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• ObamaCare: $15,000 Annual Fee on Middle Class Families

  —FREEDOM EDEN

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  The Democrats think of themselves as heroes.
  
  They aren't.
  
  Passing the Senate version of the government-run health care bill on Christmas Eve is a hard slap in the face to hard-working Americans.
  
  The process to secure the votes' [...]

  Posted: December 24, 2009, 12:57am EST
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• NOT-SO-SECRET SANTA: SEN. REID’S OUTRAGEOUS PAYOFFS, KICKBACKS, & SWEETHEART DEALS

  —Wisconsin GOP Blog

  

  NOT-SO-SECRET SANTA: SEN. REID’S OUTRAGEOUS PAYOFFS, KICKBACKS, & SWEETHEART DEALS

  December 23, 2009 | House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) | Permalink

  All year long, the more the American people learn about Washington Democrats’ costly government takeover of health care, the more they oppose it.  [...]

  Posted: December 23, 2009, 8:26am EST
  

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• A Republican Senator With Gonads!

  —Dad29

  Fortunately, there are a couple of men in the (R) Party.
  
  I use "men" in contradistinction to Mitchie-Poo McConnell, who is probably working on his makeup at this hour.
  
  Jim DeMint and John Ensign are going to force a vote on the issue. Democrats will be [...]

  Posted: December 23, 2009, 5:44am EST
  

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• John Rogers on HCR

  —The Chief

  None have said it better:
  Last fall:
  
  Republicans: Jesus, you're just voting for Hopey McChangey because he's a great speaker and he's promising unicorns and rainbows of change.
  
  Democrats: How condescending. No, I'm voting for Obama based on his stated policy goals and his deliberative nature. We [...]

  Posted: December 22, 2009, 9:39pm EST
  

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• Richard Nixon Plays Role In Senate Health Bill

  —CAFFEINATED POLITICS

  Another reason to thank Richard Nixon…..really. Nixon, the 37th president, was known for working with Democrats on health care policy, including legislation in 1971 that opened a major government effort to fight cancer. (Senator Kennedy had lots to do with this.) But his contribution to the current bill was to serve as [...]

  Posted: December 22, 2009, 6:22pm EST
  by dekerivers

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• Bad economic fortune telling brought to you by WISGOP, WMC

  —One Wisconsin Now

  Wisconsin’s unemployment rate continues to drop, and while the economy still has a ways to go before it’s fully recovered from the disastrous economic policies of George W. Bush (worst President ever), we’re getting there, thanks in no small part to the Recovery Act and steady leadership from democrats in [...]

  Posted: December 22, 2009, 3:16pm EST
  by Robert

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• GOP Picks Up One

  —The Underground Conservative

  The Politico is reporting that Blue Dog Democrat Parker Griffith is switching parties over the Democrats’ mishandling of the health care debacle. POLITICO has learned that Rep. Parker Griffith, a freshman Democrat from Alabama, will announce today that he’s switching parties to become a Republican. According to a senior GOP aide familiar [...]

  Posted: December 22, 2009, 10:21am EST
  by The Underground Conservative

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• —This Just In...

  <img id="editableImg1" title="http://capwiz.com/americansforprosperity/utr/1/EUDULUHQIB/NZKYLUHQOB/4441725101 Americans for Prosperity" height="91" alt="Americans for Prosperity" src="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/files/AFPLogo.jpg" width="520" align="center" border="0" /> At 1:00 a.m. Monday, literally in the dead of night, the United States Senate on a straight party line voted to move closer to the health care takeover. 60 Democrats voted YES and 40 Republicans voted NO. In my [...]

  Posted: December 22, 2009, 8:24am EST
  

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• “Jeanetta Robinson” highway proposed for I-43

  —Milwaukee Rising

  A section of Interstate 43 in the city of Milwaukee would be renamed the “Jeannetta Simpson−Robinson Memorial Highway” under a bill introduced in the legislature by a group of Democrats.

  Sponsors in the Assembly include Representatives Leon Young, Jason Fields and Annette Polly Williams, all of Milwaukee; Terese Berceau, of Madison; [...]

