Eighty-two percent of them said they want a public option as part of the Democrats’ health care reform.
Yet they just helped elect a guy who opposes the public option and the Democrats’ health care reform.
They’re Obama voters who cast ballots for Massachusetts’s new Republican senator, Scott Brown. He promised to be “the 41st vote” against [...]
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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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I’m a union-card carrying, Hubert Humphrey Democrat. So Ronald Reagan is not one of my favorite presidents, not by a long shot.
But I’ve got to hand it to the Gipper for coming up with what was called the 11th Commandment: “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.”
I’d like to see our party modify [...]
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Some abolitionist Republicans dissed President Abraham Lincoln for not getting rid of slavery fast enough.
Some Socialists panned President Franklin D. Roosevelt for not taking the New Deal far enough.
Some liberals are all but accusing President Obama of selling out to the Republicans because he’s not calling for a single payer health care plan.
I’m a union-card carrying [...]
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by Rosemary and Walter Brasch
During the time that Bill Clinton was rocking the Democratic convention, ABC, CBS, and Fox were showing re-runs, NBC was showing the second hour of “America’s Got Talent,” and the CW was showing the second season finale of “Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious.”
Less than two decades ago, the networks gave the conventions [...]
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Jeralyn posted an “An Open letter to Hillary Clinton Supporters” on TalkLeft today that is a must read for all those Clinton supporters still threatening to vote for McCain or a third party candidate.
Here’s some excerpts:
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Tags: American Servicemen, Clinton Supporters, Energy Policy, Environmental Degradation, Finance Terrorism, Glass Ceiling, Health Care System, Hillary [...]
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40 years ago today Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world turned into a darker, meaner place in the decades that followed.
As a young student at Columbia University – off for the summer — I was to join the RFK campaign staff the following week. The spring of 1968 had been exhilarating and tumultuous.
Gene [...]
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On 6-17-2005, I was already dismayed enough by the increasingly angry disagreements within the Progressive Blogsphere that I wrote an article about effective persuasion, communication and it’s impact on campaigns at my old blog The Political Dogfight. I also recorded a more detailed view in a 10 minute audio that was published at my audio [...]
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Jonathan Alter analyze’s the run off to Iowa noting “Should Clinton lose Iowa, the door might open for second-tier candidates to start getting competitive.”
If Clinton and Obama were arguing about anything other than experience, it wouldn’t be possible for Biden, Chris Dodd or Bill Richardson to get the slightest traction, even with a better-than-expected finish. [...]
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