Mike Ross has just announced that he will be holding a health care Town Hall this Friday, August 14, at 2pm in Arkadelphia, AR. Arkadelphia is about 60 miles southwest of Little Rock. Twenty percent of Mike Ross’s district lives in poverty, 21.8% are uninsured, and nearly a quarter are African American. Yet Mike Ross [...]

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Despite the fact that many are in heavy Democratic districts, none of the people on this list have taken the pledge. One would think it would be more politically problematic for someone not to take the pledge than to take it in a D+10 district.

Carney: “Rude is not the right word for these people. Ed was just doing his job assisting people with private matters and they deprived their neighbors from getting help with their problems. They should remember that I’m one of the Blue Dogs that slowed the process down so we could have a discussion about this issue.”

Ingrates.

I think I hear a drumbeat: Appearing on CNN’s "State of the Union," Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), one of the chamber’s foremost progressives, said that while he supported a government-run option for insurance, he was "open" to alternatives.

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I asked Steve Steffens of Left Wing Cracker to elaborate on the teabaggers who brought guns to Steve Cohen’s Memphis health care event:

According to reports from the Steve Cohen health care event in Memphis Tennessee, the teabaggers are showing up armed.

Public condemnation of bully tactics works.
It seems that the Dick Armey’s manufactured Astroturf venom is losing its potency as we Long Islanders are reminded what very close neighbors we all are.

Emanuel Cleaver holds monthly “Coffee With Cleaver” get-togethers around his district, and today was the day for one near me. I went early, but not nearly early enough. Lots of folks, generally calm . . . with a little watching by the police to make sure it stayed that way.