in december 1993 prominent conservative bill kristol distributed a memo urging republicans not to amend clintons healthcare bill but to oppose it. leading conservative operative william kristol privately circulates a strategy document to republicans in congress. kristol writes that congressional republicans should work to kill not amend the clinton plan b......
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strategists advise gop do absolutely everything it can to block healthcare reform because americans would like it too much. today in washington monthly steve benen writes u.s. news james pethokoukis and catos michael cannon believe that if obama is successful in passing a national healthcare plan americans will not only like it but will reward democrats for having passed......
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it seems saturday is a good day for focus on presidentelect barack obamas rumored cabinet perhaps the pundits who read will have talking points on sunday morning. my favorites look a little like this. matthew yglesias on timothy geithner after pointing to several good stories on his subject i think its interesting that hes a career civil servant turned political app......
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image by sister72 via flickr say it loud say it proud hey go ahead and say merry christmas . blessings on you for it. and a happy solstice right back at you. happy holidays is a phrase that i always took refer to the fact that christmas and new year s were always within a week on the calendar we use. presents on one of them and co......
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...ary had been selected as deputy director for resource management in the energy departments office of science. in that position he oversees decisions on its grants and budget.......
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mark kleiman hilzoy catches u.s. news columnist and registered wingnut james pethokoukis telling a truth that might more prudently have been left unspoken that conservatives fear a national health care plan not because it would fail but because it would succeed and make voters more favorable to government social programs in general and to liberals and democrats for addressing the problem. ......
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david broder believes health care reform will top presidentelect barack obamas agenda when he takes the oval office. he cites tom daschles decision to take on the department of health and human services as a key indicator daschle would not leave a lucrative job at a law firm to twiddle his thumbs. only with a clear understanding that the new president will put his own political......
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gail collins has an idea thanksgiving is next week and president bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning. seriously. we have an economy thats crashing and a vacuum at the top. bush who is currently on a trip to peru to meet with asian leaders who no longer care what he thinks hasnt got the clout or possibly even the energy to do anything useful. his mos......
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tell you what . . . this 100 coldturkey probably aint the best approach is it so let me make a small modification just so the earlybirds have some place to light ill start us an open thread in the mornings then clear out and leave the rest of the blogging to nmc okay days hes too busy or out of pocket folo carries on anyhow. awrighty then an abbr......
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citigroup under siege holds talks with u.s. nytimes.com for treasury geithner said to be choice nytimes.com motown meltdown thomas palley blanket of soil may hide vast martian glaciers nytimes.com making it explicit the washington monthly......
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i am sure that youve heard about the rumor or the conservative talking point that the detroit auto workers make 70 an hour. the conservatives will try and tell you that if you figure in all thier benefits it totals that amount. theres only one little problem with that the math is quite frankly wrong. jonathan cohn at tnr explains well heres one reason the fig......
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consumer debt relief as of the moment here in america consumers are trying to survive some extremely stressful financial times. the united states economy is in the downward cycle and as of the moment there is not going to be any efficient solution for this problem. making this problem even more problematic for most consumers is that they are imprisoned with credit card debt that they will no...
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and the dow rose by nearly 500 in the last hour on the news. so some folks are happy about the choice. he seems to be a solid pick despite the sti gma of having been part of the old clinton team. steve benen references a couple of good discussions of the guy from noam scheiber and robert kuttner . in particular he has called for a lot stronger regulation of those stinky deriv......
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i know i promised to stay out of the secretary speculation game but.... when i heard tim geithner might be the new secretary of the treasury my first thoughts went to a speech he gave last june to the economic club of new york calling for a serious fundamental rethinking of our entire regulatory structure. so my first reaction was that this was very good news. apparently wall st. agr......
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she accepts . im nowhere near qualified to tell you what all this means. but spencer is during the democratic primaries the clinton campaign attracted more familiar democratic faces from the foreignpolicy community the people derided by the liberal blogosphere as selfstyled very serious people who tended to be less progressive than their counterparts in the obama campaign. the ......
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i personally will not be happy unless the secretary of state position is never filled. yeah it might gum up diplomatic efforts over the next four years but as the newsreporting industry is decimated by perpetual layoffs is it fair to take away the one thing that every pundit does not tire of writing about i mean any job good enough to have is good enough to handwring over endlessly. ye......
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the fate of the republican party in recent elections has been closely related to the republicans failing to address the issues which matter to most voters. not only are they on the wrong side of the issues they are so brainwashed by their own echo chamber that they no longer know what the issues even are. they attack democrats for policies they imagine they have as opposed to their actual positio....
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i have explained to my older son that i think the gay marriage issue is an attack on organized religion on those churches like the catholic church that do not perform gay marriage. andrew sullivan a prominent gay blogger who seems to be having mental health problems lately makes a great show of being a devout catholic and a fervent advocate of gay marriage. my son dismisses this con......
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good morning. rawls and an antiabortion argument . one man and a prediction . some links . the new insight dashboard i have to say on the old insight and i hear on the prius as well the instantaneous mileage feedbacks ability to optimize ones driving habits does as much if not more for mileage than the technology in the car. a collapse . afg......
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everyones still coming down from the election high and back into the grinds of our lives.a sounds like a good title for a soap opera.a like sand through the hourglass these are the grinds of our lives.a copyright ms. missive. heres a link depot to help us push through the week. tgif the first army execution in 50 years is set.a oh those pesky coo......
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a new poll by gallup shows that support for the republican party is slowly in decline. the following question please tell me whether you have a favourable or unfavourable opinion of the republican party showed the margin between favourable and unfavourable widen to 34 and 61 respectively. source washington monthly ......
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had he lost this months election to bruce lunsford mitch mcconnell apparently was all set for a new career as a standup comedian. because a good portion of his speech at the annual convention of the federalist society would have had any other group rolling the aisle. the fedsocs however took it all seriously. the part about how barack obama should be bipartisan something mcconnell has ......
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markos moulitsas points out that the senate is pretty much just as worthless under obama as it was under bush. todd beeton wants to know if joe lieberman will ever be held responsible for anything . no casualties reported in rahm emanuels first meetings with gop congressional leadership. ron paul wants to kill taxes on personal income and replace them with taxes on noth......
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steve benen is quite civil in his from religion to recession criticism of the wall street journal. id be less kind. after reading the two pieces he linked im inclined to believe either the journal is trying desperately to cover the criminality of its base and its complicity their crimes or its editors dropped acid on the night barack obama was elected presid......
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