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• "Orange Man" Boehner's Alternative GOP Farcical HCR Bill Just Defeated in House.
• Last Minute Cantor Effort to Sink Democratic Bill Just Defeated. Next stop, passage of an historic, if imperfect, Health Care Reform bill.
• Stupak Amendment Just Passed 218 mark. Alas, it's part of the HCR Bill. But the endgame and passage of HCR is near in House.
• Obama's Visit to the Hill on Saturday: Another high-ranking Democratic Hill staffer briefed on the meeting put it this way: "Obama's main message was that the GOP won't go any easier on you if you vote against the bill. It's a tough vote, yes, but they're going to take heat either way."
• GOP Gone Wild: Unruly Republicans Silence Women Lawmakers With Screams, Shouts, And Delay Tactics
• Boston Globe: The cost of not enacting health care reform
• President Barack Obama's health care initiative has cleared its first big hurdle in the House, with lawmakers voting to advance the debate. The House voted 242-192 in favor of a must-pass procedural measure setting the terms for the debate. All 177 Republicans, joined by a few Democrats, voted to block the debate.
• Dems ask Pelosi for autographs
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• Cliffhanger Vote Expected to Run Late Into Saturday Evening in the House. Abortion "Compromise" Among Dems May Bring Majority Vote, But Sure to Anger Base. Stay Tuned. And Then There's the Senate, Where Harry Reid is Hardly the Strong Leader That Pelosi is.
• Premium: An Unexpected Bestseller from the Most Unlikely Source -- "Keep on Trucking" R. Crumb -- With 50 Chapters of Illustrations on the Most Unlikely Topic: The Old Testament. Just released on October 19.
• Premium: Why Aren't More BuzzFlash Readers Buying Gore's New Book to Save the Planet? Strange. As Featured with Al Gore Talking to Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" on November 4.
• "This is our moment to deliver," Obama said. House passage of the bill is crucial if Obama is to fulfil the biggest promise of his campaign last year. But the legislation still faces multiple hurdles and a Senate vote on it might not occur until next year.
• Are We Keeping Afghanistan Safe From Democracy?
• Report: Pelosi Yields to Anti-Choice Dems and Will Allow Anti-Abortion Amendment Even More Restrictive than the Hyde Admendment In Order to Ensure Passage of Healthcare Reform Bill, Which is Still Hanging by a Nail as GOP Commits to Voting Unanimously "No" and Trying to Prevent Vote.
• Al Gore on Climate Change: Civil Disobedience Has a Role to Play. Go, Al!
• Pelosi: We Have the Votes to Make History Saturday Night
• Will Pelosi Have the Votes for a House Vote on Healthcare Reform on Saturday? It is Looking mighty Close as Some Dems Have Already Declared to Vote "No." Stay Tuned.
• Match Made in ZombieLand: Glenn Beck coming to SC to Promote Book About Arguing with Idiots. BuzzFlash is Not Making This Up!
• Republican Rep. Uses Live Infant as Prop Against Healthcare Reform
• NYC City Council: A quarter of its members will be new. Four members will be openly gay, the most ever. The Republican minority, though still tiny, will grow to five from three. For the first time, a majority will be black, Hispanic or Asian. Also for the first time, an Asian-American will represent Chinatown.
• More on the Anti-Choice Stupak Amendment Concession
• Barney Frank: Teabaggers "appeared to have been the losers in the 'Are you smarter than Michele Bachmann contest?'."
• An 'authentic GOP': bamboozling swing voters, as always. P.M. Carpenter Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on Saturday, November 7. Forget that Republicans raided the public treasury, coddled plutocrats, ignored the working class, exacerbated our health-care system's collapse, abused science and scientists, corrupted justice, violated international treaties with abandon and in general brought this nation perilously close to the brink of irreversible desolation. In fact, they may have accomplished just that.
• The Dem Battle Over Abortion in the House
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• Obama calls Dem House of Representative holdouts on health care as vote nears on Saturday evening, if Pelosi has enough votes
• NYT: With the release of the jobs report on Friday, the broadest measure of unemployment and underemployment tracked by the Labor Department has reached its highest level in decades. If statistics went back so far, the measure would almost certainly be at its highest level since the Great Depression. In all, more than one out of every six workers — 17.5 percent — were unemployed or underemployed in October. The previous high was 17.1 percent, in December 1982.
• House Republicans plan to vote unanimously against health-care measure
• America's Love Affair With Guns and Violence Rips This Nation Apart Day After Day: Emergency call records moments after boy, 10, allegedly shot father in head. 'I shot him in the back of the head. I got so angry at him' boy tells operator. His father later died from his wounds
• O’Reilly Goes After Sesame Street: ‘We May Have To Ambush Oscar’ Say what?
