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		<title>1 Day Left To Vote For Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Best Blog &#8211; Best Liberal Blog &#8211; Best Political Blog &#8211; Best Large Blog
Democrashield has been nominated for the 2009 Weblog Awards. Please take a moment to second our nominations by clicking on the links above, then clicking on the green plus button next to our name. Voting ends on Sunday, so get your last [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=4624&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BREAKING: GOP Health Care Filibuster Thwarted (UPDATED)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a 60-39 party-line vote, Senate Democrats overcame the GOP&#8217;s filibuster of health care reform.
Now the bill will be brought to the floor for consideration. After that, the Democrats will need to marshal another 60 votes to end debate, and then 51 votes for passage.
Still trying to figure out who the 1 non-voting Republican was&#8230;
UPDATE: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=5064&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BREAKING: Health Care Reform To Proceed In The Senate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like Senate health care reform is a go.
All 4 of the conservative holdouts have announced that they will vote to begin debate.
A few weeks ago, Sen. Lieberman indicated his willingness to filibuster the bill but said he would vote to allow debate.
Yesterday, Nebraska&#8217;s Ben Nelson said he too would vote to bring the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=5053&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Obama: Positively Reaganesque</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least in regards to approval ratings:

As Political Wire notes:

Putting news of President Obama&#8217;s approval rate dipping below 50% in perspective, USA Today runs an excellent interactive chart plotting presidential approval rates since 1945.
When comparing various presidents to each other, as of right now, President Obama most closely tracks Ronald Reagan.
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is just crazy:
The new national poll from Public Policy Polling (D) has an astonishing number about paranoia among the GOP base: Republicans do not think President Obama actually won the 2008 election &#8212; instead, ACORN stole it.
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The poll asked this question: &#8220;Do you think that Barack Obama legitimately won the Presidential election last year, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=5034&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should Conservatives Hate Reagan?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All of the right-wing attacks on President Obama&#8217;s  spending  make me wonder&#8211;why don&#8217;t conservatives  hate Ronald Reagan?
Reagan&#8217;s recession lasted 16 months (July 1981 until November 1982); our most recent recession lasted 21 months (December 2007 until September 2009).
During Reagan&#8217;s recession, unemployment peaked at 10.8%; during the recent recession unemployment peaked at 10.2% [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=5007&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BREAKING: Senate Health Care Bill Revealed</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/11/18/breaking-senate-health-care-bill-revealed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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Tonight, the Senate Democratic leadership revealed their version of the health care reform bill.
The Congressional Budget Office has already scored the legislation. Their findings:

It will cost $849 bn over the first decade.


It will reduce the deficit by $127 bn in the first decade and by $650 bn in the following decade.

