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The urgency was easy to find inside the private receptions and closed-door briefings at the Koch brothers' donor retreat in Colorado Springs, where the billionaire conservatives and their chief lieutenants warned this weekend of a rapidly shrinking window to push their agenda through Congress. No agenda items mattered more to the conservative Koch network than the GOP's promise to overhaul the nation's tax code and repeal and replace President Barack Obama's health care law. At the moment, however, both are bogged down by GOP infighting that jeopardizes their fate...... "If we don't get health care, none of us are coming...

The spectacle of America’s catastrophic default in the Middle East has rattled the top levels of the progressive movement. So desperate are they to obscure the damage (beyond changing the subject to gun control – and racism at the next opportunity) that a leading propagandist has just deployed the T-word – treason – to try to shut up critics who portray the president’s weakness before Putin.

Well, Spain's Zapatero is withdrawing troops from the battle against terrorism in Iraq. Once again, when danger reared its ugly head, he proudly tucked his tail and fled...