Dems:HCR Almost Done-Inch Closer to Reconciliation

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Thursday March 11, 2010 · 7:14 AM PST

2010/03/11 · 07:14

Sen. Akaka(D-HI)is saying the end game is for real to pass HCR.

Sen. Daniel Akaka said in an interview yesterday he knew the hurdles had been cleared when he saw his colleagues ease off their tough stances on the public option and other elements of health care. "It was seeing senators letting go," Akaka (D-HI) told me at a reception following the Progressive Media Summit hosted by Senate Democrats.

This morning, House Dems will meet to review the final health care reform package tweaking several of its key provision. Nancy pelosi will know if she has the votes to finally end the debate over HCR.

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Thursday March 04, 2010 · 7:05 AM PST

2010/03/04 · 07:05

Sources tell CBS13 a state senator from Southern California was arrested for allegedly driving drunk after leaving Faces, a gay nightclub in midtown Sacramento, early Wednesday morning.
http://cbs13.com/...

This state senator has a history of opposing gay rights.

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Monday March 01, 2010 · 1:10 PM PST

2010/03/01 · 13:10

Me thinks he is embarrased by what he has done in holding up unemployment benefits and now causing doctors to receive 21% less in medicare payments.

Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) refused to answer questions from ABC News about his decision to filibuster a bill extending unemployment benefits.

Said Bunning: "I'm not talking to anybody."
When producers asked him to stay and talk on camera, Bunning "walked toward the elevator and shot the middle finger over his head."

A video clip shows Bunning kicking correspondent Jon Karl off the elevator, yelling "Excuse me! This is a Senator's only elevator!"

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Why Consevatives helping d'Ippolito to get on IN ballot?

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Tuesday February 16, 2010 · 10:33 AM PST

2010/02/16 · 10:33

Tamyra d'Ippolito is getting some help she didn't ask for.
A cafe owner who's seeking the Democratic nomination to the Evan Bayh senate seat.

Conservative, RedState's Erick Erickson wrote yesterday:

"those of you in Indiana should go out of your way to help Tamyra get the signatures she needs by tomorrow at noon."
"This could be fun,"

Also they believe she is a newbie that the Dem party does not like very much and therefore she cannot win.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/...

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Thursday February 04, 2010 · 10:33 AM PST

2010/02/04 · 10:33

You heard this right, just because they did not get a 47.1 percent rate increase from state regulators they are punishing their customers in Florida. They also said they would be insolvent without the increase due to the hurrican losses in recent years. Fortunately, their have been no losses in the last 2 years.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

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Thursday January 28, 2010 · 8:13 AM PST

2010/01/28 · 08:13

I am so tired of the MSM talking about independent voters much as they did during the Presidential primaries. The people of America are now being held hostage to this persona brought on by the same SOB media that keeps this tea party s__t going.
Seems voters want someone to blame-POTUS- and if the economy bounces back , since independent voters don't care much for the GOP, the poll numbers will go back up. But to keep harping on this really racks my nerves.
If they are so independent why are pundits advising the President to shift to the right?
My head is exploding with this crap-help?

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Sarah Palin has Alaskan Media on Banned List

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Wednesday December 23, 2009 · 2:07 PM PST

2009/12/23 · 14:07

Misadventures of Sarah
Poor Sarah-does she not know that to remain visible and ‘high profiled’ you
need the media? Apparently Sarah does not care-SarahCare-because she had a list of 4 names that she gave to the Wasilla Police at her book signing including Shannyn Moore, the Alaskan blogger.
According to the Wasilla Police who ever is paying them, renting the Memorial Sports Center in Wasilla can ban anyone they want.

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Thursday December 10, 2009 · 7:51 AM PST

2009/12/10 · 07:51

She is a Canadian born naturalized US citizen that writes about the Canadian health care system and is AGAINST Universal Health Care. She believes in "limited government" also. Why a diary about her? NPR has a story on its website from the National Revue written by her. http://www.npr.org/...

We can look forward to "Medicare for All" being a reality with long waiting lists, rationed care, higher taxes, and fewer doctors practicing medicine. This is not a good scenario for our health.

I personally do not think "Medicare for All" is a bad thing or that her scenarios will happen. Ms. Pipes’ vision of our government and what Americans should or should not have is just that-her opinion. The audacity of pretending to know what is best for the American people is to me "pycho talk". Until you have walked a mile in my shoes (my being the poor and uninsured citizens) you should shut up.
Does she know what it is like to have to wait until you are so sick you have to go to the emergency room?
Does she know what it is like to then get prescriptions that you cannot pay for after the sample meds run out?

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Tuesday December 08, 2009 · 7:08 AM PST

2009/12/08 · 07:08

Progressives in the house have relied on conference to save the public option and have watched as the Public Option via negotiations (negotiated rates), has become weak.
This would require Progressives to back down so that the President can have a symbolic win.
A robust PO seems to be dying a slow death. Negotiated rates will cause Americans to pay as much as $1400.00 more a year and cause the Government to reduce the tax credits to help low income Americans.
A less robust PO is a slap in the face to Progressives.

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/...

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Wednesday December 02, 2009 · 8:17 AM PST

2009/12/02 · 08:17

Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del) has been tapped by Sen. Harry Reid to come up with a Plan B approach to the public option. Reid wanted help with this "hot button" issue (which should not be seen this way at all).

Carper’s version of the bill the public option would kick in for states where insurance companies fail to meet standards of availability and affordability of plans. Unlike Snowe's trigger proposal, which would give insurers at least one year to satisfy those requirements, Carper's public option would start the first year the bill goes into effect. States might be permitted to opt into the public option even if the benchmarks are met.
Under Carper's proposal, the bill would establish a national public insurance program founded by the government but managed by a non-governmental board. In addition, the plan would be unable to access any taxpayer dollars beyond its initial seed money. This public option would operate alongside private insurance and, potentially, the nonprofit healthcare cooperatives and state-based public plans authorized by Reid's bill.

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