Tag: senate

Reports: Understanding Our Hollow ‘Centrists’

Reports: Obama Risks Losing His Judicial Prize

Ear to the Ground: Lieberman Won’t Budge on Health Care

Ear to the Ground: Lou Dobbs for President?

Cartoons: Showdown

Reports: GOP Obstruction Goes Unnoticed—and Unpunished

Ear to the Ground: Reid Readies for Health Care Rumble

Reports: Who Are You and What Have You Done With the Community Organizer We Elected President?

Ear to the Ground: Senate Liberals to Majority Leader: No More Compromise

Reports: We Need a Civilian ‘ROTC’

Reports: Testing Next Year’s Lies Today

Reports: Where Does the Caving End?

Reports: Don’t Let Abortion Destroy Health Care Reform

Cartoons: Missed Me

Ear to the Ground: Bill Clinton Urges Senate Dems to Support Health Care Reform

Ear to the Ground: House Passes Health Care Bill

Ear to the Ground: The Rich? They Get Elected

Reports: Republicans vs. the Palinites

Ear to the Ground: Carly Fiorina Taking On Barbara Boxer for Senate Seat

Reports: McGovern: Get Out of Afghanistan

Reports: 2009 Elections Don’t Foretell a Thing

Reports: The Battle to Define the New Health Care System

Reports: The Party of Choice

Reports: Lieberman Twists the Knife

Ear to the Ground: Surprise! Lieberman Stabs Dems in the Back

Ear to the Ground: Senate Bill Will Include Public Option

A/V Booth: Robert Reich: Make a Ruckus

Ear to the Ground: Don’t Ruin the Public Option for Everyone Else, Arkansas

Ear to the Ground: Senate Votes in Favor of Expanded Hate-Crime Measure

Reports: GOP Civil War Flares in New York

Ear to the Ground: Attn. Senate: Most Americans Want a Public Option

A/V Booth: Progressive Group Targets Harry Reid

Reports: When Did Olympia Snowe Become Queen of America?

Reports: With Al-Qaida Fading, Why Expand the Afghan War?

Ear to the Ground: Snowe Helps Baucus Bill Pass Committee Hurdle

Reports: Bribe, Vote, Repeat

Reports: Meltdown After the Meltdown

Reports: Stimulation Without the S-Word

Ear to the Ground: Health Care Reform: ‘A Fait Accompli’?

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Pumps Up Health Care Reform

Reports: The Missing Health Care Debate

Ear to the Ground: Obama Pressures Senate on Public Option

Reports: ‘Socialism’ and Sham in the Senate

Reports: Obama’s Afghanistan Dilemma

Reports: A Question of Health—and Equality

Reports: Making Tragedy Out of Farce

Reports: The Public Option Only Looks Dead

Ear to the Ground: Senate Panel Votes Down Abortion Amendment in Baucus Bill

A/V Booth: A Brave New Baucus Bill Primer

Reports: Massachusetts Looks for Life After Teddy

Ear to the Ground: House Votes to Pay Nation’s Bills, Tosses In a Bit for Itself

Reports: Let Blue Dogs Face the Music

Ear to the Ground: Is Byrd’s Health a Factor for Health Reform?

Ear to the Ground: Kennedy’s Seat Is Temporarily Filled

Reports: Health Reform Money Is Aimed at Red States

Reports: A Clunker, Not a Cadillac

Ear to the Ground: Newspaper Bailout? Maybe, but Don’t Hold Your Breath

Reports: Talk of Bipartisanship Is Now Thoroughly Warped

Ear to the Ground: Did Somebody Spike Sen. Grassley’s Ovaltine?

Ear to the Ground: Massachusetts Close to Replacing Kennedy With a Temp

Reports: Testing the Obama Effect

Ear to the Ground: Baucus Bill Lands With a Whimper

Reports: Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s White House Is Woman and Girl Crazy—in a Good Way

Ear to the Ground: Insurance Stocks Rise After Obama Speech

Reports: Full Text of the President’s Speech to Congress

Reports: The United States of Plutocracy

Reports: Stuck in the Middle

Ear to the Ground: Does Max Baucus Represent Montana or Blue Cross?

