Paul Krugman notes a piece today that was in the Boston Globe in September, about “about Barack Obama’s role, when he was in the Illinois legislature, in the attempt to get the state committed to universal health care.” Krugman says, “It turns out that the story very much prefigures the debates we’re having right now.”
Krugman’s apparently not [...]
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I got a beef with Mother Nature, today. Lots’o snow, lots’o cold and a whole lotta icy on the streets. I got things to do today, ya know. I do have a life outside of the blogosphere.
Speaking of blogging, I guess while I wait for the temperature to get about 15 degrees, I’ll just have [...]
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In his column today Paul Krugman on “The Mandate Muddle,” Krugman points out Barack Obama’s wrong-minded position on universal health care and the need to “include a requirement that everyone have health insurance — a so-called mandate.”
Krugman points to an imaginary scenario where Obama is elected president and in preparing to ”unveil his plan for universal health [...]
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Morning cuppa…laptop…interweb connection…Don’t bother me, I’m blogging!
First, the daily “attitude adjustment”: Gimme the Truth (The PolitiFact Song). Very catchy, ditty!
Concerned about giving your darling little rugrats over-the-counter medicine? Try a teaspoon of honey, at bedtime, to calm your child’s cough. (Source: CNN.com)(1)
Tired of getting gouged by your credit card company? Looks like the Democrats and [...]
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Senator Clinton gave a speech today in Clear Lake, Iowa that directly addressed the attacks she been getting directly or through surrogates from Barrack Obama and John Edwards. It’s a telling speech and one that may show the forthrightness that will be necessary to win the 2008 general election and govern thereafter. The full transcript [...]
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Just when you thought that Nixon was the 2nd worse president in history (Bush now being the worse, atleast in my book), we are reminded that Nixon actually called for universal access to health insurance in 1974. And… low and behold, McClatchy reports that the Dems proposal look a lot like Nixon’s. Suck on that for a [...]
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Does this President hate children?
Does the Decider think that being the “Leader” must mean he is an advocate of “Lead” in toys?
This week a large recall of lead-tainted toys was announced:
Yesterday’s toy recalls were just the latest in a long parade involving lead-tainted children’s toys. Since August, toy giant Mattel has issued 3 separate toy [...]
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Who knew? All this time we’ve been told about how “divisive, unelectable, ‘radioactive’” Hillary Clinton is, but it seems there’s something statistically wrong with what the pundits have been telling us. Go figure…
Judith Warner explains in her Domestic Disturbances column:
The shocks just keep on coming:
Hillary Clinton leads the Democratic field with 51 percent of the [...]
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Rep. Pete Stark stood on the floor of the House during the SCHIP and spoke the truth to power. Now the Rebublicans are feigning outrage over Stark’s comments and demanding an apology. If you haven’t seen Stark’s comments on the floor watch it here:
Here’s Stark’s response to Rep. Boehner and the 153 Republican’s who [...]
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Before the SCHIP vote today in the House, Rep. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) displayed a sign with his new name for SCHIP - “Socialized Clinton-style Hillarycare for Illegals and their Parents”:
H/T to Sadly No!, who notes:
Guys, you’ve done outdone yerselves on this one. Please, please, please keep insulting middle-class families who can’t afford health insurance. I guarantee [...]
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There are no words to express the disgust I feel over this news: The House failed to garner enough votes to override Bush’s SCHIP veto this afternoon.
The vote to override the veto was 273 to 156, or 13 votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority of those present and voting; the bill was originally approved by a [...]
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On Monday, Bush appointed Susan Orr to “be acting deputy assistant secretary for population affairs.” Talk about your twisted political appointment, Orr, in a “2001 article in The Washington Post, Orr applauded a Bush proposal to stop requiring all health insurance plans for federal employees to cover a broad range of birth control. “We’re quite [...]
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