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Ben Nelson’s Health Care Vote Puts Him at negative 31

Hey, Sen. Nelson, nice move on your Health Care sell-out vote. You are down by 31 pts. if your re-election vote were to be held today. ~~John Cronin~~ Rasmussen Reports The good news for Senator Ben Nelson is that he doesn’t have to face Nebraska voters until 2012. If Governor Dave Heineman challenges Nelson for [...]

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It’s Not Over

Health-care legislation could still fail in the House. By Ramesh Ponnuru Democrats are doing a victory lap. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says that with Senate passage of the Reid bill, “Health-care reform is now a matter of when.” The press is doing its best to convey the impression that Republicans are throwing in the [...]

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GOP AGs may sue over health bill

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30949.html On the eve of an historic Senate health care reform vote, more than half of the Republican state attorneys general have organized to provide a legal analysis of the constitutionality of a controversial provision in the Senate bill and to explore potential legal challenges. The provision in question is the result of a deal [...]

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Political Cartoons

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POLITICO Breaking News: Health Care Bill pushed back to February!

POLITICO Breaking News: —————————————————– The White House now expects January’s crowded congressional calendar to force health-reform talks into February, past President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. But top aides tell POLITICO that the president will go ahead with plans for what they call “a very hard pivot” to focusing on jobs next month, [...]

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Selling the plan

http://www.politico.com/huddle/1209/huddle440.html By: MARTIN KADY II Now that the selling begins. Democrats have a huge job PR job ahead of them in the coming year as they seek to dig out of the massive polling deficit they have with the American people after a brutal autumn of health care debate. The first thing they have to [...]

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The Health Care Backlash

There is so much news today, that I’ll probably just post short excerpts from the articles that have been published. Obama in particular and the Democratic Party in general are in more political trouble than they can imagine at this point in time. That will change in November of 2010. Their collective consciousness will be [...]

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Nebraska Right to Life Statement on Sen. Ben Nelson

Below is a press release from the Nebraska Chapter of NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE. They are hopping mad, and rightly so. I have heard people from Nebraska comment on Nelson’s moderate conservatism and pro life positions for years. It only takes one “Yea” vote on the Senate floor to wipe out years of pro life [...]

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Political Cartoons: “The Precipice” by Lisa Benson

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O’Connor: Is Obama a half-term president or a political genius?

I try to avoid huge, time-consuming posts, but this article by Colleen O’Connor is so good, I couldn’t resist the temptation to use the bulk of her wonderfully written article. She expresses, in her unique way, what many of us have been thinking these last 11 months……that Obama looked like he was on his way [...]

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