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• The Six Key Issues the House Must Cave On Before Obamacare Becomes Law

  —On The Right

  President Barack Obama attempted to downplay differences between the House and Senate bills telling American Urban Radio Networks yesterday: “The Senate and the House bills are 95 percent identical. There’s five percent differences, and one of those differences is the public option. This is an area that has just become [...]

  Posted: December 22, 2009, 11:43pm EST
  by Garrett Watson

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• Did Obama campaign on the Public Option?

  —The Richmonder

  Think Progress is reporting that Barack Obama did in fact campaign on providing a public option as part of health care reform.
  
  Obama is denying he campaigned on providing a public option, and many of his supporters are now arguing about the precise definition of "campaigning."
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  Posted: December 22, 2009, 8:54pm EST
  

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• Barry from D.C. (AKA Barack Obama) calls in to Kaine radio show...

  —The Shad Plank

  Gov. Timothy M. Kaine is making final holiday rounds and "Barry from D.C." couldn't resist the opportunity to call in to a Kaine radio appearance to offer kudos from the White House. Kaine was caught a little bit off guard during the monthly "Ask the governor" segment when the radio' [...]

  Posted: December 22, 2009, 12:59pm EST
  by Kimball Payne

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• A President, governors and others bid fare thee well to Kaine

  —Pilot on Politics

  Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) heard from President Barack Obama, Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell, former Gov. Linwood Holton (Kaine's father-in-law), musician Bruce Hornsby and other well wishers who called into Washington, D.C. radio station WTOP Tuesday morning during Kaine's final appearance as Virginia governor on the monthly "Ask the Governor" program. [...]

  Posted: December 22, 2009, 11:25am EST
  

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• Heritage Morning Bell - Healthcare

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  The Six Key Issues the House Must Cave On Before Obamacare Becomes Law
  
  President Barack Obama attempted to downplay differences between the House and Senate bills telling American Urban Radio Networks yesterday: “The Senate and the House bills are 95 percent identical. There’s five percent [...]

  Posted: December 22, 2009, 10:20am EST
  

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• First Year Low

  —The Contemporary Conservative

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  Rassmussen:
  The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 25% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent (46%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21 That’s the lowest Approval Index [...]

  Posted: December 22, 2009, 9:47am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

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• Kaine Was Obama's "Heart" Pick, Biden Was His "Head" Pick for VP

  —Blue Virginia

  
  According to this interview with Ryan Nobles, Barack Obama told Tim Kaine at one point, "you know, you are my heart pick and Biden is my head pick...Sometimes I go with my heart, sometimes I go with my head." It's an interesting comment, given that Barack Obama is [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 10:27pm EST
  

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• The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups..............................

  —Yankee Philip

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  “They are desperate to break this president. They have ardent supporters who are nearly hysterical at the very election of President Barack Obama. The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 11:11am EST
  by Phil

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• Democrat: ObamaCare Foes ‘Militia Members, Aryan Nation-Types’

  —Sun Versus Wind

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  Wonder if this counts as saying anything to gain a political advantage? Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), just the latest donkey to talk out of their behind:

  They are desperate to break this president. They have ardent supporters who are nearly hysterical at the very election of President Barack Obama. The [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 10:07am EST
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• Palin blasts 'arrogance of man' in Copenhagen - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

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  From The Hill: The now-finished climate change summit in Copenhagen marks the "arrogance of
  man," former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said this weekend.Palin, who had urged
  President Barack Obama not to attend the conference in Denmark, blasted the
  agreement world leaders made late on Friday to begin stemming emissions [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 9:23am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

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• Senate tempers flare as Christmas approaches ... so when will the Democrats turn on Reid and Obama?

  —SWAC Girl

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  Tempers are flaring in the Capitol as Democrat Sen. Harry Reid and President Barack Obama keep senators at work to ram health care through while most Americans are pausing to celebrate the birth of Christ.
  
  Politico wrote:
  Senators are suffering from cabin fever — and it has nothing [...]

  Posted: December 20, 2009, 10:01pm EST
  by SWAC Girl

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• PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA SOLVES GLOBAL WARMING!

  —Citizen Tom

  Yes.  It true! In a back room deal in Copenhagen, Denmark, President Barack Obama solved the problem of global warming.  Look outdoors.  Count the snowflakes.  There is your proof. How did he do it?  Citizen Tom has the inside scoop.  Working secretly, the space research agencies of the United State Chinese, Russia, and [...]

  Posted: December 19, 2009, 12:39pm EST
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• Obama's global warming snow trips

  —SWAC Girl

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  Barack Obama flew into a rare snow storm in Copenhagen at the global warming conference earlier this week.
  
  He flew into a huge snow storm in Washington, D.C., Friday night coming home from the global warming conference.
  
  Do those pushing global warming see the irony in all this?[...]

  Posted: December 19, 2009, 8:16am EST
  by SWAC Girl

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• A CHALLENGE — CAN YOU DEFEND YOUR PRINCIPLES?

