From Talking Points Memo:
Senate Votes Again And Just One Vote Left On Health Care
The Senate just cleared its next-to-last procedural hurdle before passing its version of the health care bill.
In a predictable 60-39 vote, senators invoked cloture on final...
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of New York's 28th congressional district wrote an op-ed for CNN on Wednesday that outlines why she feels it's time to kill the current health care reform bill. Representative Slaughter says it's time to start over.
Slaughter...
Being that I'm God, I hear everyone's prayers...even some I'd rather not (Sarah, you know who I'm talking about). Last night I heard this one prayer and I just had to blog about it.
Now, in order to keep Deity-Worshipper...
From Think Progress:
Matalin slurs health reform advocates as ‘health care jihadists.’
Yesterday on CNN, Republican strategist and CNN contributor Mary Matalin railed against Democrats for pushing forward with health reform efforts. “They’ve been on this jihad for 70 years, and...
Amidst a DC blizzard Senators arrived for a cloture vote that began at 1:01am EST to determine whether or not to end the debate on major amendments for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The result was a...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is now confident that he has the sixty votes needed to proceed with cloture for H.R.3590. The Senate has met every day since November 30th in the hopes of getting the needed sixty...
Despite the fiasco that the Senate has made of things we are now faced with a simple question: what now? We know we aren't going to get what we want. In fact we knew that the minute that single...
If you have contacted a representative in Congress, other than the ones from your area, you soon learned that they only want to hear from their constituents. They want you to give them your address and telephone number, so...
I came across a few columns that I thought that you might find interesting. The reason that I get to write this column is that I have a new metaphor for these other guys' point.
Why do we, progressives, lose...
Dear Ted Kennedy,
I miss you, so many of us miss you, so very much.
Ted, I am torn on our current health care reform debate and I know,
if you were here, you could help us all understand this.
I am...
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