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Top 10 Reasons to Kill the Senate Health Care Bill

Jane Hamsher | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: David Dayen, Marcy Wheeler, Jon Walker, Top 10 Reasons to Kill the Health Care Bill, Senate Bill, Firedoglake, Politics News
Jane Hamsher

The Senate bill isn't a "starter home," it's a sink hole. It needs to die so something else can take its place. It doesn't matter whether people are on the right or the left.

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Michele Bachmann, Quantum Physicist

John McQuaid | Posted 12.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Michele Bachmann, Copenhagen 2009, Firedoglake, Quantum Mechanics, Sarah Palin, Large Hadron Collider, Climate Change, Washington Post, Global Warming, Green News
John McQuaid

Quantum theory says that an observer can literally change reality. What is to stop the Obama White House from sending out teams of ACORN-trained "observers" to "change" our communities into whatever they want?

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Calling On Ellen DeGeneres, Christie Brinkley And Other Stars: No More "Race For the Cure" Cancer Money to Hadassah Lieberman

Jane Hamsher | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Hadassah Lieberman, Firedoglake, Ellen Degeneres, Kimberly Locke, Marcia Cross, John Ondrasik, Andie Macdowell, Jennifer Tilly, Race for the Cure, James Woods, Ann Curry and Aimee Teegarden, Neil Patrick Harris, Mimi Rogers, Susan B. Komen Foundation, Joe Lieberman, Christie Brinkley, Nancy Brinker, Pfizer, Politics News
Jane Hamsher

As a three time breast cancer survivor, I do not believe that those who "race for the cure" and donate their hard earned dollars think they're doing it so the money can go to Hadassah Lieberman.

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The Public Necessity

Tom Sullivan | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Newsweek, Ofa, David-Dayen, Anna Quindlen, Firedoglake, George W. Bush, Harry Reid, Fdr, Thomas-Pm-Barnett, Campaign for America's Future, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Organizing for America, Politics News
Tom Sullivan

If America believes it needs not just a public option, but a public necessity, more Americans will have to get up off the couch and go get it.

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Fate of Healthcare Reform Is in Joe Lieberman's Hands

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Snowe, Public Option, Obamacare, Firedoglake, Olympia Snowe, Public Plan, Fire Dog Lake, Joe Lieberman, Reform, Obama, Healthcare Reform, Health Reform, Healthcare, Jane Hamsher, Lieberman, Bellows, Politics News
M.S. Bellows, Jr.

Progressive observers may be forgetting that the 60 votes in the Senate necessary to invoke cloture, in most people's calculations, includes Joe Lieberman (I-Hartford Insurance).

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The Rare Political Party That Is a Movement

David Sirota | Posted 11.23.2009 | New York

Read More: Working Families Party, Rockefeller Drug Laws, New York, Political Parties, Openleft, Firedoglake, Liberals, Connecticut, Act Blue, Progressive Movement, Democrats, Democracy Alliance, New York News
David Sirota

Despite flying under the radar, the Working Families Party is perhaps today's most encouraging model for achieving progressive results over the long haul.

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Vice TV: Revolutionary, Bold Pop Culture Explorations

Lisa Derrick | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Live Internet Chat, Firedoglake, Narcosubs, Vice TV, Narco-Trafficking, Santiago Stelley, Media News
Lisa Derrick

The media website explores the strange, the controversial and the timely in exciting often edgy long and short form documentaries, covering stories that mainstream media just can't or won't do.

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Health Care Protesters: "I'm All Right, Jack"

Tom Sullivan | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Sinclair Lewis, Katy Abram, Lawrence O'Donnell, Bruno Kirby, Firedoglake, Rick Perlstein, Health Care Reform, Glen Beck, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News
Tom Sullivan

There is no "we" in the protester's view, no welcome for your tired, your poor, your huddled masses of fellow Americans, much less immigrants. There is only my family, my friends, my neighborhood, my church and my ethnic group,

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Five Things You Can Do About Healthcare, In Ascending Order of Difficulty and Commitment

Ben Wyskida | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care for America Now, MoveOn.Org, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Healthcare Reform, Barack Obama, Firedoglake, Organizing for America, Health Care, Politics News
Ben Wyskida

If you voted last year, gave money last year, obsessed over the blogs and debates and Sarah Palin last year, then right now is the whole ball game. Here, in ascending order of difficulty, are five things you can/should do.

