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Waxman: Yes We Can Reform Health Care This Year
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 1/30/2009
Waxman: Yes We Can Reform Health Care This Year
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To add to what Jonathan Cohn says here , part of the significance of House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman vowing to do health care reform this year is that he’s implicitly rejecting the common notion that progressives need to choose between action on health care and action ...
althouse.blogspot.com - 1/31/2009
The Pajamas Media blogging enterprise has collapsed.
— althouse.blogspot.com — Jeff G. (at Protein Wisdom) has the letter from Roger L. Simon, which buries the bad news... in a statement about how Pajamas is turning its attention to its web TV efforts. I wonder how many people watch Pajamas TV. In the comments over there, Showy ... (more) The Pajamas Media blogging enterprise has collapsed.

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washingtontimes.com - 2/2/2009
BREITBART: The true face of Hollywood
— washingtontimes.com — By: DirtCrashr It must be understood that since 2000 when the California legislature gerrymandered the districts with... the aid of computers, there has been no mobility or change within them. The districts are secure political fiefdoms free from outside ... (more) BREITBART: The true face of Hollywood

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Waxman: Health Care Reform This Year
blogs.tnr.com - 1/29/2009
Waxman: Health Care Reform This Year
— blogs.tnr.com — Barack Obama has said he wants to pursue major health care reform this year. Two key committee... chairmen in the Senate, Max Baucus and Ted Kennedy, have said they watn to pursue health care this year. But what about the House? The leadership has ... (more) Waxman: Health Care Reform This Year

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Ross Douthat:  Deficits Don't Matter?

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Deficits Don't Matter?
Ross Douthat — ... out-of-control spending. Maybe the whole liberal wish list will be passed into law before that happens: As Yglesias says in a subsequent post, it's possible that at a time like this there's no "fixed sum of political capital" for liberals to spend down, and so the thing to do is go for broke, quite literally, instead of trying to prioritize health care reform over Pell Grants, or climate change legislation over Head Start. But there's also a chance that the Democrats will look back on the stimulus bill as an instance where they gained ground in the short run, but at the expense ...

2/2: First Geithner, Now Daschle?
Blogometer — ... out-of-control spending. Maybe the whole liberal wish list will be passed into law before that happens: As [Matthew] Yglesias says in a subsequent post , it's possible that at a time like this there's no 'fixed sum of political capital' for liberals to spend down, and so the thing to do is go for broke, quite literally, instead of trying to prioritize health care reform over Pell Grants, or climate change legislation over Head Start. But there's also a chance that the Democrats will look back on the stimulus bill as an instance where they gained ground in the short run, but ...

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