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• Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) is a "yes" -- will vote to bring the health care bill to the floor.
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• Insurance tells woman her life not in danger, abortion not needed...billed $9,000.
• Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ): Undocumented Immigrants Should Be Able to Buy Insurance Through Exchange
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• Utah Senator Chris Buttars Doesn't Want The Gays Stuffing It Down His Throat All The Time
• Maggie Mahar, Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much
• Episodes in both houses of Congress exposed the raw nerves of lawmakers flooded with stories of unemployment and economic hardship back home. They also underscored the stiff headwinds that the administration faces as it pushes to enact sweeping changes to the financial regulatory system while also trying to create jobs for ordinary Americans.
• Douglas Valentine: Learning the Wrong Vietnam Lessons
• Clinton Seen as Obama's Key Link to Afghan Leader
• A bloc of African American House Democrats, angry and worried that not enough is being done about high unemployment by the administration, forced the postponement of a much-anticipated vote Thursday on comprehensive financial regulation reform.
• New Right-Wing Craze Prays That Obama's 'Days Be Few'
• How Limousine Liberals, Water Oligarchs and Even Sean Hannity Are Hijacking Our Water Supply
• Eliot Spitzer: Obama Economic Policies Ineffective, A Continuation Of Bush
• Tomgram: 'This Administration Ended, Rather Than Extended, Two Wars'
• Plain Talk: Restore Law and Split Up The Banks! Restore Glass-Steagall: by Dave Zweifel
• Venezuela blows up two bridges along Colombia border
• Ron Reagan Slams Rep. John Shadegg For Bloomberg Taunt
• Judge: Corps' negligence caused Katrina flooding
• Ezra Klein: What happens before 2014
• Worst than the 1930s: Mortgage Delinquencies Reach Record High
• CREW Files FEC Complaint Over Landrieu's $23,500 'Donation' To The U.S. Treasury
• Paul Krugman: The Big Squander "here's the real tragedy of the botched bailout: Government officials, perhaps influenced by spending too much time with bankers, forgot that if you want to govern effectively you have retain the trust of the people. And by treating the financial industry — which got us into this mess in the first place — with kid gloves, they have squandered that trust."
• BuzzFlash Mailbag for November 20, 2009
• Copenhagen: 'We need a legally binding treaty'
• Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for November 20, 2009
• Jim Hightower: Obscenely Rich Bankers Claim to Do God's Work -- They Can Go to Hell
• Racist Obama Billboards: Colorado Ad Links President With Jihadists
• Max Blumenthal: The Palin Effect
• Peter DeFazio, Dem Rep.: It's 'Pretty Embarrassing' That Dems Now Identified With Wall Street
• CIA Secret 'Torture' Prison Found at Fancy Horseback Riding Academy
• John Shadegg Uses Kidnapping to Scare Us, Yet He 'Kidnapped' Baby for Prop to Win the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week Award Rep. Shadegg kept bringing up kidnapping as a threat against those involved in trying terrorism suspects? Why is Rep. Shadegg so intrigued about kidnapping? Perhaps because Rep. Shadegg knows a thing or two about kidnapping. After all, Shadegg was the representative who kidnapped, er, "borrowed" Maddie, daughter of his chief of staff, to use as a prop to argue against health care reform.
• William Greider: The Money Man's Best Friend
• Hasan's Supervisor Warned Army In 2007
• War in Afghanistan: Not in our name
• Congressional Democrats could be careening toward a head-on collision with the White House over $200 billion in leftover bailout money — money that Republicans think should simply be returned to taxpayers.
• NYT, WSJ try to go regional
• Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid worked Thursday to nail down the votes needed to move to a final debate on health-care legislation, but a tepid assessment of the public insurance plan he crafted emerged as the latest potential obstacle to the passage of the far-reaching changes.
• Political Theater of the Absurd -- Ms. Smith Goes to Washington
• Gov. Rick Perry rejects clemency in death penalty case
• What hedge fund whiz John Paulson sees in Liberty Media: DirecTV
• Fox News' year in apologies: fake videos, false info, cutting and pasting from GOP
• D.C. quietly folds up police checkpoint program
• Ethics panel admonishes Roland Burris over Senate appointment
• Hispanic lawmakers say an old adversary, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, has his fingerprints all over a push to prohibit illegal immigrants from buying health insurance plans in a new market for people who don’t get insurance through their employers.
