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Thousands Sign Petition Demanding Reid Get Tough With Filibuster-Supporting Dems

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

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A new twist in the left versus left health care wars. A progressive group is launching a campaign to pressure Harry Reid into getting tough with Dem ...

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Combating the Disease of Progressive Cynicism

Robert Creamer | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, President Obama, Public Option, Rahm Emanuel, Regulatory Reform, Dick Durbin, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Clean Energy, Progressive Movement, Labor Law Reform, Financial Sector Reform, Health Insurance Reform, Jim Messina, Health Care, Politics News
Robert Creamer

One thing I know for sure. If progressives constantly pronounce the public option dead -- it will be. The cynics will create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Did the NRCC Really Say Nancy Pelosi Should Be Put in Her Place?

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: President Obama, Military, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, San Francisco, Speaker of the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Afghanistan, General Mcchrystal, Democratic Party, Nrcc, Al Quada, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

The specific language used by the NRCC in its latest statement reveals the contempt with which it holds not just Speaker Pelosi, but also some of the basic ideas on which our democracy rests.

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Irreparable Damage: Senate Must Block OSM Nominee Pizarchik Today

Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Osmre, Mountaintop Removal, 60 Minutes, President Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Coal Ash, Cbs, Ken Salazar, Coal, Department of the Interior, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Given the irreparable damage of his mining record, Pizarchik's entrenched support of the coal industry suggests that the OSM would continue its decades-old tradition of lawlessness and betrayal of coalfield residents.

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Republican Leaders Join In Honoring New Rotunda Statue Of Radical Socialist Woman

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

A woman whose name we all know was a proud Red, a committed Socialist, and an unapologetic Wobbly. And now she's not only buried in the National Cathedral, she's got her own statue in the Capitol.

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Sam Stein

Dems: No Blank Check On Afghanistan Despite General Agreement With Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

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Democratic lawmakers stressed on Tuesday that there was no consensus on whether to hand President Obama a blank check to escalate the war in Afghanist...

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The Right Time to Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell Is Now

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | Posted 10.05.2009 | New York

Read More: Senate Armed Services Committee, Gays in the Military, Dadt, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Harry Reid, Gay Rights, Barack Obama, Carl Levin, New York News
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand

I've secured the commitment from Sen. Carl Levin, chair of the Armed Services Committee, to hold the first hearing on Don't Ask Don't Tell since it began 16 years ago.

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Is It Better for the Public Option for Reid to Leave It Out?

Bill Scher | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harry Reid, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Senate Finance Committee, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News
Bill Scher

Conservatives are experts at taking peripheral, obscure components of legislation and blowing them up into evidence of a government plot to kill your newborns and serve them as pork burritos to illegal immigrants.

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Michael Bennet's Wall Street Ties Bring Him Money, Criticism

The Denver Post | Mike Riley | Posted 10.04.2009 | Denver

Read More: Philip Anschutz, U.S. Senate, Andrew Romanoff, Wall Street, George Soros, Senate Banking Committee, Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, Michael Bennet, Center for Responsive Politics, Senate, Denver News

WASHINGTON -- With a push in Congress to reform regulation over Wall Street, financial firms have been spending big, and among the major beneficiaries...

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Friday Talking Points [96] -- The Impressiveness of Alan Grayson

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: 80, Chicago, Spiro Agnew, Eighty Percent, Reform, South America, Alan Grayson, DC City Council, Dc, Charles Schumer, Death Panel, Die Quickly, Grayson Transcript, William Safire, Floor Speech, Midotw, Sexual Harassment, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Don't Get Sick, Health Care, Kenneth Feinberg, Reid, Tarp, Abortion, Public Option, Grayson Speech, Democrat, Letterman, Congress, Pay Czar, Democrats, Barack Obama, Schumer, Mddotw, Child Rape, Health, Harry Reid, Vacation, Nixon, Bonuses, Polanski, Gay Marriage, Healthcare, Senate, David Catania, Ben Nelson, Cloture, President Obama, Sex Scandal, Washington, Filibuster, Moral Relativism, Obama, Democratic, Friday Talking Points, Grayson, Republican, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Paranoid Delusions, Rio, Roman Polanski, Salaries, Rape, House, Copenhagen, Nelson, Consensual, Olympics, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Sex, Columbus Day, Chuck Schumer, Executive Pay, Troubled Assets, David Letterman, Agnew, Safire, Feinberg, Catania, Politics News
Chris Weigant

First, let's get rid of the distractions this week. Chicago will not be getting the Olympics in 2016, even after President Obama went over to Copenha...

