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Key senator rejects ‘trigger’ for public health insurance option — WASHINGTON (CNN) - A moderate Republican who has previously broken with her party to support President Obama's $787 billion stimulus bill said Sunday that she does not support the idea of using a so called “trigger” …
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President Obama strongly supports Public Option in speech to Minneapolis — I know there's some debate over whether the president fully supports the public option and we know that the gang of six in the House of Lords is trying to derail it. Fox News is telling us that the public option …

Why the Public Option Is Not “Fading” — Just the Contrary — The Sunday New York Times ran a front page story headlined “The Fading Public Option.” Since the beginning of the health care debate in April, the main stream media and purveyors of Conventional Wisdom have regularly pronounced the public option dead and gone.
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Snowe says Obama should scrap the public option to pass bill — Key senators said Sunday the “public option” favored by House Democrats for healthcare is all but dead, but a pivotal Republican said it's not dead enough. — President Barack Obama “should take it off the table,” …
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The Politico, Washington Post, Comments from Left Field, Washington Monthly and Taegan Goddard's …


The Fading Public Option
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CLEAN Conservatives vs FILTHY Liberals— A Photographic Essay — After the 2 million strong conservative freedom rally on 9-12: — And, here is the filth left for someone else to clean up after the Inauguration of Barack Obama: — Via Prisca — The democrats were obviously waiting for Big Government to clean up for them.


Transcript: President Obama — 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft Interviewed President Barack Obama on Friday, Sept. 11, 2009 … STEVE KROFT: What were you specifically hoping to accomplish with the speech this week? — PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Well, I think the most important thing was to make sure …
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Obama: National debate is ‘coarsening’
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The Hill, Hot Air, YID With LID, Nice Deb, Townhall.com, The Rhetorican, Politico Live's Blog and Liberal Values


Stiglitz Says Banking Problems Are Now Bigger Than Pre-Lehman — Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) — Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize- winning economist, said the U.S. has failed to fix the underlying problems of its banking system after the credit crunch and the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
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Updated: 9/12 Attendance Issues Addressed — Update 4: A relevant bit but I won't claim it as definitive. Stacy was there when I got to DC. I took a cab for the last leg and had to be dropped-off blocks up. The mark we are looking at seems to be Constitution Ave from the Google aerial view of the area.
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Editor of HuffPo's Health Unit Mocks Death of Cornell Student — Friday, September 11, 2009, a 20 year old student at Cornell University, Warren Schor, pictured left, died of complications from the swine flu. IvyGate Blog chose the tragedy as an occasion for mockery and silliness.
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Michelle Malkin


Tina Fey Disses Palin — Saturday Night Live actress Tina Fey received an Emmy Award on Saturday for her spot-on impersonation of Republican vice presidential contender Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live. — Accepting her trophy for best guest actress in a comedy, Fey went through the ritual …
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The Immoral Minority
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You betcha - Tina Fey wins Emmy as Sarah Palin on ‘SNL’
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For WashPos t, right-wing protesters are Page One news; in 2002 liberal war protesters were not — Behold the media's glaring double standard. Today, the Post puts the “tens of thousands” of Obama-hating tea bagger protesters on A1; makes it the lead story as a matter of fact.


Iran snubs Barack Obama's nuclear talks — Iran has dealt a blow to one of President Barack Obama's most ambitious diplomatic initiatives by dismissing demands to put its nuclear programme at the heart of direct talks with the United States. — Less than 48 hours after Washington …
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Democrats push for Social Security increase after adjustment falls through — Lawmakers are calling for an increase to Social Security payments that would cost the government billions of dollars. — The congressional push comes after the Social Security Administration reportedly indicated …
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Don Surber


Aide: Obama doesn't think tea partiers are racist — WASHINGTON (CNN) - A day after tens of thousands of conservatives gathered in Washington to protest the policies of the Obama administration, a top White House aide said that President Obama doesn't think the protests and the growing conservative movement …
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Wall Street's Math Wizards Forgot a Few Variables — IN the aftermath of the great meltdown of 2008, Wall Street's quants have been cast as the financial engineers of profit-driven innovation run amok. They, after all, invented the exotic securities that proved so troublesome.
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