Archive for August, 2009
UPDATED: Glenn Beck Loses Advertisers
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. GEICO says good-bye: “On Tuesday, August 4, GEICO instructed its ad buying service to redistribute its inventory of rotational spots on FOX-TV to their other network programs, exclusive of the Glenn Beck program,” said a spokesperson for GEICO Corporate Communications in an email to ColorOfChange.org. “As of August 4, […]
The GOP Has Already Lost The Argument On Health Care Reform
Back in May, Republican language guru Frank Luntz wrote a memo for Republicans on how to fight the Democratic plan for health care reform. The Republicans did a good job of following the script for a while, often invoking “government-run health care” and “government bureaucrats” when making their arguments. Dr. Frank Luntz, a top Republican […]
In Which We See a Castle vs Biden Senate Race Becomes the CW
Tom Schaller over at Five Thirty Eight takes a long look at the possibility of a Republican taking the Senate seat previously held by Barack Obama. He cites an article written over at the Rothenberg Political Report notes that a seat held by someone who has gone to the White House (either President or VP) has flipped 50% of the time, but since the numbers involved are pretty small it is hard to know what that means. But before he gets to looking at the landscape of the Senate race in IL, he stops in Delaware first:
Privatized Death Panels
In the conservative utopian fantasy world private insurance companies are warm, loving entities that have only your best interests at heart and can make bucketfuls of profits doing it. In the real world that I inhabit, insurance companies are entities that make money by taking your payments and denying you treatment when you become too […]
Why You Should Come on Saturday
I was having lunch at the Iron Hill Brewery with a friend when my phone rang. The caller ID said that it was “home” calling.
“Hi Honey.” Silence.
“Hello?”
There was a slight catching of the breath on the other end of the line.
“Honey?”
“The doctor called… It’s cancer”
UPDATED: Conservatives Want Government Out Of Our Health Care… Except When They Don’t
Via HuffPo: On July 13, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law a measure that establishes–among other restrictions on access to sexual and reproductive health services–an in-person counseling requirement and a 24-hour waiting period before a woman can obtain an abortion. Proponents of the new law claim that it helps inform women’s abortion decisions. In […]
Lobbyists to the IC’s Office?
On 30 July 2009, the Delaware Insurance Commissioner’s office sent out a Press Release announcing their “new” initiative for “the formation of a new revenue generating division within the Department of Insurance entitled the Bureau of Captive and Financial Insurance Products”. There was a subsequent Press Release, this time working hard at making the case that this is an economic development task for the state.
A bit of small print at the end of the first Press Release caught my attention:
What can we agree on?
I think we can all agree, or at least I thought we could agree, that we pretty much understand that Wall Street (Goldman Sachs especially) and the mentality it cultivates are more a part of the problem then lawmakers in this country. Aren’t they? Can’t we agree also that politicians pockets are lined with donations […]
This is How It is Supposed To Work
The peripatetic Mike Stark went to a Town Hall Meeting for held by Rep. Tom Perriello in rural VA, and found an interesting dynamic:
We Already Have Death Panels
Please go read Southern Beale’s entire piece, and then pass it on. Don’t talk to me about death panels, Sarah Palin. You, who so carelessly bolstered a lie about healthcare reform to score a cheap political point; you, the most craven of political opportunists, who fearmongers about some dystopian socialist/fascist fantasyland; you, who earlier this […]
Good Thing Stephen Hawking Doesn’t Live In The U.K. – Except He Does
This is really becoming tiresome. (Via TPM) AJC columnist Jay Bookman noticed that in the latest Investors Business Daily editorial about how the ‘death panel’ will condemn all handicapped or disabled people to death on some horrid wind-swept mountain, it notes that … People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the […]
Briefing on the Progress of Health Insurance Legislation Tonite
There is an event tonite in Newark to providing up-to-date information and some training on the current state of the health insurance reform effort:
This is Why I Hate Her.
“[W]e must stick to a discussion of the issues and not get sidetracked by tactics that can be accused of leading to intimidation or harassment. Such tactics diminish our nation’s civil discourse,” – Facebooker Sarah Palin, two days after calling Obama’s healthcare plan a “downright evil” that will target her Down Syndrome baby with a […]
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