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Joe Lieberman Filibusters Health Care While Americans Suffer

Bob Cesca | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

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Bob Cesca

With every month that goes by without health care reform, another 3,600 Americans die due to a lack of insurance. And Joe Lieberman, like Elaine in that classic Seinfeld episode, is stopping off for Jujyfruits.

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Senate "Moderates" Delaying Health Care Bill With Demands

The Washington Post | Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

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Moderate lawmakers are exerting their outsize influence in the divided Senate to secure changes to health-care reform legislation, potentially adding ...

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Krugman: "Centrists" Should Admit It If They Want To Kill Reform

New York Times | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

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I won't try to psychoanalyze the "naysayers," as Mr. Orszag describes them. I'd just urge them to take a good hard look in the mirror. If they really ...

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Sam Stein

Yet Another Public Option Poll Puts A Wavering Dem On The Spot

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

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Yet another public opinion poll in a state with a conservative Democratic senator shows that the public option not only is widely popular among voters...

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Jason Linkins

Senators Who Could And/Or Will Screw Up Health Care Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Kent Conrad, Mary Landrieu, Roland Burris, Max Baucus, Evan Bayh, Olympia Snowe, Harry Reid, U.S. Senate, Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson, Health Care Reform, Blanche Lincoln, Politics News

Harry Reid boldly announced the bill would contain something public option-esque. But will a reform bill that contains as limited a measure as the opt-out plan survive the Senate?

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Arianna Weighs In On The Senate Health Care Bill And The Challenges Ahead

Huff TV | Posted 10.27.2009 | Media

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Huff TV

Arianna appeared on MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann on Monday to discuss news that the Senate's health care bill would include an opt-out publi...

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Who Should Pay for Health Insurance Reform?

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Progressive Taxation, Evan Bayh, Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Health Care for America Now, Congressional Budget Office, Hcan, Who Should Pay?, Max Baucus, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Glenn Beck, Kent Conrad, Mary Landrieu, Citizens for Tax Justice, Wall Street Journal, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News
Peter Dreier

"Much has been given" to those Americans at the pinnacle of wealth. So it is only fair that "much will be required" when it comes to helping pay for health insurance for those who can't otherwise afford it.

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Health Insurance Industry Exposes Its Insatiable Greed

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

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Peter Dreier

After pretending for months to cooperate with the Obama administration and Democrats to secure a reasonable health reform bill, the industry's CEOs and lobbyists on Sunday double-crossed their one-time political allies.

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Jeff Muskus

Conservative Dems, GOP Senators Lobby To Delay Health Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

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Republican and conservative Democrat lawmakers revived a push Wednesday for the kind of delay to health care reform that a GOP senator admitted was pa...

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Alan Grayson's Candor and Honesty Irks GOP Obstructionists... Again

Howie Klein | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Alan Grayson, GOP Hissy Fits, Elijah Cummings, Blanche Lincoln, Health Care Debate, Joe Wilson, Max Baucus, Health Care, Barack Obama, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Howie Klein

Grayson came to Congress promising to be a tribune for working Florida families. What drives Republicans mad is that he has been exactly that.

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Open Letter to Sen. Blanche Lincoln

Dylan Loewe | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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Dylan Loewe

During your 2010 campaign, you are going to be accused of voting for a socialist government takeover of health care, regardless of whether or not you support the public option. That frees you to vote your conscience.

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Panel Votes To Restore Abstinence-Only Education Money

AP | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — A Senate committee voted Tuesday night to restore $50 million a year in federal funding for abstinence-only education that President Ba...

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Ryan Grim

Waffling Arkansas Dems Targeted On Health Care (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

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Liberal bloggers are pressuring two Arkansas Democrats, Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Rep. Mike Ross, to back a public health insurance option as part of c...

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Democratic Senators Summoned To White House

ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Udall, Arlen Specter, Evan Bayh, White House, Mark Pryor, President Obama, Michael Bennet, Herb Kohl, Mary Landrieu, Democratic Senators, Tom Carper, Bill Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Mark Begich, Mark Warner, Joe Lieberman, Jeanne Shaheen, Claire McCaskill, Kay Hagan, Politics News

ABC News has learned that President Obama will be meeting with 16 Democratic senators (and one "Independent Democrat") this afternoon at the White Hou...

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Cloture Passes On Cass Sunstein, 63-35

Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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On a 63-35 vote, the Senate has broken the filibuster against Cass Sunstein, President Obama's nominee for Administrator of the White House Office of ...

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President Must Keep It Simple, Hold On To Public Option Tonight

Scott Foval | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Speech, Blanche Lincoln, Blue Dogs, Max Baucus, Scottsbigmouth, Congress, Health Care Reform, K.I.S.S., Right Wing, Chuck Grassley, Barack Obama, Politics News
Scott Foval

It is time for the Congress to actually deliver real health care coverage for poor, low income, and the uninsured. We must take care of our people, period.

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The Deafening Silence on Deficits

David Sirota | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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David Sirota

When it comes to aiding regular people who haven't bought members of Congress, every argument -- and especially deficits -- are cited as reasons to do nothing.

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Friday Talking Points [92] -- The End Of Silly Season

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Sadly, Obama's speech to school children has become mired in manufactured controversy from the right, with typical sky-is-falling rhetoric about the evil, evil man who occupies the Oval Office.

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Blanche Lincoln Town Hall Overrun By Conspiracy Theorists

Time | Joe Klein | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blanche Lincoln, Van Jones, Iraq, Glen Beck, Health Reform, Cass Sunstein, Republicans, Politics News

I was at a Blanche Lincoln town hall meeting in Russellville, Arkansas, yesterday--and the number of people who believe that the President has larded ...

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Separated at Birth? Arnold Schwarzenegger and Senator Blanche Lincoln

Katie Halper | Posted 10.19.2009 | Comedy

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Katie Halper

Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln and Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger may not be in the same political party, but they're in the same camp when it comes to opposing health care.

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Dem Sen. Blanche Lincoln Rakes In Health Care Dollars

Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 10.18.2009 | Home

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As the summer of the Democrats� discontent winds to a close, the head count for health care reform in the Senate begins in earnest. One of the key D...

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Blanche Lincoln Reverses Position On Public Option

Roll Call | David M. Drucker | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Re-Election, Blanche Lincoln, Public Option, Healthcare Reform, Flip-Flop, Politics News

Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), still facing the prospect of a tough re-election in 2010, has reversed her position on the public insurance option, say...

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Gilbert Baker, Former Arkansas GOP Chair, Announces Senate Bid

CNN | Martina Stewart | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

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The former chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party said Tuesday he's planning to challenge incumbent Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln. "I have decid...

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A Brief History of Arkansas Republican Senate Candidates' Bigoted Comments

Senate Guru | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Curtis Coleman, Politics, Republican Bigotry, Blanche Lincoln, Curtis Reynolds, Kim Hendren, Arkansas Republicans, Arkansas, Anti-Semitism, Racism, Republicans, Senate, Ar-Sen, Senate Races, Politics News
Senate Guru

A big problem for the Arkansas GOP is that several of the 2010 candidates for U.S. Senate in Arkansas have recently made racist, anti-Semitic, or otherwise bigoted comments.

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Card Check Cut From Employee Free Choice Act By Democrats

New York Times | STEVEN GREENHOUSE | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

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A half-dozen senators friendly to labor have decided to drop a central provision of a bill that would have made it easier to organize workers. The ...

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