Late Night Saturday: Village of Our Damned

By: bmaz Saturday November 21, 2009 8:03 pm

What a Saturday: all village elders have predicted Sarah Palin was the force to be reckoned with for the 2012 Republican nomination and that Barack Obama was in trouble.

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By: Jane Hamsher Saturday November 21, 2009 8:00 pm

Please let us know here at FDL if you have inspired ideas or just simple suggestions about things we can do better. We really appreciate your support.

What She Said: You Don’t Have to Sell Your Soul to Blue Cross

By: Rayne Saturday November 21, 2009 7:04 pm

Health insurance companies don't vote, Senators. Voters do, and they want a public option.

With Conservative Resistance to Public Option, What Was the Point of the Opt Out?

By: David Dayen Saturday November 21, 2009 5:58 pm

The Senate's ConservaDems don't appear to have the necessary 60 votes to change or remove the public option from the Health Care Reform bill. So why was the opt out provision introduced?

Liveblog: Senate Vote on Cloture for Health Care Reform Bill

By: Rayne Saturday November 21, 2009 4:56 pm

Liveblog of the U.S. Senate's vote on cloture on the Health Care Reform bill. A vote for cloture will permit debate of the bill to proceed after the coming holiday break.

Blanche Lincoln Lectures Blanche Lincoln on a Senator’s Duties

By: Scarecrow Saturday November 21, 2009 4:38 pm

The Republican Senate leadership has been putting enormous pressure on Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln to vote “no” on the motion to proceed. She led everyone to believe she might, until she said she wouldn't.

Senate Health Care Debate Liveblog

By: Jason Rosenbaum Saturday November 21, 2009 4:27 pm

I'll be doing a little bit of liveblogging the Senate health care debate today leading up to the cloture vote at around 8 pm EST.

Mary Landrieu: “At Some Point, Harry Reid Will Have To Indulge Us Spoiled Children”

By: Jane Hamsher Saturday November 21, 2009 4:00 pm

Mary Landrieu isn't satisfied with her hundred million dollar bribe just to proceed to debate in the Senate. She now says that triggers are inevitable.

FDL Book Salon Welcomes David Owen, Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability

By: Catherine Tumber Saturday November 21, 2009 2:00 pm

With Green Metropolis, New Yorker staff writer David Owen roughs up the American environmental movement’s most sacred cows (including the grass-fed ones). The book expands on a 2004 article Owen wrote for the New Yorker, called “Green Manhattan,” and in the longer work New York City remains his frame of reference. Eco-friendly suburbanites and small-town residents are only kidding themselves, he argues, as long as they live in sparsely settled, spaciously appointed, auto-dependent communities. If they really want to reduce their carbon footprint in any significant way, they should live in densely-settled, pedestrian-friendly, public-transit-oriented cities like New York.

It Sounds Like Reid Is Planning To Sell Out The Public Option

By: Jon Walker Saturday November 21, 2009 1:29 pm

It looks like Harry Reid is getting ready to sell out the labor unions, the progressive community, the Democratic base, and the majority of the American people. The vast majority of Americans want a public option as part of health care reform. Reid fully has it with in his powers to get a health care bill passed with a public option. He could use reconciliation to pass a bill with a simple majority. He could even use the “nuclear option” to eliminated the silly filibuster, like Bill Frist threatened to do only a few years ago.
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