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5 Reasons Republicans Should Let Go of Health Care
Reporters leaving Capitol Hill in the wee hours of Monday morning were, for the most part, heaving sighs of relief: health care reform had finally! -- passed, a vote for the history books. However imperfect, the deed was done, the fat lady had sung.
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On Sunday, Will GOP be on Wrong Side of History Again?
Republicans warn Democrats about the political downside if Obama-Pelosi win Sunday's vote on Health Care. Actually, it's the GOP that's in a lose-lose -- either the Democrats earn due credit for change or the public will blame the GOP for opposing major social breakthroughs as it so often has.
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How Obama Wins in 2012
Despite sagging poll numbers, the president has bottomed out, and Republicans still lack the leaders and the ideas to beat him, argues former Bush strategist Mark McKinnon.
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Five Republicans Liberals Love
Democrats have broken up with the Olympia Snowes and Christie Whitmans of old. But even in this polarized political moment, there are five Republicans they have learned to love.
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Why Don't Honest Journalists Take On Roger Ailes & Fox News?
One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, & it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice. It is this: Why haven't America's old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network ...
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Rachel Maddow Explains The American Health Care System watch!
Don't blame health care companies, they are doing what they are supposed to do (make a profit). The American government ...
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Glenn Beck's Dark Past
Before he was tapped to give the keynote address at CPAC, the Fox host's history was riddled with drugs and mental illness. John Avlon on how Beck became the Pied Piper of the right for the angry and disenfranchised.
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President's Day has Wingnuts Praying for Obama's Death
President's Day, a patriotic holiday for most, is just an excuse for some Wingnuts to ask God to kill Barack Obama. To those offended by the idea of praying for death: “I’m praying the word of God. I didn’t write it. Don’t get mad at me.”
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Michael Mukasey: Then and Now
To promote his partisan fear-mongering attacks, the former Judge invokes the very arguments he once scorned.
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