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TPM Live Wire Jillian Rayfield | February 10, 2010, 1:33PM After slamming the Obama administration for “secret deliberations” and going back on his campaign promise to televise the health care debate, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) criticized the President yesterday for televising the bipartisan health care summit on Feb. 25, asking “is this a political [...]

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Arianna Huffington Posted: November 3, 2009 01:14 AM Huffington Post I had arranged to meet David Plouffe on Saturday afternoon at a Starbucks on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington. The night before, a copy of his new book, The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama’s Historic Victory, was waiting for me when I [...]

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The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner First Posted: 10- 8-09 02:15 PM | Updated: 10- 8-09 03:39 PM A CIGNA employee gave the finger — literally — to a woman whose daughter died after the insurance giant refused to cover her liver transplant. Hilda and Krikor Sarkisyan went to CIGNA’s Philadelphia headquarters, [...]

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The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel First Posted: 10- 8-09 11:05 AM | Updated: 10- 8-09 03:28 PM A new Oklahoma law requires physicians to disclose detailed information on women’s abortions to the State’s Department Of Health, which will then post the collected data on a public website. The controversial measure [...]

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Huffington Post First Posted: 09-22-09 10:10 AM | Updated: 09-22-09 05:14 PM Modern-day home mortgages have been so sliced and diced by rapacious financiers that some homeowners are successfully delaying — or even blocking — foreclosures through the simple tactic of demanding that banks produce the original mortgage note, which amazingly enough [...]

Dear Richard Thompson-Editorial

Posted on 11 February 2010

Sir: I have just learned of your statement in the Michigan group’s lawsuit attempting to undo the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act. I should like to repeat the pertinent passage here, in which you claim there is “no need” to extend hate crimes definitions: “Of the 1.38 million violent crimes reported in the U.S. by the FBI [...] Continue Reading

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Rep. Alan Grayson Grills Republican Congressman On Constitutionality Of Anti-ACORN Crusade

Posted on 25 October 2009

Think Progress By Zaid Jilani on Oct 22nd, 2009 at 1:43 pm One of the right’s loudest crusades has been their effort to undermine the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN). Following the release of a series of videos showing a handful of ACORN employees behaving inappropriately, conservatives in Congress have done everything they can [...] Continue Reading

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Right-Wing Conference Tells Activists To Get Their Guns Ready For ‘Bloody Battle’ With Obama The Nazi

Posted on 29 September 2009

Think Progress By Lee Fang at 4:50 pm September 28, 2009 At the How To Take Back America Conference last weekend, conservative speaker Kitty Werthmann led a workshop called “How to recognize living under Nazis & Communists.” Announcing the panel in a column preceding the conference, talk show host Janet Porter gushed how Werthmann’s description of Austria [...] Continue Reading

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Baucus Basher: New Ad Targets Finance Committee Chairman

Posted on 28 September 2009

HuffingtonPost | Jenna Staul First Posted: 09-28-09 04:12 PM | Updated: 09-28-09 04:52 PM Two progressive organizations would like to introduce you to Bing Perrine — an uninsured father from Montana who’s got something to say to Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) in a new released TV ad. “Senator Baucus, when you take [...] Continue Reading

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The Public Option Lives On

Posted on 28 September 2009

TPM/Robert Reich September 28, 2009, 10:44AM Tomorrow (Tuesday) is a critical day in the saga of the public option. Democrats Charles Schumer (New York) and Jay Rockefeller (West Virginia) are introducing an amendment to include the public option in the bill to be reported out by the Senate Finance Committee — the committee anointed by the [...] Continue Reading

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Who Else Has Been Pressuring Medicare Beneficiaries to Lobby Against Health Reform?

Posted on 23 September 2009

TPM Muckraker Brian Beutler | September 22, 2009, 5:24PM Zack asked this question earlier, and we’re still waiting for an official answer, but news stories from back in April strongly suggest that Humana wasn’t the only insurance company enlisting seniors (legitimately and otherwise) to lobby against changes to Medicare Advantage. In fact, the problem may have [...] Continue Reading

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Barney Frank Mocks Limbaugh’s Drug Use, Sarah Palin On Leno (VIDEO)

Posted on 23 September 2009

Huffington Post First Posted: 09-21-09 10:34 PM | Updated: 09-22-09 09:14 AM It’s a safe bet that Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Rush Limbaugh don’t have any dinner plans. Frank called out the conservative radio host for his well-documented addiction to painkillers during an appearance Monday evening on The Jay Leno Show. Jay Leno [...] Continue Reading

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Biden: If GOP Takes Back Traditionally Red Seats, It’s ‘End Of The Road’

Posted on 21 September 2009

TPM Live Wire Rachel Slajda | September 21, 2009, 6:05PM Speaking at a fundraiser for Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords today, Vice President Biden warned that Republicans will try to “break the back of our effort” in the 2010 elections by trying to win 35 seats from traditionally Republican districts that are now held by Democrats. “It’s not [...] Continue Reading

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Hispanic group to CNN: Rein in Dobbs

Posted on 17 September 2009

Politico By CAROL E. LEE | 9/17/09 8:55 PM EDT One of the country’s leading Hispanic organizations is launching a campaign designed to pressure CNN to rein in host Lou Dobbs. The organization behind the campaign, Democracia Ahora, is kicking off the [...] Continue Reading

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Howard Dean, DFA, Launch Campaign Encouraging 51-Vote Health Care Bill

Posted on 17 September 2009

TPM DC Brian Beutler | September 17, 2009, 7:50PM Howard Dean and Democracy for America have launched a new campaign called America Can’t Wait, to bring grassroots pressure to bear on elected officials to pass health care reform with a public option through via the filibuster proof budget reconciliation process. In a letter to supporters, obtained by [...] Continue Reading