After announcing her intent to support a health care debate this afternoon, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) told reporters she thinks Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will soon have to choose between a triggered public option and no health care bill. She also says Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)--the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate one of its most ...
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Reid Slams Broder As A Retiree Who 'Writes A Column Once In A While'
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may have just endeared himself to liberal bloggers across the land. This morning, he took some heat from Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who cited a Washington Post column to attack health care reform: "In tomorrow's Washington Post , David Broder, their distinguished senior columnist, certainly not a ...
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The Schumer/Landrieu/Carper Compromise Plot Thickens
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Earlier today, Landrieu talked about working with Schumer and Carper on yet another iteration of a public option compromise, along the lines of his state-based triggered co-ops. Schumer's spokesman flatly denied this, sending this statement: "Since Leader Reid announced the opt-out public option would be included in the Senate bill, Senator ...
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Sen. Landrieu will vote with Democrats to start debate on health care reform
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You can't recall a member of Congress. You can expell a member from Congress but only with two-thirds of the member's respective chamber voting in favor of expelling said member of Congress. It has never happened snookums and it won't happen in Mary's case either. Not to worry because I am sure you all Landrieu haters will
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Reid reaches 60 as Sen. Lincoln pledges vote to begin debate
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has secured the vital 60th vote he needs to advance healthcare reform legislation with the announcement by Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) that she will vote with her party Saturday evening.
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Why was it so hard for Dems even to start health care debate?
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The extraordinary thing about the dramatic events surrounding the health care bill in the Senate is that there is any drama in it at all. Lawmakers are simply voting to begin debate on their version of health care reform. Just begin debate -- not end it, and not move on to a final vote.
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Senator, Clout Rising, Cements Role at Heart of Debate
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WASHINGTON — No sooner had Senator Blanche Lincoln promised to deliver one crucial vote in support of a health care overhaul than she threatened to withhold the next one.
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BYRON YORK: Why was it so hard for Dems even to start health care debate?
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"Glenn also has a rather dry sense of humour, which I'm guessing not enough people pick up on." -- Andrea See
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Saturday in the Senate: Cash for Cloture; Reid gets 60; Update: Eastern cloture vote – 60-39; Voinovich absent; Dems invoke Teddy Kennedy; ...
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Saturday in the Senate: Cash for Cloture; Reid gets 60; Update: 8:15pm Eastern cloture vote – 60-39; Voinovich absent; Dems invoke Teddy Kennedy; Reid: “Ted would be happy.”
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Good Job Harry
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Harry Reid achieved a minor miracle a half-hour ago when he got 60 votes to begin the health care debate in the Senate right after the Thanksgiving recess. No sooner had he done that, with the help of alleged Democrats Blanche Lincoln and Mary Landrieu, did Lincoln make it clear she would never vote for any final bill that allows cash-strapped ...
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Health Care Bill Voting Today: What It Isn't
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While Sen. Harry Reid has 60 votes for tonight's vote, you have to read the fine print to know what it means and doesn't mean. It's not a vote on the health care bill, but only a vote on whether debate can begin on it. [T]his vote simply says that the Senate is prepared to have a debate on the bill. From here, the bill will be ...
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Senate Democrats assured of 60 votes to debate health bill
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WASHINGTON (CNN) – Senate Democrat Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas said Saturday she will support bringing the Senate health care reform bill to the floor for debate, giving Democrats the 60 votes they need to prevent a Republican filibuster.
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White House Snarks On GOP Whining About Health Care Bill Page Length
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Loving it. Since some opponents of reform seem too obsessed with the length of the Senate health insurance reform bill to even bother looking at what’s in it for American families, we thought we’d make it a little easier for them to find some key of provisions they’re working so hard to kill: * On page 78 [...]
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Tom Watson
A Milestone In the Health Care Journey
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The attempt in all these ideas to nudge the medical system away from fee-for-service medicine toward an approach that ties compensation more closely to results captures how much the health care debate has shifted toward cost-control. So far, the rise...