• Fort Hood Mass Shooting, Latest Example of Price Paid for Deadly Firepower Available to Americans
• Religious Wrong: Do 'New Atheists' and Old Evangelists Play the Same Game? -- BuzzFlash News Analysis
• Employment Engineering: Firing those who Work with Their Hands. Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate Jobs Protected by Bailout Structure. Other Sectors Dealing with Depression Trends.
• Rep. Steve Israel Demands Michele Bachmann Apologize for Holocaust Images Being Used on Health Insurance Bill
• Teaparty Frightfest Photo Gallery
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• The Pathological Backlash of the South Losing Its Grip on Power in America
• Treasury Blocks the Sale of Tax Credits by Fannie May
• America's Shooting Gallery: British tourist shot dead in Texas bar
• ExxonMobil-led consortium nets 'supergiant' Iraq oil field. It was all about the oil, stupid!
• Daniel Ellsberg on the Urgency of Truth
• Max Cleland Pens an Eloquent Call for Better Mental Health Services for Our GIs
• Fox News advances false claim that "House Call" protest was "spontaneous"
• The Jobless Recovery: "Soaring U.S. Unemployment Threatens Path to Economic Recovery"
• Supreme Court Will Decide if Prosecutors Can be Sued for Framing Defendants. Like is there any Question? Oh, Yeah the Supreme Court Will Probably Decide 5-4 on Behalf of Legalizing Framing by Prosecutors.
• Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) on Cigna's 92% Increase in Third Quarter Profits -- BuzzFlash News Alert
• NYT: "Prospect of More U.S. Troops Worries Afghan Public"
• Unemployment Up Dramatically! Stocks Rise! Huh? -- Dave Lindorff
• Palin Previews Book Tour Rap
• State High Risk Health Insurance Plans Charge Women Higher Premiums
• Fort Hood: Obama urges caution amid fears of backlash against Muslims
• Bob Herbert: "Simply stated, we cannot continue sending service members into combat for three tours, four tours, five tours and more without paying a horrendous price in terms of the psychological well-being of the troops and their families, and the overall readiness of the armed forces to protect the nation."
• The Peculiar Characteristics of the Swine Flu
• Highly Trained in Firearms, Civilian Sgt. Kimberly Denise Munley is Being Praised as a Hero for Ending the Mass Shooting at Fort Hood, Ending up with Three Non-Life Threatening Shooting Injuries
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• Statement from Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) on his decision to withdraw his single payer amendment to HR 3962. Can someone check to see if he still can move his arm from having it twisted so hard?
• Double-Digit Unemployment Is Obama's No. 1 Challenge
• Age Discrimination Still Gets Second Class Treatment
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• The Fraud of the GOP Claim of Voting Scandals
• Iran lawmakers: No shipment of uranium abroad
• Pelosi's Challenge: Competing Fundraising and Caucus Member Demands on Healthcare Reform. Oh, and Then There's the Actual Public Policy of the Bill. (We're Being BuzzFlash Sarcastic. We Rate Pelosi a Much Better Legislative Leader than Harry Reid.)
• Charles Blow: "It isn’t President Obama’s fault that he inherited this mess, but it is his to fix, and he must make haste. To paraphrase his Toledo prelection: you need to do it not five years from now, not next year, you need to do it right now. J-O-B-S."
• NATO strike kills 7 Afghan security forces: Kabul
• NYT Editorial: "Things turned Orwellian in the House Financial Services Committee this week when members — with the backing of the White House — passed an investor protection bill that would make it all too easy for thousands of publicly traded companies to cook their books."
• Working on the weekend -- Pelosi: House health reform vote on Saturday
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• Brent Budowsky: 10.2 percent jobless -- Obama must take on the banks
• Daniel Ellsberg: Don't Repeat Vietnam in Afghanistan
• A short trip through the cyberland of right-wing dementia P.M. Carpenter Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on Friday, November 6.
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• Irony: Government health care rescues protesters at anti-government health care rally.
• David Sirota: Trade reform - save jobs, save the planet
• Israel Turning to Remotely Run Military Tools for Overseeing Occupation
• Political Carnival: Blunt warning from White House -- Do not go on Fox
• While Democratic leaders say they are confident they will have the 218 votes needed to pass major health care legislation this weekend, a number of House Democrats, including several from Republican-leaning districts in the South, have announced that they will oppose the measure.
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• Bill Boyarsky: Keep the Government Out of the News Business
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• 2 reported dead, 6 injured after a shooting at an office building in downtown Orlando. Alleged suspect captured, reported to be a former employee of a company with offices in the building who got laid-off. America, where we pledge allegiance to the NRA and the gun industry.
• Hypocrisy in motion: Carrie Prejean demanded more than a million dollars during her settlement negotiations with Miss California USA Pageant officials -- that is, until the lawyer for the Pageant showed Carrie an XXX home video of her handiwork.
