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6:30 PM ET, December 21, 2009

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CNN:
CNN Poll: 6 point jump in support for health care bill  —  Washington (CNN) - Support for the health care reform bill that Democrats are pushing through the Senate has risen six points since early December, according to a new national poll, and although a majority of Americans still oppose its passage …
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
10 Reasons to Kill the Senate Bill  —  FDL has become the go-to place for coverage of the health care bill due to the work of our incredible team.  Jon Walker's second-to-none knowledge of the health care bill has made the policy and political analysis he offers up at FDL Action a driving force.
Kaiser Health News:
The Senate Bill Saves Families Money  —  Health care reform looks like it's finally ready to pass the Senate, now that the Democrats have 60 votes in hand.  But here on the left, not all of us are jumping for joy.  Some think the Senate bill is just barely better than nothing.
Ezra Klein:
Remembering Obama's campaign health-care plan  —  “Though the American left and right don't agree on much,” wrote Frank Rich over the weekend, “they are both now coalescing around the suspicion that Obama's brilliant presidential campaign was as hollow as Tiger's public image.”  —  It's hard to imagine why.
Igor / Wonk Room:
Reasons Not To Kill The Senate Bill
Discussion: Firedoglake
Paul Krugman:   Coverage and costs  —  The usual suspects are out in force …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
An ugly finale for health-care reform  —  Going into Monday morning's crucial Senate vote on health-care legislation, Republican chances for defeating the bill had come down to a last, macabre hope.  They needed one Democratic senator to die — or at least become incapacitated.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
A Dangerous Dysfunction  —  Unless some legislator pulls off a last-minute double-cross, health care reform will pass the Senate this week.  Count me among those who consider this an awesome achievement.  It's a seriously flawed bill, we'll spend years if not decades fixing it, but it's nonetheless a huge step forward.
Jillian Rayfield / TPM LiveWire:
Sen. Whitehouse: There Will Be A ‘Reckoning’ …
New York Times:
Health Bill Passes Key Test in the Senate
Tony Romm / The Hill:
Corker: GOP may shift healthcare strategy
Discussion: TPMDC and RedState
Kpicket / The washington times Blogs:
Sen. Whitehouse: foes of health care bill are birthers, right-wing militias, aryan groups  —  ****Updated with video link and more transcript  —  Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) today took shots at those who are not supporting the health care legislation.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Rasmussen: Dorgan trailing in ND re-election bid by 22 points
The Huffington Post:
Lieberman: Obama Never Pressed Me On Public Option  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) insists that the White House did not pressure him to get in line behind either a public health insurance option or a Medicare buy-in compromise during the health care debate this year.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Dean faults White House for death of the public insurance option
Ezra Klein:
The amazing disappearing bill  —  There's a lot of talk over whether the health-care bill should begin before 2014, and whether the long delay will give the GOP sufficient time to foment a backlash.  On the one hand, the bill should certainly begin before 2014.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh, TalkLeft and Tom Watson
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Chris Frates / The Politico:
Reid defends deals  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) offered a vigorous defense Monday of the deals in the Senate reform bill that benefit individual states, saying “it doesn't speak well” of senators who didn't secure such deals.  —  “There are 100 senators here and I don't know that there's …
Discussion: Moonbattery and protein wisdom
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Tony Romm / The Hill:   Reid fires back at charges that healthcare bill contains ‘sweetheart deals’
Naomi Klein / The Huffington Post:
For Obama, No Opportunity Too Big to Blow  —  Cross-posted with EnviroNation.  —  Contrary to countless reports, the debacle in Copenhagen was not everyone's fault.  It did not happen because human beings are incapable of agreeing, or are inherently self-destructive.
Drew Westen / The Huffington Post:
Leadership, Obama Style, and the Looming Losses in 2010: Pretty Speeches, Compromised Values, and the Quest for the Lowest Common Denominator  —  As the president's job performance numbers and ratings on his handling of virtually every domestic issue have fallen below 50 percent …
Ross Douthat:
Did The Republicans Blunder On Health Care?  —  Yes, say Jonathan Chait and David Frum, in pre-mortems for the G.O.P.'s efforts to derail the Democratic bill.  Chait argues that the Republicans could have sold moderate Democrats on a “vastly more limited” piece of legislation, if they'd been willing to compromise early in the process.
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Obama signs Franken's anti-rape amendment into law.  —  The White House Press Office sent out a statement today announcing that President Obama signed the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010 into law on Saturday: … Within the Appropriations Act is Sen. Al Franken's (D-MN) …
Capitol Confidential / Big Government:
Code TEA: Tea Parties, Go Home!  All Politics Is Local  —  TEA Parties nation-wide have found that calling, writing, and showing up in person in D.C. has the same impact as a hiccup in a hurricane.  After turning out thousands of citizens at rallies, overwhelming the Senate phone lines …
Discussion: Dr. Melissa Clouthier
Howard Fineman / Newsweek:
Tim Pawlenty Gets No Respect  —  He doesn't have Sarah Palin's pizzazz or Mitt Romney's money.  But the governor of Minnesota may be a shrewd Republican bet in 2012.  —  Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty  —  From the magazine issue dated Jan 4, 2010  —  In the run-up to the 2008 Republican convention …
Daily Mail:
Serving U.S troops could face prison if they fall pregnant while active  —  A top US commander is threatening soldiers who fall pregnant on active service with jail.  —  Under the new policy, troops expecting a baby face court martial and a possible prison term - and so do the men who made them pregnant.
Daniel Foster / National Review:
The Wages of Sin (Or, What the 60 Got) — By: Daniel Foster  —  If you've been closely following the Obamacare debacle on NRO, you learned in real time about the sweetheart deals that pervade Harry Reid's bill.  But here they are rounded up in one place.  —  Sen. Ben Nelson (D., Neb.):
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Right-Wing Hoping Robert Byrd Dies in Time to Block Health Reform  —  Given that the GOP has basically been checkmated on health reform, I found myself wondering yesterday why they're persisting with obstruction tactics.  Surely letting the Democrats just pass the bill and then everyone gets …
Discussion: The Daily Dish
John R. Bolton / Human Events:
Dick Cheney: HUMAN EVENTS' Conservative of the Year  —  In Washingtonian “inside the Beltway” terms, the most amazing aspect of former Vice President Dick Cheney's new clout is that he is achieving it the old-fashioned way: talking about public policy.  He is not running for President or any other office.
 
 
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