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DOWNLOADS: 7 PLAYS: 4 ("Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your . . . .never mind") Since debate on the issue of our current Immigration laws should be heating up soon, this may be jumping the gun. But it's never too early to start getting some historic perspective on issues. So this post is about ...
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You know, the Catholic Church certainly gets to enforce whatever rules they make - but this wouldn't bother me so much if they were consistent. After all, when was the last time a bishop singled out someone for supporting what the Church itself labeled an "unjust war" or for voting in support of ...
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DOWNLOADS: (16) PLAYS: (56) George Stephanopoulos just had to give Liz Cheney some more air time on his bobblehead show in another of his "fair and balanced" panels. Sorry Liz but what's "inexcusable" is your daddy helping to get us into this quagmire in the first place. I still want to know ...
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Afghanistan
Dick Cheney
Dear Associated Press,
Holy Joe Lieberman is a man of many parts.
He is a sleazebag, a warmongering Neocon, a sanctimonious backstabber, "Armageddon" John Hagee's "Zionists bring the Second Coming" Reacharound Buddy, a serial betrayer of the leaders of the Democratic Party, ...and many ...
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Joe Lieberman
Democratic National Committee
DOWNLOADS: (23) PLAYS: (41) I caught this on Hardball as well and was focused on Matthews touting tort reform as a solution to health care costs, which is nothing but a distraction and right wing talking point as Daphne Eviatar does a nice job of summing up here. Digby took note of why allowing ...
White House
Haley Barbour
Chris Matthews
Health care
DOWNLOADS: (15) PLAYS: (58) Despite the Club for Growth, Dick Armey and Sarah Palin's involvement in New York's 23rd District Congressional race resulting in Democrat Bill Owens being elected, Fox News Sunday makes The Club for Growth's Chris Chocola their "Power Player of the Week". Yeah, the ...
White House
Fox News
Sarah Palin
Republican National Committee
Chris Matthews
Did you know that Luke Russert is the new political It Girl?" From now on, I'm calling him Clara Bow.
Digby explains.
Little Luke:That's what all signs are point to right now. But the interesting thing we can take away from this is a point that NBC producer Ken Strickland made that I ...
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Harry Reid
DOWNLOADS: (1) PLAYS: (18) h/t David From This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn and Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz get into one of those discussions over this week's breast screening recommendations in which the Republican simply constructs an alternate ...
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Marsha Blackburn
Joe Lieberman gives us a perfect example why he's a liar in chief.
Water Tiger:
now with an extra serving of tool-ness :
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) raised hackles among liberals earlier this week when he claimed that the public option wasn't a part of the 2008 presidential campaign. ...
Congress
Joe Lieberman
Barack Obama
I'm not feeling incredibly optimistic this morning. Sounds like the most conservative (and most expensive) version of this bill will make up the final version, and I don't see much to celebrate. Is it better to have a crappy bill - or no bill at all? And why should those be our only options? The ...
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Harry Reid
John Cole finds Chuck Todd wanking away on Twitter.
Shorter Chuck Todd: It’s only big news if the Democrats fail!
I guess he didn’t pick up on the fact that if they had failed to get the 60 votes, HCR would, for all intents and purposes, be dead in the short run, as the Republicans ...
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Barack Obama
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As Jed noted "What would a health care debate be without some good ol' ...
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Medicaid
Lamar Alexander
Nate Silver on why we shouldn't celebrate just yet:
Needless to say, it would have been very, very bad news for the Democrats if the motion to proceed to debate on their health care plan had failed tonight. But I'm not sure how newsworthy this really is. The potential hold-outs, like Lincoln ...
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Blanche Lincoln
Joe Lieberman
Taibblog : The country’s first WWE politician — a cartoon combatant who inspires stadiums full of frustrated middle American followers who will cheer for her against whichever villain they trot out.
The Political Carnival : 1,500 uninsured Arkansans line up for free health care clinic...Bill ...
White House
Alan Colmes
Barack Obama
Sarah Palin
Don Henley- Heart of the Matter These times are so uncertain There's a yearning undefined ...People filled with rage We all need a little tenderness How can love survive in such a graceless age The trust and self-assurance that can lead to happiness They're the very things we kill, I guess Pride ...
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CNN
Why on earth is the moustache of understanding -- he who has been profoundly wrong about everything from the nature of the free market-- still haunting my tee vee?
Crossposted with more and bigger.
Open thread below...
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I was reminded of this song when a rerun of House MD showed this to be the good doctor's ringtone. If you've a mighty good man in your life, or you are one, this is dedicated to you. And our sister site Newstalgia presents a full concert on Saturday nights, tonight J. Geils Band, Augusta, ...
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Georgia
DOWNLOADS: (90) PLAYS: (422) MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan talks to Rep. Alan Grayson about the amendment passed by the House Financial Services Committee to allow an independent audit of the Federal Reserve. If Alan Greenspan is not happy about it, I take that as a good sign they did the right thing. ...
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Federal Reserve
DOWNLOADS: (2) PLAYS: (125) Yes, they're perfectly serious. Here's the cast of characters, including: NATE: Nate, a young black man from Detroit, Michigan, voted for Barack Obama in 2008 from an upbringing that taught him to mistrust America because of the color of his skin. As a Libertarian ...
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Hello everyone! For those who I'm meeting for the first time, I'm Jason and I write for The Seminal as well as work for Health Care for America Now .
John Amato has been kind enough to invite me over to Crooks & Liars for a little bit of liveblogging the Senate health care debate today ...
