Remember the anti-environment pro-oil bill that MA reps John Olver, William Delahunt and Richard Neal just forgot to show up for, and passed by only two votes? Well, $54 billion...
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November 05, 2005 | "It is more likely this individual is intentionally misleading the debriefers"Those words are contained in a just-released Defense Intelligence Agency document dating from February 2002 that the NY Times has gotten its hands on. The "individual" is Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi,...
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November 04, 2005 | Rush notes from conference call with Senator Kennedy this amI listened in on a conference call with Senator Kennedy this morning. Following are my notes from the call -- I apologize if things aren't clear. I didn't get a...
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November 02, 2005 | Daniel Schorr knocks it out of the parkDaniel Schorr, elder statesman of NPR, just had a terrific and necessary commentary on All Things Considered, about the $50 billion of budget cuts about to pass the US House....
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October 30, 2005 | It's contagious!Good gravy. We're not satisified with our own screwed-up health care system -- now we're actually exporting it: ...Experts questioned the priorities of Washington's $1-billion rebuilding plan, which has focused...
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October 29, 2005 | I get meta: Daily Kos as a public policy engine?Below is a diary I posted on DailyKos. I'm amazed at how much energy goes into the posts, diaries and comments on that site, and yet I feel like it...
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Irve IndictedLet's get the nomenclature straight before we go any further with the "Scooter Goes to Jail" discussion. "I" Lewis Libby is not an imperial form of address ala "I, Claudius"...
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October 27, 2005 | Health Care: What's your bottom line?So, with health care reform (or "reform") apparently barrelling down the pike, we always knew the devil was going to be in the details. And now, all stakeholders will find...
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October 26, 2005 | Republican moral limbo: How low can you go?So, a week after John Edwards begins his national tour for poverty awareness, House Republicans revealed their poverty program: Grind the middle class and poor into dust. Republicans began targeting...
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Report: Fitzgerald seeks to indict Rove and LibbyAccording to Raw Story, sources close to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation are saying that Fitzgerald has asked his grand jury to indict Karl Rove and Scooter Libby on perjury...
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