• Is Glenn Beck Being Treated By SEIU Nurses?
• Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) Seeks to Rein in Abuses of PATRIOT Act -- BuzzFlash News Alert
• African-Americans hit inordinately hard by recession
• House Republicans Win the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week Award for Leaving Preexisting Conditions Coverage Out of Their Bogus Healthcare Plan. As far as the GOP is concerned, hypocrisy is a preexisting condition.
• David Corn: Is the Tea Party Gang Turning GOP Into a Party of Hate?
• WTF? Pacific Gas and Electric Wants Rate Hike for Efficient Energy Users
• Could Revelations on Campaign Funding Blow the Roof Off GOP Corruption in Alabama?
• Human Rights Campaign reacts to Washington state Passes Referendum Ensuring Domestic Partners Have Rights
• New Survey Confirms Imminent Public Hostility: Many Wall Street Employees Will See Their 2009 Bonuses Dramatically Increase
• Clean Energy Could Create 850,000 New Jobs
• Double digits: Unemployment Rate Hits 10.2%, Highest in 26 Years; And remember, this is the official rate, so the real rate is much higher.

• Michelle Obama on the cover of Glamour
• Jobs, jobs, jobs. Period.
• Eugene Robinson: Attack of the Palinites
• Fort Hood has felt the strain of repeated deployments Base leads Army posts in number of suicides since Iraq invasion
• Jon Stewart Devastates Glenn Beck in a Brilliant, Dark, Stunning Parody -- BuzzFlash Editor's Blog
• U.S. Readies Jobless Aid and Help on Homes
• NY-23 "gave Democrats another seat in the House, 27 of 29 congressional seats in New York and 258 seats overall. The outcome also was significant because it’s very rare for the party controlling the White House to flip control of a seat that way. Owens’ victory in New York’s 23rd was the first time since 2001 and only the sixth time in the past 30 years that has happened. And not since 1980 had a Democratic White House claimed a special election victory in a Republican-held district. Because of their unusual timing and low turnouts, special elections present challenging circumstances for the party in control of the White House in part because the opposition party is usually more ginned up than the defending party in these sorts of races. Even in California’s 10th district, where California Democratic Lt. Gov. John Garamendi was elected in a much lower-profile special election on Nov. 3, his 53 percent vote share in a vacant northern California district was well below the 65 percent vote share Obama received there a year ago."
• Crazy but not insane? Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) begs for Sarah Palin endorsement, but scoffs at Glenn Beck: 'He's an interesting guy.'
• Four IL GOP Guv Candidates Deny Evidence Of Man-Made Climate Change
• More Poor Governmental Oversight: EPA Faces Allegations that It's Not Adequately Enforcing Rules Regulating Genetically Altered Crops
• Interactive Map: Insurance Market Concentration Creates Fewer Choices
• EBay Settles Suit Over Skype Sale
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• Credit card companies showing extra greed, loansharking levels of more than 30% interest
• Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) considering a run for governor. If she won, she would pick her own replacement.
• AIG Reports Profit but Warns of Continued Volatility
• People For the American Way Foundation Statement on Shooting at Fort Hood
• William Shatner dramatically recites Levi Johston's Twitter posts in 'Tonight Show' skit
• 14 Charged With Insider Trading in Galleon Case
• Markos Nails Tom Tancredo, Who Storms Off MSNBC Set
• GOP Health Plan Would Allow For 'Sweatshop Insurance'
• Reviews Raise Doubt on Training of Afghan Forces
• BuzzFlash Mailbag for November 6, 2009
• The Blackstone Group reports $275 million profit for third quarter, as the giant publicly held private-equity firm bounced back from the financial crisis last year.
• 1929 and 2009: A public job program is the answer
• Fox News owns the extremist images featured at Capitol Hill rally it promoted
• 12 states and DC urged EPA to adopt more rigorous national policies so they can meet federal air pollution reduction requirements for the region.
• President Barack Obama promised "answers to every single question" about Thursday's shooting at Fort Hood after an attack by at least one U.S. service member that left at least 13 soldiers dead and 31 wounded.
• Troubles for a Deal — and for Obama — in Honduras
• When Political Bureaucratese Becomes Legal Sleaze -- Ms. Smith Goes to Washington
• Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for November 6, 2009
• Paul Krugman: Obama Faces His Anzio
• Lack of health insurance played a role in thousands of child deaths, researchers say
• You have to hand it to Michele Bachmann and Her Fellow Right Wing Nut Jobs, Including Ms. Sarah: She has succeeded in turning the GOP into one big Tea Party. Signed, Sealed and Delivered.
• Spokane, WA -- pretty conservative city -- Considers Community Bill of Rights
• The parents of the Sacramento State student who was murdered in his apartment received a $29,000 hospital bill and a letter telling the victim to seek health care elsewhere.