Here are more details about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=5002&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And Justice For All: Why The KSM Trial Isn’t Unprecedented (UPDATED)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zacharias Moussaoui is a die-hard, well-trained Al-Qaeda militant. He was slated to be the 20th 9/11 hijacker and was only prevented from taking  part in the mass murder of 3,000 innocent people by a chance arrest on immigration charges in August, 2001.
In the wake of 9/11, Moussaoui was  charged, tried,  found guilty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=4995&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winner To Loser: Embrace Your Base</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Successful Gubernatorial candidate Tim Kaine gives some  retrospective advice to failed Gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds:
Kaine said the key to victory for Democrats in a highly competitive Virginia is recognizing that party members need not be &#8220;apologetic&#8221; about their affiliation to find success. He noted that about 200,000 more people voted in the Democratic primary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=4988&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Move To The Right, Suffer At The Polls (UPDATED)</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/11/17/move-to-the-right-suffer-at-the-polls-updated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re  learning from Delaware&#8217;s 2010 GOP  Senate candidate, Mike Castle:
This is one of the more surprising polls I’ve seen recently: Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, son of the vice president, is leading Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) in a hypothetical 2010 U.S. Senate matchup. The Susquehanna Polling &#38; Research survey has Biden [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=4983&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama’s Bow &amp; Right-Wing Fauxtrage (UPDATED)</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/11/16/president-obamas-bow-right-wing-fauxtrage-updated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again&#8211;conservatives really are just looking for any excuse to attack President Obama. Sometimes, the extent to which they&#8217;re willing to  deny reality is simply stunning.
As part of his ongoing trip to Asia, President Obama met with Japan&#8217;s Emperor Akihito. When greeting Akihito, as a gesture of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=4969&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And Justice For All: 9/11 Suspects To Be Put On Trial, Pt. II</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/11/16/and-justice-for-all-911-suspects-to-be-put-on-trial-pt-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more idiotic talking points I&#8217;ve heard on the Obama administration&#8217;s decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and several other 9/11 suspects in criminal court is that, by doing so, the administration is somehow granting those individuals  rights they otherwise wouldn&#8217;t be entitled to.
But it doesn&#8217;t take a constitutional scholar to know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=4952&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And Justice For All: 9/11 Suspects To Be Put On Trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late last week, the Obama administration announced that they were going to put 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, along with  several other 9/11 suspects, on trial in New York City.
As they are prone to do whenever the Obama administration does anything, conservatives worked themselves up into a frenzy and began spitting out ridiculous talking points [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=4931&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does Stupak Have The Votes? (UPDATED)</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/11/13/does-stupak-have-the-votes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) got the House of Representatives to pass one of the most anti-choice measures in recent  history by claiming that he had enough votes to derail health care reform.
Now, Stupak is threatening that there will be &#8220;hell to pay&#8221; if Congressional leaders remove or significantly alter his amendment in conference, when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=4902&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RNC: Abortions For Me But Not For Thee (UPDATED)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surprise surprise, more Republican hypocrisy:
Federal Election Commission Records show the RNC purchases its insurance from Cigna. Two sales agents for the company said that the RNC’s policy covers elective abortion.
Informed of the coverage, RNC spokeswoman Gail Gitcho told POLITICO that the policy pre-dates the tenure of current RNC Chairman Michael Steele.
“The current policy has been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=4904&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Is What A Commander-In-Chief Looks Like</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/11/12/this-is-what-a-commander-in-chief-looks-like/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news today is that President Obama rejected all of the Afghanistan War strategies offered to him by his national security advisers, instead insisting that any plan have an endgame and an exit strategy:
President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=4893&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>About Time: DADT To Be Repealed In 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) intends to repeal the federal ban on gays serving openly in the military as part of the next defense authorization bill, which should come before Congress in the spring/summer of 2010:
Repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” will likely be included as part of next year’s Department of Defense authorization bill in both [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=4876&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blackwater Accused Of Covering Up Murder Using Taxpayer Dollars (UPDATED)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Infamous military contractor Blackwater Worldwide (also known as Blackwater USA and now Xe) has previously been accused of corruption, murder and illegal arms smuggling.
Well, now you can add bribery to that list:
Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=4842&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FL-SEN: The GOP Civil War Rages On</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/11/10/fl-sen-the-gop-civil-war-rages-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Undaunted by their epic failure in NY-23,  conservatives are looking to  scozzafava Florida&#8217;s 2010 Senate election.
Incumbent Republican Senator Mel Martinez is retiring that year, leaving his seat open. The Democratic candidate will be (in all likelihood)   Congressman Kendrick Meek; the GOP primary will be between  Governor Charlie Crist and FL [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=4807&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Honoring The Fallen Of Ft. Hood</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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Chief Warrant Officer Michael Grant Cahill (Ret.), 62, Cameron, TX.
Maj. Libardo Eduardo Caraveo, 52, Woodbridge, VA.
Army Staff Sgt. Justin DeCrow, 32, Plymouth, IN.
Capt. John Gaffaney, 56, San Diego, CA.
Spc. Frederick Greene, 29, Mountain City, TN.
Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, 22, Tipton, OK.
Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, Kiel, WI.
Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, 19, West Jordan, UT.
Pfc. Michael Pearson, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=4827&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More On The Stupak Amendment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, I described the consequences of the Stupak amendment  as such:
If the Stupak amendment passes, uninsured women who get health care through the public option will have to pay out-of-pocket to get an abortion. And even if a woman uses her own money to buy an insurance plan from a private company [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=4785&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Reform And The Constitution (UPDATED)</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/11/08/health-care-reform-and-the-constitution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think one of the more creative (though still invalid) right-wing argument against health care reform is that it would be unconstitutional. Which part of the constitution, they ask, allows Congress to establish something like the public option?
Article I, Section VIII. The opening part, to be exact:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=4769&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BREAKING: Health Care Reform Passes House (UPDATED X4)</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/11/07/breaking-health-care-reform-passes-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
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The House of Representatives voted 220 to 215 to pass health care reform. And the vote was bipartisan&#8211;one Republican, Joseph Cao of Louisiana, joined the Democrats in supporting the bill.
Congress erupted in cheers and applause as soon as the 218th &#8216;yea&#8217; vote was cast.
This vote is the result of months of effort, representing innumerable hours [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=4749&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The GOP Health Care Plan: Worse Than You Think</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/11/07/the-gop-health-care-plan-worse-than-you-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As it turns out, the GOP&#8217;s health care reform bill is worse that previously thought.
Yesterday, I discussed how the GOP plan will let insurance companies sell plans across state lines. As part of that, insurers would be able to choose a &#8216;primary state&#8217; to operate out of; that state&#8217;s laws would then govern that company&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=4727&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) Stabs Women In The Back (UPDATED X2)</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/11/07/rep-bart-stupak-d-mi-stabs-women-in-the-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Democratic leadership is being forced to bring the Stupak amendment to a vote in order to have a shot at passing health care reform. If the amendment passes&#8211;which is likely&#8211;it will mean that:
Private insurers will have to drop abortion coverage from plans that have it (which is most of them) in order to participate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=4715&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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