GOP still blocking Treasury appointees and increase risk to US financial system

Do they ever do anything besides obstruct? The Democrats are going to have to step up the pressure here and do a much better job of showing how the Republicans are owned by Wall Street and are risking financial failure due to their policies.
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Does the Democratic party hate us?

Lost in the shuffle during Thursday's courageous acts by GetEqual members, was this update on the Health Care bill gagging itself through Congress:

Today, the House Rules Committee released the reconciliation bill through which it will vote on the measure that passed the Senate in December.
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Economists to Obama: PLEASE, NO!

Proud to see no fewer than nine Economics professors, representing four of the Centennial State’s fine universities were among the 130 economists who signed on to this letter to Congress and President Obama arguing how the Stalinization of Health Care Act of 2010 will destroy the economy.
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HCR Bill Ditches LGBT Health Provisions

The reconciled health care reform bill posted by the House is stripped of previously included provisions addressing LGBT concerns, such as the taxation of employee partner benefits.
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Dems scared into action on health care reform

Yes, but. Democratic lawmakers, from the leadership on down, are facing what many describe as an unprecedented amount of political pressure as the party scrambles to pass health care reform.
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Congress Reaches Record Disapproval*

According to Gallup: Americans hold Congress in far less esteem than they do the president — 16% approve and 80% disapprove of the job Congress is doing, according to the latest update from a March 4-7 Gallup poll.
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You can help end employment discrimination

Imagine being let go from your job, not for poor performance or lack of ability, but because you are LGBT.
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Alternet: Turning to Crazy

It looks as though those angry tea-baggers and conservative Christians who don’t think health insurance should be an option for those who don’t have it have turned their pleas of mercy towards the craziest person in congress…Michele Bachmann.
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HRC Enlists Kathy Griffin to Lobby "Big Queen" Jim Clyburn on DADT

D-List comedienne Kathy Griffin, who has been enlisted by the Human Rights Campaign to lobby Congress for the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and will appear at a rally on Capitol Hill tomorrow, called House Majority Whip James Clyburn.
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Broadband plan sent to Congress

US regulators send a national broadband plan to Congress in a bid to lead the world in the provision of super-fast internet.
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Democrats Refuse to Admit Defeat on Obamacare

I have on my desk a print-out of an editorial in the left-of-center New York Daily News where the editors, urging the president to pull the plug on his health care overhaul, point out: Just one in four voters supports the reform bill as written; half want Congress to start over.
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Don't Ask, Don't Hold Your Breath

Stop me if you've heard this before. Once again, Democrats in Congress are blaming President Obama for putting the brakes on Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal, as if the White House introduces legislation that the House and Senate can then.
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Call for HR Response

The Council for Global Equality applauds this year’s State Department human rights report to Congress for underscoring the clear and growing crisis in human rights abuse directed against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people worldwide, and urges the use of diplomacy to counter this trend.
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FOX's Glenn Beck attacks Bruce Springsteen as 'anti-American'

He's a media whore, so it's understandable that he's following the Limbaugh/Coulter example, and trying to do things that will get attention.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi: We Don't Have The Votes And I'm Not Helping

We have a new ENDA co-sponsor in the Senate: Senator Jim Webb of Virginia. This confirms the previous information we had that he would be supporting the bill.
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Obama told immigration advocates today that he's only the president, so there's only so much he can do

How silly of them not to demand a meeting with someone who has actual power. "We met with the President.
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Why won't Rep. Eric Massa talk about his sexual orientation?

Former Representative Eric Massa is making the media rounds claiming he was run out of congress by the Obama administration since the Democrat wouldn't back the president's health care plan.
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Bailed out automakers and banks on K Street shopping spree

From Mother Jones: Bailed-out automakers like General Motors and Chrysler and their banking brethren who the government rescued in 2008 and 2009 are on a K Street shopping spree.
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Clive Crook's Healthcare CW, Ctd

Clive replies: Yes, it is Congress's job to legislate. Obama was right not to draft a law and then present it to Congress saying, pass this.
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More Details Emerging On Rep. Massa’s Ethics Charges

Late breaking developments tonight from The Politico: A week after announcing he was retiring from Congress for health reasons, New York Democrat Eric Massa finds himself in the midst of a fast-growing sex scandal involving allegations that he had improper physical contact with several men who worked for him — including at least one intern.
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