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Town Hall Throwdown

by murphy on August 3, 2009

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The Congressional August recess is upon us. For the next three weeks representatives and senators will be spending time in their home districts, attending barbeques and clambakes, hosting office hours, and presiding at Town Hall meetings. There’ve been plenty of news stories lately about the jittery anxiety the congressmen feel about facing constituents who may [...]

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Stop HR 3200

by murphy on July 31, 2009

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From the Black Agenda Report, via the always excellent Violet Sox: Top Ten Ways To Tell that Obama is NOT Fighting For Health Care For Everybody by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon 1. Their plan doesn’t cover the uninsured until 2013. 2013 isn’t “day one.” It’s not even after the midterm election. It’s clear after [...]

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Blue Dogs Down

by murphy on July 29, 2009

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The Blue Dog democrats in Congress have struck a deal to allow HR 3200 to advance in the House: “WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) – Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives have reached a deal with a group of fiscal conservatives in their own party on how to move forward with healthcare legislation, a [...]

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HR 3200. Good Plan or Rubbish?

by murphy on July 23, 2009

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I’ve been reading commentary all day about Obama Care and I have no IDEA what to think. Right-wing types are convinced (or are trying to convince us?) the bill would kill private insurance companies. On the other hand, several liberal bloggers are saying the bill will do NOTHING to help the middle class and the [...]

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Sotomayor and Cap and Trade

by murphy on July 14, 2009

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Several things happening at once today. Watch the Sotomayor confirmation hearings live HERE or HERE. I’ll be blogging it as much as I can. I forgot to post yesterday an important decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals which is germane to reproductive choice: “Pharmacists are obliged to dispense the Plan B pill, even [...]

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Another Edition Of . . .

by murphy on July 12, 2009

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Women who smoke! Via the ever-awesome Uppity Woman. (h/t dances). Zee also pointed out a couple great reads at Tennessee Guerilla Women. She covers Clinton, Palin, AND Sotomayor. awesome. She also points us to THIS diary at DailyKos where the author takes the Kossacks to task for their Swamp Misogyny assaults. The diary is good, [...]

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The Nineteen

by murphy on July 9, 2009

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You may not have known this, but there are currently NINETEEN WOMEN CONGRESSIONAL REPS who co-sponsored a bill to honor Arnold Palmer, the golf legend, for being very good at golf (and, for apparently being a very nice guy. Wow, huh?). These same NINETEEN WOMEN — women who not only wouldn’t have been allowed to [...]

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Bloggers Gone Bad

by murphy on June 30, 2009

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Seems like a trending topic today. Hal Turner, right-wing blogger and internet radio host, was arrested for inciting violence against three judges by publishing their personal information on his blog and writing they “deserve to be killed.” Holy smokes. Some may have debated whether jackasses like Bill O’Reilly and Ralph Reed were partially responsible for [...]

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Television is Truly Irrelevant,

by murphy on June 29, 2009

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As theamericanway said in comments. You might as well turn it off and get ALL your news from the internet. Seriously. Pretend it broke or something. Break it yourself so you won’t be tempted. Most of us have a TV addiction, that is, we turn it on out of HABIT, not because we expect to [...]

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NOW Is THEN?

by murphy on June 19, 2009

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I love Rancho’s slogan, “NOW Is THEN, and PUMA Is NOW!” Her comment: “NOW is meeting this weekend: http://www.now.org/organization/conference/2009/Note the agenda . . . Start the day with Yoga!, then Saturday night vote for a a new president (7:00-9:00). Kim Gandy is stepping down. I still think Greta should do a special on feminism. The [...]

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