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• Top 14 Health Care Reform Provisions That Would Take Effect on January 1, 2010, if HCR Ever Becomes Law
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• Populist Sen. Sherrod Brown Predicts Passage of HCR Bill, Despite At Least Four Vocal Dem Holdouts
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• 4 US service members die in Afghan attacks
• Emanuel and Reid Back to Courting the GOP Senators from Maine. Get Off That "Turn HCR Into Gruel" Obsession Already.
• Tea baggers attack family mourning loss of mother/unborn child
• What Palin's "Jewish people will be flocking to Israel" statement really means. Not good. Sarah's into some very bad religious stuff.
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• A Sure Sign of the Decline of America: Glenn Beck Stakes Out a More Activist Role in Politics. A Buffoon Among Knaves.
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• The hoopla over Sarah Palin's memoir is the latest sign that right-wing irrationality is making a comeback, says Robert Parry.
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• New York Times Editorial Takes Goldman Sachs to the Woodshed, As It Should
• Baby boomers find growing acceptance of marijuana use. Don't Bogart that Joint, My Friend.
• Radiation Leak at Three Mile Island Plant
• Conservative Columnist Steve Chapman: "Reading the book is like watching Palin preen in front of a mirror for hours as she tirelessly compliments herself for courage, gumption, devotion to family and maverick independence. Who needs policy? In her world -- and the world of legions of conservatives who revere her -- the persona is the policy. Palin is beloved because she's (supposedly) just like ordinary people, which (supposedly) gives her a profound understanding of their needs."
• Senate health care bill about to enter a political minefield
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• In Rare Unanimity, Democrats (Including 2 Independents) Hold All 60 Votes to Win a Victory. Healthcare Reform Debate Will Start in Senate After Thanksgiving. GOP Attempt to Stop Discussion of Bill Defeated.
• Biden on the Senate HCR Cloture Vote Victory for the Dems
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• America's Free Rider Problem
• Bob Herbert on the American Catastrophe: The Organized Abandonment of Our Industrial Base by Multi-National Corporations and the Government
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• Hundreds attend vigil outside Joe Lieberman's home over health care
• The Hypocrisy of Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin
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• Republicans Senators are Opposed En Masse to the Most Pro-Life Issue Concerning Americans: Healthcare for Life
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• Matched against Wall Street's millions, the Consumer Federation of America-one of the largest pro-consumer advocacy groups-spent just $50,000 lobbying for reform in the first half of this year.
• On November 22, 1963, JFK Was Assassinated
• Why Nothing Less Than A 100 Percent Public Option Will Control Health Care Costs And Provide Adequate Medical Care For All Americans
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• Playing with Fire: the Latin American Model of Renegade Horror. U.S. Backs Militias in Afghanistan.
• Barack, Time to Start Paying Attention to Main Street Instead of Wall Street: "Poll: Public shifting blame for recession." Not Good for Dems.
• US in Afghanistan supports drug dealing warlords to better control the regions oil and gas
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• Dowd: Obama's a "highly intelligent man with a highly functioning West Wing, and he’s likable, but he’s not connecting on the gut level that could help him succeed. The animating spirit that electrified his political movement has sputtered out."
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• Sen. Landrieu to host New Orleans fundraiser for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Coinky-Dink.
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• Senate Faces Cloture Vote on Just Opening Debate on Weakened HCR Bill. How Many "Gifts" Will Rahm Have Harry Giving Hold Out Dems to Get Them to Vote for a Debate and Then Another Cloture Vote Before a Vote on a Bill That is Bound to Get Weaker Because Harry Won't Consider a Budget Reconciliation Passage that Would Only Require 50 Votes and No Cloture? You Can be Sure That This is a White House Strategy, By the Way. No More Audacity of Hope; We Want the Audactiy of Getting It Done and Done Without Caving in to Corporate Interests.
• Is Schumer Negotiating to Pull the "Trigger" on Public Option?
• Senate Democrats said that they had clinched the votes needed on Saturday to propel major health care legislation to the floor for weeks of full debate and amendments, as the majority party's two last hold-outs, Senators Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, said that they would not block consideration of President Obama's top domestic initiative.
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• The Senate Should Undue Stupak: A Speech We'd Like to Hear on the Senate Floor
• A Chicago Without Oprah?
