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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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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The Weekend Must Read comes by way of Jonathan Alter on NEWSWEEK: “What’s Not to Like?”
Alter, who had cancer a few years ago says:
I like the fact that if I lose my job, I won’t be able to get any insurance because of my illness. It reminds me of my homeowners’ insurance, which gets canceled [...]
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Filed under: Congress, Democrats, Economy, Healthcare, House of Reps, In The News, OP/ED's, Obama Administration, Opinions, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Republicans, Senate
Has the GOP gone so far right-wing that the Democrats are in for good, or at least for many years?
Bloggers, newspaper columnists and TV talking heads of the liberal persuasion seem to think so. I wouldn’t bet on it, and not because Obama is slipping some in the polls over a still sluggish economy.
Don’t get [...]
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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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Filed under: Campaign Ad, Election '08, Healthcare, John McCain '08
Here we go again. Conservatives (alleged Dems) warning us that the Democratic is too far left for Americans and that there aren’t enough liberals to justify “appealing to the base” of the party. In a blog post in today’s Washington Post, two folks who worked in the Clinton White House are issuing another [...]
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