Today’s Blogmarks

• 20 senators demand probe of health-care vote ‘threat’
  Twenty senators are demanding an investigation into reports the Obama administration threatened to close Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska if that state’s Democratic senator, Ben Nelson, didn’t join other Democrats in voting for health-care reform.
• Betting America’s Future On The ‘Healthcare’ Circus
  At this writing, the prospect of America’s descent into the abyss of socialism hinges on an impasse between Senator Joe Lieberman and Barack Obama’s replacement Senator Roland Burris. The irreconcilable difference between the two pertains to the inclusion in Obamacare of a “public option,” the latest euphemism for an eventual total government takeover of the entire American medical industry.
• Thrust and Parry on the Senate Floor
  Unless the Sunday morning news programs are buzzing about how the Senate health care bill was unexpectedly blocked on a procedural vote Saturday night, lawmakers have all headed home for Thanksgiving, and to rest up for what is likely to be a legislative floor fight of galactic proportions through much of December.
• A Read-Aloud in the Senate — Or Not
  In a counter-maneuver to thwart an effort by Senate Republicans to stall the health care debate, Senator Bernard Sanders, independent of Vermont, has withdrawn his amendment that would create a fully government-run health care system.
  What’s in this bill that they don’t want us to know about, hmmm?

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