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The Wall Street Journal reports: "U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk on Monday appealed to congressional leaders to begin work "without delay" toward ratifying a free-trade deal with South Korea, even as Republican leaders continued to press to link such action with movement on trade pacts with C...

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030804720.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Phil Klein,Examiner
Having already passed a law telling Americans what kind of health insurance they must buy, President Obama is preparing to dictate what type of cars everybody must drive.In September, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are expected to release new Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. As currently conceived, the regulations would effectively be a regulatory mandate for Americans to drive electric cars.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/06/30/whether_it039s_healthcare_or_cars_obama_knows_best_258458.html

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Rod Blagojevich and wife Patti hugged in the courtroom after a federal jury in Chicago this afternoon convicted the former Illinois governor of attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated when President Obama was elected in 2008, one of 17 guilty counts.
She could be heard saying to him, "Let's just go home."

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Rep. Anthony Weiner can still get his demons out at the House gym, though he resigned from Congress a week ago in the wake of a lurid Twitter scandal.

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Even leaders of reform efforts say they are not convinced that Rod R. Blagojevich?s conviction will drastically change the pattern of political corruption in the state.

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There are only a handful of fairly uncontroversial statements you can make these days, stuff like, “the image of Al Gore making out with someone is gross” and “cancer should have a cure” and “the cruel treatment of children is awful.” Oh wait, except the last one, if you are full of rat testicles like [...]

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A few days ago, this story made a splash in the New York Times.

WASHINGTON ? Alarmed by a shortage of primary care doctors, Obama administration officials are recruiting a team of "mystery shoppers" to pose as patients, call doctors? offices and request appointments to see how difficult it is for people to get care when they need it.
The administration says the survey will address a "critical public policy problem": the increasing shortage of primary care doctors, including specialists in internal medicine and family practice. It will also try to discover whether doctors are accepting patients with private insurance while turning away those in government health programs that pay lower reimbursement rates.

Predictably, there were many screams from Republicans about "Big Brother," and death panels and the rest. The result of which, was the administration abandoning the program.

The proposal's dismissal comes after Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) called on his colleagues to sign onto a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urging her to nix the idea.
"I'm asking my colleagues to join in a letter to Secretary Sebelius sharing concern with the legality, standards and repercussions of this program," Kirk said on the Senate floor. "The cost in a proposed clandestine method of collecting information on physician offices is questionable, and therefore, I'm going to be requesting details on how this survey will be conducted, how investigators will be punished for any misconduct or extortion that they may carry out in their duties, and how patient and physician confidentiality will be maintained."

So serial liar Mark Kirk says that federal contractors in this program will probably be extortionists, and HHS gives up without a fight. Physicians taking tax dollars can't be mystery-shopped for efficiency because a Republican says it's extortion. These doctors, again taking tax dollars, can't be subject to simple survey, but any ordinary citizen can be wiretapped any old time the feds want to.

There's no question that the country is lacking adequate primary care providers. What this survey would have done is collect the hard data to find out things like where the need is the greatest, which populations have the most difficulty finding access, etc. The responses will be kept confidential?Health and Human Services did not intend to create a database of "bad" doctors who won't take on new patients, but to try to determine where access to care is most problematic. It was a smart idea, the kind that American businesses use regularly.

One of the objections doctors raised was that "the secret shoppers will not identify themselves as working for the government." Which pinpoints the problem in getting this kind of information in any other kind of survey. Whether the "shoppers" are calling as part of a government survey or are actual would-be patients shouldn't make any difference to doctors, which suggests that they might not provide the same answer to a self-identified government worker taking a survey and a potential patient. Gathering this information, which is essential for finding solutions to the primary care provider shortage, will now be more difficult.

Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/zhE5OFgpPS0/-Administration-cancels-secret-shopper-health-care-access-survey

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A federal appeals court in Cincinnati has ruled in favor of the Obama administration and Congress, ruling a key provision in the sweeping health care reform bill passed last year was constitutional.

Source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_allpolitics/~3/WmdcijNfb2k/index.html

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What?s the difference between the actor who will forever embody the American ideal of craggy cowboy masculinity and the serial killer who forever made clowns way way creepier than they?d ever been before?

Source: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/27/6958622-wrong-john-wayne-mix-up-is-opening-day-headache-for-bachmann

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