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Sabato: The Politics Of The Cloture Vote -- By: Robert Costa
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So what does tonight’s vote mean? Can the Senate’s week off for Thanksgiving change the politics of the health care debate? What happens if the debate ends up stretching through December and into 2010? For answers, NRO asked Larry Sabato, the astute professor of politics at the University of Virginia, for his take. “Three elections guaranteed ...
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The answer to the question “where the heck is global warming?” is “precisely where you would expect,” as we will see. Wired has done some excellent reporting on one of the supposed start-dumping-your-clean-energy-stocks e-mails — the one by Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center ...
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Global Warming Bombshell
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The biggest news story of the day is one that has barely begun to break and will continue to reverberate for months or years to come. Someone hacked into a computer at the University of East Anglia's Hadley Climatic Research Centre, one of the main centers of anthropogenic global warming research. The hacker downloaded 62 megabytes of data from ...
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Anybody not named Al Gore believe in global warming?
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Really, anybody with a functioning brain knows that Global Warming by Al Gore[trademark thingy] is a goddamned lie. So, it’s not one eensie bit surprising there is ample evidence of…evidence of the truth of that*: If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the ...
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WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. — A billboard showing President Barack Obama wearing a turban has sparked a lot of attention at the suburban Denver used car dealership that put it up.
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CafePress Is No Longer Officially Okay with Praying for Obama's Death
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CafePress has reversed itself for the second time and discontinued once and for all the sale of "Pray For Obama: Psalm 109:8" merchandise, which is Christian code for "pray for Obama to get killed by God."
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C.J. MALONEY: Obama in Asia
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Do they provide Obama with an official presidential begging bowl? They should.
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Obama in China: What the media missed
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Let's be frank. The strongest impression that most Chinese people have of Barack Obama is that he is black. The second-strongest is that he is young. And the third-strongest — based on his decision a few months ago to impose a punitive tariff on Chinese tire exports — is that he is perhaps just as willing to screw over China as all ...
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Obama's Shift on Gitmo and Military Commissions
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Time Magazine reports on The Fall of Greg Craig : Obama quietly killed the Gitmo plan in the second week of May; Craig never got a chance to argue the case to the President. "It was a political decision, to put it bluntly," says an aide. ...The White House realized it had to start over on a signature issue....First to go was the release of the ...
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Gallup Poll: Obama's job approval drops below 50%
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Dropping under 50% isn't the worst thing in the world to happen. The big change seems to be on the issue of the economy and the health care fight. It just goes to show you how much the defenders of the status quo hate change. Even the watered down Obama change is causing them to rise up. Imagine what they would do if the changes were substantial.
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Saturday's vote will determine whether debate can go forward on Majority Leader Harry Reid's 2,074-page bill to dramatically remake the U.S. health care system over the next decade.
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A fascinating, hot-off-the-presses story emerges from the emails that were hacked yesterday from the University of East Anglia's Hadley Climatic Research Centre. It is one of many exchanges that shed light on the priority that the global warming alarmists give to politics and career advancement over science. The story began when Steve McIntyre, ...
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How To Piss Off Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Lazy Mammogram Guidelines
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Did anybody else catch today’s conversation between CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Nurse Lucy Marion from the U.S. Preventive Task Force (the group that released this week’s controversial recommendation that women should begin routine mammograms 10 years later than previously determined, and perform less self-examinations–in ...
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Power Line
When In Doubt, Delete
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One of the hacked East Anglia emails that has gotten considerable play on the web indicates that several alarmist scientists deleted emails that were subject to a Freedom of Information Act request rather than produce them. That's true; here is the context. On May 27, 2008, David Palmer, who is in charge of "data protection" at the University of ...
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Open Thread & Diary Rescue
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Tonight's Diary Rescue was brought to by the fine work of the following Rescue Rangers: shayera, jlms qkw, Yat Pundit, grog, sunspark says, and dadanation who also mimicked being the editor. The Diaries, Rescued Librarian Dem tells the story of an encounter with some patrons in Library users against health care bill . (shayera) KibbutzAmiad ...
