Leverage Against Netanyahu

The Israeli government's clear intent to do nothing to jump-start peace negotiations - and to threaten to launch a war against Iran if Washington doesn't - leaves the US in a bind.
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Hard To Get, Please, Bribe, Ctd

Andrew Exum: The Obama adminstration has, I believe, some leverage at the moment, which it could use to affect the composition and behavior of the next Afghan government.
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Frank Schubert and His Dark Materials

by David Link

Jim Burroway has an excellent post at Box Turtle Bulletin on the contrasting messages in the Maine election: Frank Schubert's ugly, fear-inflected slurs against marriage equality (when he even bothers to address marriage, which isn’t very often), vs.
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Public Health Insurance, Opt-Out, and Trojan Horses

In all of the excitement about Harry Reid’s inclusion of an opt-out public option in the Senate version of the health care reform bill, one question has been somewhat submerged: "Opt out of WHAT exactly?"What the public option actually would provide to states that DIDN’T opt out has been left pretty much to the imagination of each person.
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'HRC lost its independence by being too close to the Democratic party. With no leverage, the Democrats will put off change indefinitely'

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Rich People With No Health Insurance Worries Vote On Public Option Today

Just sayin'- and frankly, this is about as much of this gobbledy-gook as I'm able to understand...

Apparently I'm not alone.
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Taking Fire From Both Sides

Jon Cohn blames "the almost total lack of approving commentary " for the unpopularity of the stimulus.
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Comcast could serve TV over WiMAX, inflate your bill even higher

Think you're good at turning down the upsell? Try saying no to adding WiMAX to your home internet service for the low, low price of whatever Comcast wants to charge.
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No Republicans For Healthcare Reform, Ctd

Greg Sargent parses a statement by Republican Senator Chuck Grassley: [In] order to satisfy Grassley’s definition of true bipartisanship, Dems quite literally must cede all their power and leverage in advance, even as Republicans are refusing en masse to back.
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Liveblogging Obama's speech

8:45 PM: Obama spends quite a bit of time explaining the value of the public option. Good analogy to public higher education.
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Obama on the public option

From the speech: My health care proposal has also been attacked by some who oppose reform as a “government takeover” of the entire health care system.
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TNT Renews Leverage

TNT has renewed Leverage for a third season. The network picked up the series for a 15-episode third season that will start airing next summer.
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Getting Health Care Done

by Patrick Appel Nate Silver thinks that the House may be a bigger hurdle than the Senate: 1. Yes, the Blue Dogs really do have some leverage here.
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Lessons from the credit bubble

Shares in banks may be have been ever so slightly ahead of the norm in this most recent run. The unrealistic expectations both from the banks as well as the buyers fed this distorted growth.
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TiVo coming to Time Warner Cable, potentially lots of other providers

It's been a long, messy road, but now that TiVo's beaten a victory out of EchoStar in that seemingly-endless DVR patent lawsuit it sounds like the company is trying to exert some muscle -- it's already in talks to bring its service to Time Warner Cable, and sources have told Bloomberg that the ultimate plan is to eventually collect royalties from every pay-TV provider in the US.
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CNBC: new regulations could hurt bank profits that were actually losses

Some days I can better enjoy CNBC's craziness than others. Today I actually burst out laughing reading this article.
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