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And possibly, the year : This is from Politico , so take it with a grain of salt: BULLETIN -- POLITICO’s Carrie Budoff Brown: This morning, Senator Schumer is going to say, in light of the insurance industry report warning premiums will rise under reform, Dems should push to revoke the health insurance industry's antitrust exemption as a floor amendment. This will be at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, where Majority Leader Reid is also testifying." 10 a.m., Dirksen 226, "Prohibiting Price Fixing and Other Anticompetitive Conduct in the Health Insurance Industry." If its true, that is a potentially BLOCKBUSTER amendment. Regulation to the immoral insurance industry? It appears more likely than I thought, and it is ACTUALLY growing. Will certainly be interesting if the irrelevant SOP say their banal line of "government oppression is at it again" blah. It will be more hypocrisy from the Hypocrite Party in terms of not supporting their own super-capitalis...

Yesterday, The Whole Delivery opened its Joe Lieberman Trial Series , and here's the continuation until the decision next week. For those who thought Barack Obama was fully ho-hum on this, think again: Mr.Moulitsas : Doesn't sound like Barack Obama is being that conciliatory to Joe Lieberman: Sen. Joe Lieberman has reached out to President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden to arrange a congratulatory phone call, a Democratic aide tells The Crypt. The effort has led to a recent conversation between Biden and Lieberman. So Lieberman called Obama to congratulate him (and suck up to try and save his committee chairmanship), and Obama hands him off to Biden. Ms.Maddow speaks her thoughts about the "trial", last night. The people of Connecticut are really unhappy, and angry, with Lieberman. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Joe Lieberman is doing as U.S. senator? Approve 36 (45) Disapprove 61 (43) If the 2012 election for U.S. Senate were held to...