Ear to the Ground: Mass. AG Throws In for Kennedy’s Senate Seat

Reports: Don’t Be Fooled by the Public Option

Reports: Health Care’s Senior Moments

Ear to the Ground: Red Sox’s Schilling Pitches for Kennedy’s Seat

Ear to the Ground: ‘Death With Dignity’ for the Public Option?

Reports: New Light on Copenhagen Climate Talks

Ear to the Ground: 3 Reasons Eliot Spitzer Should Run Again

Reports: How Obama Can Win on Health Care

Cartoons: I’m Your Puppet

Reports: President Obama: Eulogy for a Lion

Cartoons: Senate Lion

Cartoons: Kennedy’s Shadow

Reports: The Eternal Prince

Ear to the Ground: Rumble Brews Over Kennedy’s Replacement

Reports: His Own Man

Reports: The Eternal Flame

Reports: Ted Kennedy’s Humanity

A/V Booth: Ted Kennedy in Pictures

Reports: Waxman Gears Up for Health Care Showdown

Reports: Who Is Obama Playing Ball With?

Reports: Status Quo Is Not an Option

Reports: This Isn’t Reform, It’s Robbery

Reports: Progressives Are the Key to Reform

Reports: Missing: Democrats’ Passion

Reports: You Can’t Blame Obama for American Stubbornness

Ear to the Ground: ‘Nothing Has Changed’ for Public Option

Reports: Phantom of the Health Care Soap Opera

Reports: Playing Defense Isn’t Working

Reports: Pulling the Plug on the Public Option

Ear to the Ground: Obama Feels Liberal Backlash on Public Option

Reports: 10 Awesome Reasons to Pass Health Reform

Ear to the Ground: Team Obama Ready to Surrender Public Option?

Reports: The Real Death Panels

Ear to the Ground: House Grounds Fancy Plane Plan

Ear to the Ground: Another One Bites the Dust

Reports: Playing Politics With a Ghost

A/V Booth: Small Business Owner vs. Conservative Democrat

Ear to the Ground: Sotomayor Makes the Senate Cut

Ear to the Ground: Hold On to Your Clunkers, the Cash Is Coming

Ear to the Ground: If a Republican Votes Against Sotomayor, Does it Make a Sound?

Reports: So Much for the Promised Land

Reports: Can Republicans Escape Their Extremists?

Reports: The Electricity in Your Garbage

Reports: Health Care Tyranny by 13 Obstructionists

Reports: A Time, Again, for Bill Clinton

Reports: The Marvel That Is Medicare

Reports: Less Than Perfect Health Care Reform

Ear to the Ground: Public Option Headed for Senate Death

Reports: Obama’s Military Is Spying on U.S. Peace Groups

Reports: Let NRA-Loving Senators Practice What They Preach

Ear to the Ground: How the Democrats Sucker-Punched Labor

Reports: Health Plan: Ask ‘What,’ Not ‘When’

Ear to the Ground: Obama Pushes Health Care in the Face of Delays

Reports: Take Politics Out of Health Care Reform

Ear to the Ground: Senate Votes Down Military Boondoggle

Reports: Obama’s Aces in the Hole

Ear to the Ground: Democrats Gut Union Bill

Cartoons: Confirm This

Reports: Stains From the Bush Era Won’t Fade

Reports: Sotomayor Enters the D.C. Twilight Zone

Reports: Pelosi’s Toothless ‘Commission’

Reports: Obama’s Court Votes May Return to Haunt Him

Reports: Health Insurance Whistle-Blower Knows Where the Bodies Are Buried

Ear to the Ground: Confirmation Remarks Worth Revisiting

Cartoons: Confirmation Hearings

Reports: Closet Racism in the Age of Obama

Ear to the Ground: Obama Picks ‘Country Doctor’ as Surgeon General

Ear to the Ground: Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings Under Way

Reports: Sotomayor’s Critics Are the Real Radicals

Ear to the Ground: So Long, Roland Burris?

