WP: "Republicans signaled Tuesday that dropping the public option would not garner additional GOP backing. Jon Kyl (Ariz.), the second-ranking Senate Republican leader, criticized an alternative idea of creating a private insurance cooperative, calling it a "Trojan horse" that was effectively the same as the public option." In short, a majority, if not 95% of them are going to vote against a health reform bill because they want to weaken Obama, no matter what concessions he makes.

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NYT: "Democrats Seem Set to Go It Alone on a Health Bill." We can handle that. 8/18

Iranian Cleric Mehdi Karroubi Predicts Opposition Will Topple Ahmadinejad 8/19

NYT: "The option of a co-op instead of a government health plan is so ill defined that no one knows exactly what it would look like." 8/19

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Report: Sam Zell Ready to Bail Out on Chicago Tribune Company 8/18

Slowly, but something: GM Announces First Production Hike, Worker Rehire Since Bankruptcy 8/19

Obama to Woo Liberal Faith Groups to Advocate for Healthcare Reform

When President Obama won victories in three Western states last year — New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado — Democrats were quick to proclaim that this region, long identified with Republicans, was undergoing a transformation. And when Western Democratic leaders gathered in Denver the other day to take stock of where the party stood, there was cause for optimism. 8/19

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"Don't Compromise Mr. President." 8/18

Robert Reich: We'll have no one to blame but ourselves if healthcare reform doesn't include a public option 8/19

Robert Creamer: Three Reasons Why a Strong Public Option is Likely to be Part of Health Insurance Reform 8/19

Stop Corporate Terrorism and Pay to Play: Pass the Government Option. If the Status Quo Prevails, We May Need a Change from the Change Obama Promised Before He Started Cutting Deals with the Status Quo that Will Enrich Them Even Further. And if President Obama Thinks he Can Show He's a Mythical "Centrist" by Stiff Arming the Progressives and the Majority of Americans, He Might Very Well Face a Primary Battle From a Senior Member of His Cabinet in 2012, and Without a Progressive Base He Will Lose.

Can he leave the national stage any time now? Joe The Plumber Says He Would 'Beat The Livin' Tar' Out Of Pelosi 8/19

Sara Robinson – Mythbusting Canadian Health Care — Part I 8/19

Insanity in motion: Grassley Unwilling To Vote For 'Good' Health Care Policy Unless 'More Than Four Republicans' Support It 8/19

Wanted for Murder: Antonin Scalia -- BuzzFlash Editor's Blog

Bob Herbert: Obama plan to be windfall for insurance companies 8/19

A strange boast: Holder's Former Law Firm Brags About Its GOP Ties 8/19

The (ongoing) Glenn Beck Ad Boycott List 8/19

Taliban 'confirms Mehsud's death' 8/19

Democracy? Afghanistan Imposes News Censorship on Election Day 8/19

North Carolina: Federal agents seized several rifles and other guns, $14,000 cash and newspaper clippings of the Sept. 11 attacks from a man accused of plotting international terrorism, according to a warrant unsealed Tuesday. 8/19

William Greider: Squandered Opportunity on Health Care 8/19

Bob Herbert: This is Reform? Or Change You Can't Believe in. The Biggest Winners from the Baucus Package, Which Obama Appears Willing to Support, Will be Big Pharma and the Private Insurance Companies.

When 1st and 2nd Amendment Conflict: Protests, Guns, and Double Standards -- Dave Lindorff

The End of the Public Option? 8/19

State Budgets overshadow social, political highlights 8/19

Record Month for Renewable Energy in the U.S. 8/19

"Compassive" conservative: Woman yells 'Heil Hitler' to Jewish man praising Israel's national health care system. 8/19

Well I Never! British Doc Slams Sen. Grassley and Anti-Healthcare Reform Group as 'Ludicrous... False and Distasteful' -- BuzzFlash News Alert

Vermont Mortgage Laws Shut the Door on Bust -- and Boom 8/19

Go Nancy! House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said a health-care overhaul should include a government-run insurance program, reiterating her backing for the plan after an administration official suggested the president may back down.....Obama Needs to act Like a President Who's Got the Wind at His Back and a Billy Club in His Hand. He Needs to Stop Running for Most-Liked.

