Since Monday, activists from Firedoglake, CREDO, and Democracy for America helped put in hundreds of calls to progressive Members of Congress to find out where they stand on triggers and opt-outs in the final health care bill.

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Bad news, Mustangs. SMU’s academic reputation has officially been shitcanned.

The Stupak amendment would have a greater effect on access to abortion than many DC elites want to let on.

As Joe Conason notes, Hadassah Lieberman is employed by the Susan B. Komen “Race for the Cure” organization, which needs to explain why the man blocking health care reform is repeatedly invited to their events. Ostensibly, they are calling for the changes he is trying to prevent. Are they about raising money, or are they about…you know, health care?

Ask them.

[Ed. Note: Attackerman has more on this morning's White House meeting/teleconference/debate. As Spencer notes, diversity of opinion is healthy in policy discussions and journalism!] It has been a consequential last 24 hours for the future of the US mission in Afghanistan. Karl Eikenberry, the current US Ambassador to the country, has dissented from the prevailing [...]

While Obama praises the House for passing its health reform bill, an anonymous senior White Official predictably leaked to reporters why the House bill wasn’t as good as the Senate Finance bill.

It’s unclear whether Obama’s displeasure with the McChrystal options actually represents an unwillingness to send more troops or simply a desire for a different escalation timeline or additional conditions on the Karzai government, but Eikenberry’s cable and its leak suggests a significant shift in policy may be developing.

• No more troops, sez US ambassador.
• Responding to the deficit hawks.
• Of course, there is an solution: bring them home.
• Lou Dobbs deported.
• Maybe he’ll go to Fox Business.
• A preview of Going Rogue.
• The Stalinists’ quest for purity continues.

The newest manner of failing upwards for Republicans takes shape.

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