  Posted: December 22, 2009, 5:20am EST
  by Gretchen Schuldt

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• Next!

  —Rhymes With Clown

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  Hope you weren't planning on catching your breath anytime soon:
  
  Open Congress reports:
  While Congress continues to plow full steam ahead on health care, Democrats in the House recently took a big step forward on another huge and contentious issue, immigration. On Tuesday, Rep. Solomon Ortiz [D,' [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 8:44pm EST
  by Jeremy R. Shown

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• "Quit Comparing Congress to street whores"

  —CALEDONIA UNPLUGGED

  Hate to do this at this time of year, but since the Senate Democrats seem more than willing to force socialism down our unwilling throats on Christmas Eve, guess all bets are off.
  
  This blogger has completely captured my thoughts...though much more eloquently. Quit Comparing Congress to Street [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 7:36pm EST
  

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• Healthcare votes to begin

  —The Sconz

  It looks as if the Senate Democrats in Washington are about to do what people who want health care reform have been wishing they would do since Barack Obama’s election: Treat the Republican Party like the minority party it is. Democrats have already surrendered so much since 2008; the least [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 12:13pm EST
  by Jack

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• Krugman: Kill the Filibuster

  —Michael Alan Leon: MAL Contends . . .

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  Putting aside the notion now pushed by Republicans that policy such as health care reform [vis a vis say war] must have overwhelming, super-majority support before it can legitimately be passed into law and sustained as public policy, the Republicans and tacitly most Democrats support anti-democratic, dangerous legislative procedures choking [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 7:38am EST
  by MAL

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• Challenge The Status Quo, Expect Disappointment, But Don't Quit

  —The Political Environment

  It wasn't the greatest week to be a progressive.
  
  Yes, the Democrats appear to have reached the necessary 60 votes to win Senate approval (against an intransigent, 100% negative GOP minority) for a health care reform bill, but the result is weaker than what was hoped for, as well' [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 6:01am EST
  

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• America has been betrayed by the Democrats

  —Stepping Right Up!

  In complete defiance of the American people, the Democrats vote for cloture on the health care bill. It is all but a formality that massive tax increasing/government controlling boondogle healthcare plan will pass the Senate.NOT ONE SINGLE POLL SHOWS THAT AMERICA SUPPORTS THIS BILL IN ITS CURRENT FORM.Not a single [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 5:48am EST
  

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• The Health Care Bill’s $100 Million Hospital, Med, & Dental Schools

  —Lakeshore Laments

  A lot of folks in DC and the press are going over every single state in the nation trying to find which one fits this description.  None of those "honest as the wind drive snow" Democrats wants to own up to this one.

  The health reform Christmas gifts for Sens. [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 4:34am EST
  by kevinbinversie

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• No Public Option is no Option at all

  —Watchdog Milwaukee

  We have to do something right? The public is expecting some sort of compromise correct? If we do not get something passed, we will not really be doing our jobs now will we?

  This is the crux of the problem in Congress today with the debate on health care.

  Many Democrats want [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 2:36am EST
  by Publisher@watchdogmilwaukee.com (Jim McGuigan)

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• Radical organization of the week: Progressive Democrats of America (PDA)

  —Apostle Islands Navigator

  Cross Posted on Lake Minnetonka Liberty PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS OF AMERICA (PDA) 12280 West Indian School Road PMB # 177 Litchfield Park, AZ 85340 Phone : 877-368-9221 URL: Website Founded to provide a “philosophical home within the Democrat Party for the progressive community” Co-founded and led mostly by activists from failed 2004 presidential campaign of Cleveland Congressman Dennis Kucinich, [...]

  Posted: December 20, 2009, 6:00am EST
  by The Admiral

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• Senator Nelson defines, “conservative” Democrats

  —Something To Die For

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  It’s official, Or so he says.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid  announced Saturday that the Democrats had reached an agreement with Sen. Ben Nelson, for his support of the complete overhaul of the U.S. health care system.  I am just wondering if  Nelson is leading a , “conservative” revolt? “With Nelson’s [...]

