Posts in January 2010

Twitter Weekly Updates for...

By ToPhOrN on January 31, 2010
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-31

News Update Twitter Updates for 2010-01-24 – #FF @1kecko @RobinGrantham @usnoozin @BrnEyeSuss @Marnus3 @jenruff @le… http://ow.ly/16pBAX # Check this out: Ed Schultz tells Gibbs: You're 'Full Of Shit' http://bit.ly/5657E0 #p2 # Geithner Warns That Markets Could Dive If Bernanke Is Not Reconfirmed http://bit.ly/5Zf4Lq Too big... [+]

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Democratic Déjà Vu

By ToPhOrN on January 31, 2010
Democratic Déjà Vu

Democratic differences are endangering Democratic control of Congress, while blame for the collapse of health-care reform has been laid at President Obama’s doorstep. Pundits charge that Obama ceded control of his agenda to a dysfunctional Congress, futilely attempted to negotiate a bipartisan agreement in the... [+]

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Twitter Updates for 2010-01-31

By ToPhOrN on January 31, 2010
Twitter Updates for 2010-01-31

Good afternoon everyone in #p2 land! Glad to know each and everyone of you here in progressive Twitterdom # RT @tweetmeme Populism: Just Like Racism! – Matt Taibbi – Taibblog – True/Slant http://tinyurl.com/ye2t6cy # News Update Wasserman-Schultz: Senators Lied About Supporting Public Option who did... [+]

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The commies made me do it! O'Keefe a...

By ToPhOrN on January 31, 2010
The commies made me do it! O’Keefe a student of Alinsky?

James O’Keefe III, the guerrilla videographer, advised conservative students this month that they needed to start taking more risks. “The more you put yourself out there and you take those calculated risks,” he told the Web site CampusReform.org, which works to foster conservative activism on... [+]

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How to Reform Our Financial System

By ToPhOrN on January 31, 2010
How to Reform Our Financial System

PRESIDENT OBAMA 10 days ago set out one important element in the needed structural reform of the financial system. No one can reasonably contest the need for such reform, in the United States and in other countries as well. We have after all a system... [+]

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How to Handle GOP Tantrums

By ToPhOrN on January 31, 2010
How to Handle GOP Tantrums

It’s bad enough being an American citizen and watching the GOP’s brick-wall naysaying to every Obama proposal. But the frustration is even worse if you are also, or once were, the parent of a 3-year-old. Watching the president bend to the stubborn Republican child during... [+]

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Obama visits Verizon Center for...

By ToPhOrN on January 31, 2010
Obama visits Verizon Center for College Basketball

From POLITICO President Obama visited the Verizon Center today to watch the Georgetown Hoyas thump the Duke Blue Devils, 88-77. POTUS sat just feet from the court in a cushioned folding chair, pool reports, just to the right of a line of shirtless students in... [+]

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Wasserman-Schultz: Senators Lied...

By ToPhOrN on January 30, 2010
Wasserman-Schultz: Senators Lied About Supporting Public Option – who did not know that?

Cenk Uygur had Debbie Wasserman-Schultz on the Young Turks yesterday. Now that only 50 votes are needed to pass a public option in the Senate, guess what?  They magically disappear: She was also pessimistic about the idea of including the public option in the new... [+]

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Pentagon Starts Clock On Lifting Gay...

By ToPhOrN on January 30, 2010
Pentagon Starts Clock On Lifting Gay Ban

The Defense Department starts the clock next week on what is expected to be a several-year process in lifting its ban on gays from serving openly in the military. A special investigation into how the ban can be repealed without hurting the morale or readiness... [+]

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Not So Fast, Chris Matthews

By ToPhOrN on January 30, 2010
Not So Fast, Chris Matthews

The second decade of the 21st century has ushered in changes in technology, economics, politics, culture and narratives of identification. From the advent of social media, to the Great Recession, to health care reform, to the revised racial categories on the U.S. census, American lives... [+]

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