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Tea Party Etiquette: anti-health care reform activists storming the Capitol Tuesday, and Democrats planning hospitable greeting
Source: TheHill.com

Tea Partiers are storming the Capitol tomorrow, and Democrats are preparing to roll out the red carpet.

Health care reform & the coming Democratic surge - video
Source: Daily Kos

Watch as Robert Gibbs goes into the belly of the beast to deliver the news that health care reform is going to become the law of the land — and it will become law of the land within the next week: The subtext of Gibbs' statement couldn't be more clear.

The Democrats' Choice: move legislation forward, or throw away a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fix our broken health care system
Source: The New York Times

Republicans' lock-step opposition to comprehensive health care reform seems to be as much a matter of politics as principle. But either way, they have made clear that there is no dialogue or any possible compromise that will persuade them to change their minds.

GOP lawmakers privately admit stimulus created jobs
Source: Daily Kos

Two articles from Daily Kos: Washington Times: GOP lawmakers privately admit stimulus created jobs

Arlen Specter reveals more: GOP made 'no effort to find answers to economic problems - it was just a no, no, no, and no discussion'
Source: Guardian Unlimited

The important sentence here, of course, is the one about no effort put toward answering the country's economic problems. Not that we didn't know this, but it's interesting to see it said by someone who was in the room.

British Prime Minister and wife join fellow citizens on US pro-NHS twitter campaign: #welovethenhs
Source: Telegraph

The Prime Minister's wife, Sarah, also leapt to the defence of the NHS, after US critics opposed to the President's reforms described the British system as "evil" and "Orwellian."

ABC News controlled by Obama for one night! Unfair!! GOP Has Fox 24/7, so shouldn't Dems get a network, too? - Newsvine poll

On Tuesday the Drudge report ran with the headline, ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE, and reported the following.

CNN Poll: Americans feel Obama moving US in right direction, but don't feel the same about the GOP
Source: CNN

As the Republican Party gets ready to condemn what they call the Democrats 'march to socialism', a new national poll indicates that most Americans believe President Barack Obama's policies would move the country in the right direction.

Demographics and Sore Losers: Why Specter did it, and had to do it
Source: Talking Points Memo

Probably the most important point is here is the demographic changes going on in Specter's home state. Pennsylvania is a closed-primary state, and the ranks of registered Republicans, the folks eligible to vote in the GOP primary, shrunk last year.

The Slime Mold Party
Source: Paul Rosenberg

I don't mean to slime the slime molds by comparing them to the GOP. It's nothing personal, you see. It's just a mathematical thing. There are actually two different types of slime molds, plasmodial slime molds and celluclar ones. It's the cellular ones I'm referring to here.

Is the Republican Gay Rights Group, Log Cabin Republicans, Under Democratic Influence?
Source: pamshouseblend.com

Well this will add fuel to the fire for conservative gays who were already suspicious of the Log Cabin Republicans.

"Number One voice for conservatism" Rush Limbaugh wastes no time leading assault on Obama
Source: Media Matters for America

With a Democrat back in the White House, Rush Limbaugh has wasted no time in hurling false and baseless attacks against President Obama, echoing his slanders and smears of President Clinton, his family, and his administration during the 1990s.

Scratchpad: Aug. 28 Thurs. 2008 -- McCain Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

From the Things I Can't Say files: Look. McCain was a hero for who(m)? Anyone who goes through any kind of ordeal in say a prisoner of war camp or incarceration in a penitentiary is a survivor, yes. But a hero?

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