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Why 60 Senate Votes? Why Should 10% Veto 90%?

Mark Green | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Connecticut Compromise, Filibuster, Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman, Democracy, Health Care, U. S. Senate, Campaign Finance Reform, Reconciliation, Politics News
Mark Green

Who elected Joe Lieberman the president of health care? Abuse of the filibuster and special interest money may still combine to stop health care reform and stop America from becoming a 21st century society.

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Friday Talking Points [102] -- Harry Reid's Glacial Progress Grinds On

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: 60 Votes, Leadership, White House, Debate, Floor, Ron Paul, Reform, Alan Grayson, Gray Hair, Eric Holder, Sarah Palin, Conyers, Amendments, John Kerry, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Democratic Caucus, Health Care, Majority Leader, Reid, Reconciliation, John Conyers, Conference Committee, Grey Hair, Kerry, Olympia Snowe, Democrat, Robert Byrd, Congress, Democrats, Paul, Election, Holder, Byrd, Barack Obama, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Mddotw, Harry Reid, State of the Union, Eating, Longest, Senate, Bill, Healthcare, Pumas, President Obama, Cloture, Filibuster, Obama, Democratic, Media, Democratic Party, Friday Talking Points, Grayson, Lieberman, Pelosi, 2010, Baucus, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Midterms, Skinny, Ksm, House, Attorney General, Matt Osborne, Puma, Thin, Midterm, Chris Weigant, Palin, Sotu, Max Baucus, Joe Lieberman, Party Unity My Ass, Osborne, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Harry Reid thinks he's got enough votes, but then this is the reason why the vote keeps getting pushed back -- because he's obviously still scrambling for the final few votes before he moves ahead.

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Assassinations, Peace and State Violence in India and Pakistan

Abdul Malik Mujahid | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: Sikh, India, Punjab, Indira Gandhi, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Truth Commission, Akal Takht, Taliban, Forgiveness, Modi, Hindu, Amritsar, Military, Naxalites, Security, Muslim, Justice, Gujarat, Reconciliation, World News
Abdul Malik Mujahid

As Indians mark the death anniversary of Indira Gandhi, Sikhs renew their call for justice, and Pakistan bleeds with terrorism, it is important to reflect on justice, reconciliation and forgiveness.

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Stiletto Road

Robert Ellis Gordon | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Hospice, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Universal Health Care, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Reconciliation, Open Letter, Lupus, Fanatic Within, Test of Character, Death, Fear and Hate, Fast Food Jesus, Living News
Robert Ellis Gordon

When I took ill in 1989, I discovered what so many others had discovered: that private insurance companies didn't like me any more. Here's what else I've learned since then, and my message to the President.

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Ryan Grim

Reid, Durbin Open To Majority Vote To Beat Health Care Filibuster

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reconciliation, Health Care Filibuster, Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Health Care Majority Vote, Health Care Vote, Filibuster, Health Care, Reconciliation, Politics News

As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid works to cobble together the 60 votes he needs to overcome an expected Republican attempt to block a floor vote o...

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Olympia Snowe's Mysterious Role in Health Care Reform

Sahil Kapur | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Olympia Snowe, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Democrats, Reconciliation, Barack Obama, Health Care, Politics News
Sahil Kapur

The main source of tension is that preserving Snowe's vote will likely require sacrificing the public insurance option, a provision supported by a majority of the public but opposed by Republicans and conservative activists.

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Halftime At The Healthcare Reform Superbowl

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: 60 Votes, Win One for the Gipper, White House, Kennedy, Chris Dodd, Democratic, Reform, Alan Grayson, Football Metaphor, Grayson, Halftime, Snowe, Pelosi, Edward Kennedy, Win One for the Skipper, Baucus, Nancy Pelosi, Budget Reconciliation, Health Care, Reid, Reconciliation, Conference Committee, House, Football, Cheerleader, Olympia Snowe, 50 Votes, Democrat, Congress, Democrats, Floor Vote, Teddy Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Steny Hoyer, Coach, Chris Weigant, Sailing, Health, Corporate Whore, Max Baucus, Harry Reid, Superbowl, Dodd, Hoyer, Pep Talk, Healthcare, Senate, Politics News
Chris Weigant

A football locker room. Hundreds of Democrats are sitting on benches, to hear Coach's halftime pep talk in the Health Care Reform Superbowl. Some appear exhausted, some appear battered.

