It is the great unmentionable in the health care debate.
It is an attitude apparently shared by many voters. The Democrats keep quiet about it because they don’t want to make voters mad.
The same attitude is helping the Republicans thwart reform. But they won’t acknowledge it publicly for fear of looking bad.
B. Smith isn’t scared to talk about it on his Internet blogsite, Radical [...]
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While MSNBC seems to be noticing that there are some REALLY creepy things being slipped by them — Politico reporting that the Pat Buchanan’s ‘Hitler’ column is being removed from its website — there’s more (and WORSE) that they’re still missing ….
Independent Women’s Forum President and CEO
Michelle Bernard as an MSNBC “Political Analyst”
The Koch [...]
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The Boston Globe reported today that Senator Ted Kennedy, in a letter, “has privately asked the governor and legislative leaders to change the succession law to guarantee that Massachusetts will not lack a Senate vote when his seat becomes vacant.”
In a personal, sometimes wistful letter sent Tuesday to Governor Deval L. Patrick, Senate President Therese [...]
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Much of the media, however unwittingly, is helping the Republicans in the health care debate.
No doubt, TV and print journalists claim they’re playing the big story right down the middle:
– The Republicans claim the Democrats want “socialized medicine,” the old conservative pejorative for national health insurance. The Democrats say no way.
– The media simply reports [...]
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New York Times Op-Ed piece yesterday by the unusual triumvirate of Bill Beane, Newt Gingrich, and John Kerry analogized the obsessive nature of baseball statistics to where we should head with health care. Baseball has left simple batting and earned run averages for a next generation of statistics including WHIP (walks and hits per innings pitched) and [...]
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Finally! I heard a report on NPR this morning and the Obama website confirms that the Democratic presidential campaign is going to ramp up efforts to discuss health care this week. Over the next week Sen. Obama will hold over two dozen events in nine battleground states with health care as a major point of [...]
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