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One of the top moments of today’s HCR summit: Rep. Louise Slaughter. I would love to post a transcript, too, because she just stood up and spoke for women while speaking sense.
Also featured: Sen. Dick Durbin on tort reform, President Obama in an exchange with Sen. Barrasso, and Henry Waxman, who really must be [...]
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There’s all sorts of little interesting stories swimming in the Twitter stream today that will likely be big stories tomorrow. Remember, you heard it here first:
Scott Brown wants to move up his swearing-in ceremony by a week. He’s requested that the Massachusetts certification of his election be hand-delivered to him so he can be sworn [...]
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Daily Kos: The Anti-Corporatist Movement
None of this is to argue that progressives should give up on advocating for progressive policy, although it needs to be remembered that there is quite a bit of ideological range within the progressive movement. What I am arguing is that progressives need to adopt a strategy that is realistic, [...]
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Reading through my Twitter stream lately is a little like stepping into a stadium full of angry, outraged birds. Lots of protests and stirrings on both sides of the pot, peppered with a few whispers of wisdom from time to time. Escaping the din, I open my email to find a zillion appeals [...]
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Senator Edward Kennedy has died, one year to the day after he gave a rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention. In that speech, he restated the cause he has fought for consistently throughout his years of public service.
And this is the cause of my life — new hope that we will break the old [...]
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