edited by: Vivian Paige,
Virginia Editor
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Friday, December 4.
1. Jane Hamsher points to a new Mason-Dixon poll indicating that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid trails two potential GOP opponents. This doesn't make Hamsher particularly sad, to put it mildly, given that she' [...]
Update: Here's some video footage, an Amy Goodman interview with Eliot Spitzer concerning Ben Bernanke.
"It's only mandatory, until Congress says it's not mandatory," he said at his reappointment confirmation hearing. Reminding Congress that it has the power' [...]
One of the ironies of what has transpired in the last eight years since the September 11 attack is that many of the origins of the conflict came from the waning years of the Cold War, as the United [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Wednesday, December 2.
1. Jane Hamsher announces the launch of One Voice for Choice, "a national phone bank that will launch calls into the districts of the Representatives who voted for Stupak." For more on this, see [...]
Dear President Obama:
Keith Olbermann last night spoke passionately against your Big Escalation, an escalation we cannot afford, cannot bear and ought not to undertake. It will [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Tuesday, December 1.
1. Jon Walker has some advice "for every potential manufacturer and transnational company looking to expand...don't start a single business-or expand an existing one-in this country until we really try to rein in health care'" [...]
While such speculation may seem like a lame parlor game, in fact, who Time chooses for this' [...]
If Joe Lieberman or other senators came across John Brodniak writhing in pain on the sidewalk, they presumably would jump to help him and rush him to a hospital.
Unfortunately, an emergency room won't help - indeed, the closest' [...]
The American economy is broken, ruined by the greed and irresponsibility of fabulously wealthy corporate chieftains and their shabby acolytes and enablers in government. While Wall Street is handing out billions in bonuses, American families are struggling with joblessness, home foreclosures and rampant debt. The economic [...]
I was, perhaps appropriately, listening to a recording of the Brahms Requiem when I saw the email: Greg Kannerstein had passed away. Let me quote two paragraphs from Haverford College President Steve Emerson's ('74) email: A mentor, student, teacher, colleague, coach and friend to thousands, Greg recently' [...]
Reaching your potential voters is (obviously) vitally important to any campaign. But what is the best way to reach this crucial audience? This week, Kendra Sue Derby from Democracy for America's Campaign Academy is going to speak about four methods of [...]
I will not launder further in [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Monday, November 23.
1. Yesterday, Jon Walker took on Nate Silver, who "believes progressives should trade the public option away, but what he wants in return is far more useless and an even tougher political battle."
2. [...]
"Central Committee Members and Local Committee Chairs,
Thanks for all your hard work" [...]
A CNN/Opinion Research [...]
Somewhere in America, a man (with no insurance and no money for the medications he needs to ease the pain) is dying. Some with dangerous complications of H1N1 cannot get treatment. A woman (who thought she had insurance) was told her "benefits" had run out. In Arkansas, [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Friday, November 20.
1. Jon Walker asks, "Is Harry Reid Laying The Ground Work To Betray Progressives For Snowe's Vote?" In the end, Walker concludes, "Reid does have the power to get a public option passed, there is" [...]
Here's a little fun from the Onion. The best part is the ticker of fake news headlines running across the bottom.
Obama's Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner
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Why is [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Thursday, November 19.
1. Jon Walker lays out "eight things wrong with the Senate health care bill," beginning with "Delays Start Until 2014" and including "Nationwide Plans Gutting State Regulation." Definitely a few things that need to be [...]
It was at the dedication of a cemetery honoring the dead of both sides, at the site of a battle a little more than 4 months earlier, a [...]
Dear Fellow Progressives:
Please watch this video. We proudly voted for President Obama. We said we'd have his back and defend him. He has taken a number of positive steps. For example, just this week, he formed a new team within government to bring Wall St. criminals to justice and just' [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Wednesday, November 18.
1. Jane Hamsher reports that voting is now open for the Public Option Please (POP) art contest. There are six finalists, vote now!
2. Jon Walker writes that "it seems [Senator Thomas] Carper" [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Tuesday, November 17.
1. Jon Walker reports that a new ABC/Washington Post poll indicates the country "nearly divided" on the overall health care reform effort, but "very high popular support [for] the public option and the employer" [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Monday, November 16.
1. Jon Walker reports that "HR 3962's Massive Expansion Of Coverage Would Result In Very Small Increase In Health Care Spending." Walker adds, "Despite the Republican talking point, it is not some liberal overreach-this reform" [...]
As it stands, not all Americans are equal before the law. This Wednesday is yet another test of whether we live up to our ideals. The next few days also afford some members of Congress time to do something important: [...]
Factoring in inflation first, the growth is reduced to 41 percent over 10 years. By factoring in both inflation and population growth, the state budget' [...]
A Gallup poll released last week shows a rarity -- a majority of Americans polled say that they would prefer a generic Republican to a generic Democrat for Congress.
This a rare event in American politics. Most of the times in the past when this reversal has occurred [...]
I am writing to you as a National Board Certified Social Studies Teacher who voted for you as President even despite my concerns about your approach to educational policy. You were not my first choice, precisely because I, like many educators I know, was concerned both about your [...]
