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RESTON, Va. — Gathering outside of the South Lakes High School in this well-heeled exurb of Washington, more than a hundred supporters and opponents of health care reform–or health insurance reform, as it was rebranded in blue-and-white signs passed out by Organizing for America–carried a sense of valedictory.

He’s made the cover of National Review. Why worry about that? Well …

PITTSBURGH – Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean is currently conducting a health care town hall meeting here at Netroots Nation in Pittsburgh, where he predicted that health care legislation will pass through reconciliation in the Senate, without a single Republican vote. And he just took a minute to address the other kind of [...]

A big cross-section of the American Jewish community’s leadership met with President Obama today at the White House, from J Street’s Jeremy Ben-Ami on the left to Abraham Foxman on the right. Obama talked about a lot more than Israel, Palestine and Iran, including domestic issues like health care as well. You can read all [...]

Wendy Norris of TWI’s sister site, The Colorado Independent, caught up with former Vermont governor, presidential candidate and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean at a health care reform event in Denver on Wednesday. During an interview before his speech, Dean had this to say about a so-called mandatory “public option” — a government-run health [...]

When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told Bloomberg today that “it’s absolutely essential that we come out of this year with a substantial health-care reform,” and “the best prospect for that to happen is to do it under reconciliation” — the process by which legislation would only need 51 votes to pass, rather than the [...]

I’m not surprised that there’s a grassroots Website urging the selection of physician and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean as the next secretary of health and human services. I’m surprised how I found out: Via a tweet by Republican Internet guru Patrick Ruffini. If Dean had won the 2004 nomination, Ruffini, as webmaster of the [...]

At a press conference moments ago, President-elect Barack Obama endorsed Virginia Governor Tim Kaine to be the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee, succeeding the highly successful Howard Dean.
After praising Dean’s “outstanding work,” Obama highlighted Kaine’s “progressive philosophy” that allowed him to build “a model of good and responsible government in the Commonwealth of [...]

Not-for-much-longer DNC Chairman Howard Dean just held a conference call with America’s bloggers — or, as Gov. Sarah Palin would have it, “kids in pajamas sitting in the basement of their parents’ homes.” Over the rumble of the washing machine, I asked him about the successes and failures of his famous 50-state strategy, credited with [...]