• Maria Allwine: Waiting to Die in the Good Ole USA, An Angry Worker's Call to Action -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary
• As pensions dried up, four firms paid top execs $49.5M
• What are they smoking? Poll: Majority of Republicans Believe ACORN Stole the Presidential Election
• New guidelines for cervical cancer screening say women should delay their first Pap test until age 21, and be screened less often than recommended in the past.
• MS Gov. Haley Barbour refuses to say Palin's qualified to be president, pauses and stumbles when questioned about it.
• Rage at UC fee hike in L.A., Berkeley protests
• R. Crumb's Illustrated "Book of Genesis" Has Been a Huge Seller on BuzzFlash, And It's Caught the Attention and Effusive Praise of Thom Hartmann in His Monthly Book Review Exclusively for BuzzFlash -- Thom Hartmann's Independent Thinker Review
• Hutchison, Perry Air TV Ads In Texas
• After emerging out of nowhere over the summer as a seemingly potent and growing political force, the tea party movement has become embroiled in internal feuding over philosophy, strategy and money and is at risk of losing its momentum. The grass-roots activists driving the movement have become increasingly divided on such core questions as whether to focus their efforts on shaping policy debates or elections, work on a local, regional, state or national level or closely align themselves with the Republican Party, POLITICO found in interviews with tea party organizers in Washington and across the country.
• Sen. Joe Lieberman's threat to filibuster any health care bill with a public option could kill his chances of re-election in 2012.
• The Health Care Elephants in the Living Room
• Oprah's future: Cable
• Palestinians accuse Israel settlements of diverting water
• NYT editorial: A Gift to Credit Card Companies
• Attytood: The 26% Solution -- A look at how 26 percent of America became the tail wagging the dog
• Armed With Many Weapons, We Are Killing Our Oceans
• FOX (Again) Uses Old Footage To Beef Up Republican Crowds; This Time, For Palin -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser
• The dictatorship of the independent proletariat P.M. Carpenter Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on Friday, November 20. But Congressional Democrats are a whole different story, and 2010 is a whole different year. And, reports the Politico, "a flurry of new polls makes clear that Democrats are facing deeper problems with independents" than they originally acknowledged. "Mounting evidence that independent voters have soured on the Democrats is prompting a debate among party officials about what rhetorical and substantive changes are needed to halt the damage."
• "The Democratic-led US Senate, having smashed through a Republican wall of opposition, confirmed on Thursday US President Barack Obama's first and longest-stalled judicial nominee."
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• Back to Our Future Ann Davidow Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on Friday, November 20. Have our leaders let us down or have we failed to demand enough of them and provide vigorous support for them? Between the vitriolic outbursts of teabaggers and the political realities of trying to accomplish something in an excessively partisan environment a wall of resistance has grown up that has slowed movement to a crawl. For some that is the goal, for others it is the ultimate defeat.
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• Palestinian leaders are warning Israel that its approval of 900 new housing units in a disputed area of Jerusalem may kill the peace process. The warning came after the United States condemned the Israeli decision. The Palestinians want Washington to toughen its approach on Israel.
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gives $335 million to raise teacher effectiveness
• Suicide bomber kills 16 in western Afghanistan
• Regents Raise College Tuition in California by 32 Percent
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• Just FYI, Oprah Winfrey's production company says she'll announce Friday that her show will end in 2011.