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Sam Stein

Reid Says Public Plan Will Be In Final Bill: Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harry Reid, Reid Public Option, Public Plan, Health Care Reform, Senate Legislation, Public Option Reid, Reconciliation, Politics News

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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Sam Stein

Nelson Will Oppose Reconciliation On Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Ben Nelson, Nelson Filibuster, Reform Legislation, Ben-Nelson-Reconciliation, Reconciliation, Politics News

Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) threw another hurdle in the path of health care reform on Sunday, declaring he would oppose a legislative maneuver to have...

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Baucus' Bill Not Bipartisan, But Panmedia

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Panmedia, Mao, Chairman Mao, Bipartisanshipiness, Kennedy, Filibuster, Democratic, Reform, Media, Rewrite, China, Republican, Baucus, Bipartisanshippy, Budget Reconciliation, Health Care, Reid, Reconciliation, Gang of Six, Committee, Conference Committee, Edit, Democrat, Colbert, Stephen Colbert, Bipartisan, Democrats, Ted Kennedy, Truthiness, Chris Weigant, Health, Max Baucus, Harry Reid, Senator Baucus, Republicans, Bipartisanship, Gang of Four, Healthcare, Senate, Bill, Politics News
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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Santorum 2012 Run Against "Injurious" Obama Considered

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, 2012 Presidential Election, Oil Drilling, Anwr, President Obama, Rick Santorum, Health Care Legislation, Reconciliation, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Politics News

Rick Santorum affirmed on an RNC conference call -- aimed at attacking Arlen Specter -- that he's considering a run for president in 2012 -- because, ...

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Chuck Schumer: We Should Still Look Seriously At 50-Vote Bill

The American Prospect | Tim Fernholz | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Public Option Trigger, Public Option, Tom-Perriello, Harry Reid, Senate Democrats, Healthcare Reform, Republicans, Reconciliation, Politics News

Senator Chuck Schumer is the third-ranked Democrat in the Senate, one of the most prominent advocates for a public plan, and among the earliest Democr...

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

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blue Dog, Floor, Children, Al Franken, Reform, Casey at the Bat, Town Hall, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Brown, Vetoes, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, West Wing, Budget Reconciliation, Health Care, Schoolchildren, Reid, Reconciliation, Lincoln, President Bartlet, Signs, Joint Session, Conference Committee, Committee, Public Option, Democrat, Congress, Address to Congress, Floor Vote, School, Democrats, Silly Season, Barack Obama, Progressive, Mddotw, Health, Harry Reid, Bill, Senate, Healthcare, Law, Senator Brown, President Obama, Speech, Sherrod Brown, Obama, Democratic, Friday Talking Points, Legislation, Pelosi, Senator, Insurance, Kids, Schoolkids, Ohio, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Speaker, Baseball, House, Franken, Blanche Lincoln, The West Wing, Chris Weigant, Health Insurance, Indoctrination, Veto, Politics News
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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Ryan Grim

Democrats Ponder One-Bill Reconciliation Strategy For Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Senate Democrats, Health Care, Reconciliation, Politics News

Senate Democrats contemplating a controversial parliamentary maneuver that would allow them to pass key provisions of a health care bill with just 51 ...

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Sam Stein

Lieberman: Using Reconciliation For Health Care A "Real Mistake"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reconciliation, Obama Reconciliation, Joseph Lieberman, Barack Obama, Obama White House, Lieberman Reconciliation, Lieberman Obama, Reconciliation, Politics News

Senator Joseph Lieberman, (I-Conn.) said on Sunday that he thinks it would be a "real mistake" if Democrats used the parliamentary maneuver known as r...

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Friday Talking Points [90] -- Obama To Switch Parties

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Daisy Dukes, White House, Table, Medicare for All, Legalize, Barney Frank, Progressives, Fiction, Reform, Catnip, Rube Goldberg, Blackwater, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Assassination, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Health Care, Budget Reconciliation, Reid, Nancy Reagan, Reconciliation, Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut, Terrorism, Mexico, Shorts, Terrorist, Massachusetts, Democrat, Kathleen Sebelius, Congress, Planet, Democrats, Lie, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Decriminalize, Mddotw, Health, Blue Dogs, Harry Reid, Vacation, Falsehood, Healthcare, Senate, George Bush, President Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Ronald Reagan, Senator, Tom Ridge, Cia, Kennedy, Cat's Cradle, Drugs, Decriminalization, Iraq, Obama, Democratic, Dining Room Table, Media, Truth to Crazy, Media Catnip, Friday Talking Points, Republican, Bush, Pelosi, Edward Kennedy, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Obama Switches Parties, Speaker, Sebelius, Ridge, Two Bills, Michelle Obama, House, Aides, What Planet, Terror Alert, Obama to Switch Parties, Teddy Kennedy, Mainstream Media, Progressive, Grand Canyon, Chris Weigant, Naked Guy on a Plane, Senator Kennedy, Afghanistan, George W Bush, Healthcare Reform, Nazi, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Ted Kennedy is putting both his legacy and his sense of entitlement to his office before the interests of his constituents.