U.S. Diverts Plane Because of Journalist 8/19

Linda Milazzo: Don Lemon & CNN -- No to "Real Americans," Yes to Real Journalism! 8/19

Sunlight Foundation & ProPublica Create New Foreign Lobbying Influence Tracker 8/19

Sharon Keller of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals -- highest-ranking criminal judge in Texas -- faces charges of intentionally denying a condemned man access to the legal system. 8/19

Blogging about Lobbying 8/19

The Real News: Obama's compromise on health care reform -- Obama's fatal mistake was he started with a compromise with insurance companies 8/19

Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater Still Armed in Iraq 8/19

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he saw "movement in the right direction" on the crucial question of Israeli settlement construction in Palestinian areas, after Israeli officials described an apparent de facto slowdown there. 8/19

Another Kennedy for the Senate? Not Chris Kennedy, who won't run for the Senate in 2010 in IL. Won't run for governor either. 8/19

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Tom Rinaldo: Warning to Moderate and Conservative Congressional Democrats 8/19

Obama didn't take their guns as promised by conservative media, so now we have an armed resistance to health care reform 8/19

Anti-Choice Groups Raking In Dough By Promoting Civil Rights Of Zygotes 8/19

Another blistering opinion piece about Obama and health care reform 8/19

Longtime columnist Robert Novak has died at the age of 78, due to a brain tumor. 8/19

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Chicago shuts down for a day to save money; Libraries, health centers closed for a day. The growing trend to save money is not giving taxpayers the service they pay for. 8/19

Brent Budowsky: The President Should Fight for the Public Healthcare Option 8/19

Corruption claims mar Afghan elections 8/19

Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN) Could Face Tough GOP Primary in 2010 8/19

Supreme Court to Hear Case on Executive Pay 8/19

BuzzFlash Mailbag for August 18, 2009

White House desperation, yes; but scapegoating Obama? P.M. Carpenter Exclusively on BuzzFlash for Tuesday, August 18. In this abruptly shifting, insanely baffling, almost comically farraginous goo of national debate over health-care reform, one constant, other than the far right's Beretta-packing love of authoritarian anarchy, has emerged with clarity: the White House's political desperation.

A nice job if you literally could get it: New AIG Chief to Be Paid at Least $7 Million a Year 8/19

No More Tax Cut Expectations 8/19

The advantages of Iraqi democracy: U.S. troops could be forced by Iraqi voters to withdraw a year ahead of schedule under a referendum the Iraqi government backed Monday 8/19

Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) will hold a town hall meeting at a funeral home primarily focusing on health care reform. Creepy imagery being abused. 8/19

Free-Market Death Panels 8/19

Former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung dies at 85. The longtime dissident survived three assassination attempts and spent years in prison, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for engaging North Korea. 8/19

ColorOfChange.org Fights Back on Glenn Beck, Gets Advertisers to Withdraw to Win BuzzFlash's Wings of Justice Award

Dave Lindorff: When 1st and 2nd Amendment Conflict -- Protests, Guns, and Double Standards

Antibiotic Resistance at Factory Farms "Scares the Hell Out of" Johns Hopkins Scientists

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In Big Upcoming Afghan Vote, Peace Talks With Taliban Top Issue 8/19

Eugene Robinson: Where's Mr. Transformer? 8/19

Could Liberals Finally Be Finding Their Economic Voice? -- BuzzFlash's Last Chance Democracy Cafe

Matthew Rothschild: Obama in Physical Danger from Crazy Rightwingers 8/19

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Man With Assault Rifle Outside Obama Event: 'We Will Forcefully Resist' 8/19

3 Indicted in Theft of 130 Million Credit Card Numbers 8/19

Sponsors Leaving Beck's Show In Droves -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser

Stand with Dr. Howard Dean for healthcare reform that allows individual Americans to choose either a universally available public healthcare option such as Medicare or for-profit private insurance. 8/19

Where Are the Limits of Carrying Guns Around a President? 8/19

Hillary Clinton's stop in Congo strikes a chord in Africa 8/19

Obama's DOJ Skewers P2P File-Sharer: "the U.S. Department of Justice supported the $1.92 million in damages Jammie Thomas-Rasset must pay for downloading 24 songs on the Internet." 8/19

Can Barack Obama rise up to save the public option? 8/19

Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN), Key Blue Dog Democrat Pushes Health Insurance Co-ops 8/19

Charles Schwab Under Fire: Sued by Attorney General for Risky Financial Products 8/19

Our Factually Deprived Society. Ann Davidow Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on Tuesday, August 18. Typically enough, Cheney chose to have TVs in his hotel rooms tuned to the FOX News Channel. That many of the nation’s leaders find FOX the source for news and views is either a case of flawed judgment or simply a willingness to let partisanship guide the ship of state. It can’t have been accidental that, when the scandals involving Senator Larry Craig and Governor Sanford broke, Fox labeled their party affiliation with a D. And in illustrating a news story FOX put up a map that showed Egypt nestled between Saudi Arabia, Iran, Jordan and Syria, right where one might have expected to find Iraq. Oh well, ‘they report, viewers must try to separate fact from fiction’.

