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washingtonpost.com - 6/28/2009

Health-Care Activists Are Targeting Democrats Who Are Usually Allies

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washingtonpost.com - 7/1/2009

Obama Holds Health-Care Forum in Virginia

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washingtonpost.com - 6/25/2009

What We Talk About When We Talk About Health Care

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online.wsj.com - 6/24/2009

Why We Need a Public Health-Care Plan

— online.wsj.com — ROBERT B. REICH Why has health-care reform stalled in Congress? Democrats, after all, control both Houses, and... President Obama, whose popularity remains high, has made universal health care his No. 1 priority. What's more, an overwhelming majority of ... (more) Why We Need a Public Health-Care Plan

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Health-Care Activists Targeting Democrats
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... centrist Democrats who will be needed to pass a bill. In recent days -- and during this week's congressional recess -- left-leaning bloggers and grass-roots organizations such as MoveOn.org, Health Care for America Now and the Service Employees International Union have singled out Democratic Sens. Ben Nelson (Neb.), Mary Landrieu (La.), Ron Wyden (Ore.), Arlen Specter (Pa.) and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) for the criticism more often reserved for opposition party members. Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20... Wake up Democrats! You were voted ...

MoveOn.org targets Specter over Health-Care…
GrassrootsPA Stories — MoveOn.org targets Specter over Health-Care…

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Daily Kos — ... that they'll need Republican support to enact President Obama's health-care reform. With Senators Kennedy and Byrd sidelined by illness, Al Franken not yet seated, and two more Democrats on record publicly opposing the public option that the president supports, the majority currently has about 55 votes—short of the magic 60 needed to avoid a bill-killing filibuster, according to Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. Ceci Connolly: In the high-stakes battle over health care, a growing cadre of ...

Intraparty squabling over healthcare
News — ... Ceci Connolly has an important piece in toady's Washington Post about healthcare activists going after moderate Democrats. With ad campaigns and press releases targeting moderates like Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the question for these activists is whether their attacks will force centrists to accept a public plan or simply anger them sufficiently that they'll hunker down and refuse to budge. Says Feinstein: "I do not think this is helpful. It doesn't move me one whit," she said. "They are spending a lot of money ...

WaPo Turns Into Healthcare Insurance Industry Advocate By Skewing Coverage
Crooks and Liars — So I'm skimming my bookmarked sites for post ideas and on CongressMatters (which, if you don't read regularly, you should), David Waldman blogged about this ridiculously slanted article in today's Washington Post: Health-Care Activists Targeting Democrats Sniping Among Liberals May Jeopardize Votes Needed to Pass Bill By Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, June 28, 2009 Hmmmm....interesting spin. It's the liberals' fault. Not the obstructionist Republicans ...

Liberal groups unleash fire on behalf of America
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... Nevertheless, what's there is a start, such as the Washington Post's story yesterday with the somewhat inverted headline, "Health-Care Activists Targeting Democrats: Sniping Among Liberals May Jeopardize Votes Needed to Pass Bill." As the story unfolds, we learn that it's liberals targeting backsliding Democrats, and, inferentially speaking, special-interest health-care activists of non-liberal stripes who are actually jeopardizing votes for a bill worth passing. ...

Progressives Pot Committed to a Public Plan
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... They are not being shy about their public plan support. The Sunday Washington Post reported on liberal groups pounding Democratic Senators, its lead was: ...