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Democrats Don't Let Democrats Do Fox: Why Did Hillary Clinton Accept Fox Debate?

Jane Hamsher | Posted 02.05.2008 | Home

Read More: Harry Reid, Roger Ailes, Fox News, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Fox News Debates, Obama Fox News, Hillary Fox News Debate, Obama Fox News Debate, Home News

Fox is not a news outlet, it's an openly partisan opinion factory and the Democrats should not be legitimizing them, as Hillary Clinton's campaign did today.

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Friday Talking Points [17]

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ads, Al Franken, Jobs, Filibuster, Fisa, Chris Dodd, Iraq, Immunity, Campaign, Permanent Bases, Telecom, Bush, Warren Buffet, 2008, Midotw, Flip-Flop, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Super Tuesday, 2008 Campaign, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Capital Gains, Health Care, State of the Union, Taxes, Harry and Louise, John McCain, Hillarycare, Budget, Mitt Romney, 2008 Elections, Ad, 08, Tax Rate, 100 Year War, Stimulus, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Election, 08 Election, Elections, Income Tax, 08 Campaign, Mddotw, 2008 Presidential Race, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Earmark, Politics News

This column is dedicated to the idea that Democrats can learn to use talking points as effectively as Republicans often do. This idea annoys many who...

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Reid On Clinton And Obama: "I Need Them Back"

Political Radar | Byron Wolf | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Senator Harry Reid, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Economic Stimulus Package, Telecoms, Bush Stimulus Plan, Telecom Immunity, Barack Obama, Politics News

Senate Democrats held a special meeting Thursday to decide on two bills both with a deadline of February 15. In between now and then...is Super Tuesda...

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Friday Talking Points [16] -- The State Of The Blog

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Brokered Convention, Speech, Osama Bin Laden, Fisa, Iraq, Chris Dodd, Immunity, Picks, Telecom, Bush, Primaries, 2008, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, John Edwards, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Telecom Immunity, 2008 Campaign, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Open Convention, Party Convention, State of the Union, Blogosphere, Jay Rockefeller, Primary, Democrat, 08, Democrats, State of the Blog, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Election, Foreign Policy, Elections, 08 Campaign, Mddotw, Blog, Weblog, South Carolina, 2008 Presidential Race, Harry Reid, Afghanistan, Hillary Clinton, Senate, Campaign, 2008 Elections, 08 Election, Politics News

Netizens, fellow bloggers, Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Reid, Members of Congress, Supreme Court Justices, and all Americans... I am proud to stand...

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Reid Issues Ultimatum: More Time Or No Wiretaps

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Senator Harry Reid, FISA Bill, Retroactive Immunity, Harry Reid, Fisa, State of the Union Address, State of the Union, National Press Club, Telecom Immunity, Dodd Telecom Amnesty, Politics News

At a State of the Union preview speech today at the National Press Club, Majority Leader Harry Reid issued a dramatic ultimatum to President Bush: eit...

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Memo to Senate Democrats: No One Believes Bush

Cenk Uygur | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jay Rockefeller, Harry Reid, Fisa, Senate Democrats, Telecom Immunity, George W. Bush, Politics News

Senate Democrats are now busy giving away the store to Bush -- again. For what appears to be the one billionth time in a row. They are set to give Pre...

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Reid Clears Hurdle for Bush-Cheney Spying Bill

Ari Melber | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Surveillance, Harry Reid, Spying, Fisa, Politics News

With opponents like these, President Bush may have forgotten that Congress ever changed hands.

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Feingold: "I Really Do Disagree" With Reid On FISA

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Retroactive Immunity. Democratic Party, FISA Bill, Politics, Russ Feingold, Warrantless Surveilance, Telecom Immunity, Harry Reid, Fisa, Filibuster, Chris Dodd, Politics News

A long-debated provision over whether or not telephone companies would get a free pass for aiding the U.S. government in warrentless surveillance hits...

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Swiftboating

John Kerry | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Harry Reid, Swiftboating, Barack Obama, John Kerry, Patrick Murphy, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News

I hate how the name of the boats we honored when we were in uniform in Vietnam has become a verb for the twisted politics of Karl Rove.

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Reid Wants Bush To Pressure Pakistan

Reuters | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: General Pervez Musharraf, Senator Harry Reid, Musharraf Bhutto, Pakistan Opposition, Pakistan Crisis, Reid Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Harry Reid, Bhutto Pakistan, Senator Reid, Pakistan Democracy, Pakistan State of Emergency, Warwire, Politics News

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday urged President George W. Bush to consider cutting aid to Pakistan unless it restores full civil rights ...

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My "McLaughlin Awards" For 2007 [Part 1]

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, President, Al Gore, Inconvenient Truth, Mitchell Report, 2007, Mccain, Iraq, Awards, China, Most Original Thinker, Lieberman, Turncoat of the Year, Bush, Iran, Bush Countdown Clock, Enough Already, Surge, Bummest Rap, Katie Couric, Most Stagnant Thinker, Turncoat, Current TV, Most Defining Political Moment, America Does Not Torture, Karl Rove, Petraeus, Barry Bonds, Communist China, Nobel, Biggest Loser, Person of the Year, McLaughlin Group, Most Boring, Edwards, Nobel Peace Prize, Congress, Oscar, Worst Lie, Roadblock Republicans, Capitalist of the Year, Democrats, Best Photo Op, Gonzales, Bomb Iran, Biggest Winner, Trent Lott, Best Comeback, Best Politician, Live Earth, Harry Reid, Republicans, Fairest Rap, Worst Politician, Maliki, Senate, Feinstein, Antarctica, Mclaughlin, Emmy, Politics News

For those of you who have been reading this column long enough, you may remember a fun set of columns (Part 1 and Part 2) I wrote last year, giving my...

