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The GOP Has Already Lost The Argument On Health Care Reform

By Unstable Isotope August 11, 200910 Comments

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…

In Which We See a Castle vs Biden Senate Race Becomes the CW

By cassandra_m August 11, 200915 Comments

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

By Unstable Isotope August 11, 200940 Comments

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…

UPDATED: Conservatives Want Government Out Of Our Health Care… Except When They Don’t

By pandora August 11, 200931 Comments

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…

What can we agree on?

By Donviti August 10, 200932 Comments

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…

This is How It is Supposed To Work

By cassandra_m August 10, 200910 Comments

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

By pandora August 10, 200931 Comments

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…

Good Thing Stephen Hawking Doesn’t Live In The U.K. – Except He Does

By pandora August 10, 200927 Comments

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…

Briefing on the Progress of Health Insurance Legislation Tonite

By cassandra_m August 10, 20099 Comments

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.

By Delaware Dem August 10, 200913 Comments

"[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…

Conservative Free Speech

By Delaware Dem August 10, 20097 Comments

They have the right to say whatever they want whenever they want, and they have the duty to prevent others from exercising the same right.

Repubs pick Briggs King for the 37th.

By Delaware Dem August 10, 20099 Comments

Robinson v. Briggs King: The public defender versus a representative of manufactured housing park owners.

Conservative vs. Conservative

By Unstable Isotope August 10, 200932 Comments

Sarah Palin weighed in on health care reform last week by accusing the Obama administration of wanting to kill her parents and her baby. So, what do other conservatives have…