• WTF? U.S. Army plans to prevent media from covering Sarah Palin's appearance at Fort Bragg
• Reid uncertain of tally as healthcare bill heads for rare Saturday vote

• FOX Fraught with Fraud Again: Covering Palin, They Claim Current Footage, Air Some from Last Year -- BuzzFlash News Alert
• Army Suicides Hit Another Record
• Sarah Palin on Hannity: Just a regular transmission from Outer Wingnuttia
• Rudy Giuliani to run for U.S. Senate against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in 2010
• Conyers Rips Obama, Emanuel For 'Bowing Down' To GOP On Health Care
• Fox "News" lets another "accidental" video on the air, this time involving Sarah Palin
• Creditors' claims against Lehman could reach $1 trillion, CEO says
• Bill Press: The Catholic Church's veto power
• Obama Must Toss the Bums in Treasury Out, End the Wars, and Start Being a Leader -- Dave Lindorff
• U.S. jobless claims remain flat at 505,000
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• GOP operative who made racist Obama joke arrested for 'dirty campaign tricks'
• House Financial Services Committee OKs powers to break up large firms
• Bay Area not maverick enough to read Palin book
• As lawmakers on Capitol Hill inch closer toward overhauling the nation's fractured financial regulatory system, each hour of debate, each tweak of legal language, each tedious roll call carries the potential to generate colossal changes in the relationship between Washington and Wall Street.
• House Dem: 'Growing' liberal consensus to dump Geithner
• Bill O'Reilly Doesn't Care About the Constitution, Only Cares About Winning BuzzFlash's Media Putz Award. "Just because the Constitution isn't sitting in the studio with you, Bill, doesn't mean it's not relevant. Of course, this could be in the same GOP spirit of House Minority Leader John Boehner, who claimed he had the Constitution in his hands and was reading from it at Michele Bachmann's Super Bowl of Paranoia. Then again, Boehner said he was quoting the Constitution but it was really was the Declaration of Independence. Oops."
• Obama’s Home And The Report Is Out: China Takes Us To School
• Former WH Press Secretary Dana Perino Nominated By Obama To Broadcasting Board Of Governors
• Dan Froomkin: Obama's Afghan Dilemma, The Only Real Exit Strategy Is Political Suicide
• GOP Gala Dinner Off the Menu This Year
• Hunger Summit's Failure Exposes Grim Reality
• Oil: enough energy to melt glaciers!
• Nikolas Kozloff: Blackout in Brazil, Hydropower and Our Climate Conundrum -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary
• New Polls Show Public Demands a Public Option, and More Health Care News
• Obama suggests 9/11 suspect will get death penalty
• GOP Blocks Freeze On Credit Card Interest Rate Hikes
• E.J. Dionne Jr.: The GOP's no-exit strategy
• Tinley Park (IL) woman charged with hate crime for tugging on woman's head scarf
• Right-Wing NH Talk-Radio Host Loses Show, Column Over Blatantly Anti-Gay Slur
• The Africa Connection to the Attack on the Mainline Churches
• Goldman Sachs Admits to Playing a Big Part in the Financial Meltdown, Says It Will Provide $500 Million for Business Education and Small Biz
• Palin’s book spreads falsehoods about clean energy legislation
• 2 Leading House Dems Will Close $50 Trillion Loophole In Derivatives Reform Bills
• Bernanke Blames the Banks, Trumka Calls His Bluff
• Gin and Tacos: Going Rogue
• Another fee is coming in the new year for airline and hotel customers -- this time from your credit card company. The message: Pay your bill on time or forfeit the miles or points you thought you earned for making purchases on your card during that month. To get the rewards back, it's going to cost you.
• Prevaricating Pastors: Mendacious Ministers Prove It's Still Legal To Be Bigots
• There is indeed such a thing as 'a stupid question.' P.M. Carpenter Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on Thursday, November 19. What's more, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and an "assortment of national business groups" are just now locking and loading on the deeper politics of this thing, attacking current health-care legislation "as a job killer and threat to the nation's economy," continued the Post in another story this week. That's pure, unrighteous bunk, you say? Well of course it is. But what's your point? It works.
• Tales From A Homeless Shelter
• Freshman Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) has lined up behind state Sen. Tarryl Clark, D, in the Democratic primary to take on Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann.
• The Tijuana of the Caspian
• Rising CO2 could cause catastrophic sea level rise
• Holidays are coming up? SC offering shoppers tax-free weekend on guns
• TARP Recipients Falling Behind On Payments -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser
• Sebelius stands up for mammograms; HHS Task Force Mammogram Recs Slammed
• Roadside bomb kills 2 U.S. service members in southern Afghanistan
• Following the political deadlock between the Israelis and Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has decided to take the matter directly to the U.N. Security Council.
