain: theres something bad happening in the Senate, but its not Als objection. Its overuse of the filibuster rule by the minority party. ( Video link ) And I hadnt planned to post this ...
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• The two big mistakes | Michael Tomasky

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  I do think there are two tactical errors the White House made with regard to healthcare. There may be more. But these are the two that matter. And these are beyond doing it this year, which Ive said many times I was against.   First -- Ive said this too, come to think of it -- not enough emphasis was placed on the ...
  8 hours ago

• DeMint: Nelson Will Be an American Hero if He Doesn’t Cave to Dem Pressure

  
  Breitbart.tv — Authority: 756
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• Could HCR Be Viewed As An Electorate Guarantee For Democrats?

  
  IntoxiNation — Authority: 486
  I’m just spit-balling here, but something has struck me. For years we have talked about how banning abortion was a necessity for Republican victory, as backed up by the evidence of them actually not doing much to deliver once in office. The thought is that Republicans need to keep the abortion debate alive to ...
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• Sen. Kit Bond: ‘Twas the Congress Before Christmas

  
  Breitbart.tv — Authority: 756
  
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• Fault in the health reform debacle

  
  Why We Worry — Authority: 127
  The short answer: the Democrats in the Senate . Let me tell you why. The filibuster In the United States Senate, one Senator can hold up legislation using the filibuster rule. In order to stop a filibuster, it takes 60 votes. Senate tradition held that the filibuster would only be used in extraordinary ...
  14 hours ago

• Tea Party Poised to Defeat Reps and Dems! (Or, Perhaps not)

  
  PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Authority: 139
  There has been a meme in some rightward circles of late that Tea Party movement is poised to burst onto the scene as a real third force in American politics as the result of some recent polling. First, there was a Rasmussen poll a few weeks back that reported Tea Party Tops GOP on Three-Way Generic Ballot : In a ...
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• Can there be anyone worse than Joe Lieberman? | Michael Tomasky

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Actually, yes. From Benjy Sarlins interview at the Daily Beast with Ralph Nader, who naturally opposes the healthcare bill: Is the title of your article I told you so?" he asked. "This is what I meant a year ago when I said the next year will determine whether Barack Obama will be an Uncle Tom groveling before the ...
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• State Dept: New Website for Human Rights Review

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 144
  The State Department has launched a  new website  for the Universal Period Review (UPR) conducted by the U.N. Human Rights Council. The UPR, established in 2006, reviews the  human rights records  of all U.N. member states every four years. It seeks to “prompt, support, and expand the promotion and protection ...
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• These are the people who scream about patriotism | Michael Tomasky

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The Washington Post reports this morning that Senate Republicans tried to filibuster the Defense Department appropriation bill -- that is to say, the funding for our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan -- so as to cock up the progress of the healthcare bill. The hypocrisy of this is just blood-curdling. These are the ...
  14 hours ago

• ‘Absolutely Miserable’: Progressive ‘Architect’ Robert Creamer Compares Lieberman to ‘Suicide Bomber’

  
  Breitbart.tv — Authority: 756
  
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• Palin and the Power of the Pen

  
  PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Authority: 139
  Via Politico:  Sarah Palin cuts vacation short : "In an attempt to ‘go incognito,’ I Sharpied the logo out on my sun visor so photographers would be less likely to recognize me and bother my kids or other vacationers. "I am so sorry if people took this silly incident the wrong way. I adore John McCain, ...
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• Rand Paul, Bailouts, and the Debt

  
  Freedom is My Nationality — Authority: 425
  Rand Paul , son of Congressman Ron Paul, is running for the Senate in Kentucky. In this speech he talks about the folly of the bank bailout, the need for term limits, the disastrous debt level, the need to balance the budget, and the Federal Reserve. What he says makes a lot of sense to me and I hope he gets the ...
  16 hours ago

• Next year’s soccer moms?

  
  WE Blog — Authority: 483
  Republican pollster Ed Goeas sees the potential for 2010 to be “the year of the angry white male” at the polls, in part because unemployment is hitting men harder than women. In the recent George Washington University Battleground Poll, 33 percent of Republicans and 26 percent of independents said they were angry. ...
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• Update on Emily’s List decision and other campaign finance matters

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 436
  KW: The Green Party believes that one way to free our government from corporate control, is to tighten up campaign finance laws, for example not taking money from corporations or taking soft money from PACS. If I understand it, the position of some Libertarians is that any person or entity should be able to give [...]
  18 hours ago

• Reducing healthcare costs

  
  TORQOPIA - Abundance All Around Us — Authority: 130
  Atul Gawande has a great article in the New Yorker about how the Senate healthcare reform bill would reduce healthcare costs. Unlike expanding coverage, theres no simple solution to the cost problem, so the legislation authorizes dozens of "experiments" to find what works, just as was done a century ago when food ...
  20 hours ago

• Class, narratives and Jim Inhofe on climate change

  
  Though Cowards Flinch — Authority: 530
  Paul Sagar has an article up at his place discussing whether or not climate change denialists are duplicitous or simply stupid. I share his continuing shock that so many people – who are, on the surface, well educated – are prepared to deny the reality of anthropogenic global warming. It is surprising to me as ...
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• Private Boots on the Ground

  
  mirabile dictu — Authority: 111
  The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been a pot of gold for private contractors.  Gives them a lot of motivation to end the war, doesn’t it? A hearing in Sen. Claire McCaskill’s Contract Oversight subcommittee on contracting in Afghanistan has highlighted some important statistics that provide a window ...
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• Rand Paul’s Spokesman Resigns Over Racist Remarks

  
  IntoxiNation — Authority: 486
  Classy guy here: The spokesman for U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul resigned Thursday after the campaign acknowledged that he maintained a page on a Web site that included racist remarks and suggested the government bore some responsibility for the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Christopher Hightowers ...
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