A healthcare reform deal abandoning a public (or "government-run") option for consumers could cost as many as 100 Democratic votes in the House, one House Democratic lawmaker warned Monday. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) asserted that rumored compromises on a Senate bill to win centrist votes would torpedo healthcare reform's prospects with liberal members of the House. The liberal New York Democrat said that healthcare reform would be essentially meaningless without having a public option made available for consumers. 8/18

NYT Neglects to Mention Foggo and the Torture Tapes 8/19

Americans Want A Public Health Care Option! 8/19

Fiji Water: Spin the Bottle 8/19

Finally, the WH Does Something for Gay Rights: The Obama administration took a landmark action, over the federal government's ban on same-sex marriage. The administration filed court papers saying the law is unfair and discriminates against gays.

Just desserts: The family of SC First Lady Jenny Sanford is reportedly asking SC Gov. Mark Sanford for its money back. 8/19

Remember Way Back in 2008, When Healthcare Was a Right? -- BuzzFlash News Analysis

Progress, hopefully: North Korea announced yesterday that it would reopen its border with South Korea to allow tourism and family reunions to recommence after a self-imposed blockade created last year halted passage between the two countries. 8/19

WP: "Several leading Democrats voiced concern Monday about an apparent White House shift on health-care reform, objecting to signals from senior administration officials that they would abandon the idea of a government-run insurance plan if it lacked the backing to pass Congress." 8/18

Obama's Change on Healthcare Reform Turns Into Big Pharma and Insurance Company Mush, In Which Obama was Outplayed and Outmaneuvered and Outspent and Is Going to be Perceived as a Weakened President Because He Couldn't Get the Job of Change Done

Transgenic research can aid the study of Parkinson's, Huntington's and other diseases 8/19

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Jason Leopold: Rove and Miers to Testify Publicly Before Congress About Attorney Firings 8/18

Lack Of Female Poll Workers May Make It Impossible For Many Afghan Women To Vote 8/19

I Get High with a Little Help from My Friends: 90 percent of U.S. money is laced with cocaine

Mike Lux: The News of Its (Public Option) Death Is Greatly Exaggerated 8/19

Did Rove's Testimony Reveal a Felony? 8/18

Ohio police dispatcher passes along racist image of Air Force One.

Bust the Filibuster and Stop Acting like Scared Democrats. You Have 60 Senators!

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Lawsuit Filed Over Sierra Nevada Logging Plan's Greenhouse Gas Emissions 8/19

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Is the Obama Education Plan Really that Different from the Dreadful "One Step Behind"? Back to test scores? Please, forget about it. 8/18

Brad Blog: Wing-Nut Mobs Provide Cover for Obama/Baucus Health Care Betrayal 8/18

Big news today. We’ve confirmed that eight more major advertisers have pulled their support from Glenn Beck’s show — Wal-Mart, Best Buy, CVS, Travelocity, Allergan (maker of Restasis), Ally Bank, Broadview Security, and Re-Bath. Overall, twenty advertisers have now ended their support of Beck. We’re going to keep the pressure on Beck’s remaining advertisers this week, and we’ll let you know how you can help. 8/18

Obama to Increase Military War in Afghanistan. Good Grief!

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Siegelman confronts Obama adviser: 'Time for Dr. Obama to perform surgery on Rove-appointed attorneys' 8/18

"The most violent opposition isn't directed at President Obama's ideas about health care. It is directed at him. They couldn't make enough of a majority to beat Barack Obama out of the White House, so they'll beat him on an issue."