• Obama trumpets Asia trip as boost to US economy
• The Nation's Ari Melber points out that a recent Newsweek piece by former Bush aide Yuval Levin -- "What Coattails? Why right-of-center candidates are succeeding in the age of Obama" -- didn't mention the author's time spent in the previous administration.
• Atheist student groups flower on college campuses
• Ignoring Key CBO Finding, Fox News Misleads On Cost Of Senate Health Bill
• Does Reid Really Not Know if He Has 60 Votes Just to Begin Debate on a Bill Whose Failure Could Weaken the Rest of the Obama Presidency? Or is He Just Playing With Us? One Never Knows with "Wobbly" Harry. We'll See on Saturday Night. How Exactly is He Going to Get Joe Lieberman to Get on His Knees? Remember, this is just a cloture vote to begin debate on the bill!
• NYT: The Stimulus Package is Working, Economists Assert
• Bill Moyers to Retire from His Journal on PBS, And NOW on PBS to be Canceled. Bill, You Have Done Great Service to Democracy.
• Tea Party Movie So Diverse, Same Black Guy Used In 5 Shots
• "When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was informed that the House had taken less than an hour to approve an unemployment bill that languished for a month in the Senate, his aides said he did not know whether to laugh or cry." How About Stepping Down Harry?
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• Senator Levin Says Radical Islamic Cleric May Have Provoked Fort Hood Shooter, Based on Newly Revealed E-Mails
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• "The progressive movement in America has lost a beautiful voice. Andrea Lewis, radio host at KPFA and a contributing writer for The Progressive magazine and Progressive Media Project, died this weekend of a massive heart attack. She was only 52."
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• Rumsfeld: The Man Who Loved KGB Methods Too Much
• "U.S. Fears Iraqis Will Not Keep Up Rebuilt Projects"
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• Report: "50 oil tankers loitering off British coast as they lie in wait for fuel price hikes"
• Georgia: It was 6 a.m. on Nov. 16, 1989, when a gardener named Obdulio Ramos saw that six Jesuit priests and his wife and daughter had been gunned down by soldiers in El Salvador. From these killings came the movement that 20 years later Columbus knows as “SOA Watch.” Eric LeCompte, one of the organizers of the annual protest held here every November to mark the anniversary of the assassinations, said 18 of the soldiers involved were graduates of the Fort Benning school once called “the School of the Americas.” It is now the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
• Gotta Love It "A South Carolina legislative committee will convene to begin preliminary impeachment proceedings against Gov. Mark Sanford, according to the chairman of the state’s House Judiciary Committee."
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• Afghanistan: A Woman Among Warlords
• Reid Gives Nelson, Lincoln What Their Lobbyist Friends Want
• Gene Lyons: Why Is There Always Money For The Latest War?
• President Barack Obama's job approval rating has dropped below 50 percent in a second major poll in an indication he is suffering from the long healthcare debate and weakness in the economy, Gallup said on Friday.
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• Rev. Billy and the Church of the Life After Shopping
• Robert Reich on What Happened to the Shrinking Public Option
• When an Atlanta hospital closed its dialysis unit, many illegal immigrants had to scramble to find treatment.
• British Army faces inquiry over ‘Battle of Danny Boy’ torture claims
• Did U.S. make mistake in skipping vaccine additive?
• Liar: Rupert Murdoch denies he said Obama made a racist comment.
• Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) is a "yes" -- will vote to bring the health care bill to the floor.
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• Sarah Palin Gets Booed
• Ray McGovern: Should Obama Fire Gen. McChrystal?
• Ostroy Report: More Republican Lies and Deception Over Cancer Screening
• Dick Cavett: Sarah Palin "seems to have no first language"
• 'Read the stimulus' advocate Dick Armey slammed for not bothering to read the stimulus.
