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Michigan Town Tells Liz Cheney To Peddle Her Fearmongering Elsewhere
Standish, Michigan, tells Liz Cheney to sell it up the street: Officials in a small Michigan town featured in a new video about Guantanamo by Liz Cheneys national security group want her to know that theyre not falling for her fearmongering and tell us they want Gitmo detainees in their town. Ch …
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Weekly Tracking Poll: Pelosi At A Six-Month High
Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 11/16/2009-11/19/2009. All adults. MoE 2% (Last weeks results in parentheses): FAVORABLEUNFAVORABLENET CHANGEPRESIDENT OBAMA55 (56)39 (38)-2PELOSI:40 (39)51 (52)+2REID:32 (32)58 (57)-2McCONNELL:14 (15)68 (67)-2BOEHNER:13 (14)65 (65)-1CONGRESSIONAL DEMS:42 (41)53 (52)0CO …
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Senate Pushes "don't ask, don't tell" Down The Road ... Again
And so it goes: A planned November hearing by the US Senate Armed Services Committee to consider ending a ban on gays serving openly in the US military will be postponed, a spokeswoman indicated Friday. "We do not have a date" for the hearing, said the aide, Tara Andringa. Too busy, full plate, …
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Over 8 Million Uninsured Children In America
Organizing for America (OFA) has announced the winner of their Health Reform Video Challenge: OFA will: ... air the ad on national cable and in D.C. beginning Monday, in an effort to up the moral and emotional urgency of the health care debate with the message that the lives of an untold number …
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Former half-term governor ditches fans waiting in cold
As both Kevin K. and Dave Weigel noted earlier today, Sarah Palin angered and disappointed fans in Noblesville, Indiana yesterday when she abruptly left a book signing promotion even though there were many fans still waiting in line to receive her signature on their newly purchased copies of Going R …
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Wyden 'free choice' proposal added to Senate bill
Mike Lillis of TWI: Reid, Baucus Approve Wydens Free Choice Proposal Senate Democratic leaders have amended their newly released health reform bill to include a contentious provision allowing some workers to receive cash vouchers toward exchange coverage in lieu of enrolling in employer-based pla …
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The Fox, the bow-gate poll, and the crickets
So Fox conducts a poll on whether or not Americans approve of President Obama's bow while meeting the Emperor of Japan. Given that they attacked President Obama mercilessly over the bow on Monday, it's likely they wanted to excoriate him once again, this time using poll results showing how much Amer …
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AZ-Sen: Will There Be A New Maverick In Town?
Don't Arizonians know that he's a war hero? Senator John McCains future in the U.S. Senate may be a little less assured than previously thought. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely 2010 Republican Primary voters in Arizona finds the longtime incumbent in a virtual tie with potentia …
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The Public Option Opt-Out
The good news on the Senate version of the public option is (beyond the fact that there is one included in the bill, making conference that much easier) that it uses the essential components of the HELP version of the public option, with a few minor changes. The core of the public option remains pre …
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Abeckalypse Now!
They just don't make them any crazier than Glenn Beck: Transcript (new line signals edit point): What's in this legislation? The end of America as you know it, I believe. We are taking about massive, sweeping change. American's showed up by the hundreds of thousands …
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NY-23: Doug Hoffman Is Officially A Loser
...I meant in the election, not necessarily in life. That is for others to debate. What can be said now definitively, however, is that in the election held two-plus weeks ago, Democrat Bill Owens was properly elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, while de facto GOP nominee Doug Hoffman has o …
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Senate Readies for HCR Debate
The first floor vote on the Senate HCR bill will happen Saturday evening, after a long day of speechifying, but without having to hear bill read aloud. Chances are pretty good the 60 will be there to at least allow the bill to be considered. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has agreed to relent on his de …
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Denialogues OK New Dollars for Sexual Ignorance
Progressives who were paying attention breathed a sigh of relief and gratitude when President Obama left abstinence-only funding out of the 2010 budget. Finally, we had a more reality-based approach to human sexuality reflected in government policy, or at least, not affront to it. Some people, there …
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Polling and Political Wrap-Up, 11/19/09
Rasmussen Reports hits two of the biggest prizes in Election 2010, and in true Rasmussen fashion, find the Republican candidates doing better than any other pollsters in America. That, and a few other choice headlines from the world of the campaign trail, grace the Thursday evening edition of the W …
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NY-Gov/NY-Sen: Rudy On The Cusp of A Decision?
Thursday has been a day of great intrigue in the Empire State as it relates to 2010 electoral politics. First, fairly early in the day, came this bit of breaking news, courtesy of Danny Hakim at the New York Times: Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has decided not to run for governor of New York ne …
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Virginia Foxx Makes An Elephant Of Herself
I would have said Foxx (R-NC) made an ass of herself, but we won't malign that noble beast here. Watch it: FOXX: ... and actually the GOP has been the leader in starting good environmental programs in this, in this country, uh, just as we were the people who passed the Civil Right bills bac …
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Boehner's Over-the-Top Abortion Lies
Have you heard this one yet? That the Senate public option requires a "monthly abortion fee"? Apparently, Boehner claims on his blog that "a monthly abortion premium will be charged of all enrollees in the government-run health plan" under the Senate bill. Here's what RHRealityCheck has to say abou …
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Any Afghan 'Surge' a Snare and a Delusion
Given the record of Goldman Sachs (as detailed in McClatchy's five-part series), AIG, Halliburton and other supposedly upright U.S. corporations, it's a tad arrogant to complain about the corruption of other countries. Endemic or not, the wink-wink, nod-nod deals of much of the Third World amount to …
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The Senate HCR Abortion Provision
The extreme abortion language included in the House bill has been left out of the Senate bill, in favor of a provision that more closely tracks with the Capps amendment that was originally included in the House bill, only to be replaced by the Stupak Coathanger amendment, as well as used for the ori …
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Most Republicans think ACORN stole the 2008 election
If you ever doubted Fox's political power, look no further than these new poll results from PPP: The poll asked this question: "Do you think that Barack Obama legitimately won the Presidential election last year, or do you think that ACORN stole it for him?" The overall top-line is legitimately wo …
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