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About a year from now or so, the House, with the help of Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes, is going to pass far-reaching legislation on, say, health coverage that was worked out in tandem with the Obama Administration. Its passage will mean the difference between someone uninsured in your community getting a diagnosis that is a tantamount to a death sentence, and one that is not.
The Senate will have its say too, tweaking here and there, and in general being the leavening agent it is meant to be. Senator Shaheen will be a proud vote in that direction. National polls will show wide approval. And, as predictably as the sun rising in the east, the Republicans, eager to make a name for their tattered party, will mount a filibuster, and bully enough people to go along with it so that it just might get blocked from cloture.
But then... Rahm will make a few clarifying phone calls. The White House communications team will swing into action. And then millions upon millions of emails will be sent out explaining to the millions and millions of Americans who worked their hearts out for change that some guy nicknamed Monkey Wrench Gregg is one of the Roadblock Republicans keeping America from its future. And providing them with his office number and fax.
It's a new day.
(Note: apparently it's not a new day for will.i.am, who doesn't get New Media and just disabled the embeds for his new song.)
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