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Take A Hot Tub Time Machine Trip To 2009, When Conservatives Loved The CBO

By Bill Scher
March 19, 2010

The conservative response to the Congressional Budget Office analysis that health care reform will cut the deficit more than $1 trillion over the next two decades is simply to call the nonpartisan analysts liars. more » more »

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Tea Partiers: The (Distorted, Screaming) Face of Conservatism

By Terrance Heath
March 18, 2010

This is one of those things you just have to see to believe. Chances are you've seen it posted elsewhere, but it bears replaying over and over and over again. Here's the face of conservatism today, for ya — mocking and screaming at a man with Parkinson's disease.

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On Health Reform, Three Cheers for Kucinich (And Ann Coulter's Still Alive! Who Knew?)

By Richard (RJ) Eskow
March 18, 2010

The CBO now says health reform will cut the Federal deficit by $138 billion That's a win for the bill's backers, and should make it tougher for self-described 'fiscal conservatives' in the Democratic Party to vote against this bill. (No, let's re-frame that as a positive statement: It will make it easier for Conservadems to embrace this bill.) Now what's left is a battle between two clear political philosophies on the left and right: The principled but pragmatic progressivism embodied by Dennis Kucinich, or the nihilistic fury and self-interest that's best represented by Ann Coulter. Since both Coulder and Kucinich had a lot to say about health reform this week, it's worth taking a moment to compare and contrast their philosophies. more »

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The False Luxury of Time To Wait

By Terrance Heath
March 17, 2010

The choice is simple. The reform legislation we have doesn't far enough, but it's a step in the right direction, as opposed to standing still or moving backwards. But a step in the right direction, however small, builds momentum for the next step forward. By some estimates, progressives made this reform a great deal better than it would have been had we not engaged. When this reform bill is signed into law, progressive should — and I have every reason to believe we will — start the fight to expand it even before the ink dries on President Obama's signature.

We can either take a step in the right direction, or we can take a huge step back. Standing still is not an option.

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"Deem and Pass" Is NOT "Without A Vote"

By Bill Scher
March 16, 2010

Several traditional media outlets are regurgitating the conservative spin that if the House uses the parliamentary procedure known as a "self-executing rule" or "deem and pass," it will be more »

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Fixing The Health Care Message Problem: What's In The Bill For You, This Year.

By Bill Scher
March 15, 2010

Many armchair pundits have taken whacks at the President and his communications team for having "lost control of the message behind his drive for health care." more »

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Glenn Beck: Conservatism's Snake Oil Salesman, Pt. 1

By Terrance Heath
March 15, 2010

(Or "CPAC: Sideshow and Snake Oil, Pt. 2")

snake oil salesman

The circus sideshow that was CPAC folded its tent and left Washington weeks ago. However, its apparent ringmaster and chief snake oil salesman still sweats, struts, and sobs across the "stage" of conservative media — that medicine show never stops rolling and never stops hawking its "solutions" to Americans who are in desperate need of something to ease their economic aches and pains, and heal their political maladies.

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Why Caddell's Wrong - Passing The Bill Will Help Democrats

By Richard (RJ) Eskow
March 13, 2010

There's a lot of buzz in health care circles about an editorial in today's Washington Post entitled "If Democrats ignore health-care polls, midterms will be costly." That could be dangerous: the author's conclusions are contradicted, not supported, by the available facts. more »

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Two Fox News Contributors Claim They're Still Democrats To Kill Health Care

By Bill Scher
March 12, 2010

The Washington Post today published an op-ed by Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen, who defined themselves as "pollsters to the past two Democratic presidents, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton" who are heroically telling the current President that the polls say more »

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Citizen's Posse Serves Warrant Against Health Insurers

By Isaiah J. Poole
March 10, 2010
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