Today is distort Democrats' efforts on health reform day at AP

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Associated Press Wins Major Award

by BarbinMD

Congratulations to the Associated Press for winning the What A Majorly Asinine Lede Award:

The Democratic-led Congress' determination to do something about health care this year has slowed legislation affecting the safety of almost every traveler in America.

Some possible rewrites for this ridiculous bit of drivel:

America's road suddenly and mysteriously deteriorate in the past eight months.

Or:

Travel-safety advocates' determination to do something about travel safety this year has slowed legislation affecting the health and mortality rates of almost every citizen in America.

Or:

The Associated Press, noticing a fall-off in ginned up outrage, toss teabaggers a bone.

What a ridiculous zero-sum construct that adds nothing to the debate. Any issue can be presented as crowding out another, and they're all important to some degree to (usually) a large amount of people.

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Health care issues: Using parliamentary maneuvers

A look at key issues in the health care debate:

THE ISSUE: If Senate Republicans continue to oppose Democratic plans to overhaul the nation's health care system, should majority Democrats employ a process called "reconciliation" to pass parts of it without Republican support?

THE POLITICS: Reconciliation is a procedure used to protect bills from being filibustered to death. It effectively lowers the threshold for Senate passage from 60 votes to a simple majority of 51. Both parties have used the procedure to override objections from the minority, but doing so carries the risk of alienating anyone with concerns about the policy being forced through. Democrats who support using reconciliation say it's necessary to enact health care changes that have eluded presidents and congresses for decades. Republicans say that the use of reconciliation for health care would validate their warnings about the Democrats having too much control of the levers of government — and taxpayer money.

WHAT IT MEANS: Deploying reconciliation would strip health care overhaul of any patina of the bipartisan consensus all sides say such a sweeping policy change would need to be effective. It would mean that Democrats did a difficult cost-benefit analysis and determined that passing some type of overhaul was worth the risk of alienating large segments of voters months before the 2010 congressional elections.

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1. Every day at AP, is a day to screw Democrats, to make sure

all AP employees realize that they are dependent upon making sure drug and insurance companies prosper for 10 more years.

AP, about as transparent as Fixed Noise, no objectivity, just a lot of "screw you, I've got mine" politics there.

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2. AP is like the complicit news media. Fox Noise is not news, it's pure lies and propaganda. n/t