Howard Dean makes the case for a public option….

….and rips into Sen. Mary Landrieu (“D” – LA) in the process: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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Feingold fights for line-item veto

Yesterday Senator Russ Feingold testified before a Senator subcommittee in support of the Congressional Accountability and Line-item Veto Act, which which implement a line-item vote to help fight wasteful spending. If passed into law, Sen. Feingold’s legislation would allow the president to remove wasteful earmarks costing billions of dollars from…

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“Gitmo North” coming to a town near you?

Politico.com is reporting President Obama may have enough votes from Congressional Democrats to move forward with his plan to move prisoners from the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to a facility in rural Illinois, but though the plan hasn’t even been implemented, conservatives are predictably gnashing their teeth at…

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Lieberman expresses regret for health care reform tension

At a meeting at the White House yesterday, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) told Democratic colleagues he regretted the tension he’d created within the conference during the healthcare debate while stopping short of apologizing. Earlier in the day Sen. Lieberman indicated he was likely to support the Senate’s health care reform…

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Thursday Music – All Eighties Edition

Happy Thursday! Today I’m all about some of my favorite hits from the 80’s, and I’m going to start off with one of my all-time favorite songs from one of my all-time favorite songwriters. Here’s “Sledgehammer” by Peter Gabriel: Next, here’s “Simply Irresistible” by Robert Palmer: And finally, here’s “The…

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