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Most of you probably know this one: A man is wandering around under a street light looking down at the ground. Another man comes up to him, and asks, "What's going on?" The first man says, "I lost my car keys, and I'm looking for them." The second man says, "Here, ...
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On Wednesday, Chris wrote a quick hit on Representative DeFazio's statement that there was "growing consensus" among Congressional liberals that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner should step down. He went on to say that Summers should go as well. Folks in the blogosphere have been ...
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Timothy Geithner
Peter DeFazio
David Letterman:
Sarah Palin says that she felt ambushed when Katie Couric asked her what newspaper she read. This coming from a woman who shoots wolves from a helicopter!
That's not a joke, it's an x-ray of the conservative soul: Implicit double-standard view of the world? Check!
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Sarah Palin
Katie Couric
Josh Marshall posts the following email he received from a "Senate Democratic Chief of Staff:"
So, what we might end up with is a Senate Democratic Caucus that holds 98% of its members but still fails to pass healthcare reform, AND a mob of angry progressives who are screaming for the heads ...
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Part of the money you've given to support OpenLeft will be used to hire on a new technical consultant who will be working for all of us to make the site better.
We have a list of things we think will help improve the site in terms of design and tech, but since you're our readers and you paid ...
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This afternoon, I am unconceeding defeat in the 1991 Onondaga County High School chess championships.
Eighteen years ago, I was pressured into conceding by a shadowy coalition of Manlius Pebble Hill chess team members (who wanted one of their own to win the title), my employer at the time, ...
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It now seems quite likely that the Senate has the 60 votes necessary to force cloture on the motion to proceed with the health care bill. The final three votes Senate majority leader Harry Reid needed were Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, and Mary Landrieu, but all three now appear to be ready ...
Congress
Health care
Blanche Lincoln
Harry Reid
Bill Nelson
Cross-posted at The Bilerico Project
This is part two of an interview with Rea Carey, the Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Part one focused on the No On 1 campaign in Maine, the push to repeal Prop 8 in 2010 in California, and the marriage equality movement in ...
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Last week, in response to the 2009 elections and the November jobs report, Senate majority leader Harry Reid came up with the idea of passing a new jobs bill . Open Left was able to quickly confirm that the House was working on a package as well.
The jobs bill is going to happen. ...
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TARP
Being into the whole history thing enough to have written a book on it , I tend to take a long view on the big policy battles we fight today. As I wrote the other day , no piece of legislation ever gets to perfection, and on plenty of them you can have a perfectly legitimate debate even over the ...
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Cross-posted at The Bilerico Project
I've been writing a lot on what happened in Maine (most recently this piece yesterday in a Los Angeles LGBT magazine ), and where our movement should go from here. NGLTF had run much of the field program in Maine, as well as within the No On 8 campaign in ...
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Dan Boren
Organizing For America
The term "idiocracy" means a nation run by idiots - and the term idiot is defined as "an utterly foolish or senseless person" and/or a "person of the lowest order in a former classification of mental retardation, having a mental age of less than three years old." There are many reasons to ...
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Part of the money you've given to support OpenLeft will be used to hire on a new technical consultant who will be working for all of us to make the site better.
We have a list of things we think will help improve the site in terms of design and tech, but since you're our readers and you paid ...
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Which House Democrats are in danger in 2010? According to the Cook Political Report, mainly it appears to be Blue Dogs and New Dems:
Cook Political Report's 34 most endangered Democratic incumbents
Member
District
Blue Dog?
New Dem?
Progressive?
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12
10 ...
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Democratic National Committee
In the comments to today's action post , some have asked why I, and other progressives, are embracing the Senate bill. Here is my blunt answer: 45,000 Americans die every year from lack of health insurance . The Senate bill reduces the number of people uninsured in this country by ...
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Health care
Look at that, Obama went on FOX News after all, as it was reported he would ! I guess I was right , White House denials don't exactly hold a lot of water.
Anyway, on the substance of the interview (almost had to link to FOXNews.com there), there was nothing spectacular except improving FOX's ...
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Bart Stupak
A new survey from PPP (PDF) shows that 26% of Americans, most of whom are Republicans, think that ACORN stole the election for President Obama.
For the sake of comparison, a Gallup poll immediately following Gore's concession in the 2000 election showed that 18% of the county, a significant ...
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Barack Obama
Gallup Poll
The Senate is introduced its health care reform bill yesterday, and only four fricking members of the Democratic Senator caucus are standing in the way of passage. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana are the ...
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Health care
If you want to stop things from happening, or slow things down to the speed of molasses, being a US Senator is the world's greatest job. And if your entire political party's complete strategy is to kill every single thing proposed, it's a hell of a deal. But ever so slowly, painfully, creakily, ...
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openleft.com - 17 hours ago
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Since August 15th, President Obama's job approval rating
has mirrored the results of the 2008 election almost
precisely. By superimposing the results of the 2008 election over Pollster.com's graph of Obama job approval rating since August 15th, ...
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A graphic showing just how little has changed over the ...
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