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It's all tea leaves. But it looks like President Obama may be making or already made his decision on Afghanistan tonight.
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From TPM Reader JB , an old senate hand, now decamped to distant parts ...
As you know, I used to work in the Senate. When I did, the threat of extended debate was made fairly often: usually to delay legislation until some matter of parochial concern to one or more Senators was dealt with, ...
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It seems like we may have another case for those Fox execs eager to discipline or fire staffers for 'errors'/flagrant fibs meant to misinform views. This one's about the Public Option allegedly being financed by taxpayer dollars as opposed to premiums from people buying into the program.
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This quote is from the same piece David linked below on Charlie Crist. But I think it may be a quote that ends up on a book they write about the GOP or perhaps even the country in 2010 ...
"It's hard to be more concervative than I am on issues -- though there are different ways stylistically ...
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With Gov. Charlie Crist's Senate ambitions being challenged from the right flank of his own party, he tees off on supporters of his primary opponent Marco Rubio as "angry" birthers .
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Gov. Paterson
Earlier this year, the RNC got in some trouble when dissident committee members tried to push a symbolic measure calling on the Democratic party to rename itself the "Democrat Socialist Party." Now another group is pushing for a purity test at the next RNC meeting in January to make sure all ...
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Every election cycle, TPM has the niche of sniffing out each sides' robo-call campaigns. And in the last two cycles, one of the expanding threads of the story is the effort of robo-call outfits to get around state laws prohibiting the practice in certain states. (Like, if Indiana prohibits ...
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A decision on whether the President will attend the climate talks next month will come soon, the White House says.
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While many of us had naively construed the string of phony crowd scenes and other hijinks as Fox News editorial policy, apparently it ain't so. Fox News execs are now threatening warnings, suspensions and even firings over the string of recent video editing and fact-checking errors , all of ...
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The Washington Times receives about $40 million in annual subsidies from its owner, Rev. Moon's Unification Church, the paper's former op-ed editor claims in an affidavit obtained by TPM .
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I'm reading through the responses to my earlier post about the Public Option and how much the now-emasculated version of it is actually worth. Some of the responses, to put it bluntly, amount to: this bill isn't great, or not exactly what I wanted it to be, so let's just pull the plug on the ...
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I've mentioned in several contexts that the one lesson Dems seem to have internalized almost universally is that starting on health care but not passing a bill would be catastrophic in political terms -- quite apart from the policy consequences. This new poll from PPP gives some concrete ...
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom held his first media interview late last week since his abrupt withdrawal from the California governor's race, and let's just say it didn't go very well ... at all. Watch .
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While the range of abortion related amendments remains a major hurdle for a health care reform bill getting to President Obama's desk, it is clear, as it has been for some time, that the real fight hangs on the Public Option, especially in the senate. Depending on your count there are three or ...
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The right-wing Minnesota congresswoman points to her support for Carter-Mondale as a college student and laments : "I don't understand why the Democratic Party would be opposed to me."
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Servicing the federal debt will cost $700 billion annually , and maybe much more, by 2019. That and the day's other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup .