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A Potomac, Md., Islamic center maintains links to Iran despite its claims that it is independent of a foundation that is being sued by the U.S. government on charges of funneling money to the Islamic republic.
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I've already written that I think P.M. Dawn is one of the great, underappreciated groups of the 1990's. They're nearly 20 years removed from their only #1 hit, "Set Adrift On Memory Bliss," which sampled "True" by Spandau Ballet and rode in from left field with new age philosophy, a nonviolent hip-hop influenced by De La Soul and smooth R&B. ...
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C-SPAN2 offers gavel to gavel coverage of the U.S. Senate. C-SPAN2 also offers a balanced variety of public affairs programming when the Senate is in adjournment, including congressional committee hearings, press briefings, newsmaker speeches & public policy discussions.
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GOP Leader McConnell: Reform Will Have The Votes
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I don't know if this is really really big news or if it's just DC's game of lowering expectations to soften a loss and boost a win, but either way, it's big news. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said today that Democrats almost assuredly have the votes to pass health care reform - and I mean actual passage, not just debate. From The Hill :
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Healthcare Reform Passes Major Test in Senate
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Moments ago, the Senate voted by a 60 to 39 margin to invoke cloture to bring healthcare reform legislation to the floor. The outcome of the vote was expected, yet monumental. More procedural hurdles remain, and the leadership still must round up 60 votes in favor of reform (not just the 60 votes to bring the legislation to the floor). But there' ...
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There is heavy breathing at CNN tonight over a story they are breaking about an investigation by the US Army into the execution of four insurgents captured in Iraq in March 2007. The Army conducted an investigation in early 2008...
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Sen. Blanche Lincoln also on board, 60 in hand
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Sens. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) announced they will vote to start the debate on health care reform, ending days of speculation over whether President Barack Obama’s signature priority would proceed to the floor or suffer a debilitating blow. Photo: AP photo composite by POLITICO
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The takeaway from today's debate is that the conservative Democratic senators have not budged on a public option. They've been persuaded not to block the bill from going to the floor for debate, but beyond that it doesn't appear any deal has been struck to get their votes on the next and more important cloture vote. You might attribute that in ...
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A local controversy here in Colorado involves an auto dealer who used the billboard on his property to ask the question ““PRESIDENT or JIHAD?” The rest of the billboard attempts (not very successfully in my view) to connect this question to the issue of Obama’s birth certificate. Last night I was briefly interviewed about the billboard by ...
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Psalms 109:8, An Ugly Prayer for President Obama
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Any time the citizens of a state, particularly a democracy, invoke their faith to pray for the demise of those they oppose politically, we should be concerned. When the call for such prayers becomes one of the most popular Google searches in the country, we should shake, especially those of us who believe in God, prayer and the Bible. Psalm 109, ...
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A mirror site is now up. On a related note, Anthony Watts' site received 180,000 hits yesterday.
"Glenn also has a rather dry sense of humour, which I'm guessing not enough people pick up on." -- Andrea See
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From the Daily Mail: One of the world's most famous children's toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover� - wearing a burkha. Wearing the traditional Islamic dress, the iconic doll is going undercover for a charity auction in connection with Sotheby's for Save The Children.� More than 500 Barbies went on show yesterday at the Salone dei Cinquecento,
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Older but new to me and too good to pass up. TNOYF hits a slam dunk, fits "is it a crime to contact alQaeda" Matthews to a T. Click image for rest of interview Major, Ill get right to the...
ACHIN, Afghanistan — American and Afghan officials have begun helping a number of anti-Taliban militias that have independently taken up arms against insurgents in several parts of Afghanistan, prompting hopes of a large-scale tribal rebellion against the Taliban.
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I have absolutely no idea what this guy was thinking....
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A legislative committee will convene next week to begin preliminary impeachment proceedings against Gov. Mark Sanford, according to a letter sent Friday by the chairman of the state’s House Judiciary Committee.
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It seems NY alQaeda sympathizer Joey Cohen aka Yousef al-Khattabs ole lady has a message for Xariif: Hitting on her are ya? Maybe you should pick up some of these "Burqa Barbies" to play with since you struck out with...
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