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Wisconisn Democrats are giving pass to Tea Party whacks who oppose healthcare, but have made an election-year transformation. Madison,...

Jesus, Lindsey Graham, Bill Cassidy, Dean Heller, and Ron Johnson Want to Repeal Obamacare with the GCHJ Bill as Lisa Murkowsi Vote Loom...

Roll Call vote on S.Amdt. 667 to S.Amdt. 267 to H.R. 1628 (American Health Care Act of 2017), ( Roll Call vote, July 28, 2017, Unite...

Madison, Wisconsin—An out-of-state organization seeking to repeal ObamaCare to benefit health insurance corporations took out a half-page ...

Senior abandonment by Paul Ryan and Republicans is a betrayal and moral dislocation unprecedented in American history. Join the fight for ...

One reason Hillary's poll numbers are tanking days out from the Iowa Caucuses is that Hillary lies, a lot. Hillary's whopper from ...

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) , Obamacare, in a blow to rightwing activists and a polit...

War is not over. Look to Twain and history for Tea Party Glory as Good Americans invoke the God of Battles, beseeching His aid in our good...

Update : Fight for the public option . As everyone gets back to work on Tuesday and awaits President Obama's national address on healt...

President Obama is floating the idea that next week's healthcare address to Congress may disappoint progressives seeking Obama's adv...

Crooks and Liars has links to sane proposals : Esquire : Drug War Facts: America's prohibition of narcotics may be costing more lives th...

President Obama was elected as an agent of change with the energetic support of the peace-and-justice, civil-liberties-loving, Constitution-...

It's past time for President Obama to call a liar a liar. The GOP is in full campaign mode with lots of money and lies. And Obama is pla...

Update : Gov. Dean predicts healthcare legislation with public option signed in September. Margaret Talev sets the record straight in Who...

And not pot. The online Salon magazine is publishing the most insightful work on these seemingly crazed protesters upset that health care ...

As the corporate bought-and-paid-for Blue Dogs do their worst to ensure that health care reform is not universal, President Obama faces anot...

It looks like the rightwing's strategy of throwing our government into a fiscal crisis is working in halting universal care. The fact th...

Update : Jonathan Cohn - Early Word on the House Bill: So Far, So Good If national health care's fate were to be decided by Wisconsin...

After Downing Street At first I thought the BEFORE picture of the arteries around my heart may have been doctored. There it was big as life....

Among one of very bad things that the GOP hates Obama for is healthcare reform to guarantee that every American will have access to what is...