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What must it be like (4.00 / 1)

for DiStaso to carry the UL's right-wing water all the time?

TUESDAY EVENING UPDATE: THE PROCEDURAL DANCE. They call the NCAA men's basketball tournament the "Big Dance."

But what about the "Big Procedural Dance" on health a care reform on Capitol Hill?.

Meanwhile:

Norm Ornstein: "Any veteran observer of Congress is used to the rampant hypocrisy over the use of parliamentary procedures that shifts totally from one side to the other as a majority moves to minority status, and vice versa. But I can't recall a level of feigned indignation nearly as great as what we are seeing now from congressional Republicans and their acolytes at the Wall Street Journal, and on blogs, talk radio, and cable news. It reached a ridiculous level of misinformation and disinformation over the use of reconciliation, and now threatens to top that level over the projected use of a self-executing rule by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi."

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by: Dean Barker @ Tue Mar 16, 2010 at 20:23:40 PM CDT

Norm Orstein works for the American Enterprise Institute... (0.00 / 0)

... one of the more lavishly funded of the right wing propoganda mills. I can't imagine his bosses will be very happy to see him going off-message with these comments.

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by: Michael Marsh @ Tue Mar 16, 2010 at 21:19:54 PM CDT

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He seems to have tenure there - (0.00 / 0)

He has been an independent voice working in the AEI for decades.

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by: elwood @ Tue Mar 16, 2010 at 21:24:57 PM CDT

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Ornstein's final comment; (0.00 / 0)

"But even so - is there no shame anymore?"  

In reference to the hand wringing on the Republican side.  I take all of this as really good signs that this is moving forward and the Republicans are in disarray, thinking at one point that they had killed this thing.  

There are those on the other side who are calling for open disobedience if the bill passes.  With the history of opposition to this, and other, communist bills, it would be prudent to keep your head on a swivel at all public gatherings.  While it's true that my kids refer to me as "Mr. Safety", I would counter that there's no lack of crazies out there and paying attention is a survival skill.

I'll be in Arizona if/when this bill gets signed by the Prez...I was also at game 7 in 2004 at Yankee Stadium when the Sox came back from 0 - 3 to win that series.  I think I was safer at Yankee Stadium.

"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world." A. Einstein

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by: StraffordDem @ Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 04:19:29 AM CDT

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Turning Tides, GOP Fail (0.00 / 0)

 

I take all of this as really good signs that this is moving forward and the Republicans are in disarray, thinking at one point that they had killed this thing.  

If & when HCR passes, can we not start asking, loudly, how is it that the GOP could not "drive the stake?" How pitiful is the real organizational strength of the GOP? Sure, they used the teabaggers, like so much cannon fodder, to close the breech. But they couldn't get a handle on the "coup-de-grace."

Will it be enough for them to say that Dems have control over the Congress and the Whte House?

I'd like to start using the poll data that GOPers are fond of, showing how Americans hate the process and the general negativity that abounds. I'd like to ask the GOP, "How did you fail to stop this?"

www.KusterforCongress.com - www.paulhodesforsenate.com
www.nikitsongas.com - www.devalpatrick.com

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 07:13:34 AM CDT

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