• Watch What You Eat: New Report Proves that Genetically Modified Crops Increase Pesticide Use and Resistant Weeds -- Green Is Good
• Karzai Vows Strides in Security, Corruption Fight
• Senate Health Care Bill according to CBO: $849 Billion and Reduces Deficit by $127 Billion
• U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundry
• The anti-sweatshop movement got its biggest victory so far. Its pressure tactics persuaded one of the nation's leading sportswear companies, Russell Athletic, to agree to rehire 1,200 workers in Honduras who lost their jobs when Russell closed their factory soon after the workers had unionized.
• Push in Congress to curb credit-card rates fades; Push outside of Congress should be strong
• Citigroup increases executive salaries; And they haven't earned us giving them more money.
• Robert Borosage: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs -- Finally
• I Won't Be Back?? California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger won't run for another political office.
• AP Poll: Public favors gov't health plan
• Crimes Against Humanity, Crimes Against Nature: Ideas on How to Spend the $300 Million for the Bush __residential Library
• Hannity Hardly Hides His Conservative Agenda. Will FOX Concede Its Conservative Slant, Too? -- BuzzFlash News Alert
• They better come through: Jobless Benefits Set to Expire Unless Congress Acts
• Morning Joe, Piping Hot a Year Ago, Steadily Loses Steam
• David Corn: National Archives Conducting Tests To Solve Mystery of 18 1/2-Minute Watergate Gap
• Judge Halts Texas Execution With Hours To Spare
• David Swanson: Why Can't We Do to DC What We Did to Seattle?
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• Police Officer Uses Taser On 10-Year-Old Girl
• "Reid Outlines Bill For Caucus, Warns Conservative Dems That Reconciliation Is Still An Option"
• Reid to unveil health care bill, woos moderates
• HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius: No change on mammogram policy
• 'Tenther' Oklahoma Lawmaker Considering Bill To Opt Out Of Hate Crimes Act
• Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is jumping from one law firm, Alston & Bird, to a bigger one with global reach, DLA Piper, to play a larger role in international issues.
• Rove, Cheney, Gingrich and Kristol Fail To Rally 9/11 Trial Foes
• The drug industry has been ramping up its prices in advance of any health care reforms that might clamp down on its profits. The industry’s rapid price escalation over the past year threatens to make a mockery of its deal with the Senate Finance Committee and the Obama administration to contribute $80 billion over the next decade to help pay for covering tens of millions of uninsured Americans.
• House Democratic Leaders Want to Pass Jobs Bill by Year’s End
• Bill Berkowitz: '2012' -- Religious Right Leader Excoriates His Own for Aiding and Abetting 'End Of Times' Hype and Hysteria -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary
• The Tea Party's Favorite Doctors
• Palinoscopy -- Dr. J.'s Commentary
• EPI Explores Solutions to Job Hemorrhage
• Jane Hamsher Pushes Democratic Politicians to Fight for Progressive Values to Win this week's BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award While many on the progressive front are trying to get something accomplished for President Obama, Jane Hamsher is fighting from the left to let the politicians know who brought them there in the first place.
• Republicans Have Predictable Hissy Fit About President's Bow -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser
• Important BuzzFlash Read: MSNBC News Junkies Beware: Comcast's Likely Acquisition of NBC May Threaten Your Access to Independent Media -- BuzzFlash News Analysis
• Harry Reid: Speak Wobbly and Carry No Stick -- BuzzFlash Editor's Blog
• Michael Winship: In a Chilly London November, War and Remembrance -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary
• The Politics of the Crayon: How a Coloring Book Might Be the Best Medium to Tell the Story of Sarah Palin -- BuzzFlash Interview
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• Nikolas Kozloff: Holding the Global North Responsible for Climate Change -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary
• Cheney's Daughter Suggests Dad Should Run In 2012 -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser
• Fox Despises Communism, but Mao's Money Talks: Murdoch and His Chinese Ties -- BuzzFlash News Alert
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