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In case you need to see something so untrue: Chuck Grassley Blames "The Far Left" For "Death Panel" Fearmongering 8/18

AARP loses members over pro health care reform stance 8/18

OldeCountryScalia says there’s nothing unconstitutional about executing the innocent 8/18

Howard Dean, Rachel Maddow on Public Option 8/18

A good question: "President Obama has made health care his top priority. He says the cost of Medicare and Medicaid is “the biggest threat” to the nation’s fiscal future. But to the puzzlement of Congress and health care experts around the country, Mr. Obama has not named anyone to lead the agency that runs the two giant programs." 8/18

Cost of credit card debt soaring as financial institutions who received taxpayer bailouts are jacking up rates 8/18

Let's hear it loud and proud: Over 60 Progressives Say The Public Option Is Non-Negotiable! 8/18

Ostroy Report: Fox News "Can't Get a Straight Answer" from White House. Now They Know How the Rest of the Media Felt During the Bush Years 8/18

Fundamentalist Christian Candidate for Tulsa Mayor Makes Creationism Exhibit at Local Zoo Priority # 1 -- BuzzFlash News Analysis

They picked the right hack: Wisconsin chapter of the conservative group Americans for Prosperity select ABC's John Stossel to moderate 3 "town hall-style" "health care meetings." 8/18

Sticky Fingers: The Super Rich Set a New Greed Grab Record 8/18

Clinton and Obama: The Worst and Best Thing to Happen to the Democratic Party in Years -- Dave Lindorff

U.S. Supreme Court Orders New Hearing for Troy Davis 8/18

The New York Times takes a look at Hillary Clinton's Folksy Diplomacy 8/18

Dow falls about 186 points 8/18

Winners And Losers In The American Warfare State 8/18

AFP: Mexican Army takes over customs on US border

Has the left blown its big chance of success?

The Lanny Davis disease and America's health care debate - Glenn Greenwald

The Secret Of China’s Miracle Economy: The Government Owns The Banks Rather Than The Reverse

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Sue Wilson: Radio Speech Is Not Free Speech -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary

Pseudo-Christians Using Jesus' Name to Lie About Health Care Reform 8/18

Federal Reserve policy makers said last Wednesday that the recession appeared to be hitting bottom. Among the end-is-near indicators was consumer spending, which they said had begun to stabilize. 8/18

Clerics' Call for Removal Challenges Iran Leader 8/18

Under Bush, he wouldn't have lasted long -- Man with pistol, semi-automatic assault rifle in Obama veterans speech crowd 8/18

Report: Last summer, Rahm Emanuel remarkably told Charlie remarkably told Charlie Rose that his brother Zeke's health "reform"/Medicare privatization plan a "game-changer", that is was politically unfeasible politically unfeasible because it would "scare a good portion of the American people."

BuzzFlash Mailbag for August 17, 2009

U.S. military proposes tripartite forces for N. Iraq 8/18

Here's the condensed version: Reader's Digest files for bankruptcy 8/18

Robert Creamer: "Death Panel" Scare Tactic May Backfire on Republicans 8/18

Marjorie Cohn: In Memoriam -- Lawyer, Activist Doris Brin Walker; Died at 90; First Woman President of the NLG, Represented Angela Davis, Smith Act Defendants 8/18

Cutting More "Objectively Standard" Lies About the Health Care Bill 8/18

Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for August 17, 2009

New Obama forest plan leaves roadless rule intact 8/19

"Death Panel" Scare Tactic May Backfire on Republicans 8/18

Farming: The New American Dream? 8/18

Established mainstream economists don’t have much credibility these days. They blew their cred on the housing bubble. They didn’t see the crash coming. A half-dozen years earlier, they didn’t see the dot-com bubble crash coming either. 8/18

Will it be a Democratic civil war? P.M. Carpenter Exclusively on BuzzFlash for Monday, August 17. 'If there's a way, we'll find it!' is the audio logo of one of those Medicare-financed electric scooter companies which advertises relentlessly on cable news to the infirm elderly. Yet every time I hear it, I think not of nifty little motorized wheelchairs but of the Democratic Party and its working logo, If there's a way to screw it up, we'll find it! (Just a note. P.M. is a brilliant, free-thinking columnist for BuzzFlash, but BuzzFlash officially and unequivocally supports a government ins. option; in fact we support Medicare for all Americans. We differ with P.M., because it was within reach, but the White House didn't learn its lesson; it tried to be 'bipartisan' and bring a feather to a gun fight.)

