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Citing ‘Fascism, Socialism, Obamaism,’ Republican Strategist Launches Impeachment Campaign
Think Progress
While the international community is heralding President Obama for his leadership, right-wing activists here in America are clamoring to impeach him. Republican operative Floyd Brown, “one of the nation’s dirtiest political strategists...
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Citing ‘Fascism, Socialism, Obamaism,’ Republican Strategist Launches Impeachment Campaign
Think Progress
While the international community is heralding President Obama for his leadership, right-wing activists here in America are clamoring to impeach him. Republican operative Floyd Brown, “one of the nation’s dirtiest political strategists...
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Excess Spending in US Health Care
Matthew Yglesias
Why does health care in the United States cost so much? Kevin Drum does us the service of posting this helpful chart from the McKinsey Global Institute. What they do is start with a baseline “expected” level of spending based on our GDP.
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California’s Economic and Fiscal Death Spiral Continues
Calitics
Just a few months into the 2009-10 fiscal year, and after three excruciatingly painful rounds of budget cuts (September 2008, February 2009, and July 2009) we learned today from John Chiang that California's budget is again in the red:
State revenue has already fallen more than $1 billion short of assumptions in the budget lawmakers...
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Weekly Standard Celebrates United States Not Getting The Olympics
Daily Kos
The Weekly Standard managed a twofer on Friday; they showed both how big of bunch of pseudo-patriotic douchebags they are, and followed that up with a dose of cowardice.
This is how they...
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A Call To Duty, Changes To Obama’s National Security Staff
Washington
President Obama's longest-serving foreign policy adviser, Mark Lippert, has decided to return to active duty in the Navy SEALs, the White House announced today. Lippert, 36, is chief of staff to the National Security Council. He has presided over an intricate and occasionally thorny...
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Progressives Hit Baucus
Washington
With the Senate Finance Committee slated to vote on whether to add a public option to Chairman Max Baucus's (D-MT) health reform bill this week, two progressive groups are hitting Baucus with this ad in his home state. In it, a man driven into debt by a congenital heart disease suggests Montanans can't trust...
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The Early Word: Prime-Time Health Care
The Caucus
In prime time Wednesday evening, President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress will be closely watched as he tries to regain control of the debate over health care legislation.
Mr. Obama, who up until now has left the reins of his top domestic priority in...
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Secretary Robert Reich Explains the Public Option
My DD
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explains the public option - and why it's both very important and not at all scary - in very simple terms. If you share YouTubes on Facebook and Twitter, this is a good one to share.
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A new Justice takes her seat
SCOTUSblog
With President Obama and Vice President Biden and some 450 other witnesses looking on silently, Justice Sonia Sotomayor took her seat for the first time on the Supreme Court bench Tuesday afternoon, the 111th member of the Court in its history. Amo...
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U.S. Soldier Re-Enlists, Dies, to Get Heath Care for His Son
NowPublic
In the United States, prisoners receive universal health care, as do terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay; even the Iraqis have health care (thanks to President Bush in 2004), but 47...
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John Harwood: Let’s Face It, In a Country of Three Hundred Million People, There are a Lot of Stupid People
Crooks and Liars
John Harwood lets one slip on MSNBC and tells the truth about these people fear mongering over the President speaking to school children next week.
Novotny: John, what about this controversy over opposition to Obama's speech to school children?
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You Internet People Are *Torturing* Cindy McCain!
Wonkette
Cut it out, Wonkett! Cindy McCain’s really really upset. She gave an interview to People about her barfy headaches and said funny things and all *you* people did was LAUGH at these funny things....
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Beck Includes Senate-Confirmed Staffer (Twice) In His Photo Of ‘Czars’ ‘Not Confirmed By Congress’
Think Progress
On his Fox News show today, Glenn Beck featured one of his patented spooky-music video packages, this time fearmongering about the Obama administration’s “czars.” “He has 37 czars to oversee and...
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Bachmann for President?
The Daily Beast
America’s craziest member of Congress has hinted at running for the nation’s highest office, and who can blame her? Even her latest outbursts haven’t threatened her bulletproof status, Michelle Goldberg reports.
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