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Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:09:18 -0800

Transition 2010: Know Hope
I don’t do lists and I don’t do retrospectives well, especially in years like this one, with swings from highest to...
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Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:22:19 -0800

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Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:05:42 -0800

Go read this to understand my thinking
Daily Kos: The Anti-Corporatist Movement None of this is to argue that progressives should give up on advocating for...
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Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:39:15 -0800

Vic Chesnutt: Free of Hope
At 18, Vic Chesnutt drove drunk. That choice consigned him to a future in a wheelchair with limited use of his hands and arms,...
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Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:22:06 -0800

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Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:04:09 -0800

Principles of the unprincipled: Jane Hamsher and Grover Norquist unite
Image via Wikipedia What Grover Norquist has done in 2009: Attacked President Obama’s nominee for OSHA Assistant...
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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:59:14 -0800

The Twelve Days of Health Care Reform
On the first day of Christmas, the Senate sent to me A smackdown of the GOP. On the second day of Christmas, the Senate sent to...
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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:21:39 -0800

Death Panels, Progressive Style
At the top of my email this morning, one headline stood above all others. From Jane Hamsher at FDL Action, this urgent...
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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:04:24 -0800

Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate floor
At around noon on Sunday, the world stopped turning for me. I was listening to the Senate debate on CSPAN on my phone and what...
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Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:12:15 -0800

The MyBarackObamaTax Credit
(or alternative title: What’s in it for me and why it’s affordable) Marcy Wheeler over at FireDogLake has done a...
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Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:01:24 -0800

Decision time: Stupak or public option Both? Neither?
The Senate bill, universally despised by the left and the right and likely about to be by those learning about it via any...
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Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:36:43 -0800

This is us
There’s a point where disagreement shifts from being strong argument to ugly. In some cases, I think we’re there...
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Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:58:27 -0800

Health Care Reform history lesson
First of all, major props to Harry Reid for pulling over Ben Nelson and getting the 60 votes to bring health care reform to a...
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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:13:25 -0800

The Collins Gesture
This is a video of the presser with Susan Collins and Joe Lieberman on the 15th, after Lieberman forces Democrats into giving...
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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:56:37 -0800

Shake your fists, then get real
As long-time readers know, my daughter (Ms. Dancer) is a competitive dancer. She has competed in world, national and regional...
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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:26:58 -0800

Reconcile THIS
Howard Dean is on the campaign trail. He wants to “kill the bill” (a line right out of the teafolks’ protest...
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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:15:12 -0800

No public option? No problem. Really.
Image via Wikipedia I am about to lay my cards all on the table here with regard to health care reform, tell you exactly...
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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:50:20 -0800

Wall Street declares war. Are we fighting or colluding?
I was going to write a big long post about Matt Taibbi’s latest attempt to pin the “sellout” tail on the...
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Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:03:55 -0800

Health Care Reform: Irreconcilable Differences?
Image by Getty Images via Daylife The blades in the health care reform grinder go round and round, and as time passes,...
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Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:00:31 -0800

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Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:33:34 -0800

True health care reform: Puzzle it out
What is it? Ending insurers’ right to ban pre-existing conditions. Period. Puzzle it out. As a parallel, I suggest...
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Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:51:46 -0800

Medicare actuary weighs in with predictable caution
Here’s the takeaway: We now have a worst-case scenario from actuaries that supports health care reform. If the bottom line in...
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Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:51:56 -0800

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Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:11:30 -0800

Tell me again: What was the public option supposed to do?
Since Harry Reid announced a compromise that includes a triggered public option, the murmurs and shouts have centered around...
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Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:08:13 -0800

On leaving the left, compromise, and dialogue
First thing this morning before the coffee machine died and the phone started ringing off the hook with surprise distractions,...
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