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Glenzilla on Fred Hiatt’s “Some people think we’re too liberal so we must be doing something right” response to complaints about the paper’s rightward slant: The Post today has two former Bush officials, one former Reagan official, two right-wing politicians, a ...
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The Sideshow — ... on getting a public option. We'll see what that means. What we need, of course, is a big fat public works stimulus that puts huge numbers of people to work, and a good, solid, fully-funded single-payer health care plan. What we have instead are bad Democrats like Ben Nelson. (via) "Imagine that! Blue Cross tells stockholders one thing and insurance regulators another, which leads you to wonder: Who did they lie to?" (Also: Even the conservative Washington Post. And the lame Democratic leadership. And as a ...

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