• Newspaper Sites' Time Spent Dropped in October
• AP Layoff Count Hits 90, Meets Goal
• With the Wave Of His Pen, President Obama Could Ban the Foreign Made, Armor-Piercing Handgun Used At Fort Hood Massacre: Freedom States Alliance Week Of Nov. 20, 2009
• Hell if D.C. Didn't Offshore $849 Million in Stimulus for Windmills Already
• 'NYT' Launches Chicago 'Report' -- Working with Cooperative
• Legal Schnauzer: Lie Detector Confirms Tale of GOP Dirty Money in Alabama
• Going Hungry In The USA: America's Economic Pain Brings Hunger Pangs
• Rising Credit Card Rates? Congress Says “Never Mind”
• U.S. Fears Iraq Development Projects May Go to Waste
• Ohio's attorney general sues country’s largest credit rating agencies, alleging that they had cost state retirement and funds some $457 million by approving high-risk Wall Street securities that went bust in the financial collapse.
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• Impassioned House debate on Cuba travel ban
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• Tribune Co. Doubles Cash Flow, Requests More Time for Bankruptcy Reorganization
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• Insurance tells woman her life not in danger, abortion not needed...billed $9,000.
• Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ): Undocumented Immigrants Should Be Able to Buy Insurance Through Exchange
• Playing the Health Care Lottery
• Why struggling publishers will keep placing outrageous bids on new books
• New guidelines: Pap tests should start at age 21
• Utah Senator Chris Buttars Doesn't Want The Gays Stuffing It Down His Throat All The Time
• Episodes in both houses of Congress exposed the raw nerves of lawmakers flooded with stories of unemployment and economic hardship back home. They also underscored the stiff headwinds that the administration faces as it pushes to enact sweeping changes to the financial regulatory system while also trying to create jobs for ordinary Americans.
• Douglas Valentine: Learning the Wrong Vietnam Lessons
• BuzzFlash Mailbag for November 20, 2009
• Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for November 20, 2009
• John Shadegg Uses Kidnapping to Scare Us, Yet He 'Kidnapped' Baby for Prop to Win the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week Award Rep. Shadegg kept bringing up kidnapping as a threat against those involved in trying terrorism suspects? Why is Rep. Shadegg so intrigued about kidnapping? Perhaps because Rep. Shadegg knows a thing or two about kidnapping. After all, Shadegg was the representative who kidnapped, er, "borrowed" Maddie, daughter of his chief of staff, to use as a prop to argue against health care reform.
• Maria Allwine: Waiting to Die in the Good Ole USA, An Angry Worker's Call to Action -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary
• The dictatorship of the independent proletariat P.M. Carpenter Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on Friday, November 20. But Congressional Democrats are a whole different story, and 2010 is a whole different year. And, reports the Politico, "a flurry of new polls makes clear that Democrats are facing deeper problems with independents" than they originally acknowledged. "Mounting evidence that independent voters have soured on the Democrats is prompting a debate among party officials about what rhetorical and substantive changes are needed to halt the damage."
• Back to Our Future Ann Davidow Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on Friday, November 20. Have our leaders let us down or have we failed to demand enough of them and provide vigorous support for them? Between the vitriolic outbursts of teabaggers and the political realities of trying to accomplish something in an excessively partisan environment a wall of resistance has grown up that has slowed movement to a crawl. For some that is the goal, for others it is the ultimate defeat.
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• Bill O'Reilly Doesn't Care About the Constitution, Only Cares About Winning BuzzFlash's Media Putz Award. "Just because the Constitution isn't sitting in the studio with you, Bill, doesn't mean it's not relevant. Of course, this could be in the same GOP spirit of House Minority Leader John Boehner, who claimed he had the Constitution in his hands and was reading from it at Michele Bachmann's Super Bowl of Paranoia. Then again, Boehner said he was quoting the Constitution but it was really was the Declaration of Independence. Oops."
• There is indeed such a thing as 'a stupid question.' P.M. Carpenter Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on Thursday, November 19. What's more, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and an "assortment of national business groups" are just now locking and loading on the deeper politics of this thing, attacking current health-care legislation "as a job killer and threat to the nation's economy," continued the Post in another story this week. That's pure, unrighteous bunk, you say? Well of course it is. But what's your point? It works.
• Watch What You Eat: New Report Proves that Genetically Modified Crops Increase Pesticide Use and Resistant Weeds -- Green Is Good
• Jane Hamsher Pushes Democratic Politicians to Fight for Progressive Values to Win this week's BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award While many on the progressive front are trying to get something accomplished for President Obama, Jane Hamsher is fighting from the left to let the politicians know who brought them there in the first place.
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