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Fact-esque (Free subscription) | yesterday
This would be funny if it wasn't so sadly typical of the Democratic party in the DLC Age. Mere months after the DLC-led Democratic party passed a trade pact with Panama that created a brand new tax haven, Dem Sen...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
A bipartisan group of 41 senators led by Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Health Subcommittee Chair Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) on Thursday proposed a resolution to prevent a SCHIP policy directive issued last year by the Bush administration from taking effect next month, CongressDaily reports (Edney, CongressDaily, 7/18).
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Prairie Weather (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Jane Mayer's book is out today with its hard view of the Bush administration. Glenn Greenwald makes some good points about the increasingly useless Democratic majority in Congress which has made a point of immunizing that administration. Most important to...
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STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
By Robert PearNEW YORK TIMES07/13/2008WASHINGTON — Congress has voted to block a cut in Medicare payments to doctors but has done nothing to solve the fundamental problem that caused the cut, and the issue will come back to haunt the next president and the next Congress, lawmakers and health policy experts say. Democrats and Republicans agree that the formula for paying doctors is broken, but fixing...
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Bloodthirsty Liberal (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Another Democrat —and not just any Democrat—decides to denigrate and belittle John McCain’s service to his country. Real smart. Former President Bill Clinton told an audience that POWs often suffer “anger” long after the incident - which some took as a swipe at Vietnam vet and presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain. Clinton made the remarks [...]
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Exploring International Law (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
The President signed H.R. 6304, the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 today. Here are the President's remarks from the White House website: THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Welcome to the
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Flopping Aces (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
I guess Democrats have realized an election is coming up! President George W. Bush delivers remarks prior to the signing of H.R. 6304, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendment Act of 2008, Thursday, July 10, 2008, in the Rose Garden of the White House. Joining President Bush at the signing ceremony are from left, Rep. Heather [...]
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The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
George Bush signed the new FISA bill, which grants immunity to the telecoms, into law today. This was a big win for Bush and he dutifully thanked the Democrats like Steny Hoyer and Jay Rockefeller who made it happen. But, because for some, the U.S. Constitution, including the Fourth Amendment, still matters, the ACLU is challenging the constitutionality of the new law in court. Hopefully, the courts...
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the talking dog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
That, of course, would be the reunion of Ma Bell and Big Brother in the form of the 'telecom immunity" portion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ("FISA") repeal reform...
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taxmanblog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) told Cybercast News Service on Tuesday that they would support raising taxes to pay the $36.3 trillion needed to pay for promised Medicare benefits over the next 75 years. Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.), however, told Cybercast News Service that he thinks the level of health care provided to Americans through Medicare can be improved without raising...
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Top Stories (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Bill represents most comprehensive effort yet by Congress to reassert itself over surveillance,
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I cite (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
If Obama is as against basic constitutional protections as are the Republicans, why should we think he's any better than McCain? Is it a difference that matters? Link: Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com. Rather, the insultingly false claims about this bill -- it brings the FISA court back into eavesdropping! it actually improves civil liberties! Obama will now go after the telecoms criminally! Government...
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PAXALLES (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
"Obama fund-raiser at Sen. Jay Rockefeller's mansion. A Great Gatsby of a pool report. But I digress..." from Lynn Sweet reports on another of those "small donor" events - all those folks who make up Barack Obama's base of support...
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Lynn Sweet (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Michael Powell of the Washington Post wrote a delicious pool report--with his ruminations about the role of wealth in our society--covering high-dollar fund-raisers headlined by presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Tuesday night, with one in the elegant...