  Posted: December 20, 2009, 11:29pm EST
  by josiahcantrall

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• Democrats take giant leap to the right on health care

  —Kay's Blue Racine

  Sen. Ben Nelson (D for dirtbag) acting like a child holding their breath until they get what they want, managed to get this little ditty in the newest health care package (emphasis mine):
  As for the issue of abortion, current law prohibits federal funding from going to abortion but Nelson [...]

  Posted: December 19, 2009, 3:55pm EST
  

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• 60 votes?

  —folkbum's rambles and rants

  by folkbumSometimes it's nice to wake up to good news: Democrats seem to have 60 votes to break a filibuster, and certainly more than 50 to pass something. The House will go along, Obama will sign it, and the Dems will have a bill that seems to do this:* Reduces [...]

  Posted: December 19, 2009, 9:20am EST
  

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• Prepare for "CLAIM DENIED!!"

  —Dad29

  The mythbusting continues.
  
  ... Health Care for America Now, a group supporting the Democrats’ health care reform bill, ran a television ad claiming that private health insurance companies: “Deny 1 out of 5 treatments prescribed by doctors.”

  When fact-checked by PolitiFact.com, it turned out the statistic had [...]

  Posted: December 19, 2009, 9:00am EST
  

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• Snooping Republicans? Democrats think so….

  —Something To Die For

  First-year Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) angered Democrats on Wednesday by standing next to the table where party leaders monitor votes, giving the impression he was trying to eavesdrop on their conversations during a close roll call to increase the debt limit, The media later questioned Schock, “So, you weren’t taking any [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 4:41pm EST
  by josiahcantrall

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• America Doesn’t Want Senate to Pass Health Care Overhaul

  —Boots and Sabers

  Not that the Democrats in the Senate care, but…

  Fifty-seven percent (57%) of voters nationwide say that it would be better to pass no health care reform bill this year instead of passing the plan currently being considered by Congress. The latest Rasmussen Reports [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 4:07pm EST
  by Owen

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• Property Tax Hikes Due To Democrats` State Budget

  —Wisconsin GOP Blog

  State Senate candidate Van Wanggaard aptly points out that irresponsible state budgeting is causing many property owners heartache this year as tax bills are on the rise. Read more from Wanggaard by clicking below. 
  
  Wanggaard Campaign: Points to irresponsible state budgeting as reason for property tax hikes [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 8:42am EST
  

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• Krugman: Don't Kill It

  —Michael Alan Leon: MAL Contends . . .

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  Update: NYT: "David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, began the day by calling in to MSNBC to urge the party to hold together, warning of a 'tragic outcome' if Democrats failed to pass a bill that the White House says would expand health coverage while reining in costs." Why [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 6:33am EST
  by MAL

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• Harry Reid Health Care Bill, Christmas Vote

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  The way the Democrats' health care overhaul has been slapped together is a disgrace.
  
  Where is the transparency?
  
  Obama promised openness. We were all going to be able to watch the process. What a load!
  
  It's bad enough that the process has lacked the transparency Obama' [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 12:33am EST
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• Feingold Called GOP's Bluff - Local Media Annoyed

  —Rock Netroots

  Last week, when GOP senators wrote an amendment designed to ridicule the public option and embarrass Democrats, they got a little surprise. Several democrats including Sen. Russ Feingold endorsed the amendment by Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and David Vitter. Both republicans are vehemently opposed to the public option. [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 12:07am EST
  by Lou Kaye

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• Why Does the Media Love Lieberman?

  —Griper Blade

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  Here's an item that comes to us courtesy of Think Progress. In an interview with FOX News' Neil Cavuto, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent who caucuses with the Democrats, says he can't vote for the Senate healthcare bill as it stands now.
  
  
  
  I’m [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 10:38am EST
  by Wisco

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• “Gitmo North” coming to a town near you?

  —Blogging Blue

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  Politico.com is reporting President Obama may have enough votes from Congressional Democrats to move forward with his plan to move prisoners from the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to a facility in rural Illinois, but though the plan hasn’t even been implemented, conservatives are predictably gnashing their teeth [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 5:29am EST
  by Zach W

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