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Danger Close
mudvillegazette.com - 11/21/2009
Danger Close
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" Through the binoculars, Nelson looked east across the valley and saw the horsemen all carrying weapons, AKs and RPG tubes, glittering belts of ammo wrapped around their shoulders. milled about the plain, their horse picketed nearby chewing ravenously at the glass. Nelson thought back to ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/19/2009
Reid Outlines Bill For Caucus, Warns Conservative Dems That Reconciliation Is Still An Option
— tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com — At a special evening meeting of the Democratic caucus, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid outlined, in broad... strokes, the details of his health care bill, which the CBO has found, in a preliminary analysis, will expand coverage to 94 percent... (more) Reid Outlines Bill For Caucus, Warns Conservative Dems ...
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thehill.com - 11/19/2009
Ben Nelson: Senate bill's abortion provisions not good enough
— thehill.com — The language in the Senate healthcare reform bill designed to bar federal funds from paying for abortions... is not good enough, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) said Thursday. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) modified the healthcare bills approved ... (more) Ben Nelson: Senate bill's abortion provisions not good ...
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Ben Nelson Unlikely to Block Motion to Proceed, Fears Reconciliation
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - 11/18/2009
Ben Nelson Unlikely to Block Motion to Proceed, Fears Reconciliation
— fdlaction.firedoglake.com — Ben Nelson is unlikely block allowing debate to proceed on health care reform. His justification is that... he fears what kind of bill would result if he did vote no: If opponents prevent consideration of the revised Senate Finance Committee ... (more) Ben Nelson Unlikely to Block Motion to Proceed, Fears ...
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Mudville Gazette: Danger Close
Victory Caucus -- All Content — ... binoculars, Nelson looked east across the valley and saw the horsemen all carrying weapons, AKs and RPG tubes, glittering belts of ammo wrapped around their shoulders. milled about the plain, their horse picketed nearby chewing ravenously at the glass. Nelson thought back to fifteen years earlier when hed been commissioned as an officer in a ceremony on the Shiloh Civil War battlefield in Tennessee. Hed studied the cavalry tactics of Jeb Stuart and John Mosby, whose Mosbys Raiders... read ...

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