Teddy to deep-six public option for health care?

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Not looking good. This, and the closed door hearing with studies from a think tank owned by health insurance parasites.

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Help, please--I read recently that Obama's WH web pages had

undergone several editing changes, among them softening support for a some progressive/lib agendas. I'm sure one was about support for gay rights. There was some pushback from lefty blogs and some items were returned. IIRC!

I can't find these posts by googling nor remember where I saw them.

Any Correntians come acorss anything simllar to this?

Seems to be a movement among Dem leaders to rewrite their agendas, if what I read about Obama's WH pages and now this about Sen. Ted "Lion of the Senate" Kennedy is accurate.

Lambert, this report is so sad, so depressing. Is it his staff, acting for him?

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Well, jawbone...

.... I never had any hope for Teddy after NCLB.

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i've seen that too

and no, i don't remember where i saw it, but at least one blog had a before-and-after set of screen shots, or maybe it was a link to some google cached versions

Think Progress covered the WH web changes: 1st, Don't Ask,Don't

Tell; 2nd, Defense of Marriage Act. DADT and DOMA. The Think Progress post is filled w/ good links.

According to ProPublica’s Change Tracker, the changes to the DOMA language were made on April 30. During his campaign, Obama repeatedly pledged to seek to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, telling The Advocate, “I for a very long time have been interested in repeal of DOMA.” During the primary campaign, he touted his longtime opposition to DOMA, in a strongly-worded “open letter” to the LGBT community:

Unlike Senator Clinton, I support the complete repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) -– a position I have held since before arriving in the U.S. Senate. While some say we should repeal only part of the law, I believe we should get rid of that statute altogether. Federal law should not discriminate in any way against gay and lesbian couples, which is precisely what DOMA does.

Last week, after bloggers pointed out Obama’s seeming hypocrisy on “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the White House quickly revised the language to once again pledge to “repeal” the policy, rather than just change it. Will the White House similarly fix this mistake, and reinstate Obama’s campaign promise to grant gay couples their full federal rights?

ProPublica's Change Tracker sounds like a very good resource. As is ProPublica.

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