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Dear Democrats: Together They Stood, Divided We Fell

John Bruhns | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics

Read More: Harry Reid, Iraq War Funding, George W. Bush, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News

This is a devastating blow to folks like myself who have been out there fighting for exactly what we were promised when we elected Democrats as the majority party, an end to the war.

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Dem Leaders Pressured To Alter War Strategy

Politico | John Bresnahan and Martin Kady II | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics

Read More: Bush Veto, End War, Democratic Congress, Bush Congress, George Bush Iraq, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Iraq, War in Iraq, Politics News

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, despite their pledges to continue pushing to end the war in Iraq, face growing press...

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The Vote for Endless War

David Bromwich | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Russ Feingold, Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Iraq War Funding, 110th Congress, Politics News

This definitive result of the 110th Congress will confirm the popular feeling that George W. Bush believes in his disaster more than the Democrats believe in anything.

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The Republican 2008 Plan Is Revealed

Dave Johnson | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics

Read More: Harry Reid, Hans Von Spakovsky, FEC Reports, Republican Party, 2008 Election, Republicans, Politics News

They don't want the government functioning, and if they must have it they want it doing their bidding -- funneling cash to their cronies and protecting the corporations from the citizenry.

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Democrats Cave On SCHIP

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics

Read More: Chris Dodd, Congress, 08, 2008 Election, Democrats, Election, 08 Election, Bush, 2008, Health, Schip, Nancy Pelosi, Health Insurance, Harry Reid, Childrens Health, Veto, Health Care, Children's Health, Majority Leader, Senate, Senate Majority Leader, Politics News

The news just broke that Dems have completely and utterly caved on the State Children's Health Insurance Program bill.

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Chyron Watch: MSNBC's "Dodd Among Men"

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 12.19.2007 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, Democratic Presidential Candidates, Democrats, 2008 Election, Chyron Watch, Media News

They like him, they really like him! Chris Dodd may never be president, but he's been getting major props for his strong stance against the FISA autho...

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Momentum Builds For Dodd Run At Majority Leader

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics

Read More: FISA Filibuster, Senator Harry Reid, Telecom Immunity, Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, Majority Leader, Senator Dodd, 2008 Campain, Chris Dodd Filibuster, Politics News

As the political season reaches its Iowa caucus climax, momentum is building for Sen. Chris Dodd to parlay his presidential campaign into a bid to cha...

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Reid Considers Extending Protect America Act For One Month

The Hill | Manu Raju | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics

Read More: Telecoms Immunity, Warrantless Wiretapping, Senator Harry Reid, FISA Bill, FISA Legislation, Warrantless Surveillance, Wiretapping, Dianne Feinstein, Retroactive Immunity, Harry Reid, Warrantless Spying, Chris Dodd, Fisa, Protect America Act, Telecoms, Telecom Immunity, Dodd Filibuster, Dodd Telecom Amnesty, Politics News

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Tuesday he would seek to extend a controversial interim wiretapping law through February to avoid the ea...

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Reading The Pictures: Harry And Co. Go MIA

Michael Shaw | Posted 12.18.2007 | Media

Read More: Harry Reid, Democratic Congress, Photographers, Dodd Filibuster, Media News

This image from today's NYT is a brilliant, if sad commentary, on the absence of Democratic Congressional leadership.

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Why Did Reid Pull the Telecom Bill?

Jane Hamsher | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics

Read More: Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, FISA Bill, Democrats, Telecoms, Telecom Immunity, Dodd Telecom Amnesty, Dodd Filibuster, Politics News

Reid may be going out of his way to deny that Dodd and his allies had any effect on what happened yesterday, and the Washington Post may be fooled, but nobody else is.

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The Power of One

Cenk Uygur | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics

Read More: Harry Reid, Retroactive Immunity, Filibuster, Fisa, Chris Dodd, Dodd Filibuster, Politics News

Good guys won, bad guys lost. All it took was one Senator and an afternoon. And he stopped them cold in their tracks. Now, that wasn't so hard, was it?

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Hey, Come Back! Writers Guild Pickets in New Orleans as Pelosi and Reid Write Bush

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 12.14.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Common Ground, New Orleans, Writers Guild of America, Emergency Communities, Habitat for Humanity, Acorn, Writers Guild of America Strike, Writers' Strike Opinion, Writers' Strike, Hollywood Strike, WGA Strike, Hollywood, George Bush, Nancy Pelosi, John Edwards, Harry Reid, K-Ville, K-Ville New Orleans, Entertainment News

But as the strike lingers a major sore point for New Orleans is K-ville. Production on the Fox show was shut down shortly after the strike started.

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Where Are Our Leaders When We Need Them?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics

Read More: Fisa Immunity, Harry Reid, Barack Obama, Iraq War Funding, Energy Bill, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, Hillary Clinton, Iraq War, Democrats, Iraq, 2008 Election, Politics News

As much as I respect Dodd, he is not likely to win the nomination. So, the person who works with him can soak up all the credit for his FISA fight.

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President Bush Stays the Course on North Pole Relations

Aemilia Scott | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics

Read More: Mccain, Satire, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Kucinich UFO, Stephen Hadley, Harry Reid, Political Satire, Curve Ball, Hillary Clinton, Wolf Blitzer, Barack Obama, Politics News

President Bush has declared that contrary to international opinion, Santa Claus does exist. He made the announcement only hours after the release of an intelligence report finding no evidence of toy production in the North Pole.

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