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Memo to the Left: The Public Health Insurance Option Is Dead, Get Over It
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyAs the climactic votes approach this week on health care, some groups on the left seem more interested in throwing a wrench into the process than putting a landmark law on the books. MoveOn.org is in the latter camp. It is asking its 5 million members to back primary challengers to Democrats who don't support the reform package, and at least one union is sending similar signals. MoveOn also is running an ad featuring Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Which side of history will you be on?" it asks. The spot starts Tuesday on ...
Illinois Gitmo? Gitmo North? White House Pushes Back on Branding
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyWhen I asked White House press secretary Robert Gibbs about whether transferring some Guantanamo detainees to an Illinois prison -- the plan to do so was announced Tuesday -- would create another rallying and recruitment point for al-Queda, Gibbs wasn't pleased that I had called the prison an "Illinois Gitmo." ...
Obama's 'Gitmo North' Prison in Homestate Illinois. Will It Fly?
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyAs the Obama administration struggles to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison, a proposal to house some of the detainees in a nearly vacant prison in Obama's home state of Illinois--promoted by Democrats Gov. Pat Quinn and Sen. Dick Durbin--met stiffening resistance on Monday from Illinois House Republicans. "This is just a bad idea, right? They haven't thought it all through," Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) told Politics Daily. "And I think from a political point of view, I think the subtext here is there are very few states that the president can reach out to." ...
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