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Pelosi: I would have pushed single-payer, but health reform ‘worth it’

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Thursday that she had no regrets about helping pass President Barack Obama’s health care reform bill. “Your party lost power in 2010, you lost your speakership, you spent a lot of time on this bill, even Democratic leaders in the House and Senate…

Palin: Everything I wrote about death panels was true

As the U.S. Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the Democrat’s health care reform law, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took to Facebook on Monday to resurrect her claim it created “death panels.” “I stand by everything I wrote in that warning to my fellow Americans because what was true…

Lieberman shocks no one

I’m shamelessly stealing Paul’s joke here. Lieberman is back to square one with threatening to join the filibuster if the public option and/or the Medicare buy-in are part of the health care reform bill. What’s interesting to me at this point is that for Lieberman, any pretext that he gives…

Why Democrats should be very afraid

Ezra has some of the text up of remarks Obama made on a conference call with progressive bloggers, and if you’re paranoid about health care reform being whittled down to meaninglessness due to congressional addiction to lobbyists’ sweet nothings, I can’t say his remarks were especially comforting. I am less…