Now Mexico is becoming more progressive than the United States.

 Greg Sargant points out that in a new CNN poll there is a 6 point uptick in support for the Senate bill. There are some other numbers in that poll that are very interesting: Thinking about the health care and health insurance that is available to most Americans, do you think the proposals in the […]

And this headline here is perfect humor to ease the health care reform fatigue stress: Dick Cheney: HUMAN EVENTS’ Conservative of the Year Oh wait – let my get it all: Dick Cheney: HUMAN EVENTS’ Conservative of the Year by  John R. Bolton There – that’s better. Needed that byline in there. Nothing like naming […]

Looks like people just don’t want to buy the moonie-times: The Washington Times says it will publish its last Sunday edition this weekend. The newspaper made the announcement Monday, saying it will produce Monday through Friday editions that focus on its “distinctive news and opinion content.”

If this is true then we see another yet a bit more evidence that the Obama administration failed in delivering true health care reform: Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) insists that the White House did not pressure him to get in line behind either a public health insurance option or a Medicare buy-in compromise during the […]

McJoan over at DailyKos has put together one hell of a post highlighting the good and bad of the Senate health care bill. Bottom line – if we can get rid of the mandates I think we have something we can all stomach and then work on. In all honesty the mandates should be removed […]

Following up on the notion of “fix it later” when it comes to the health care bill, I believe I have made a strong case for why that is less than likely too happen any time soon. So now I want to take a look at how “fix it later” will end up playing out […]

Joe Sudbay points to a post by political psychologist/neurologist Drew Westen on Huffington Post where he gives a very brutal, yet honest, assessment of President Obama: Somehow the president has managed to turn a base of new and progressive voters he himself energized like no one else could in 2008 into the likely stay-at-home voters […]

When the Democrats regained control of the Senate on a wave of “anti-corruption” one of the first things they did was pass something now known as “rule 44”. In a nutshell what rule 44 says is that any earmarks/congressionally directed spending must be reported before a vote can proceed. Last night John Cornyn asked if […]

Aetna alone is up almost 6% so far today: You can follow it here. Health Care is the top advancing sector so far today, at 1.6%.