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Feinstein: If We Don't Deliver On Health Care 'We've Got A Problem'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Reform Problem, Feinstein Health Care, Feinstein We Have a Problem, Feintstein Health Care Legislation, Diane Feinstein, Politics News

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) warned her fellow Democrats on Sunday that if they failed to pass health care reform in the weeks ahead, the opportun...

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Dick Durbin Won't Commit To Support Budget For Afghanistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fox News Sunday, Afghanistan War, Durbin War Budget, Dick Durbin, Obama War Budget, Obama Durbin, Afghanistan, Politics News

One of President Barack Obama's closest allies in the Senate would not commit on Sunday to voting in favor of the proposed surge of U.S. forces in Afg...

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TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Sunday Morning Talk Shows, Media News

Good morning and welcome to your liveblog of the Sunday Morning Mouth Excretions! My name is Jason, and I hope you all are enjoying this holiday seas...

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Bank of America TARP Repayment Premature, Analyst Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 12.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Bailout, Bank of America, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Bank of America Bailout, Christopher Whalen, Business News

A leading bank analyst says the regulators who allowed Bank of America to repay its $45 billion in government bailout funds made a big mistake because...

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Washington Post Forced To Correct Report That Public Enemy Called 9/11 A Joke

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Washington Post, Public Enemy, 911, September 11th, Corrections, Media News

ABC News White House correspondent Jake Tapper offers up, via Twitter, a Washington Post correction that addresses what Tapper terms an example of "un...

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BCS Flack Fleischer Compares Hated Football System To Macy's Parade

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Ari Fleischer BCS, Macys-Thanksgiving-Day-Parade, Macys-Day-Parade, Football, Ari Fleischer, Flacks, Media News

I have to tell you, when I heard that former Bush flack Ari Fleischer had been engaged as the new face of shillery for the college football Bowl Champ...

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Palin Gets Another Ethics Complaint (Read Her Staff's Emails)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Palin Ethics Complaint, Palin Emails, Palin Mccleod, Palin Ethics, Ethics Complaints, Sarah Palin, Andree McLeod, Politics News

Yet another ethics complaint has been filed against former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, this time on the grounds that both she and her staff used offi...

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House Travel Spending Is All Over The Map

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Transparency, House of Representatives, House Disbursements, Congressional Travel, Politics News

The amount of money that members of the House of Representatives spend on all manner of office necessities -- especially travel -- vary widely. Repr...

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Glenn Beck's "Christmas Sweater" Fails To Catch Fire In Major Liberal Enclaves... Surprise!

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Fox News, Predictable, Glenn Beck, The Christmas Sweater, Media News

Raw Story and ThinkProgress both relate news today that strikes me as just a little obvious. But, OK: Fox News infotainer Glenn Beck premiered his new...

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Durbin: The Trigger Proposal Has Not Been Abandoned

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Durbin Health Care, Dick Durbin, Durbin Public Plan Trigger, Durbin Public Plan, Durbin Trigger, Politics News

The man tasked with counting the votes for Democrats in the Senate told reporters on Friday that the caucus was still considering health care reform t...

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John Oliver Confronts Swiss UN Ambassador On Neutrality During World War II (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.04.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Minarets, Video, Switzerland, Daily Show, John Oliver, Jon Stewart, Comedy News

On last night's "Daily Show", correspondent John Oliver followed up a segment on a recent vote in Switzerland to ban the building of minarets with an ...

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Russell Wiseman, Tennessee Mayor, Assails 'Muslim President' For Pre-Empting 'Peanuts'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fearmongering, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Social Networking, Russell Wiseman, Obama Muslim Smear, Facebook, Idiots, Barack Obama, Politics News

In case you didn't know, President Barack Obama's West Point address, in which he announced his intention to escalate the war in Afghanistan, pre-empt...

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Aetna Forcing 600,000-Plus To Lose Coverage In Effort To Raise Profits

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Aetna Consumers, Lose Coverage, Insurance Rolls, Aetna Insurance, 000, Health Care Consumers, Medical Costs, Aetna, Aetna 600, Prices, Business News

Health insurance giant Aetna is planning to force up to 650,000 clients to drop their coverage next year as it seeks to raise additional revenue to me...

