I was following the back and forth between Jane Hamsher and Katrina vanden Heuve on Twitter the other night regarding health care. I then noticed this post by Jane yesterday: There’s a very slick PR letter posted online that’s being furiously retweeted by DC political operatives. I wasn’t going to address it, but the editor […]
Dave Waldman has a great rundown of what lies ahead for the health care bill as both chambers of Congress attempt to merge two very different bills into one. Sadly the quickest path is once again meeting Republican obstructionism, this time by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) objecting to the appointment of conferees and forcing a […]
The buckeye state isn’t growing that fast: Ohio could lose two seats in Congress as a result of waning population growth according to Census numbers. The figures, which were released on Wednesday, show that the Buckeye State’s population grew by only 14,573 people over the past decade, or one-tenth of one percent. Ohio Gov. Ted […]
I had a feeling this would happen. In all honest I don’t blame President Obama for it, I blame the weak-kneed Democrats: Rebuffed this month by skeptical lawmakers when it sought finances to buy a prison in rural Illinois, the Obama administration is struggling to come up with the money to replace the Guantánamo Bay […]
Quinnipiac has released a new poll with a lot of focus on health care. As to be expected, the public still isn’t that thrilled with the reform: 21. From what you’ve heard or read, do you mostly approve or mostly disapprove of the proposed changes to the health care system under consideration in Congress? […]
Just now on MSNBC, Eliot Spitzer said, “this isn’t health reform, it’s health expansion”. That is exactly right. Reform failed in Congress, but expansion is currently on its way to becoming law. And, as Spitzer says, expansion isn’t a bad thing, but stop trying to sell it as reform. Of course the Democrats will never […]
Once this bill gets out of Congress and President Obama signs it, then I really hope he is ready for a sell job for the rest of his time in office. Let’s examine the facts. The current polling shows the public very turned off by this bill: That alone gives the Republicans an excellent platform […]
Or as I will now refer to it as – the Boehner tax: Section 500B – New 10% tax on indoor tanning! Note, this REPLACES the “botax” on elective cosmetic surgery contained in the underlying bill. This is actually a way of sticking it to the working class once again. Tanning beds get most of […]
I never really liked Dylan when he was a guest on Morning Joe and kind of turned my nose at the thought of him having his own show. Damn I was wrong. He now has the only cable news show I try and watch everyday (I don’t even do that for Olbermann or Maddow). One […]
Another great quote and something a lot of us on the left have been saying all along: “It’s time for the president to get his hands dirty,” Representative Anthony Weiner, Democrat of New York, said in a statement this week. “Some of us have compromised our compromised compromise. We need the president to stand up […]