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Saturday September 12, 2009 · 9:26 PM PDT

2009/09/12 · 21:26

Blue Dogs dig in as influential bloc in health care debate.

By Halimah Abdullah, Mcclatchy Newspapers – Sat Sep 12, 3:19 pm ET

WASHINGTON -- In many ways, President Barack Obama's address to Congress on Wednesday was aimed at lawmakers like Georgia Reps. Jim Marshall and Sanford Bishop -- fiscally conservative Democrats who represent rural enclaves and small towns in ideologically moderate to conservative Southern districts.

Anima

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Friday September 11, 2009 · 9:03 PM PDT

2009/09/11 · 21:03

Searched around and didn't see that anyone had mentioned this, so here you go.

Senator Bernie "Kicks a Lot of Ass and Takes a Lot of Names" Sanders has a new website up (started a little over a month ago) in which he posts a video every week taking on a pertinent topic du jour. Questions are sent in by the general public, usually video questions, and Bernie picks one as a leaping off point. The videos are produced by Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films. The website is http://sandersunfiltered.com/.

You can also get updates on Facebook here!

Anima

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Thursday September 10, 2009 · 9:08 PM PDT

2009/09/10 · 21:08

Today on the Billo show, Ann Coulter, in a display of her pure, unadulterated ignorance and rage at the world in general, actually showed Bill O'Reilly to be someone apparently able to occasionally admit the truth. As for Ms. Coulter herself...not so much.

While Bill points out that we need strict regulation and oversight of health insurance companies, Ann tries to say that because Chris Cox, chairman of the SEC under George Bush, chose not to investigate Bernie Madoff, that means all government regulation can't work. This is the tried-and-true Republican strategy of:

Get elected.

Fuck everything up.

Get thrown out of office, and

Then point to your own fuckups as proof that government can't work.

This is the same strategy Bobby Jindal shamelessly tried to use in his "rebuttal" to President Obama's State of the Union speech, when Jindal criticized government in general because George Bush and his team of incompetents screwed up the response to Hurricane Katrina.

To his credit, Bill states flatly that it was the fault of a Republican appointee for not investigating Madoff.

Anima

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Thursday September 10, 2009 · 12:28 PM PDT

2009/09/10 · 12:28

Do you have any idea who your audience is?

Do you know who you're playing to?

I don't think you do. But giving you the benefit of the doubt, as serious, important politicians who have what I can only assume are long resumes showcasing a series of very important victories, let me then ask you this:

Anima

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Tuesday September 08, 2009 · 11:33 PM PDT

2009/09/08 · 23:33

The nonpartisan, nonprofit organization Citizens for Tax Justice released a report Tuesday, downloadable here, comparing the costs of the two Bush tax cuts from 2001 and 2003 over a ten-year period (2001-2010) against the costs of the health care proposals put forward by House committees.

Anima

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Sunday September 06, 2009 · 11:04 PM PDT

2009/09/06 · 23:04

In 2007 Glenn Beck published his book "An Inconvenient Book," the title of which is obviously meant to be a poke in the eye to Al Gore and environmentalists everywhere. Though I certainly do not have a copy, nor have I put myself through the nightmare of reading it, I discovered recently that the first chapter of the book deals specifically with climate change, before moving on to illogically blather about a host of other topics.

Given that, I thought I'd check into Amazon.com and see if the first few pages of the book were available for public viewing. Lo and behold, they are.

Anima

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Saturday September 05, 2009 · 4:38 PM PDT

2009/09/05 · 16:38

Or, not really.

Slow news weekend before the big speech, and before we get into the pitched battle over health care reform. What we've seen up until now is just the prelude, which I think most of us realize.

So without a whole lot else to do while waiting for next week, I figured I'd take a cruise 'round the interwebs for a bit this afternoon before I go carousing at the bowling alley later. And what did Anima find on his journey this afternoon?

Anima

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Thursday September 03, 2009 · 9:01 PM PDT

2009/09/03 · 21:01

Sherrod Brown has come out with some pretty strong language in an interview he gave today over at TPM. It's great to see a progressive in the Senate giving the White House the what for!

Anima

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Saturday August 29, 2009 · 4:36 PM PDT

2009/08/29 · 16:36

There was a rally this morning in downtown Portland organized by Health Care for America Now. The keynote speaker was Wendell Potter, and other speakers included representatives of the Oregon Nurses Association, the SEIU, and the AFL-CIO, a local small business owner, a minister, and Oregon's Attorney General.

I'd estimate the crowd at a few hundred people, with only two counter-protesters that this observer noted (one of whom carried a sign about "government is the problem" [I referred to him as 'Reagan's ghost'], and the other of whom tried to shout over one of the speakers, saying that he had "freedom of speech" to do so, carrying a sign demanding less government and less taxes, who was told to settle down and let people speak. After being spoken to, he did not pipe up again).

Anima

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Friday August 28, 2009 · 5:10 PM PDT

2009/08/28 · 17:10

This morning I received an email from the 18th-Century based group "Stand For Marriage Maine" (I will not be linking to them). I have no idea how they acquired my email address, though I was born and raised in Maine and have had that particular email address since before I moved away.

It is especially upsetting for me to read through their message of hate and intolerance, given that many family members and close friends of mind live there. In fact, I am returning to Maine in October to perform the marriage of a friend of mine from high school, someone who is pleased to be able to get married in a state where anybody can marry the person they love (assuming the "people's veto" ballot measure is defeated in November).

My fiancee and I are also likely to marry in Maine in the future, as that is where we are both originally from. It is highly important to the both of us that our marriage take place in a state that has marriage equality, and we're hoping for this ballot measure, likely to be called "Question 1," to be defeated.

Anima

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Wednesday August 26, 2009 · 3:51 PM PDT

2009/08/26 · 15:51

The woman who claimed during the presidential campaign that Hawaii was "too exotic" a place for Obama to be vacationing even though he was born there (remember that from the campaign? when everyone acknowledged he was from Hawaii, but concern trolls said it wasn't appropriately patriotic and everyman?) has now embarrassed herself by concern trolling on the day after Teddy Kennedy's death by claiming that Kennedy would want a watered-down, useless version of a health care bill.

Anima

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Saturday August 22, 2009 · 6:45 AM PDT

2009/08/22 · 06:45

The non-profit, non-partisan group Families USA has been releasing state-by-state reports on the severity of the health care crisis in America since March. The reports detail: the number of people uninsured in each state at some point during 2007-2008; the number of families that will spend more than 10% of their income on health care costs in each state; the number of people who are currently losing their health care every week in each state; and a comparison of the rise in health insurance premiums against the rise of median wages from 2000 to 2009 in each state.

The last of this series, comparing premium costs and median income, is currently being released, with 18 state reports out as of now. The remaining reports will come over the next few weeks.

[note: I published a diary late Thursday night West Coast time that discussed the premium-to-wages comparison. Due to the timing of my diary, and its' limited viewership, I was heartily encouraged to repost the diary during the day. Rather than simply regurgitate what I'd already said then, I have added data from the three other groups of reports to what I'd already put together.]

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