It isn’t no secret that Republicans care not about the thousands that perished on that September morning in 2001, but it does deserve a little reminder from time to time: A Republican candidate for Governor of New York this morning reached new heights of rhetorical condemnation of health care legislation, comparing its passage to the […]
I’ve been saying it all along and now Mitch McConnell is validating it: Before the health care fight, before the economic stimulus package, before President Obama even took office, Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican minority leader, had a strategy for his party: use his extensive knowledge of Senate procedure to slow things down, take advantage […]
Gallup has a new poll out showing that a majority of Americans wants Congress to suspend the current health care legislation: These results are not shocking, but I really wish Gallup would have thrown in the third option of having no reform at all. If that were the case then the 39% would still be […]
I figured I would plug in some real world numbers as they would be today if the new health care legislation was fully intact. This is something I haven’t seen during the whole debate and I want to take it from the angle of a single person earning 150% of the FPL. Currently the FPL […]
The Politico reports (via Aravosis): An aide to Rep. Bart Stupak (D. Mich.) coordinated opposition to a Senate compromise on the place of abortion in health care legislation this morning with the Republican Senate leadership, the Conference Catholic Bishops, and other anti-abortion groups, according to a chain of frantic emails obtained this morning by POLITICO. […]
This is something I never thought I would see: Senate Republicans said Thursday that they would try to filibuster a massive Pentagon bill that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an unusual move that several acknowledged was an effort to delay President Obama’s health-care legislation. Late into the night, Democrats emerged from a huddle […]
Just now reporting it on MSNBC. So much for change we can believe in. GottaLaff has more UPDATE: Here’s the breaking news alert via the AP: WASHINGTON – Democratic senators say they have a tentative deal to drop a government-run insurance option from health care legislation. No further details were immediately available. But liberals and […]
On Morning Joe just now Lawrence O’Donnell was blasting the media for not really covering the health care legislation, instead only focusing on the yelling and screaming that comes out of things like death panels. So how does Morning Joe respond to this criticism? They go to break and then come back showing a bunch […]