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26 Mar 2010 15:20

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Politics: Would Obama win in 2012? It’s a statistical dead heat

  • 47% of people would vote for Obama in 2012, versus 44 percent for a hypothetical Republican candidate
  • 15% amount Bill Clinton was down in a similar poll in 1994; we all know what happened there (he lost, we think)
  • 75% of Dems want to see Obama reelected; the GOP wants to see LMFAO fan Mitt Romney take him on source
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26 Mar 2010 13:53

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Politics: Rachel Maddow isn’t running for the Massachusetts Senate, hosers

  • Scott Brown said Rachel Maddow was running for Senate. Brown said this in an e-mail designed to raise funds for his next Senate campaign. However, as this Boston Globe full-page ad notes, she’s in fact not running for Senate. Julius may be, though, if his residency checks out. He’s on the Lyndon Larouche ticket. source
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25 Mar 2010 20:54

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Politics: Could financial reform be the GOP’s way out of “just say no?”

  • The bill, currently lacking Republican support, could provide a turning point. Departing Sen. Chris Dodd’s financial reform bill may be a second chance for the GOP. One senator who worked on the bill, Bob Corker, says he felt abandoned by his party when working with Dodd, but Dodd himself thinks the tide might be turning. If the obstructionist policy worked, the Democrat says, “they would go along. But they saw it fail and now they’ve had enough of it and they really want to be involved in crafting things.” source
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25 Mar 2010 08:38

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U.S.: GOP Senators succeed in forcing another (#&(@&( health care vote

  • A couple of minor parliamentarian rules were broken. Senate Republicans are going out of their way this week to kinda be total )&#&# about the health care reconciliation bill, with stalling tactics, crazy amendments and such. Late last night, they succeeded at turning the reconciliation process into a pain in the butt, finding minor parliamentary problems with the bill (regarding Pell grants) that force a new House vote. Great. source
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24 Mar 2010 23:52

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Politics: Senate Republicans play dirty with reconciliation bill amendments

  • 32 the number of amendments being offered up by Republicans to the reconciliation bill
  • one insane amendment removes access to
    Viagra for sex
    offenders; it’s there to
    shame the Dems
  • zero the number of amendments that will pass; if any do, the entire bill goes back to the House source
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22 Mar 2010 20:05

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U.S.: Health care’s next big battlefield? The fight over states’ rights

  • 11 states plan to sue the
    government over health care,
    ten in a class-action suit
  • 36 states have pending lawsuits,
    bills or legislation against the
    health care bill source
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22 Mar 2010 17:55

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Culture: Michele Bachmann wastes no time to push for health care repeal

  • It’s future generations, our children and grandchildren, who will pay the price for our government’s arrogance and recklessness, and the American people won’t ever forget the irresponsible actions of this administration and Democratic majority.
  • Rep. Michele Bachmann • In a press release announcing her support of a bill that would repeal the health care bill. You know, the one that passed 20 hours ago. We wonder if the ink dried on the old bill before she submitted this bill. “I’m asking my colleagues to join me in repealing this monstrosity of a bill,” she says. Showy political tactic or not, we’re guessing it’s not going to pass. source
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22 Mar 2010 17:43

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Politics: Did GOP Rep. Joseph Cao want to vote for health care last night?

  • YES but not without the 86’ed
    Stupak amendment source
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22 Mar 2010 17:38

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Politics: On “Baby Killer” and Congress’ miserable tonal problems

  • Listen, we’re not giving either side credit here. The Republicans just had some dude (Texas Rep. Randy Neugebauer) use the words “baby killer” in reference to Bart Stupak (or the bill, depending on what you believe). However, we get the feeling the Democrats aren’t using the opportunity to look like they’re taking the moral high ground here. Both sides look ugly at the end of all of this, and there aren’t any winners here.
  • Republican blech When Joe Wilson shouted “You lie!” at Obama, the Republicans had an opportunity to step away from the tonal problems the health care bill has created. (The chart above is another example.) Instead, they stepped in it deeper, allowing for that tone to totally permeate the party. And now, they own this unhelpful tone to the point that they can’t find the rabbit hole again.
  • Democratic spin As super-journo Matt Taibbi notes on True/Slant, the Democrats are claiming that the bill was “built on a series of principles that Republicans espoused for years.” What? Come on. This isn’t true. While the Democrats are certainly becoming more centrist, it’s certainly not the same thing. This just makes the other side mad. That language gets in the way.
  • Take a step back If Congress wants to really, truly help the needs of the people, it needs to look back at the past year and figure out exactly why this country and its Congress has a tone not seen since the 1960s. It’s not taxes. It’s not racism. It’s not any of that. Can we call it a tempest in a teapot? No. If anything, the tempest shattered the teapot, and voters have to pick up the pieces.
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22 Mar 2010 12:17

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Politics: Conservative commentator: Is health care the GOP’s Waterloo?

  • So far, I think a lot of conservatives will agree with me. Now comes the hard lesson: A huge part of the blame for [Sunday’s] disaster attaches to conservatives and Republicans ourselves.
  • Conservative columnist David Frum • Regarding the situation with health care, which he says is a huge failure on the part of the Republican Party to do anything to work with the Democrats and share in the success of the bill. Even with the likely victories in November for the party as a result of its passage, he argues, it may be, as he puts it, an “abject and irreversible defeat.” Ouch. source
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