correntewire.com - 10/29/2009
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If you want the Kucinich Amendment -- the one that would allow states to opt out of those stoopid exchanges and set up their own single payer systems -- to survive the next step in the melding process, call now!
Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
DC (202) 225.4965
SF (415) 556.4862
Representative ...
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The Sideshow —
How you can help to defend the Kucinich amendment to allow states to improve on our healthcare system. Also: While you were out: Democrats are deforming financial reform even worse than health care reform, not because of a bipartisan fetish, but because they are corporate sell-outs. And Goldman Sachs hates kittens. Digby reminds us just what it means to be of The Village. And check out Down With Tyranny! on K Street whores getting all upset when Rep. Grayson calls a K Street whore a K Street whore. (Also on why he ...
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