Dennis Kucinich is apparently voting against the health care bill in the House. Why? His stated reason is that because it isn’t single payer. If that’s the reasoning, that is ridiculous. This bill, an imperfect bill no doubt, is the biggest step forward in American health care since the creation of medicare. If the bill [...]
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Progressives (Finally) Tired Of Getting Slapped Around On Health Care
August 18th, 2009
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Signs of hope and change in America.
Given hardening Republican opposition to Congressional health care proposals, Democrats now say they see little chance of the minority’s cooperation in approving any overhaul, and are increasingly focused on drawing support for a final plan from within their own ranks.
Top Democrats said Tuesday that their go-it-alone view was being [...]
Obama Could Give It All Away. I Hope Not.
August 17th, 2009
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A few years ago, when my beloved Washington Redskins were having one of their craptacular seasons, an article quoted a player from one of the teams who had played against the Redskins about what exactly was allowing so many teams to win. The player noted that while the Redskins looked impressive on paper, once they [...]
Heath Shuler Says He Opposes Health Care Reform, Time To Oppose Heath Shuler
August 14th, 2009
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People warned me that Heath Shuler would fail in Washington again, I should have known.
Rep. Heath Shuler said Thursday night during a telephone town hall meeting that he opposes the House health care reform legislation because it would increase the deficit, doesn’t reduce the overall cost of health care and doesn’t do enough to promote [...]
Pelosi Calls Out Un-American Behavior
August 10th, 2009
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Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Hoyer write in USA Today
These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American. Drowning out the facts is how we failed at this task for decades.
Health care is complex. It touches every American [...]
Conservatives A Problem, Even Inside The Democratic Party
July 24th, 2009
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The conservative Blue Dog Democrats are blocking health care reform, based on what I can best see as a combination of silliness on deficits and insurance industry donations. What they and too many Senators don’t understand is that we didn’t send them to Washington to play it safe and keep their seats. We sent them [...]
Blue Dog Dems vs. Barack Obama & America
July 19th, 2009
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Aren’t many of these the same blue dog types who were voting for the war in Iraq when that crazy secret muslim Barack Hussein Obama was against it? Now, who’s judgement should we trust?
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
President Obama On House Health Care Reform Legislation
July 14th, 2009
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This proposal controls the skyrocketing cost of health care by rooting out waste and fraud and promoting quality and accountability. Its savings of more than $500 billion over 10 years will strengthen Medicare and contribute to our goal of reforming health care in a fiscally responsible way. It will change the incentives in our health [...]
No Donna Edwards, I Don’t Care
July 13th, 2009
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Donna Edwards, who happens to be my member of congress here in Maryland, just sent out the following to her email list.
Yay, Politico named you to a perfectly arbitrary list! Look, I don’t have any serious problems with Rep. Edwards and she has so far demonstrated the kind of values I want to see in [...]
Did I Miss Something
June 29th, 2009
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I concede that I only half paid attention to the news for the last 4 days, I was in San Angelo, TX visiting my friend and his family, but in all the brouhaha over the cap and trade bill that passed the House, I notice it hasn’t passed the senate yet. So, what’s the point? [...]
Americans Would Like Some Health Care Reform
June 21st, 2009
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If only the scaredy pants Democrats in congress would let them have it.
Americans overwhelmingly support substantial changes to the health care system and are strongly behind one of the most contentious proposals Congress is considering, a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
The poll found [...]
Republicans: Run Against Republicans
July 31st, 2008
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Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told GOP congressional hopefuls on Thursday that they should not be afraid to criticize both political parties – including Republican members of the House.
During a conference call, the National Republican Congressional Committee chairman instructed candidates, campaign managers and press secretaries that given the anti-incumbent environment, it could be beneficial for House [...]
GFJM!
July 21st, 2008
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The DSCC and the DCCC have strong fundraising advantages over their Republican counterparts.
You know what this means, right? Good For John McCain!
The People’s House
June 5th, 2008
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10 Republican House seats begin moving away from the party of Bush-McCain and towards the party of Obama.
If You Are Doing This, You Are Losing
May 18th, 2008
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The fact that John Boehner has to reassure people that he’s staying in his leadership position doesn’t exactly say good things about his tenure, does it.
I, of course, encourage Boehner to stay as Minority Leader for as long as he wants.
