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Eyes off the Prize: Liberals Who Want to Kill the Health Care Bill Should Remember History

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 01.03.2010 | Politics

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Progressives can be as bad as teabaggers, with their chronic dissatisfaction, ideological disdain for compromise, and limited understanding of historical precedent.

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We Need More Parties

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.31.2009 | Politics

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If both political parties split at, America would probably adopt a coalition government; the newly- formed Progressive and Conservative Parties might even ally on issues like taking on Wall Street.

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Tea Partiers Decry The Hijacking Of Grassroots Movement

Mother Jones | Stephanie Mencimer | Posted 12.30.2009 | Politics

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Would a true Tea Party patriot drop nearly $1,600 in donor money for a small meal at a fancy steakhouse? Robin Stublen says no, and he's mad as hell a...

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Obama's Choice for 2010

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 12.30.2009 | Politics

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After 2010, the Obama presidency, if history is any guide, will change substantially. It will become reactive, initiate few, if any, major pieces of legislation, and focus more on foreign policy.

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Bipartisan Blight

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 12.29.2009 | Politics

Health care reform suffered the torments of partisan obstruction. Now gird yourself for financial reform and the perils of bipartisan blight.

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New Year's Wish: Getting My Country Back

Will Wright | Posted 12.29.2009 | Politics

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I long for the days when the elected president was seen to be, and widely accepted to be, president of all Americans -- when the party not in power didn't cheer for failure.

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Cartoon: GOP's Health Care Problem

Sunil Adam | Posted 12.28.2009 | Politics

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The Republicans' Disdain for the American People Should Be the Story of 2009

Mitchell Bard | Posted 12.29.2009 | Politics

Looking back on 2009, a narrative seems to have emerged that the Democrats failed and would pay the price in the 2010 midterm elections. But where is the discussion of how the Republicans have behaved in the last year?

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Tea Partiers Demand That GOP Candidates Call For Repeal Of Health Care Reform

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 12.28.2009 | Politics

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It's now becoming clear that this could be a major issue for Republicans in 2010: the Tea Party movement, as well as high-profile conservatives, are g...

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2000-2009: America's Lost Decade

Bob Burnett | Posted 12.28.2009 | Politics

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When historians update the history of the United States and ponder when we lost our way and punted the mantle of global supremacy to China, they'll conclude this past decade was the turning point.

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GOP Lawmakers Flip Flop On Costly Health Plans: AP

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 12.26.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Democrats are troubled by the inconsistency of Republican lawmakers who approved a major Medicare expansion six years ago that has ...

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Republicans Employ New Strategy: Limit Part-Time Resident Votes

nytimes.com | NICHOLAS CONFESSORE | Posted 12.25.2009 | New York

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Republicans, armed with private investigators, are pursuing a new strategy to preserve their power: take away part-time residents' right to vote here....

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Sarah Palin: Myth And Mythmaking

The New York Review of Books | Jonathan Raban | Posted 12.24.2009 | Books

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"Sarah and Her Tribe", Jonathan Raban New York Review of Books, Forthcoming in the January 14, 2010 issue "Going Rogue: An American Life" by Sarah Pa...

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Remembering August

Vanessa Carmichael | Posted 12.28.2009 | Politics

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It would be great if senators listened to all the polls the left likes to cite when defending the public option. I suppose polls are hard to pay attention to when August is still vivid in your mind.

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Political Labels 101: A Lesson for Republicans and Teabaggers

Mitchell Bard | Posted 12.23.2009 | Politics

I acknowledge that a fair debate on health care can be had. But what I have no patience for is the ignorance being injected into our national consciousness, most recently by Sarah Palin.

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Parker Griffith's Christmas Present To Alabama Democrats

Matt Osborne | Posted 12.23.2009 | Politics

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Griffith was always a Republican. That someone who boasts an astoundingly low seven percent progressive rating versus a 33% conservative rating has turned coat should be shocking only to a few cave-dwellers.

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Parker Griffith's Cynical Shift to the GOP

Steve Marmel | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics

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He's betting his job on the idea the economy will still be in the tank, and unemployment will still be double-digit. That things will be no better. That is the spirit of Griffith's shift.

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Boehner Calls Tanning Tax 'Attack on Orange Americans'

Andy Borowitz | Posted 12.22.2009 | Comedy

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The Senate's efforts to introduce a tax on tanning beds hit a roadblock today as Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) blasted the idea, calling it "a blatant attack on Orange Americans."

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The Oligarchy Wins Again!

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.23.2009 | Politics

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The health reform bill the corporate oligarchy just purchased from the best Congress money can buy has investors stoked, as the soaring stock prices of health industry corporations reach a 52-year high point!

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How Nebraska's Insurance Companies Stand To Profit From Ben Nelson's Compromises In Health Care Bill

AP | NATE JENKINS | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics

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LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska – never seen as a key player with special needs in the health care debate – stands to reap millions of doll...

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Senate Health Care Vote 1:00 A.M. Monday Morning, First Of Three Critical Votes

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats confidently advanced health care legislation Sunday toward a make-or-break test vote in a push for Christmas-week ...

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McCain: Obama Created More Partisan Environment Than Bill Clinton

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.20.2009 | Politics

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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) ripped into the president on Sunday for abandoning his pledge to foster bipartisanship in Washington, accusing Obama of cre...

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Taibbi, Kuttner Debate Health Care Bill On "Bill Moyers Journal" (VIDEO)

Posted 12.19.2009 | Politics

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Robert Kuttner of the American Prospect and Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone agree that the health care bill taking shape in the Senate is a bad one. But ...

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A Failed State Senator?

Stephen Herrington | Posted 12.18.2009 | Politics

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Many Huffington Post commenters, and even article contributors, rush to compare America to Rome in it's decline into a failed nation state. Republican Rome lasted 450 years.

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Tim Pawlenty 2012? Minnesota Governor Makes Trip To New Hampshire

Star Tribune | Kevin Diaz | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and his wife, Mary, launched what could be the unofficial start of the 2012 primary season Wednesday, amid a wintry landsc...

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