Reports: Party of Franken, Party of Palin

Ear to the Ground: Progressives Flex Health Care Muscle

Ear to the Ground: Public Option in Critical Condition

Reports: Obama’s Long, Hard Summer

Ear to the Ground: Poll: U.S. Voters Split on Franken’s Win

Ear to the Ground: Senate Reworks Health Care Proposal

Ear to the Ground: Dems Make Franken a Player

Reports: Obama and the Stone Tablets

Reports: The Sickening Influence of Campaign Contributions

Ear to the Ground: Public Option or Bust

Reports: Free Speech vs. Surveillance in the Digital Age

Ear to the Ground: Health Care Fail

Ear to the Ground: Deficit Could Be Obama’s Achilles’ Heel

Reports: The Bipartisanship of Fools

Reports: Why Patch-and-Fill Won’t Do

Reports: The Identity Dance

Reports: Outrage—and Business as Usual

Reports: Whither the Sacred Campaign Promise?

Reports: Health Care Reform’s Pulse Is Fading

Reports: America’s Changing Moral Universe

Reports: Hung Up on Race

Reports: Packing Heat in the Parks

Ear to the Ground: Top GOP Senator Threatens High Court Filibuster

Reports: Obama Can’t Duck the Tough Ones

Arts and Culture: One Step Closer to Harvey Milk Day

Reports: Will Republicans Back an Obama Hugger?

Ear to the Ground: Mo’ Money, Mo’ War

Reports: With Their Magic Bullet, Dems Have No More Excuses

Cartoons: Breakup

Ear to the Ground: Blind People Aren’t Crazy About Your Prius

Reports: Disclosure of ‘Secrets’ in the ’70s Didn’t Destroy the Nation

Reports: Sen. Arlen Specter on Switching

Ear to the Ground: Sebelius at Last

Reports: Specter Comes Full Circle

Ear to the Ground: Senate Shake-Up: Specter Goes Blue

Ear to the Ground: Committee OKs Sebelius Over Republican Objections

Reports: Bybee Must Go

Ear to the Ground: There’s No Place Like Home, Unless You’re Chris Dodd

Ear to the Ground: Norm Coleman Is the Energizer Bunny of Losers

Reports: Getting to Zero Starts With One Man

Reports: Pelosi’s Balancing Act

Reports: It’s Now a ‘Soft War’ in Afghanistan, but It’s Still a Disaster

Reports: Health Care Reform at Last

Ear to the Ground: Senate Gives Budget Plan the Go-Ahead

Ear to the Ground: House Passes Mega-Budget ’09

Ear to the Ground: Big Tobacco Targeted by Bigger Government

Ear to the Ground: Dodd Takes a Hit for AIG Bonus Blunder

Reports: Close These Refuges for Scoundrels

Ear to the Ground: Justice Dept. Wants Stevens Conviction, Charges Dropped

Ear to the Ground: Another Nominee in Tax Trouble

Reports: Where’s the Outrage Over Workers Getting the Shaft?

Ear to the Ground: EU President Calls Obama Policies ‘the Road to Hell’

Ear to the Ground: Pro-Union Bill in Trouble

Reports: Kill AIG Bonuses With a Tax? It’s a Lousy Idea

Reports: The Geithner Problem

Reports: The Geezer Gang Is Staying on the Job

Reports: It’s Time to Put the Clamps on Tobacco

Reports: Put Single-Payer on the Table

Reports: Pelosi Has Reason to Smile

Ear to the Ground: Bernie Sanders Wants Answers, Writes Legislation to Get Them

Reports: Bill Redux?

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