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As economy worsens, a public health insurance back-up is sorely needed

By Monica Sanchez
January 7th, 2009

If they are not laying off employees, employers are cutting back on their health care benefits and shifting more costs to them. As ever-larger numbers of people lose their health and financial security, where will they turn? In these perilous times, having Medicare as a back-up is more important than ever to guarantee everyone access to good, affordable health care.

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Don’t fall for it

By Eric Lotke
January 7th, 2009

Don’t fall for it. The Republicans are attacking Barack Obama’s nomination of Eric Holder as Attorney General… It’s a strategic battle. If the conservatives win, it energizes the base for future battles. If the conservatives lose, they are driven farther into their corner. That’s why Karl Rove chose the battleground here, on fertile Clintonian soil… more »

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Fahrenheit 451

By Rick Perlstein
January 7th, 2009

Busy today with a non-CAF-related project, but wanted to call everyone's attention to an apparent conspiracy of breathtaking political sabotage. more »

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And the most unfortunate sentence of the decade award goes to...

By Rick Perlstein
January 7th, 2009

...Michael Scherer of Time magazine, on the novelty of a comedian entering the Senate:

Franken has spent his life as a sort of intellectual terrorist, a rebel in open war with the mores and power structures of America.

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The Price of Consensus: Obama and Congressional Republicans

By Robert Borosage
January 7th, 2009

Obama seems to be choosing a path that builds consensus at the potential cost of effectiveness. But if the plan fails, he'll take the blame no matter how many Republicans vote for it. And Republicans will attribute the failure to government spending, no matter how much of the plan consists of tax cuts. more »

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PalinPorn

By Rick Perlstein
January 6th, 2009

Google "slatternly innuendo." Go ahead. I'll wait. more »

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The Forgotten Math: Pre-WWII New Deal Saw Biggest Drop In Unemployment Rate in American History

By David Sirota
January 6th, 2009

On Christmas Eve, I appeared on Fox News to discuss the upcoming economic recovery package, only to be told that FDR's New Deal "prolonged the Great Depression" (you can watch the clip here). more »

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Frost/Nixon

By Rick Perlstein
January 6th, 2009

William Shakespeare's plays King John, Edward III (attributed), Richard II, Henry IV (Parts 1 and 2), Henry V, Henry VI (Parts 1, 2, and 3), Richard III, Henry VIII, and Sir Thomas More (attributed) are, all of them, dishonorable distorti more »

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Leon Panetta

By Rick Perlstein
January 5th, 2009

Folks have been praising the novelty of a director-designate of the CIA who has unequivocally denounced torture. Good to remember, too, how the name "Leon Panetta" first came to national prominence, in 1969, when he resigne from the Nixon administration in protest against the Southern Strategy. more »

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Minnesota Dreaming

By Rick Perlstein
January 5th, 2009

Digby's done great work on the Republican National Lawyers Association, basically an organized election-stealing conspiracy. Here's what they're up to in Minnesota: more »

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