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Something More to That "Bloggers in Pajamas" Myth?

Anne Hill | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Dreams, Pajamas, Firedoglake, Blogging, Bloggers, Sleep, Health Care Reform, Media News
Anne Hill

I think the secret fear of those who disparage bloggers is not that they are slovenly or erratic, but that they are tapping into realms of consciousness deeper than the rational mind has access to.

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Bozeman, MT: Want a Job? Give Us Your Passwords

Lisa Derrick | Posted 07.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Bozeman, Invasion of Privacy, Montana, Twitter, Firedoglake, Job Applicants, Employment, Social Networking Sites, Huffington Post, Facebook, Myspace, Privacy, Living News
Lisa Derrick

If you want a job working for this city, be prepared to hand over the log in and password info to all your social networking and blogging sites.

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Congress Should Vote No on War Funding Bill

Tom Andrews | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Firedoglake, Afghanistan, Jim McGovern, Iraq, Barack Obama, War Supplemental, Jane Hamsher, Politics News
Tom Andrews

After years of working and voting to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congressional progressives have a chance to do just that.

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Jeff Muskus

Netroots Push For "No" Votes On War-Funding Bill (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Redstate, Firedoglake, House of Representatives, Troop Withdrawal, War Funding, War Supplemental, Afghanistan, Troop Funding, Iraq, Politics News

In anticipation of Tuesday's House vote on the war supplemental spending bill, which still includes money for the International Monetary Fund but not ...

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Jane Hamsher's Call to Action Against the War/IMF Supplemental

Robert Naiman | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

Read More: Maxine Waters, Firedoglake, Jan Schakowsky, International Monetary Fund, Rahm Emmanuel, War, IMF Bailout, Keith Ellison, Imf, Afghanistan, Timothy Geithner, Congress, Jim McGovern, Jane Hamsher, War Supplemental, World News
Robert Naiman

The White House and the House leadership want progressive Democrats in the House to abandon their constituents, their commitments, and their principles and vote for the War/IMF supplemental. But when progressive Democrats tried to have input into the process earlier, they were locked out by the leadership, on orders from the White House and Treasury.

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Sam Stein

Progressives Launch Campaign Targeting Centrist Senate Dems

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Reconciliation Process, Jane Hamsher, Budget Vote, Firedoglake, Centrist Democrats, Progressives and Centrists, Progressive and Bayh, Obama Agenda, Progressive Groups, Evan Bayh, Robert Borosage, Politics News

A coalition of progressive groups and officials announced the launch of a media and grassroots campaign Tuesday to target conservative Democrats they ...

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America Does Not Trust Geithner, Summers to Regulate Wall Street

Jane Hamsher | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Larrey Summers, Joseph-Cassano, Aig, Timothy Geithner, Credit Default Swaps, Robert Reich, Firedoglake, Politics News
Jane Hamsher

American taxpayers now own 80% of AIG. They'll be paying back the government, and paying off the bonuses, with our money. There is no reason to be tiptoeing around these people.

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Watch A New Health Care Documentary From Brave New Films!

Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Health Care for America Now, Pete Stark, Roger Hickey, Firedoglake, Health, Helath Care, Brave New Films, House Party, Jim Gilliam, Robert Greenwald, Politics News
Jason Rosenbaum

This weekend, come watch the new documentary about health care by Robert Greenwald at Brave New Films called Diagnosis: NOW! Here's the trailer: Th...

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Obama's Win: How it Will Change the Leadership and Future of the Democratic Party

Rob Kall | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dailykos, Ed Rendell, Firedoglake, Markos Moulitsas, Ned Lamont, Joe Trippi, Obama, Dlc, Dnc, Democratic Party, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Patrick Murphy, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Rob Kall

The end Clintonian control of the Democratic Party will be a time with many opportunities for people and organizations to jump into the openings in the power hierarchy that is forming.

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