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Certain Democratic members of the Senate Finance Committee are huge freakin losers. That is all.

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A somewhat disheartening note from an article about the Departmnt of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, which was ravaged into a shell of its former self during the Bush Administration:

Under the Bush administration, it was “destroyed,” said John Payton, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, who criticized the shift away from the department’s traditional civil […]

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It’s one thing when Fox News personalities say things that are totally loony; this happens at least once a day, if not at least once an hour.
It’s another thing entirely when Fox News Channel itself puts out advertising that is so obviously demonstrably false as to be discredited within minutes. That doesn’t happen quite as […]

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Hat tip- Oliver Willis.

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Last night Republican Representative Joe Wilson (South Carolina) repeatedly heckled the president, calling him a “liar” and interrupting his speech to volley “you lie.” The House immediately started booing Wilson (not the president), and Obama paused to look in the direction of the crack to coolly respond “that’s not true.”

All eyes turned in the South […]

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So, Obama’s speech wasn’t bad I thought, with a couple of exceptions.
Expectations were pretty low at least from progressives, that I think I was heartened by the number of times he called out Republicans’ lies and distortions. Also, the absolutely pitiful and hobbling televised Republican response from Rep Charles Boustany (a doctor he was careful […]

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Hate to say I told you so, but, well… This:

On the morning of a major address to Congress on health care, President Obama admitted that he had made some mistakes in the reform debate.
“I, out of an effort to give Congress the ability to do their thing and not step on their toes, probably left […]

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Did anyone else find all the conservative furor over this kind of hilarious? I know I should be mad since it was stupid and a distraction from health care (not to mention the president’s actual message to students) and all that, but watching them go nuts over something that was quite obviously not going to […]

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Yesterday I wrote a post called What went wrong on health reform?. Here’s one possible answer.
Years ago, when Mr and Mrs Clinton tried to achieve universal health care, they were criticized by innumerable Republicans (and a fair share of Democrats too) who felt that they had been too strong in crafting the legislation themselves, and […]

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So, Obama is reportedly likely to call a joint session of Congress next week so he can deliver a prime time address to both the House and the Senate on the importance of health care reform. That’s a good thing.
But as much as it pains me to say this, to anybody who’s been playing the […]

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