  —Citizen Tom

  This is post for those folks whose eyes light joyfully at the prospect that President Barack Obama might succeed in delivering upon his campaign promises.  Can you defend what Obama wants to do? The Health Care Bill Ostensively, the Democrats intend to provide health care for everyone.   That sounds nice, but someone has [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 11:47pm EST
  by Citizen Tom

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• Pelosi, Rahm do not scare Rep. DeFazio - TheHill.com

  —The Contemporary Conservative

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  Read Here: Pelosi, Rahm do not scare Rep. DeFazio - TheHill.com: "The White House chief of staff last month expressed frustration with DeFazio’s
  resignation calls for President Barack Obama’s top two economic aides — Treasury
  Secretary Tim Geithner and White House chief economist Larry Summers — and
  appealed for" [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 11:18pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

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• Okay. So The Whole “Slavery Supporter” Angle Didn’t Work…

  —Virginia Virtucon

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  How about we just scare you into supporting Barack Obama’s health care legislation? President Obama told ABC News’ Charles Gibson in an interview that if Congress does not pass health care legislation that will bring down costs, the federal government “will go bankrupt.” I’m honestly a bit stunned by the hypocrisy of [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 5:39pm EST
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• Insane !!! Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings and his GLSEN organization promoting a book that Romanticized Rape of a 13 Year-Old – Media Silent

  —The Contemporary Conservative

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  Yesterday, we reported that Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings and his GLSEN organization were promoting a book to children that included a pornographic image of men having sex while boy scouts looked on. The day before that we reported that Kevin [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 3:44pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

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• Liberals turning on Liberals

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  From Politico:
  In a stunning reversal of fortune for President Barack Obama, top progressives are attacking the health-reform plan moving through the Senate as “hollow,” “unsupportable” and a sellout to corporate interests. ..Republicans, after plotting for months to sink the signature legislation of Obama’s first year, suddenly think that [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 1:54pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

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• Obama signs $1.1 trillion spending bill into law

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  From the AP:
  President Barack Obama has signed into law a $1.1 trillion bill that increases the budgets in many areas of the government by about 10 percent, including health, law enforcement and veterans' programs....Obama signed the bill privately at the White House on Wednesday after receiving the bill' [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 9:36am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

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• Krystal Ball for Congress

  —Blue Virginia

  Virginia's 1st Congressional District is not exactly the "bluest" around. However, Barack Obama did quite well there in 2008, winning 48% of the vote, an improvement over Tim Kaine's 46% of the vote in 2005 and Jim Webb's 44% in 2006. Next year, Democrats will select a nominee to [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 7:21pm EST
  

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• Virginia school censors critical-thinking exercise

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              When Barack Obama was running for president in 2008, he gave a speech on Father’s Day in which he reminded parents of their role in shaping their children’s futures: “As fathers and parents, we’ve got to spend more time with them, and help them with their homework, and replace [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 4:46pm EST
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• Shocka: TIME Magazine Skips Obama In 2009!

  —snapped shot

  In a clear affront to the Most Successful Presidential Administration In History, TIME Magazine has named Ben Bernacke as its Person of the Year for 2009.

  What? Is there some strange rule against choosing Barack Obama for two straight years or something? Or for the next eight, even?

  Or is TIME [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 9:00am EST
  by Brian C. Ledbetter

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• Al Gore: Pass Climate Bill By Earth Day 2010

  —Blue Virginia

  
  According to Politico:
  Former Vice President Al Gore called on President Barack Obama to pass a climate bill by April 22 — the next Earth Day – in a Tuesday speech at the international climate talks in Copenhagen.
  
  “As a citizen of the United States, and no [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 5:44am EST
  

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• Barack Obama Discusses "Sexy" Energy Efficiency at Home Depot in Alexandria

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  The Washington Post reports:
  At the warehouse store in Alexandria, Obama held a roundtable discussion with a small group representing labor and manufacturers and installers of energy efficient material. He said devoting public dollars to retrofitting is an example of the "strategic surgical steps" he [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 6:14pm EST
  

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• Presidential Appoval number continue to decline (44%)

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  The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 26% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15.
  Today’s update is a slight [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 10:38am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

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• Barack Obama: "Learning from History to Reform Wall Street"

  —Blue Virginia

  
  ...as we’ve learned so many times before, common sense doesn’t always prevail in Washington.
  
  Just last week, Republican leaders in the House summoned more than 100 key lobbyists for the financial industry to a “pep rally,” and urged them to redouble their efforts to block meaningful financial reform. [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 6:18am EST
  

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• MORAL IMAGINATION

  —Citizen Tom

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    Delegate Scott Lingamfelter has been puzzled, not quite certain what to make of Barack Obama’s empty rhetoric.  How, he wondered, could the man say so many words and still say so little?  During Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, he heard the words that gave him a clue.  What did he learn?  Here is [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 10:20pm EST
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• Dump Tabs

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  I've been good about sharing some of these over in the Fast Lane, but I'm so far behind on the news today that I'm just gonna have to cut my losses.

  * Frank J. explores the pros and cons of replacing Barack Obama with a cardboard cutout of... Barack' [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 1:58pm EST
  by Brian C. Ledbetter

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• “A Just and Lasting Peace” : Obama Accepts Nobel Peace Prize

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  This morning, just before 6 am our time, President Barack Obama received and accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. Many people, probably including the president himself, were caught off-guard over when this award was announced last summer. President Obama had not been in office all that long.

  How can this award be anything but [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 2:31pm EST
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• Barack Obama Receives the Nobel Peace Prize

  —Blue Virginia

  
  
  
  The live stream is here, I'll post a link to his speech transcript as soon as I get it. Please feel free to use this as a thread to discuss Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize award.
  
  UPDATE: Here is a link to President Obama's' [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 8:04am EST
  

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