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The August Health Care Battle

Mike Lux | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Halls, Health Care Reform, Insurance Industry, August Recess, Health Care Battle, Health Care, Reconciliation, Politics News
Mike Lux

Health care reform is a policy battle, a communications battle, a turnout battle, a political battle all rolled into one. Our side needs to be beat the intensity of the right-wing protesters.

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Whites Who Say Blacks Are Racist Are Onto Something

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hate, Collective, Break In, Police, Activity, President Barack Obama, Racist, Run, Healing, Drugs, Beer Summit, Robbery, Boy, Home, Urban, Henry Louis Gates Jr, 2nd Amendment, Running, Ritual, African American, Sgt. James Crowley, Freedom, Man, Glenn Beck, Credit Card, Black, Shelby Steele, Franz Fanon, Gun Rights, Cat-Calling, Reconciliation, Politics News
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

In Glenn Beck's mind it doesn't add up. How can it be that people who are treated badly are not filled with hate?

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The Morality Police and the Divine Feminine

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Morality Police, Governor Mark Sanford, Divine Feminine, Mistakes, Morals, Now, Cheating, Atonement, Cable News, S.C. Governor Mark Sanford, Forgiveness, Patriarchy, Reconciliation, Living News
Dr. Susan Corso

I am appalled at the coverage of Governor Mark Sanford's infidelity to his wife and sons. I am appalled at the moral posturing. I am appalled that we think we have the right.

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Schumer: Dems May Have To Go It Alone On Health Care

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Schumer, Reconciliation, Health Care, Health Care Plan, Obama Health Care Plan, Dems Health Care Plan, Coop Health Care Compromise, Public Option, Public Health Care Option, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Democrats are becoming bolder about their idea that middle-class familes get the option of joining a government insurance plan in a...

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Reconciliation Rules - Not Bipartisanship - Will Kill Health Care Reform

Rep. Jim Cooper | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wyden-Bennett, Wyden-Bennett Healthy Americans Act, Rep. Jim Cooper, Health Care Reform, Byrd Rule, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Healthcare, Reconciliation, Politics News
Rep. Jim Cooper

Health care reform under reconciliation wouldn't be health care reform at all. It would be a deficit reduction bill relating to health care. Or a reform package with an expiration date.

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In Sri Lanka: Reconciliation and Reconstruction

Jim Luce | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Tamil Tigers, Child Soldiers, United Nations, Sri Lanka, European Union, Times of London, China, Human Shields, Japan, Tamil, Tsunami, Sri Lankan Military, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sinhala, Orphans International Worldwide, Reconciliation, World News
Jim Luce

Sri Lanka is now focused on the "3 R's:" Rehabilitation, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation. European leaders need to stop lecturing and start helping.

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Ryan Grim

Obama Repeatedly Reminds House GOP Of Their Zero Stimulus Votes

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: House Republicans, Obama Budget, Obama, Obama Health Care, Stimulus, Reconciliation, Politics News

In a meeting with House Republicans at the White House Thursday, President Obama reminded the minority that the last time he reached out to them, they...

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Is Cap-And-Trade Dead This Year?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cap and Trade, Gas Prices, Foreign Oil, Cloture, President Obama, Economy, Washington, Filibuster, Democratic, Obama, Lightswitch Tax, Conventional Wisdom, Filibuster Proof, Republican, Cap-and-Trade, Budget Reconciliation, Health Care, Reconciliation, Energy, Gas, House, Budget, Democrat, Congress, Energy Policy, Democrats, Barack Obama, Fast Track, Education, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Tax, Oil, Senate, Healthcare, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Democrats are all but admitting that they're killing off cap-and-trade for this year's legislative season. When the time comes, they will be blaming the Republicans, even though their own cowardice is the real culprit.

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Elephants With Short Memories

Ed Kilgore | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Byrd, Ronald Reagan, Budget, President Obama, Reconciliation, Republicans, Socialists, Politics News
Ed Kilgore

As Republicans continue to shriek about it, they need to be reminded that reconciliation in its current form was largely the creation of the sainted Ronald Reagan.

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