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Will he get Health Care through?We waited almost a year to see the much heralded, much researched and much celebrated or cursed health insurance and health care reform legislation actually come to a vote in the Senate- would the historic bill actually pass through, then be equalized in both houses of Congress, then actually make it to the desk of the man who should be celebrating actually making it happen after decades: President Barck Obama. But alas, in a fit of tragic irony the life-long champion of health care reform, Massachusetts senator Edward Kennedy, died before the senate vote could go through. In his place, Massachusetts voters place one who has been heralded as the savior of the Republican party, and, if not that, certainly the spoiler of the year for the Democrats: Scott Brown. Read more

After closed meetings for months, Obama will open the health care reform bill

Suddenly, the Obama administration is back to working with transparency, social networking and the Internet. In fact, just this week they invited 12 Dems and 9 Republicans to a health care conference. You know, to sit down and talk about the health care legislation. Like pals. Just to sort things out.

And they are going to publish the legislative overhaul on online- which will be awesome to read. And they are advertising for a new social networking guru on Mashable… Read more

Making the final push for health reformHealth care. After all the revisions, all the hemming and hawing, all the opposition, all the tea party antics, all the State of the Union talk and all of the money spent on both sides of the issue over the 6 months+ of debating and dealing with it, we still have to deal with it. Even though the one bill passed through the House of Representatives, it will probably have to be dramatically changed if not abandoned altogether. Because the Senate is no longer filibuster-proof. And that whole Massachusetts thing. But, I’d kind of love to hear Scott Brown’s favorite recipes and his reading of the Great Gatsby or something, you know? Why don’t we just let them filibuster? It would probably be more interesting that whatever else is going on. Read more

Obama"Join with me. Let's do this together, Republicans and Democrats." These are just some of President Obama’s words in this weeks extremely unusual face to face meeting with the Reupblican leaders. Reuters says the session lasted 82 minutes and essentially served to highlight the political divide between the Dems and Republicans. And he did some of this live on Cable.

For his part, Obama wavered between two approaches- accusing the Republicans of blocking his policies and at the same time asked them to join with him in creating jobs and other moves to help the economy get back on its feet. Read more