Unions pressure Democrats on "Cadillac" health insurance tax - Denver Post
WASHINGTON ? Union leaders, among the most passionate backers of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, pressed Democratic senators Thursday to drop a tax on high-value insurance plans to pay for remaking the nation’s system. Members of …
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Drug-Import Backers Worry Obama May Scuttle Plan
A long-running effort to allow the import of lower-cost prescription drugs faces a new twist - President Barack Obama’s administration is raising safety concerns that could effectively scuttle it, even though Obama backed the plan as a senator.
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NY-23: Hoffman Leads - and Now It Looks Like He Really Does!
Politico now reports new polling in the NY-23 special election that shows that the previous poll by the Club for Growth, which we talked about in an earlier post, was no fluke: Even the Daily Kos’s polling now sees a huge surge towards conservative candidate Doug Hoffman in the last week before Tuesday’s vote.
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Backers of a global pact banning nuclear tests said on Tuesday they would seize on U.S.
President Barack Obama’s disarmament initiatives to further their agenda at the United Nations this month.
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A+ for Sotomayor
That’s the grade Ed Whelan gives her for “brazen doublespeak“:
She emphatically rejected the lawless “empathy” standard for judging that President Obama used to select her, but she denied the plain import of her many statements contesting the possibility and desirability of judicial impartiality. She hid behind a ridiculously simplistic caricature of judging that embarrassed [...]
ACORN Shenanigans Alert: This time its in South Carolina
Apparently there’s yet another ACORN scam in the making that needs much more investigation.
As STACLU questions, just how does a company that doesn’t seem to have any employees, no place of business, and no actual product for sale find the ability to promise that it can create 3,000 employees practically overnight?
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