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Baucus and the Threshold — So Senator Max Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has released his “mark” on proposed legislation — which would normally be the basis for the bill that eventually emerges from his committee. And serious supporters of health care reform will soon face their long-dreaded moment of truth.
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What's Wrong With the Finance Bill? An Interview With Sen. Jay Rockefeller. — Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) chairs the Finance Committee's Health Care Subcommittee. His support will be crucial — maybe even decisive - in getting health-care reform out of the Finance Committee.
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REFUSING TO TAKE ‘YES’ FOR AN ANSWER.... As months of negotiations …
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Major Health-Care Reform Challenge Is Affordability
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New York Times, The Politico, Greg's Opinion, Associated Press, The Confluence, msnbc.com, The Page, The Note and MoJo Blog Posts
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Obama: Legalize illegals to get them health care — Republicans see a backdoor move toward ‘amnesty’ — President Obama said this week that his health care plan won't cover illegal immigrants, but argued that's all the more reason to legalize them and ensure they eventually do get coverage.
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The Politico, Hot Air, Conservative Dallas, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Townhall.com, Wizbang and Weasel Zippers
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Senior Democrat turns healthcare debate into fight over immigration — Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) is putting Democrats in a bind by seeking to let illegal immigrants benefit from the healthcare overhaul. — Menendez, the only Hispanic senator, has considerable leverage with Democrats …
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Obama, Too Subtle to Lie, Misleads on Health Reform — You lie? No. Barack Obama doesn't lie. He's too subtle for that. He . . . well, you judge. — Herewith three examples within a single speech — the now-famous Obama-Wilson “you lie” address to Congress on health care — of Obama's relationship with truth.
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Analysis: ‘Racist’ claims defuse word's power — With the word being used so often, it's harder to define its meaning — Everybody's racist, it seems. — Republican Rep. Joe Wilson? Racist, because he shouted “You lie!” at the first black president. Health care protesters, affirmative action supporters?
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No, It's Not About Race — You wouldn't know it to look at me, but I go running several times a week. My favorite route, because it's so flat, is from the Lincoln Memorial to the U.S. Capitol and back. I was there last Saturday and found myself plodding through tens of thousands of anti-government “tea party” protesters.
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Latest Updates on Protests in Iran — To supplement coverage of new opposition protests on Friday in Iran by our Times colleagues Alan Cowell and Robert Worth, The Lede is tracking reports of the events online. Readers who are in Iran or in touch with people there are encourage to use …
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Snowe: I Haven't Changed, My Party Has — It would be easy to over-interpret this statement from Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME), but it would be a mistake to dismiss it. — “I've always been a Republican for the traditional principles that have been associated with the Republican party since …
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Washington Sketch: Michelle Obama Gets Her Farmers Market — Let's say you're preparing dinner and you realize with dismay that you don't have any certified organic Tuscan kale. What to do? — Here's how Michelle Obama handled this very predicament Thursday afternoon:
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Politics Daily, JustOneMinute, Weekly Standard, Fausta's Blog, Pundit & Pundette, JammieWearingFool and Reason
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Mandatory Insurance Is Unconstitutional — Why an individual mandate could be struck down by the courts. — Printer — Friendly — Federal legislation requiring that every American have health insurance is part of all the major health-care reform plans now being considered in Washington.
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Bankers Face Sweeping Curbs on Pay — Fed Plans to Limit How Lenders Can Structure Compensation for Executives, Traders, Loan Officers; 5,000 Firms Affected — Policies that set the pay for tens of thousands of bank employees nationwide would require approval from the Federal Reserve …
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The Atlantic Business Channel, James Pethokoukis, Salon, naked capitalism, The World Newser and The Page
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Olympic-sized boondoggle: What Valerie Jarrett and Michelle Obama are up to — In Culture of Corruption, I spotlight the intimate relationship between Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's crony lawyer Valerie Jarrett and First Lady Michelle Obama. — Jarrett's slum lord record in Chicago …
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Riehl World View
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Finally, Kudos for the Status Quo — From the start of the health-care debate, the president has always posed a choice (one as “false” as any of the “false choices” he routinely derides): my way or the status quo. And the status quo is supposed to be so awful, so unacceptable, that of course we'll take ObamaCare.
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Indefensible — President Obama knows how to put a smile on faces in Tehran and Moscow: This morning, he announced the abandonment of plans to develop a small missile-defense system in Eastern Europe. — This overturns one of the major diplomatic and national-security achievements of the Bush years.
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Network rounds mean no rest on Sunday for Obama — President Obama will appear on a record five TV networks on Sunday plus sit down with late-night host David Letterman on Monday. It's the latest broadcast blitz for Obama, who has made himself accessible to news and entertainment outlets.
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Hot Air
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Memo to the DNC: What were you thinking? — The add essentially takes a non-issue for a vast majority of people and reminds the world how many czars Obama has. Geez. Talk about keeping a story alive. The RNC should list the ad as an in-kind contribution.
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Duo in ACORN Videos Say Effort Was Independent — Duo in Sting Video Say Their Effort Was Independent — The proposition was outrageous, outlandish, and right up James E. O'Keefe III's alley. Hannah Giles was on the phone from the District, and she was asking him to dress like her pimp …
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See Video: Heckler Removed From Obama College Park Speech — Thousands of University of Maryland College Park students mixed with the general public inside the Comcast Center today to hear President Barack Obama put in another pitch for his health care reform proposal.
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Pagan ‘King’ Has Council GOP Nod — Dan Halloran, the Republican candidate for City Council facing primary winner Kevin Kim in the 19th District, already has a leadership role in a vast community that very few people know about - or understand. — Halloran is the “First Atheling,” or King …
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CALLASHWAC — Such audacious payback to Immelt is stunning. Typical. We are going down the tubes, America. — GE own NBC too. . .the National Barack Channel. — Huge bailout dollars went to GE, and Immelt is on Obummer's financial advisory board. Very corrupt! — Sep 17, 2009