• By announcing he doesn't want another term in office, embattled Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pushed the Mideast peace effort into unknown territory Thursday, opening the way to a succession battle that could play into the hands of his rival, the militant Hamas.
• Supreme Court appears split on tackling rogue prosecutors The Supreme Court Wednesday heard arguments in a lawsuit brought by two Iowa men who spent 25 in prison after prosecutors allegedly fabricated evidence against them. Justices seemed divided on the issue of how much immunity prosecutors should enjoy.
• A dozen groups pursuing new-media ventures in Chicago received a combined $500,000 from the Community News Matters program, a project supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Chicago Community Trust and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
• Ponzi Crook Loses Knighthood & Claims of JFK Assassin Snapshots -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser
• Environmental groups at odds over new tack in climate fight
• California falls short in examining deaths of children A law designed to allow public scrutiny of fatal abuse and neglect is unevenly enforced and leaves many unaccounted for.
• All Opinions Are Not Equally Relevant Ann Davidow Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on Friday, November 6. The difference is, however, that on Fox opinion is propped up by opinion whereas on programs that maintain some sense of integrity opinion is informed by factual material. One may not agree with the conclusions or the political motivation but liberal substance trumps right-wing ideological interpretations every time.
• More Coverage on the Fort Hood Shooting, Apparently the Largest American Military Base Shooting in History
• Getting ready for Saturday: House Democrats are scrambling to secure enough support to pass President Barack Obama's historic health overhaul initiative, working to soothe last-minute concerns from rank-and-file Democrats ahead of a make-or-break vote.
• Tragically Bizarre: Nadal Malik Hasan, Suspected Fort Hood Shooter, Was Army Psychiatrist. Alleged Gunman Trained in Disaster & Preventive Psychiatry.
• Strike One for Hotels in San Francisco
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• Likely Fort Hood Shooter Turns Out to be Alive, But Wounded and in Custody
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• R. Crumb's Illustrated "Book of Genesis" Has Been a Huge Seller on BuzzFlash, And It's Caught the Attention and Effusive Praise of Thom Hartmann in His Monthly Book Review Exclusively for BuzzFlash -- Thom Hartmann's Independent Thinker Review
• Michele Bachmann and the Teabaggers: Outside the Capitol shouting 'Kill the Bill'; NYT describes them as a "generally older crowd, many in their 50s and 60s, predominantly, white, and many self-identified as Christians." screaming about 'No Socialistic Health Care.' Does that include Medicare???
• CREW calls on HHS: Why did the CDC approve distribution of H1N1 vaccine to Wall Street firms while the vaccine is unavailable to most Americans?
• FOX Faux News is this week's BuzzFlash's Media Putz Award winner. Actually, FOX is the BuzzFlash Media Putz of the century.
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• Abortion and the Capps Amendment: Why We Must Stop Negotiating With Terrorists on Healthcare Reform -- BuzzFlash News Analysis
• 9 Universal Health Care Supporters Arrested At Lieberman's Office
• Greg Palast: TALIBAN = 9/11?? Afghanistan by Hypnosis
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• Italian Court Convicts Operatives: What About the Higher-Ups?
• Pelosi: Single-Payer Amendment Breaks Obama's Health Care Promise
• Classy? No. Protestors Tie Dem Health Plan To Holocaust
• Progressive Leaders Urge Obama To Have Courage
• Insurer Cigna's 3Q profit grows 92 percent
• Margie Burns: Looks as though Sarah Palin's stock just dropped
• Top Bailout Recipients Spent $71 Million On Lobbying In Year Since Bailout
• She knows about scary -- Michele Bachmann to protesters: 'Scare' Congress
• Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) screws up the Pledge of Allegiance, leaves out 'indivisible.'
• Troop Deaths in Afghanistan Stir Outcry in Britain
• Probably not coming somewhere near you: Palin book tour to avoid 'Democratic' cities
• Investigation: CA 'Spanky' Legislator Was Lying About Sex with Lobbyist
• New report: 25% of genetically engineered (GE) corn farmers take contamination causing shortcuts
• Norman Solomon: The Next Phase of Healthcare Apartheid
• Report Exposes Campaign of Racial Attacks From Far Right
• Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for November 5, 2009
• BuzzFlash Mailbag for November 5, 2009
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• Al Franken Speaks Softly But Gets Results to Win this week's BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award In a political and media era where shouting gets you noticed the fastest, perhaps the single best communicator in the upper chamber -- Al Franken -- has been noticed for his quieter, more subtle ways of conveying a point.
• Bigger Disaster Looms in 2010, Democrats Crash and Burn in Virginia and New Jersey -- Dave Lindorff
• BP Contests Record-Breaking OSHA Fine While Allowing 'Hundreds of Potential Hazards to Continue' -- BuzzFlash News Alert
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• Strip Joe Lieberman of his, er, power