BlueOregon (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), the Senate majority leader, announced today that the health care bill he will put forward in the Senate will include a public option - with a state opt-out provision. The opt-out is certainly more progressive than the opt-in idea that had been proposed. (Should it start with 50 states and count down? Or with zero states and count up? More is better.) Reid also rejected the...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
It's big news that Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine will support the Democratic health care bill that passed the Senate Finance Committee today. But it'd be even bigger news if the president and Democratic lawmakers took some creditable Republican ideas more seriously, debated them, and maybe even included them in the reform efforts.
Hoffmania! (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Yes. It's gotten that ugly on the right. They're not interested in you. This is the worst playing of politics in history. Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine) is risking a shot at becoming the top Republican on an influential Senate committee...
Progressive Alaska (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Go for it, Palinbots . Call those Senators on the Finance Committee. Read the bill. Read their staffers the bill. Flood those phone lines the day before the vote. Nobody will be there, though. It is Columbus Day, a Federal Holiday . I hope your phone plans give you weekend minutes on holidays: A message to all members of Team Sarah Team, The next few days are CRITICAL in deciding how our health care...
The Immoral Minority (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Here is the message e-mailed out to all of the Team Sarah members. And as you read stay vigilant for the inherent flaw in their plan. A message to all members of Team Sarah Team, The next few days are CRITICAL in deciding how our health care system will be structured. If you’re upset by what has been proposed, NOW is the time to join us on the Team Sarah Health Care Bill Review Board: http://www.teamsarah.org/group/healthcarebillreviewboard...
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
By GottaLaff This e-mail was just forwarded to me by one of my "spies". Bwahahahaa! Why am I laughing? Well, first of all, because the senders are one of the best collective jokes around, as is their goddess, Barbie McLipSchmutz. But let's not overlook the message. This is a call to action! Get out there and ring up those reps! And when you do, make sure you pull off that Big Effective Shock...
Faultline USA (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
By Barbara Sowell This October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, or didn’t you know? A better title would have been: National Cyber Insecurity Awareness Month. We should all be insecure since the U.S. has just relinquished its control of the internet (see below)! This is the time when all internet junkies should ponder the very real possibility of waking up one day to NO internet! A...
Philadelphia Freedom Blog (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
First, the good news: On September 29, the Senate Finance Committee approved a $75 million funding stream for comprehensive (i.e., responsible) sex education. According to the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SEICUS) , "$50 million [...] would be geared to evidence-based, medically accurate, age-appropriate programs to educate adolescents about both abstinence...
They gave us a republic (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
If you wonder why there's still any doubt a public option will be part of health care reform when President Obama claims to favor it, Congressional leaders claim to favor it, and two-thirds of Americans keep telling pollsters they favor it, Robert Reich explains: Tomorrow (Tuesday) is a critical day in the saga of the public option. Democrats Charles Schumer (New York) and Jay Rockefeller (West Virginia)...
Progressive Blue - Front Page (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Health care reform quick hits and commentary. An urgent call to action from Robert Reich. ... call and email the Senate offices of Democrats Max Baucus (Montana), Tom Carper (Delaware), Robert Menendez (New Jersey), Kent Conrad (North Dakota), Jeff Bingaman (New Mexico), John Kerry (MA), Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas), Ron Wyden (Oregon), Debbie Stabenow (Michigan), Maria Cantwell (Washington), and Bill...
Hawaii Right to Life (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Announcement courtesy of the Christian Coalition The Senate Financial Services Committee will vote tomorrow on several amendments offered by Senator Orrin Hatch to prevent federal funding for abortions and to provide conscience clause provisions to protect medical service workers in the health care legislation. It is imperative that you call key Senators on the Financial Services Committee to tell...
The Travis Monitor (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
Big ObamaCare Vote on Tuesday - amendment to get public option re-inserted into the bill: Originally the Senate Finance Committee was to vote on the Public Option Amendments today, but it seems that it has been pushed back until Tuesday September 29, 2009. It has been called the beginning of the battle; in an interview Wednesday night, Charles Schumer is quoted saying, “Tomorrow is the opening...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
After months of painstaking negotiations on a bill designed to attract at least some GOP votes, Democratic Finance chairman Max Baucus will release his draft bill today with ... none — not even Olympia Snowe, the Maine senator who is sometimes nice enough to provide the Democrats with a sheen of bi-partisan support. But if no Republicans are onboard, that at least means it's liberal enough to...
MyDD (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
GOP Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine said Tuesday she could not back the Senate Finance Committee's bill that Chairman Max Baucus of Montana had laboriously crafted this summer behind closed doors to strike a bipartisan healthcare reform deal. From The Hill : Senate Democrats are going to have to move forward on healthcare without a single Republican supporter after Sen. Olympia Snowe said Tuesday she...
Motor City Liberal (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
By Igor Volsky This afternoon, on a conference call with reporters, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, announced that he would not support Chairman Max Baucus’ (D-MT) health care framework in its current form: The way it is right now, now we have an amendment process coming up next week. I’ll have many, many, many amendments and we will see what happens...
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