Next week, Congress will begin making the actual decisions about what reforms will make it into this year’s healthcare bill.
Our actions over the next few days and weeks will be critical in building the support we need to win.
Meanwhile, conservative groups have launched a new assault on inclusion of a public healthcare option like Medicare. [...]

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In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow (28 min.) given at the Feb. 2008 TED Conference, he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of “generational mission” — the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement [...]

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Just counting the zeroes on the $3 trillion price tag of the Iraq War is enough to induce hyperventilation. But what does $3 trillion really mean? It’s difficult even to comprehend a number that big. Well, try filling your shopping cart with what the cost of the Iraq War could buy: healthcare for every American? [...]

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As sticklers on proper framing of the Democratic message, you often hear DFAers correcting other Democratic party members if they repeat the republican frame when naming our party.  We are not the Democrat Party, we are the DEMOCRATIC PARTY!
From Crooks & Liars Post: McCain and the ‘ic’ factor

Poor John McCain isn’t especially good at grammar, [...]

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