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The Nevada senator advanced the House health care bill, which narrowly passed 220-215 on Saturday, to the Senate legislative calendar next week, allowing him to move the procedure along in the absence of an actual Senate bill. The move also permits him to have the Senate bill, once it has a price tag, to skip the committee process and go straight to debate. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/11/despite-uphill-climb-reid-poised-muscle-health-care-senate/

The media hailed Obama transition at one time as the best in modern history, but that assessment takes yet another hit as yet another Obama appointee carries pay-for-play scandal baggage to his new office. Adolfo Carrion, named as Obama’s “urban czar”, took thousands of dollars in donations from developers as Bronx borough president just before and after the developers scored big with approved projects: The man who is President Obama’s newly minted urban czar pocketed thousands of dollars in campaign cash from city developers whose projects he approved or funded with taxpayers’ money, a Daily News probe found. Bronx Borough...

It was very nice to see President Obama taking responsibility for Tom Daschle's mistakes. What he really needs is to send some people packing before his entire administration becomes corrupt. The first revelations were Tim Geithner and Bill Richardson. Now Daschle and Killifer are gone because of unpaid taxes. Next Hilda Solis comes along letting us know she was not only pimping for a labor group against Congressional rules, but her husband had tax liens for 16 years. She wants us to believe that she has no knowledge of the tax matter. It is possible that her husband did not...