In case you missed it, here are Progressive Fix’s highlights from the past week:

• PPI Policy Memo, “How Litigators Tried to Sneak a Pet Earmark into Health Reform,” Phil Goldberg

As the full Senate debate over health care reform legislation finally gets under way following Saturday’s vote, Democratic leaders in Congress should continue fending off special-interest amendments that could be added to what promises to be an enormous piece of legislation. Read more…

• “RIP Compassionate Conservatism,” Will Marshall

The Republican message on extending health care coverage can be summed up in two words: “Bah, humbug.” Read more…

• “President Obama Reportedly Settles on Afghan Strategy,” Jim Arkedis

McClatchy is reporting that the Obama administration has decided on a strategy that will involve sending at least 34,000 more American troops to Afghanistan. Read more…

• “Progressives and the Filibuster—Round 2,” Ed Kilgore

I am not hell-bent on eliminating the filibuster as a possibility under the Senate rules (though not opposed to that step in principle, either). But what I object to categorically is the routinization of filibuster threats in recent years… Read more…

• “The Little Republic that Could,” Mike Derham

Listening to the Scorpions’ “Wind of Change” while sitting in a restaurant in Pristina, the capital of the disputed Republic of Kosovo, on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it hit me that Kosovo is an underplayed success story of nation-building. Read more…

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