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02 MAR 10
BBC News - Obama 'open to Republican healthcare ideas' SAVE
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"President Obama has said he is considering four ideas floated by Republicans at last week's Washington summit on healthcare reform. However, Mr Obama rejected calls from Republican leaders to scrap the draft bills passed in December and begin again."TAGS
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27 FEB 10
BBC News - President Obama urges US healthcare action SAVE
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"Two days after the White House hosted an inconclusive summit on healthcare reform, President Barack Obama has urged Americans to find common ground."TAGS
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19 JAN 10
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Defying Odds, Republican Brown Becomes Next Senator from Massachusetts SAVE
"In an outcome that would have been unthinkable just weeks ago, Republican Scott Brown has become the Senator-elect from Massachusetts."TAGS
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04 JAN 10
Fox suggests U.S. embassy closure in Yemen "a sign of weakness," ignores 2002 closing of same embassy by Bush | Media Matters for America SAVE
"On the January 3 edition of Fox News Sunday, Bill Kristol called the closing of the U.S. embassy in Yemen "a sign of weakness" and "a victory for Al Qaeda"; Fox News' website, the Fox Nation, echoed Kristol's point the next day using the headline: "Is Closing U.S. Embassy in Yemen a Sign of Weakness?" Neither noted that the U.S. embassy in Yemen was previously closed during the Bush administration; additionally, on January 3 and 4, several other countries also closed their embassies in Yemen." It's only giving in if a Democrat does it.TAGS
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09 DEC 09
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: The New Identity Politics Party SAVE
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"In other words, although the end-of-life use of Medicare is a government problem that violates almost every philosophy they espouse about the proper role of government—public sector over private; easily exploited by, rather than protected from, trial lawyers; a moral hazard, consequence-free billing system as opposed to rational, need-based spending; a program with rising outlays as opposed to slow or zero growth outlays—Medicare is instead the very program they are rallying behind."TAGS
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23 NOV 09
The Associated Press: Business foes of health care revamp ramp up effort SAVE
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"Business foes of health care overhaul legislation are outspending supporters at a rate of 2-to-1 for TV ads as they grow increasingly nervous over a final bill. Led by the giant U.S. Chamber of Commerce, opponents of the Democratic health care drive have spent $24 million on TV commercials over the past month to $12 million spent by labor unions and other backers. That's an abrupt reversal from the vast spending advantage supporters enjoyed most of this year, according to Evan Tracey, president of Campaign Media Analysis Group, which tracks political ads."TAGS
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22 NOV 09
Think Progress » The Board Of The ‘Voice Of Business’ Is A Republican Money Machine SAVE
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"The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which purports to be “the voice of business,” is run by a Republican money machine. As the nation’s largest lobbying shop, the Chamber is spending millions of dollars from its corporate members against President Obama’s progressive agenda of health care, energy, and financial reform. The Chamber claims that the “board’s membership is as diverse as the nation’s business community itself,” but this is false. A ThinkProgress analysis of federal election contribution data compiled by the LittleSis project has found that the Chamber’s 116-member board of directors has given more than six times as much money to Republican candidates and committees ($4,741,747) as it has to Democrats ($778,282), with $1,074,697 flowing to corporate political action committees"TAGS
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In House, Many Spoke With One Voice - Lobbyists’ - NYTimes.com SAVE
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"In the official record of the historic House debate on overhauling health care, the speeches of many lawmakers echo with similarities. Often, that was no accident. Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world’s largest biotechnology companies. E-mail messages obtained by The New York Times show that the lobbyists drafted one statement for Democrats and another for Republicans."TAGS
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21 NOV 09
BBC News - US healthcare reform Senate debate gets crucial backing SAVE
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"Democrats in the US Senate say they have now secured the votes they need to begin a full debate on a bill designed to overhaul healthcare provision. Two Democratic senators whose support had been in doubt say they will now back the move, assuring the party the 60 votes needed to pass the measure."TAGS
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18 NOV 09
G.O.P. Women Attack Mammogram Guidelines - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com SAVE
"A group of female House Republicans used the upset over new guidelines on breast cancer screening issued by an advisory panel earlier this week to highlight what they view as the dangers of government-administered health care and the Democrats’ bill to revamp the system." Republicans attack independent medical professional for making a medical decision by saying this is an example of government intruding in medical decision, when the decision to intrude is by the Republicans protesting.TAGS