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Friends And Colleagues Defend Desiree Rogers

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Crashers, White House Rogers Defense, Rogers Event, Rogers Social Secretary, White House Crashers, Desiree Rogers, Politics News

White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers came under attack after a Virginia couple crashed President Obama's first state dinner, but her friends a...

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Greenpeace Asks For Senate Investigation Into Newsweek's Big Oil Forum

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Newsweek, Senate, Lobbying, American Petroleum Institute, Lobbyblog, Green News

On Tuesday, Newsweek hosted a climate and energy policy forum on Capitol Hill with the American Petroleum Institute. Now Greenpeace, which has been he...

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Tea Party Movie Premieres With Congressional GOP In Attendance (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tea Party Activists, My Little Pony, Dick Armies, Freedomworks, Tom Price, Marsha Blackburn, Dick Armey, Joe Wilson, Tea Party, Jim Demint, John McCain, Politics News

Tea Party activists got to play the part of the glitterati Wednesday night at the Ronald Reagan building in Washington, DC, where FreedomWorks debuted...

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Biden's White House Role Changes With Afghan Decision

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Troops, Vice President, Biden Afghanistan, Joseph Biden, Biden Troops, White House Obama, Biden White House Standing, Joseph Biden Afghan Policy, Politics News

On the most fundamental matter at stake in the recent debate over the war in Afghanistan, Vice President Joseph Biden ultimately lost. Weeks before P...

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Senator Bob Corker Praises Police, OnStar For Their Work After Carjacking [AUDIO]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Washington DC, Onstar, Bob Corker, Julia Corker Carjacking, Media News

Last night, Julia Corker, the eldest daughter of Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) was carjacked by a pair of suspects in Washington, DC's Penn Quarter nei...

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Former Employers More Likely To Allege Misconduct By Laid-Off Workers Than In Past Recessions

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployment, Recession, Unemployment Benefits, Business News

Laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits today are almost twice as likely as their counterparts during the recession of the 1980s to be accused ...

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HuffPost, TPM In White House Pool: Newspaper Reporters Gripe

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Peter Baker, Pool Reporting, Media Criticism, Sam Stein, Talking Points Memo, White House Press Corps, Huffington Post, White House Press Pool, Pool Reports, Christina Bellantoni, Mike Allen, Media News

According to Politico, a "debate" has been "sparked" over the new White House pool rotation. This debate is raging, I'm sure, among the handful of people who are deeply invested in White House pool reporting.

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Gregg Defends His Obstructionist Manifesto

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican Obstruction Manual, Gop Obstruction Manual, Obstruction Manual, Gregg Obstructionism, Health Care Republicans, Health Care, Judd Gregg, Gregg, Healthcare, Politics News

Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) took to the floor of the Senate on Thursday morning to defend the health care reform obstructionist manifesto he penned a day...

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Karzai Will Talk To Taliban, Obama Will Not

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Diplomacy Taliban, Karzai Obama Afghanistan, Obama Taliban, Barack Obama, Karzai Taliban, Obama Negotiations, Politics News

Afghan President Hamad Karzai announced on Thursday that he would be willing to talk to the leadership of the Taliban -- the main force behind the ins...

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No Easy Jumpstart To Get Small Business Hiring Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Small Business, Lending, Employment, Main Street, Jobs, Unemployment, Bailout, Loans, Job, Financial Crisis, Hiring, Banks, Wall Street, Job Creation, Bank Regulators, Small Businesses, Transparency, Business News

As 130 business, labor and thought leaders converge on the White House today to discuss ways to create more jobs, the nation's main engine for job cre...

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Grassley: 'I Don't Think' Coburn's Right To Say Seniors Will 'Die Sooner'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tom Coburn, Chuck Grassley, Health Care, Politics News

There is, at long last, some disagreement within the GOP over whether Democratic-authored health care reform will expedite the death of senior citizen...

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McCain Returns To Robocalls To Target Health Care, Democrats

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: McCain Robocalls, Mccain Robocall Health Care, McCain Democrats, John McCain, Mccain Health Care Robocall Dems, Health Care, Politics News

Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), who relied heavily on automated calls to attack Barack Obama during the presidential campaign, is deploying the same to...

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