Archive for the 'health care' Category
Excellent Question
If the private insurance industry is so evil, why would you ever possibly force me to be their customer?
No one has been able to answer this question: not the President, not his defenders, not the “pass the bill now” crowd.
The real answer to our health care problem is either single payer (as they have in [...]
A Brief Conversation With Kent Conrad’s Office
“The only way this works is for the House to pass the Senate bill and then, depending on what the package is, the reconciliation provision that moves first through the House and then comes here,” said Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND). “That’s the only way that works.”
I pointed out that House leadership has repeatedly said they [...]
Let’s Not, and Say We Did
The NY Times’ Ross Douthat wants Democrats to make a deal with Republicans on health care. Here we go again.
You don’t even have to read the article to know that it’s a hopeless clutter of gibberish and magical thinking, but because I love you dammit I tried to get more than a paragraph in…
Even in [...]
A Failure of Leadership
Over at Daily Kos, some fucking hippy is arguing that defeat is a winnign strategy. No, i’m totally serious:
Geez, don’t you get it yet? The more Obama is seen extending his hand and the more the Republicans obstruct, the more likely it is that the average American out there will get the message that the [...]
Why Do You Keep Punching Yourself? Why Do You Keep Punching Yourself?
Remember that awful bull from elementary school who pulled that trik on you? He’d mash your on hand into a fist, and use it to whack away at your head, taunting you with cries of “why do yo keep punching yourself?”
It looks like the DNC hs internalized that experience:
Joe Sudbay of Americablog reported that the [...]
Some Quick Thoughts on Massachusetts
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
How the GOP will Campaign in 2010
Well worth watching:
more from Mike Stark, the interviewer, here:
SHADEGG: I don’t understand either bill. Both the House and Senate bills contain mandates that compel, or would compel you and I as individual Americans to buy insurance from Americas private insurance industry. I think America’s private insurance industry is the problem…
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Obama’s very Own Armstrong Williams
UPDATED WITH NECESSARY EDITS:
It may be a little early to start putting up youtube clips of Dave Chapelle as Black Bush, but check out this trip down memory lane:
The Education Department paid commentator Armstrong Williams $241,000 to help promote President Bush’s No Child Left Behind law on the air, an arrangement that Williams acknowledged [...]
Taxing the Middle Class
UPDATED BELOW WITH VIDEO
oh look, another broken promise from Obama:
President Obama told House Democratic leaders at a meeting on Wednesday that they should include a tax on high-priced insurance policies favored by the Senate in the final version of far-reaching health care legislation, aides said…
But House Democrats have resisted the idea, which is also strongly [...]
Is Max Baucus Drunk?
Via Susie, the charming basis for a negative ad:
Now, i have no proof Baucus is shitfaced on expensive bourbon. I wasn’t there, I didn’t smell his breath, and I doubt he took a breathalyzer.
But just watch that performance and tell me that Baucus doesn’t look and sound like he’s polished off a couple of pints [...]