Sometimes It's Not Your War, But You Sacrifice Anyway 8/18

Are Democrats too scared of losing to win? -- BuzzFlash's Last Chance Democracy Cafe

Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction 8/18

Michael Fjetland: America on Health Care -- Half Smart, Half Crazy -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary

Do YOU Enjoy Drinking Bottled Water That Supports A Dictatorship? 8/18

Richard A. Stitt: I Belong to the U.S.A. and I Vote -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary

Vermont Small Businesses Stay Sustainable Amid Crisis 8/18

The world in 2009: Milwaukee mayor recovers from pipe attack at state fair 8/18

Why huge corporations aren't in our best interest: The Obama Administration made a national priority of spreading high-speed Internet access to every American home and offered stimulus money to help companies pay for it, but the biggest network operators are staying away from the program. 8/18

Hey, did anyone forget? 66% of All Americans Support a Public Option 8/18

The Irony Of Eunice Kennedy Shriver & Her Famous Son-In-Law -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser

Right-wing cynics and America's third-world healthcare - Joan Walsh 8/18

College Student Questioning Obama at Town Hall Was Republican Staffer: The Sequel 8/18

Republicans trying to reignite the conservative base are succeeding better than even most GOP leaders had hoped, thanks to the health care debate. 8/18

Couldn't find another useless, dried up fossil? Fox Business News looking to hire Don Imus 8/18

States plug budget holes, for now 8/18

Skeeter Bites Report: GOP Rips Dems, But Their Own Health-Reform Plan Stinks 8/18

Holding out billions of dollars as a potential windfall, the Obama administration is persuading state after state to rewrite education laws to open the door to more charter schools and expand the use of student test scores for judging teachers. 8/18

Pentagon Worries Led to Command Change: McKiernan's Ouster Reflected New Realities in Afghanistan -- and Washington 8/18

Obama selling out on the public option but Congress isn't 8/18

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) wants a special counsel to probe into torture allegations 8/18

Who is funding the Afghan Taliban? You don't want to know 8/18

Paul Krugman: The Swiss Menace 8/18

The Power Behind the Throne: The Legalization of Corporate Personhood -- BuzzFlash Editor's Blog

Whole Foods Boycott is Destined to be Fruitless: In Corporate America, Profit Margins Come Before Healthcare -- BuzzFlash News Analysis

A Tale of Two Nations: the GOP and Their Mob Seditionists Have Never Conceded the Civil War. -- BuzzFlash Editor's Blog "The Town Hall mobs, the birthers, the teabaggers are all part of that long line of “coded” agitators for the notions of white entitlement and “conservative values.”"

Glenn Beck Says Without Thinking, Never Gets It Right, Wins BuzzFlash Media Putz of the Week Award

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Town Hall Protesters Have No Idea What They're Talking About [Must-See Photo] -- Caption This

Latest in GOP Whining About Health Care Reform -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser

Michael Winship: The Gorilla Dust of Health Care -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary

Sue Wilson: Getting to the Truth on Health Care Reform -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary

Rep. John Boehner is the Only Person Allowed to Decide What Is Un-American -- GOP Hypocrite of the Week

There are None So Blind As Those Who Will Not See Ann Davidow Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on Friday, August 14. It is said 'there are none so blind as those who will not see' which describes many of the protesters who seem to be in a state of amorphous rage, manipulated by partisans and ideologues who use disorder to promote agendas at a far remove from the interests of those they claim to serve and for whom health-care reform is but a convenient pretext for destabilizing the Obama presidency.

The Wealthy Elites Play the Racists for Pawns at a Town Hall Meeting in Maryland -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary

José David Opened Up Eyes to Art and Artists to Win BuzzFlash's Wings of Justice Award This Week

Rep. Mike Pence is the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week. He is virulently against government health insurance, but just loves Medicare. Say what? Do these people even have a quarter of a brain?

It may be Obama's fundamental and self-destructive flaw that he can't help but wanting everyone to think he is a nice and fair guy. Nice and fair guys don't win against the Republicans; they get steamrolled with vitriol and sucker punches to the gut. -- BuzzFlash Editor's Blog

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Cheney To Slam Bush In New Book 8/19

Jesus Christ Socialist 8/19

The Troy Davis Case: Who Said Scalia and Thomas Would Never Vote for 'Gore' 8/19

Obama's 'Health Plan B': Outsource Public Option to 'Out-of-Network' Countries 8/19

From The Onion: Congress Beginning To Suspect Senator Mark Warner Might Be Homeless 8/19

The Outrage Factory: Birthers, Deathers, Beckers, NoNothingers, Palinists 8/18