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FDL Book Salon Welcomes Ryan Grim: This Is Your Country On Drugs
Firedoglake — [Welcome Ryan Grim, and Host Will Wilkinson - bev] Ryan Grim's new book, This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America, is a smart and sophisticated telling of the complex interaction between two opposed forces: Americans trying to alter their moods and mental states with chemicals and Americans trying to stop them. It is a book that tries, and largely succeeds, in making sense of the apparently senseless mix of prohibition, regulation, and permissiveness in the U.S. ...

Whip Count Shows 50 Members of Congressional Progressive Caucus Pressing Public Option.
JackRabbit Café — (h/t: Ryan Grim/HuffPo for the heads-up on the following item.) That's a list of 50 House members who have pledged to vote "no" on any bill that doesn't include a strong public option, in particular the criteria put forth by the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC.) DailyKos diarist ...

Dems Look To Stop Geithner's Backroom Deals With Wall Street
The Latest on Air America — ... out Wall Street, members of Congress on both sides of the aisle wanted to ensure that the taxpayer would profit from the bailout if the market turned around and raised the bank's stock. Recently, an oversight panel found that the Treasury was engaging in private negotiations with the banks and only receiving 66 percent of the market value for the warrants. Now a group of Democrats in Congress is pushing Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to end that practice. The Huffington Post's Ryan Grim has the ...

Blue dog whip comes up empty: Not opposed to PO as a group.
Open Left - Quick Hits's RSS Feed —  Very good news.  Ryan Grim, interviewed Blue dog coalition co-chair Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-S.D.), and she says their priorities are not stopping the Public Option... ...