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Igor / Think Progress:
Sen. Sanders: 'As of this point, I'm not voting for the bill.' — Moments ago, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced that he is prepared to vote against the Senate health care bill in light of the recent decision to strip the public option and the Medicare buy-in provision from the legislation.
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The Huffington Post:
Labor Holds Emergency Meetings To Discuss Senate Bill, May Formally Oppose — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Two of the country's largest labor groups, the SEIU and the AFL-CIO, are each holding emergency executive meetings today to discuss whether they should support the latest round of health care compromises made by Senate Democrats.
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Howard Dean / Washington Post:
Health-care bill wouldn't bring real reform — If I were a senator, I would not vote for the current health-care bill. Any measure that expands private insurers' monopoly over health care and transfers millions of taxpayer dollars to private corporations is not real health-care reform.
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Jeffrey Young / The Hill:
Union pulls back on supporting bill — The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) backed out of an event with other organizations promoting the Senate healthcare reform bill Wednesday over concerns about changes made to the legislation to accommodate centrist Democrats.
The World Newser:
President Obama: Federal Government ‘Will Go Bankrupt’ if Health Care Costs Are Not Reined In — ABC's Karen Travers reports from Washington: — President Obama told ABC News' Charles Gibson in an interview that if Congress does not pass health care legislation that will bring down costs, the federal government “will go bankrupt.”
ABCNEWS:
Howard Dean: Health Care Bill ‘Bigger Bailout for the Insurance Industry Than AIG’ — Top Democrat Urges Lawmakers to Kill the Bill and Start Over — President Obama said he likes the Senate health care compromise and wants it passed by Christmas, but he faces a revolt from liberals …
Christina Bellantoni / TPMDC:In Delaying Health Care GOP Wants To Force August Repeat Over Holiday Break
blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Climategate goes SERIAL: now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming — Climategate just got much, much bigger. And all thanks to the Russians who, with perfect timing, dropped this bombshell just as the world's leaders are gathering …
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Steve McIntyre / Climate Audit:Russia: Hadley Center “probably tampered with Russian climate data”
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
The Left Is Playing With Fire — Liberals frustrated with the decision to drop a public option are now attacking a core principle of health care reform: the individual mandate. Greg Sargent and Ben Smith quote Jim Dean, brother of Howard, in an e-mail that just went out to Democracy for America:
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Ezra Klein:
The importance of the individual mandate — Markos Moulitsas explains his opposition to the Senate bill, and says it all comes down to the individual mandate. “Strip out the mandate,” he says, “and the rest of the bill is palatable. It's not reform, but it's progress in the right direction.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
20 Questions for Bill Killers — 1. Over the medium term, how many other opportunities will exist to provide in excess of $100 billion per year in public subsidies to poor and sick people? — 2. Would a bill that contained $50 billion in additional subsidies for people making less than 250% of poverty be acceptable?
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Sanders withdraws single-payer healthcare bill amendment — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday withdrew his single-payer healthcare amendment after Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) initiated a procedural maneuver to shipwreck the measure. — Coburn earlier in the day forced the Senate clerk …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:Sanders says ‘as of this point’ he won't vote for healthcare bill
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Michael Moore calls for boycott of Connecticut — Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore on Thursday called for a boycott of the state of Connecticut in reaction to Sen. Joe Lieberman's (I-Conn.) opposition to key provisions of healthcare reform legislation. — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …
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Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
NBC POLL: PUBLIC SOURS ON HEALTH REFORM — From NBC's Mark Murray — As the Senate sprints to pass a health-care bill by Christmas, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that those believing President Obama's health-reform plan is a good idea has sunk to its lowest level.
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Lisa Solod Warren / The Huffington Post:
Two Black Role Models Done In By Hubris — In the past few weeks, the two most famous and arguably most successful black men in America have taken a huge fall. It has become clear that both pro golfer Tiger Woods, just named Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press, and the American president …
Anne Schroeder Mullins / The Politico:
SHENANIGANS: SCHUMER HAS A FLIGHT TO FORGET — Schumer has a flight to forget — Sen. Chuck Schumer loves the sound of his own voice, but it carried a bit farther than he might have liked on the US Airways shuttle from New York to Washington on Sunday. — According to a House Republican aide …
Paul Krugman:
Would cutting the minimum wage raise employment? — It seems that more and more Serious People (and Fox News) are rallying around the idea that if Obama really wants to create jobs, he should cut the minimum wage. — So let me repeat a point I made a number of times back when the usual suspects …
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CFACT:
CFACT drops the banner on Greenpeace ships in daring land and sea raids — Activists tag Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior with “Propaganda Warrior” banner; Arctic Sunrise hit with “Ship of Lies” banner earlier in the day — Global warming skeptics from CFACT yesterday pulled off …
Philip Klein / AmSpecBlog:
GOP: Dems Violated Senate Rules By Cutting off Reading of Sanders Amendment — The Senate Republican leadership believes that the parliamentarian allowed Democrats to violate the rules of the Senate by allowing Sen. Bernie Sanders to cut off the reading of his single-payer proposal.
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Michael Grunwald / Time:
Person of the Year 2009 — The story of the year was a weak economy that could have been much, much weaker. Thank the man who runs the Federal Reserve, our mild-mannered economic overlord — Ben Bernanke — A bald man with a gray beard and tired eyes is sitting in his oversize Washington office, talking about the economy.
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Air America:
Last Day for Air America Cruise Contest — Lux takes lead with 24 hours to go. Who will win it? — In a seemingly herculean lift of support, Mike Lux from Open Left has superseded the strong lead that Joe Jervis nearly locked down earlier on in Round Two. — First place - Mike Lux (45%)
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Florida Senate — 2010 Florida Senate: Rubio, Crist Both Lead Meek — The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Florida finds former state House Speaker Marco Rubio leading Democrat Kendrick Meek 49% to 35%. Governor Charlie Crist leads Meek 42% to 36%.
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