BRAZENLY LIBERAL — a fact-based initiative

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I love the guys at Democrats.com because they will not settle for half-baked, warmed over, faux bipartisan, so-far-toward-the-center-it’s-now-on-the-right bullshit being served up by the Blue Dogs and too many others.
Dear Brazenly Liberal,
After months of debate, an overwhelming majority of Americans support a “robust public option” similar to Medicare.
And thanks to the heroic efforts [...]

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During the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee and read the news:  5 dead
Long weekend: 360 dead
Doing the right thing and ensuring universal health care: Priceless

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Here’s the Dishonor Roll of Democrats who betrayed the people:
Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.).
Remember them when their Primary opponents need money.
(More info at  Huffpo)

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Teddy Kennedy

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That’s the subject line in an email from David Axelrod.  “Something worth forwarding.”  Jesus!  Talk about a subject line guaranteed to see it’s deleted from many inboxes without reading because it looks like spam!
Axelrod is an alright sort.  It’s just that this White House, so beautifully eloquent in long form communications like speeches, really sucks [...]

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You expect it of the GOP and its pet radio mouths.   But last November, the country said 8 years of Them As Has Gets politics were enough and voted the lapdogs of corporate power out of office.  Unfortunately, some of them managed to squeak through dressed as Democrats.
With health care reform getting less than the [...]

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