For those just catching up, the idea I have come up with to fix health care is not by adding in the public option or instituting Medicare for 55+. Instead I have taken a much different approach, one that would be much easier to make a reality. What we should focus on is the FPL, […]
So much contention over the past several days has occurred within the progressive blogosphere. It’s time to do another post calling it out. First on the agenda is the issue of President Obama saying that he never campaigned on the public option. This was a false claim, no matter how some want to spin it. […]
That’s what he said in a short appearance this morning: Well we have seen what that translates into throughout this whole debate so I’m not expecting much out of him.
Right along party lines as expected, with Jim Bunning not voting. What’s interesting is that since the GOP started praying for Democratic members of the Senate to not show up, a Republican has missed every vote. Irony or sweet revenge? This ends the 2009 legislative year and now we are on to reconciliation to fix […]
“We are tired of watching as year after year candidates offer up detailed health care plans with great fanfare and promise only to see them crushed under the weight of Washington politics and drug and insurance lobbying once the campaign is over.” Candidate Obama Here is the video of candidate Obama saying this, with big […]
With the recession, it’s no secret more and more people are flocking to the movie theaters for their entertainment. It looks like that trend could translate into a record year for Hollywood: Movie studios began the year with January crossing the $1 billion mark for the first time ever, and box offices this month are […]
This makes this case that much more disturbing: The man who was arrested with two guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition near the Capitol during President Barack Obama’s health care speech in September had been an employee of the George W. Bush White House. The arrest of the man, Joshua Bowman, was widely reported […]
The final vote will be tomorrow at 7am then onto the uncertain fate of #hcr.
Somebody just took a big dump in the Christmas stocking of all the wingnuts: A report by the Congressional Research Service says ACORN hasn’t broken any laws in the last give years, but the filmmakers who secretly taped ACORN workers may have violated state law. The CRS report, however, will give the organization’s backers some […]
