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Facts Make A Difference In Health Care Debate… And Poll Numbers
Geez, ya think? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWGz7QoKIek[/youtube]
Bloggers Make A Difference!
Look what we can do when we set our minds to it! A fundraiser launched by progressive bloggers as part of an increasingly aggressive response to White House backsliding on health care reform has out-raised any such effort in the past. Donations in support of Democrats who back a public insurance option as part of […]
Has The Death Of The Public Option Been Greatly Exaggerated?
Ezra Klein seems to think so. As long as we’re talking strategy, it’s also worth saying a bit about how these pieces fit together in the legislative process. There are three distinct phases left to complete: First, the bills have to clear the House and the Senate. That means going through committees, overcoming a filibuster […]
Robert Novak Dies
Via HuffPo: CHICAGO — Political columnist Robert Novak, who was a central figure in the Valerie Plame CIA leak case, has died after a battle with brain cancer. His wife of 47 years, Geraldine Novak, tells The Associated Press that he died at his home in Washington, D.C. early Tuesday. He was 78.
Another Republican Weighs In
Bruce Bartlett’s piece at the Daily Beast is well worth your time. For those of you unfamiliar with Mr. Bartlett here’s a brief synopsis: Bruce Bartlett was one of the original supply-siders, helping draft the Kemp-Roth tax bill in the 1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, he was a leading Republican economist. He now considers […]
The 2012 Republican Presidential Waters Are A Little Stagnant
Add Rick Santorum to the lackluster list of Republicans seeking the Presidency – and I do mean lackluster. Take a look at who’s in the running. Huckabee, Gingrich, Romney, Palin, and now Santorum. There’s also talk of Thune, DeMint, and Cantor. Not sure about anyone else, but I’m feeling pretty good about this line-up. BTW, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pearlstein Tells It Like It Is
As a columnist who regularly dishes out sharp criticism, I try not to question the motives of people with whom I don’t agree. Today, I’m going to step over that line. The recent attacks by Republican leaders and their ideological fellow-travelers on the effort to reform the health-care system have been so misleading, so disingenuous, […]
Put Up Or Shut Up – More Of This Please
Anthony Weiner (D-NY) hits it out of the park by double-daring Republicans to back up their trash talk about government run health care… by voting on eliminating medicare. It’s about time someone called them out. Make them put their vote where their mouth is – if they dare. It’s quite a dilemma for the GOP, […]
Why Isn’t This Called Bribery?
Via WaPo: The roiling debate about health-care reform has been a boon to the political fortunes of Ross and 51 other members of the Blue Dog Coalition, who have become key brokers in shaping legislation in the House. Objections from the group resulted in a compromise bill announced this week that includes higher payments for […]
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