It really isn’t a lesson, but more of a reminder. Democrats suck at politics. To the Democrats out there acting shocked over the Brown win, all I can say is “wake up!” We don’t need to turn back the pages of history more than a few months to remind us how bad Democrats are at […]
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 […]
She is the first one to officially come out against the Senate bill: The Senate health care bill is not worthy of the historic vote that the House took a month ago. Even though the House version is far from perfect, it at least represents a step toward our goal of giving 36 million Americans […]
Appearing in USA Today is an article by David Sirota laying out the arguments against the Senate Bill: The Senate health care bill betrays the promise of fundamental “change” Democrats made during the 2008 election. It cloaks a handout to the health industry in the veneer of “reform.” Though it includes some positive subsidies and […]
We all knew this would end up happening: Unable to win the votes on health overhaul, Republicans are eyeing a battle in the courts. Their strategy? Have the overhaul’s requirement that everyone in the country have health insurance declared unconstitutional. If uninsured people don’t buy coverage, they would be penalized to the tune of $750 […]
This is a blow to the health care reform bill: National Nurses United, the nation’s largest registered nurses union and professional organization, declared on Tuesday that the Senate health care bill gives away too much to insurance companies and “fails to meet the test of true health care reform.” “It is tragic to see the […]
A lot of people in the progressive blogosphere are shocked by the passionate disagreements going on over the uncertain fate of health care reform. I for one am not. We are dealing with an issue that will very much affect every single one of us, so people are going to take a much deeper look […]
Like I have been saying – the survival of health care out of conference is anything but certain: “Last night’s vote in the Senate should be applauded for what it was: an affirmative statement by that body that comprehensive health care reform legislation should not be held captive any longer by a select few.” “As […]
Marcy Wheeler has a must read post in which she shows the major differences between the actual bill and what candidate Obama campaigned on: So let’s review. Ezra lists the following things that Obama promised, but failed to deliver: Public option No individual mandate Drug reimportation Government coverage of catastrophic costs Employer mandate National, rather […]
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 […]