Okay, then. Now Harry Reid has to hold up his end of the bargain. I anticipate many phone calls to come.

The very angry, very orange face of the opposition.

The final vote count, including the cash donations from the insurance industry.

What one conservative is thinkingThanks for not de-friending me over these posts. I mean, you still might, ( Read more... )

Stupak's an ass, but he's in. (But he's still bitching about all the telephone calls he got from us bitchy bitchy citizens.)

Here's the text of the executive order. It basically just says "Yeah, the Hyde Amendment is a Thing, so...there's that."

Let's do this.

I lied! Quote from Digby.
Update: I'm wrong about this. If the house passes the bill, it will become the law of the land (unless the president vetoed it, which won't happen.) If reconciliation fails, as remains possible, then the House will just have been screwed and all the careful negotiations of the past few days will have been for naught. ( Read more... )

The Countdown to Reform Wire from TPM is the fastest updating site, as far as I can tell.

Daily Kos is a close second with more on a potential executive order deal with Stupak. (In a perfect world, we'd be able to do this without Bart and his selectively anti-choice stance.)

The AP breaks down the bill. The link goes to HuffPo, but the article ( Read more... )

Four ballsy senators wrote a letter regarding the public option to Harry Reid: Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO), co-signed by Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH).

( The Bennet Letter )

Poll i'm a stranger in this townSorry, no comments...I'm on the road.

Read the Harvard study abstract HERE and get the full pdf from Congressman Grayson's website HERE. It's the top link, middle column.

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( first controversial speech under the cut )