It’s a fact that’s been all but lost in all of the partisan feuding over healthcare reform, but after President Obama signs the historic legislation, Americans will see clearly how their doctors may be putting the profits of big drugmakers ahead of their personal safety. The Senate bill, which the House approved Sunday night and Obama plans to sign into law at the White House Tuesday, contains little-known provisions that require drug and medical device companies to publicly report...
Monthly Archives: March 2010
President Obama’s Abortion Executive Order Pleases No One — Other Than Rep. Bart Stupak
The executive order the White House has prepared for President Obama to sign to restate a prohibition of federal funding of abortion has won the support of an anti-abortion Democrat in Congress — but few other partisans on either side of the abortion debate. The White House released the text of the order Obama promised to sign so as to win the vote of anti-abortion Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,...
Racing To The Healthcare Reform Finish Line, Both Sides Scramble
A crescendo of activity in the House Saturday as lawmakers readied themselves for a final vote on healthcare reform sent ripples of activity around Washington and across the country as supporters and opponents both tried to seize what could be an uncertain outcome until the very end. Each side attempted to take advantage of every development around the Capitol — no matter how large or small — ahead of what is anticipated to be a series of House votes...
Facebooking for social justice
Facebook pages aren’t just for social networking. They can promote social justice, too, according to Axel Caballero and Ofelia Yañez of Los Angeles. They’re battling anti-Latino “Tea Party racism and violence” on Cuéntame, their Facebook page. “Both Ofelia and I have seen with great sadness and frustration how Tea Partiers have unjustly and unfairly targeted the Latino community to further their political agenda,” Caballero wrote in an email from the Culver City, Calif.-based Brave New Foundation. Cuéntame is a...
Davy Crockett, R.I.P.
So, let us celebrate the facts, and mourn the passing of a former actor and, seemingly, a nice guy. Who proved that playing a legend makes one a sort of legend himself, assuming that Walt Disney makes enough money on the proposition...
Immigration Opponents: Hispanic Support For Healthcare Reform Part Of Quid Pro Quo
In a sign that it seems to want to capture the same anger that has threatened healthcare reform, a prominent group of anti-immigration activists are charging that congressional Hispanics are supporting healthcare reform because President Obama promised also to push immigration reform this year. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Thursday called for passage of Obama’s healthcare proposals, saying that it would expand coverage to 8.8 million Latinos, or 60 percent of the currently uninsured Hispanic community, according to Rep....
Capitol Idea: Primary Danger
The forces that propelled a political breakdown between Democrats and Republicans which rendered the notion of bipartisanship nothing more than quaint and unattainable is so complete that it has moved on and metastasized. The phenomena fueling the disunity now has manifested within each party, wearing away at the internal cohesion of each. For proof, just listen how often the word “primary” is used as a verb. It means: to attempt to oust an official of one’s own party in...
Senate Healthcare Reform Is Already Bipartisan, Dem Spokesman Says
Healthcare reform legislation in the Senate already is very bipartisan, according to a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Refuting one of the key charges Republicans have leveled against healthcare reform — that Senate Democrats have crafted a highly partisan bill devoid of GOP ideas – spokesman Jim Manley says the package more than 145 GOP amendments. The 147 Republican amendments included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as passed by the Senate, is in addition...
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