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Health Care Summit Thread

By pandora February 25, 201065 Comments

Might as well put up a thread. Begins at 10:00. If you're watching please add your thoughts in the comment's section. I hope to catch a lot of this.

This Is Gonna Hurt…

By pandora December 15, 2009196 Comments

I've been wanting to use this classic post (I Hate Your Politics) for years, but never really had the opportunity. Well... I do now. And what I'm writing here isn't…

The GOP and Health Care

By nemski October 24, 200911 Comments

Everyone that reads Delaware Liberal can probably agree that health insurance is a huge strain on Americans, businesses (big and small) and the government. For instance, according to the New…

Some Not So Random Political Thoughts

By El Somnambulo September 14, 200915 Comments

Just because I was sedated and sadistically eviscerated during my stint in Third Person Rehab, I still had time in between fevered dreams to think about what was going on…

What I’ve Learned Today

By nemski September 4, 200915 Comments

What I've learned today is that Republicans, in general, are a bitter bunch of people.

With the Passing of Kennedy, Time for Obama to Emulate JFK

By El Somnambulo August 27, 20099 Comments

Though JFK inspired so many of 'bulo's generation with his appeal to youthful idealism, people forget that it was Lyndon Baines Johnson who succeeded in passing most of the landmark…

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…

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…

Put Up Or Shut Up – More Of This Please

By pandora August 1, 200916 Comments

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…

Why Isn’t This Called Bribery?

By pandora July 31, 20092 Comments

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…

Jon Stewart Destroys Bill Kristol On Healthcare

By Unstable Isotope July 28, 20098 Comments

Jon Stewart gets Bill Kristol to admit the the VA system is an exceptional healthcare system but that the rest of Americans don't deserve it. Kristol gets caught up in the typical GOP talking point trap of "government run healthcare is really awful but it's so good that private insurance can't compete." Republicans are just incoherent on this issue. At least he wasn't repeating the Faux News talking point that Barack Obama wants to kill your grandmother.

New CBO Report: Public Option Will NOT Drive Private Insurers Out Of Business

By pandora July 28, 200929 Comments

Oh well, there goes another talking point. The report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the public option proposed by Democrats would not drive private insurers out of business…

Drug Companies Get Subsidized For Bombarding Us With Ads

By pandora July 28, 200939 Comments

I really hate all the pharma ads on TV. Now I have an even better reason to abhor them. (h/t Digby) Meanwhile, Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, has…