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GOP Senator Identifies Gun Violence As Major Factor In Health Care Crisis

Paul Helmke | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Show Loophole, Hilary Clinton, John Ensign, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Sen. John Ensign, Health Care, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Guns, Illegal Guns, Gun Control, Politics News
Paul Helmke

Even if he didn't mean to, I want to thank Senator John Ensign of Nevada for speaking out about the importance of reducing gun violence as a means of addressing America's skyrocketing health care costs.

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Inviting You to See Capitalism Today at a Theater Near You!

Michael Moore | Posted 10.02.2009 | Entertainment

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Michael Moore

I've had enough. As far as I'm concerned, Tea Bag Nation ends today -- at noon to be precise. The days of the majority of Americans being ignored and played for chumps are over.

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Sam Stein

Reid Says Public Plan Will Be In Final Bill: Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who will have wide control over reconciling two versions of health care legislation in the Senate, told local const...

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Ryan Grim

Reid Appeals Directly To Obama: Help Us Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ramped up the pressure on the White House and the military to repeal its "don't ask, don't tell" policy with a direc...

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Reid Cancels Recess To Get Health Care Done

The Hill | Alexander Bolton | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has cancelled the Senate's Columbus Day recess so that lawmakers can focus on passing healthcare reform leg...

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Harry Reid Becomes GOP Target In Nevada

Wall Street Journal | JIM CARLTON | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

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Mr. Reid, 69 years old, is facing mounting criticism in his home state and is trailing in the polls against two Republican challengers for his Senate ...

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Friday Talking Points [95] -- A Call To Action

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

The progressives and Blue Dogs are going to have a showdown. It is going to culminate not in statements to the press (or the lack thereof), not in some whispered whip count, but rather in a very public vote.

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Sam Stein

Reid Says Trigger Option A "Doggone Good Idea": Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

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Foreshadowing the likely legislative compromise on health care in the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) reportedly told a tele-town hall on ...

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To Succeed, Obama Needs to Channel His Inner LBJ

Steven Hill | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lbj, Senate, Barack Obama, Olympia Snow, Harry Reid, Ben Nelson, Lyndon Johnson, Max Baucus, Health Care, Politics News
Steven Hill

When it comes to Obama lining up votes from recalcitrant members of his own party, LBJ's brawling, Southern style of trench politics is the one best suited for the current health care reform challenge.

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Does Delay Mean Disaster for the Climate Bill? Depends

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Copenhagen 2009, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, Environment, Harry Reid, Green Energy, Global Warming, Green News
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson

When the public's knowledge levels are this low, the risk of fear mongering, misinformation and pandering is very high -- as the health care town halls have proven.

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An Open Letter To Our Leaders

Chris Campbell | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

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Chris Campbell

When I saw the "Baucus Bill" today, I finally couldn't take it anymore. I could no longer fight for a party that I barely even recognized.

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Baucus' Bill Not Bipartisan, But Panmedia

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Baucus' was supposed to be the "bipartisan" bill, but the only way it can truly be referred to as such is in the growing bipartisan distaste for the bill.

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Mass. Close To Allowing Senate Appointment To Replace Kennedy

Boston Globe | Matt Viser | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

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Legislative leaders on Beacon Hill believe they have narrow majorities in both chambers to give Governor Deval Patrick the power to appoint an interim...

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Reid Confident On Eve Of Health Bill's Debut

The Hill | J. Taylor Rushing | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

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A day before delivery of the Senate's long-awaited healthcare bill, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday struck a cautiously optimistic tone...

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Obama and the Gun Lobby: A Policy of Appeasement?

Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Violence, Mexican Drug Cartels, National Rifle Association, District of Columbia, Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, Gun Control, Harry Reid, Democratic Party, Town Hall Meetings, Nra, National Parks, Barack Obama, Guns, Politics News
Dennis A. Henigan

Is it a stretch to envision President Obama as the Neville Chamberlain of the gun issue? Consider the record so far.

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