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Just got an upbeat personal email from my former governor and now DNC head Tim Kaine praising my efforts to pass Obamacare. It read in part: Ronald — I just met with the President, where I was proud to fill him in on all the great work that you’re doing to pass health reform. We spoke about the calls you’ve made, the letters you’ve written, and the terrific events you’ve organized on the ground

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DNC Chair Tim Kaine Congratulates Me For Helping Pass Health Care Reform

“He fed off me, and it felt really good” is only one of the best quotes from this piece on Republican presidential hopeful, and self-proclaimed vampire, Jonathon “The Impaler” Sharkey. For the rest, you’ll have to watch the whole thing: No doubt he’ll quickly learn the lesson espoused by Jay Laga’aia’s liberal, pro-human vampire Senator in Daybreakers , “Being a vampire and a politician, it can be hard to make friends.”

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“He does have Republican values. Is it going to make a big splash with his current identification as a vampire? That’s only for the voters to decide.”

While Reason is busy saving Cleveland , the city’s native son, resident moonbat , and former mayor Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D) is doing his part to save America. Kucinich says he refuses to vote for any of the current iterations of the healthcare reform bill, calling himself ” a firm no .” Kucinich, of course, opposes the bill from the left, lamenting the lack of a public option or protection for state level single payer plans

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Reason Saves Cleveland, Cleveland’s Kucinich Saves America

The latest InstaVision with Instapundit: Americans, writes famous pollster Scott Rasmussen, don’t want to be governed from the left, right, or center – they want to govern themselves.

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Do You Want to Govern Yourself? Instapundit Talks With Pollster Scott Rasmussen

A meme gathers steam, care of pop-ed sociologist David Brooks : About 40 years ago, a social movement arose to destroy the establishment. The people we loosely call the New Left wanted to take on The Man, return power to the people, upend the elites and lead a revolution. Today, another social movement has arisen

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Tea Party/Baby Boomer Watch

Reason Contributing Editor Julian Sanchez, writing at the American Prospect , looks at another Obama change promise lost, to, as Sanchez puts it, “restore some of the checks on government surveillance power that had been demolished in the panicked aftermath of the September 11 attacks.” More from Sanchez on this byzantine story of how governments tend to want the power to surveill, and will do whatever it takes to keep what they got and keep trying to get more: [L]ast week…a Democratic-controlled Congress quietly voted to reauthorize three controversial provisions of the USA Patriot Act without implementing a single one of the additional safeguards that had been under consideration — among them, more stringent limits on the national security letters (NSLs) Obama had once decried.

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Obushma Watch Vol. 99: National Security Letter Edition

Ron Hart on bipartisanship: We should be delighted there is no bipartisanship in Washington. Bipartisanship brings about bad decisions, like the Iraq War. The Democrats had 60 votes for ObamaCare which they had to bribe some of their Senators to secure—the bill is that bad

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No Cheers For Bipartisanship

On Newsweek ’s website, Associate Editor Peter Suderman looks at how Congressman Paul Ryan’s plan to cut spending and kill the deficit might cause trouble for the GOP : Ask most Republican politicians what they stand for, and they’ll quickly pledge allegiance to the principles of limited government, restrained federal spending, and fiscal responsibility.

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Reason Writers Around Town: Peter Suderman in Newsweek on Paul Ryan’s Roadmap for America’s Future

Reason Senior Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward appeared on RT’s The Alyona Show on February 4, 2010, as part of a panel to discuss the marketing strategies of the Democratic and Republican parties. Approximately 13 minutes.

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Reason Staffers on the Tube: Katherine Mangu-Ward on Evil Republicans and Stupid Democrats at Russia Today