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<br />From Huffington Post. ...

  During the mark-up session today of the health care reform bill before the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) proposed an amendment which would delay a vote for 72 hours. Undoubtedly just another Republican stall tactic, but done under the guise of allowing time for the contents of the bill to be posted on the Finance Committee's website. The amendment was defeated, but before the vote Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) had a...

The neo-conservative, interventionist wing of the Republican Party, who never saw a war they didn't like and couldn't wait to escalate, are all up in arms (so to speak) over this:"President Obama is exploring alternatives to a major troop increase in Afghanistan, including a plan advocated by Vice President Joe Biden to scale back American forces and focus more on rooting out Al Qaeda there and in Pakistan, officials said Tuesday.The options under review are...

The best laid plans of mice and Republicans oft go awry. "The congressional legislation intended to defund ACORN, passed with broad bipartisan support, is written so broadly that it applies to "any organization" that has been charged with breaking federal or state election laws, lobbying disclosure laws, campaign finance laws or filing fraudulent paperwork with any federal or state agency. It also applies to any of the employees, contractors or other folks affiliated with a...

Republicans: You spent my generation's tax dollars, and left destruction behind. We are now paying, using the next generation's future tax dollars, for your mess, and mistakes. Stop telling us we're socialists. We're problem solvers. The problems we're solving? Created by you. We'd love to stop spending the next generation's tax dollars - but we can't pay the debts left by you and fix your mess and run a nation and fight two wars...

As if any further proof were necessary that Republicans have no real interest in health care reform, take a look at some of the frivolous amendments proposed to the Baucus Bill in the Senate Finance Committee: * Kyl 371---Prohibit the federal government's takeover of health care.* Ensign 409---Transparency in czars.* Hatch 511---Prohibits authorized or appropriated federal funds under the Mark from  being distributed to or used by ACORN.* Ensign 543---Strike the word "fee" everywhere it...

From Breitbart: "Former US vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin is expected to speak about US foreign policy and China in her first keynote speech outside North America, Hong Kong organisers said on Monday.  "We have asked her to address US foreign policy, to discuss her views on governance, healthcare, and of course, China," Jonathan Slone, chief executive officer of the Asia-focused brokerage, said in an interview with AFP." Let's hope somebody told the former governor that this is not...

As many of you know, I am a cradle Catholic and a volunteer with my parish. Those two facts alone make many of the people there believe that I am actually a conservative. It's actually kind of humorous, a few of us there are underground liberals. There has been talk of developing a signal where one of us draws half a donkey and the other one finishes it. It's a lonely world we live in,...

Following the release of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's assessment of the situation in Afghanistan, President Obama faces some tough questions and some even tougher decisions, decisions that have the very real potential to have more of an affect on his presidency than the fate of health care reform. Think about it; health care reform, if passed, will not take effect until after the 2012 election. But if we're still in Afghanistan, with no end in sight,...

Bill Moyers does it again, exposing another member of the Republican Party's 'Throwing Stones From Inside the Glass House' brigade, Dick Armey, for the fraud and hypocrite that he is. On the latest edition of his Journal, Mr. Moyers started with a re-cap of last weekend's protest in Washington, D.C. and then launched into Armey:"For most of his adult life their leader has benefited from just the kind of government, tax-supported health care he's fighting...