… and veto anything without a strong public option.
By Jack E. Lohman 
President Obama’s heart believes that single-payer healthcare would be the best thing that could happen to this country, and he’s right. Not just by extending coverage from 85% to 100% of the people, but also by removing the health care burden from our nation’s businesses.
Health care [...]

How will she do?
HP-Sarah Palin may be prepping for a career as a radio star.
Radio journal Inside Radio reports that, according to sources, Palin’s reps “have been quietly testing the waters to see how much interest radio syndicators have for her.”
Palin’s memoir is due out next spring, and it has been speculated that [...]

HUH?

Is this a problem?
DB-Yesterday, Iraqi troops stormed a camp of Iranian exiles. The Daily Beast’s Reza Aslan on why the raid could signal Iraq’s shift away from the U.S.—and toward its former enemy.
Reports out of Iraq say government troops have raided the camp of an Iranian exile group, the Mujahedeen-e Khalq. Though the MEK has [...]

Brother can you spare your state?
2-New York City is buying one-way plane tickets for homeless families to leave the city and head to Georgia or anywhere else they want to go.
It’s part of a Bloomberg administration program to keep the homeless out of the expensive shelter system, which costs $36,000 a year per family. [...]

Is the GOP for or against the stimulus?
AJC-Without the $1.5 billion in federal stimulus money that’s started flowing to Georgia school districts, the budget cuts to education would be “devastating,” School Superintendent Kathy Cox told a state Senate panel Thursday morning.
“They’re down to the bone,” Cox said. “The fat was gone a long time [...]

Very interesting!
DB-The Washington prayer group known as the Family may be in the news after several of its members had affairs, but it has been setting the agenda—and propping up foreign dictators—for years.
In this article, Jeff Sharlet, who has tracked the C Street House since 2002, discloses:
• That the group espouses a religious [...]

What do you think?
CNN-After the release of a miserable June jobs report, President Obama stood with a group of green company CEOs and told reporters that “men and women like these will help lead us out of this recession and into a better future.”
But if the White House puts too many eggs in the green [...]

Very Interesting!
Y-The traditional 40-hour workweek is composed of five eight-hour days instead of four ten-hour days. But the historical reasons for that are fairly arbitrary, and trying to get firms to switch to a four-day workweek has long struck me as a relatively painless way to reduce gasoline consumption. Brad Plumer lets us know [...]

GOOD NEWS!
THEHILL-The Obama administration is threatening to veto the House’s defense spending bill over $485 million in funds for several new helicopters to fly the president on short trips from the White House.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) made the threat in a statement of administration policy on Tuesday as the House [...]

POLITICO-Cable news personalities turned vicious this week, feuding over fringe conspiracy theories and hurling incendiary remarks on race. Ugly though the scene may be, network executives – fresh from producing lengthy tributes to the judicious, sober legacy of Walter Cronkite — are sitting back enjoying the fight.
On Tuesday night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said CNN’s [...]

Dateline Toledo - Liberal mayoral candidate Ben Konop is forced to move a political press conference after being ‘Boo’d’ by a homeowner on his front porch.  Check out the video:

The Regular Guys (Rock 100.5) played the audio on their show this morning in Atlanta.
This is what should be happening at any public appearance by any politician who supports [...]

What do you think?
NYT- President Obama’s top antitrust official and some senior Democratic lawmakers are preparing to rein in a host of major industries, including airline and railroad giants, moving so aggressively that they are finding some resistance from officials within the administration.
The official, Christine A. Varney, the antitrust chief at the Justice Department, has [...]

If he does his job why should they care?
The town manager of Fort Myers Beach, Florida, has been fired because his wife acts in adult films.
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Is this an issue?
Politico-While House Republican leaders blast away at the Democratic health care reform legislation, the GOP has yet to reveal its own alternative legislation.
“We continue to work on our bill, as Democrats are working on their bill,” House Minority Leader John Boehner told reporters Monday.
Boehner released a four-page outline of [...]