Senate health care debate happening now on CSPAN2, and it's never too late to give your Senator a call through the capital switchboard: (202) 224-3121.  

When you're finished with that, partake of the rest of this week's best.  Enjoy.

• The Opportunity Agenda servers up a Bi-weekly Public Opinion Roundup - Health Care and Capitalism.
• Blanche Lincoln Is Out of Excuses. Help Us Keep The Pressure On! (thedonkeyedge)
• Border Jumpers writes from Kenya: Coming Up Roses for Union Members: Flower Workers Improve Workplace Conditions Through Solidarity.
• If You Believe Guantanamo Makes Us Safer You Should Have Been Here Today. (David Danzig)
• Firing Geithner not the solution writes Ravi Verma in Elections have consequences..right ?
• Climate Change Deniers' Smear Campaigns Exposed. (jamesboyce)
• A bit of good news from Steve M in The Anti-Rape Forces Get The Last Laugh.
• Report Shows 2008 Electorate is Most Diverse in Modern History. (Project Vote)

And top comment thread this week is happening now in George57's It's time to start blaming Republicans for job losses and economic meltdown.

A happy blog birthday to Jonathan (go wish him four more -- at least!), and apologies for a tardy rescue today.  Without further delay, here are the recommended diaries, in the order they were received.  Enjoy.

• There should be no compromise, writes johnny venom in It's more than just healthcare, its also the safety net at stake!
• Spotlight on Community Voices Heard and the Economic Recovery. (The Opportunity Agenda)
• "Failing up" won't cut it for bruh3 in A Wolf Among Sheep: Why Timothy Geithner Must Go.
• Five pillars of protecting our natural resources from 21st Century Democrats' Ken Salazar and the Future of America.
• KS-Gov: Businessman Tom Wiggans will challenge Brownback. (Mike Nellis)
• Restore Fairness asks Are children of immigrants becoming needless statistics in the child welfare system?
• Five critical points that must underlie a new jobs agenda in Seth D Michaels and Trumka: Jobs Crisis--Fix It Now.
• Instead of treaties, writes George57, Make Copenhagen about public education on climate change.
• The Media Consortium's Weekly Audit: Saying 'No' to Corporate America.

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• Evangelical Movement Within The Democratic Party - Good or Bad? (kspidel)
• Bishops speak for 9% of Americans, 55% of House of Representatives. (John Russonello)
• Ralphlopez: The Speech Obama Must Give on Afghanistan.
• Popcorn time in Utah, writes Chino Blanco, as the LDS church endorses local equal protection ordinances and local conservative think-tank melts-down in Sutherland Institute: Utah's progress on LGBT rights is based on illusion.
• National Nurses Movement: What next for the single payer movement?
• Two who supported the House bill, but also the Stupid Stupak amendment.  ARDem makes an argument for still Rewarding good behavior: Marion Berry and Vic Snyder.
• Since when do Democrats, the historical champions of women's rights, sell out a good 60% of their voter base asks JMBell in Why are elected officials so frightened of vaginas?
• Bruce Webb wants to discuss the Most important AND most overlooked sentence in HR3962.
• Bipartisan Support for Bringing Voter Registration to the 21st Century Underway. (Project Vote)

And this week's most recommended comment discussion is happening right now in Bruh3's Grain of Salt: Reid to Include Anti-abortion Provision?

Enjoy.  

• It's time for a real discussion about the critical elements of our unemployment crisis says NoFortunateSon in Cast Away - Tales of the Young, Educated, and Unemployed.
• Climate change and the business of American business in jamesboyce's Chamber Me This.
• John Garamendi on the House health care bill and The Most Important Vote I Have Ever Cast.
• Mike Nellis on the House health care bill and Being responsible: Thank you Congressman Dennis Moore!
• In David Brooks is mistaken about what independents want, John Russonello argues voters are simply looking for results.
• You've missed the conference call announced in Joe Trippi's Call in Tonight for Veterans, but you can still join The Eleven Eleven campaign.
• Tea baggers aren't the voice of a populist majority, just the loudest voices, says Forgiven in The Soul of the Party?
• The Media Consortium's Weekly Audit: The Unemployment Epidemic.

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• The Tide is Turning in the Fight to Close Guantanamo. (Sharon Kelley)
• John Garamendi in CA-10: Sworn in and Looking forward to Voting on Health Care Reform.
• Tuesday's election was about governing, not politics writes John Russonello.
• UNITE HERE Local 634 Members Beat Back SEIU Raid By 2:1 Vote. (jre)
• Bruce Webb dissects the Boehner amendment in Sweatshop Insurance: O'Boehner Care & the Northern Marianas.
• Nonprofit Tech: Blogging for Immigration Reform in 2009. (The Opportunity Agenda)
• Daily Activist reminds us of the very human cost of our failed health care system in Why I Support Health Care Reform.

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• BENAWU brings the latest news on the 2010 Midterms - Filing closes in Illinois & some NY ruminations.
• Kansas Dems Deliver Petition Against Opting Out of Reform. (Mike Nellis)
• 21st Century Democrats continue their Youth Leadership Speaker Series with Dennis Kucinich and the Future Leaders of the Democratic Party.
• T-shirts and bumper stickers are not enough writes Forgiven in Who Said Change Was Hard?
• H.R.676: Serious Policy Proposal? or Posturing for Effect? (Bruce Webb)
• Youth vote still up for grabs, argues John Russonello in Young People are Asking - Where's the Party for Us?
• There is no place quite like Miami-Dade writes Inoljt in Analyzing Swing States: Florida, Part 5.
• The Media Consortium's Weekly Audit: Too Big to Fail is Just Too Big.

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• Details from Restore Fairness of How Immigration Enforcement Has Interfered with Workers' Rights.
• Joe Trippi hears what voters are really saying in Rove's Misread of Tuesday's Elections.
• Facts are too often replaced with indignation writes Forgiven in Birds of a Feather.
• Obama Signs the Hate Crime Bill into Law! What's next? (Paul LeGendre)
• Don't back down, Harry, pleads Tom Rinaldo in Reid was right to reject "the trigger". This is war.
• The Birthers and Beckers Triumph Over the GOP. (chrisblask)
• Barrett Brown: Never one to miss an opportunity to be wrong, Krauthammer Blasts Obama, Forgets His Place.
• The Media Consortium's Weekly Pulse: Joe Lieberman and the Opt-Out Revolution.

And the week's most recommended comment thread is taking place right now in bruh3's Quality of Life versus GDP in America.

It's 23 degrees and snowing where I'm at.  Just wanted to complain about that.  These diaries made up for it though.  Enjoy...

• Washington: It's Crunch Time to Protect Domestic Partnerships! (atdleft)
• Kansas Democrats get ahead of the anticipated petulance of wingnuts in Opt-out? Not so fast my friend -- KansasDeservesReform.com. (Mike Nellis)
• John Russonello reads the tea leaves: In Jersey, Christie's burden may be heavy for candidates in 2010.
• Trey Rentz puts the senate health care debate in blood boiling perspective in The Filibuster, Democracy, and the Public Option.
• Bruh3 gleans the lesson from banking industry bailouts in The Great Risk Shift: Understanding American Capitalism.
• Intelligent design proponents and closet racists in Barrett Brown's In Which I Encounter the Craziest People Ever.
• Oil company astro-turf hits the printed pages again in jamesboyce's Is Washington Post Liable For False Advertising?
• The Media Consortium's Weekly Audit: Dismantling the Wall Street Casino.