Posts Tagged ‘politics’
More thumbs up
Roger Ebert takes on that 911-fee I mentioned a few days ago and goes much further, reflecting on the state of the United States that we find ourselves in today. I feel compelled to label Ebert’s journal as a must-read once again. Roger Ebert: The gathering storm / [Read More]
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a Weiner
I wish the Democratic Party had more Anthony Weiners… [Read More]
Partisan political blogging
I have been trying to curb bluntly partisan posts, but I am compelled to react to this new poll of 2000 self-identified Republicans. The poll was commissioned by left-wing site DailyKos, but it’s a scientifically valid survey with statistically significant results. [Read More]
59-41 (cont’d)
I forgot. Before Al Franken was seated, which wasn’t until JULY, the Democrats only had 59 votes. Before Arlen Specter switched parties back in April, the Democrats only had 58 votes. Do you mean to tell me that they had no plan to pass meaningful health reform back [Read More]
59-41
Five years ago, it would seem like a great premonition to imagine that the Democrats are going to have 59 votes in the Senate, a huge majority in the House, and the Presidency. But suddenly, with the Massachusetts Senate disaster, it’s said that Obama’s agenda [Read More]
Franken pwns Lieberman
I believe this is my first-ever use of the term pwn. Younger folk speak up if I am using it improperly. [Read More]
Healthcare Debate Roundup
Alright. I’m not in the mindset to write about this healthcare debate that’s turning into a debacle. I’ll leave it to two of my favorite political figures, Howard Dean and Al Franken. This bill is no longer reform. - Howard Dean (link to video) We’re [Read More]
More crazy from Foxx
I believe we have more to fear from the potential of that bill passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country. — Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) (video here) I posted back in July about Foxx having said, “There are no Americans who don’t have [Read More]
Baucus Plan Crapitude, Take III
PREFACE I was going to write a well-thought-out, sourced piece about healthcare, but I’ve gotten lazy, so it’s just a bunch of related and unrelated points running together. Sometimes I will just keep such posts in eternal draft mode. But since I don’t [Read More]
Baucus Plan Crapitude (Cont’d)
The Baucus bill is a gift to the insurance industry that fails to meet the most basic promise of health care reform: a guarantee that Americans will have good health care that they can afford. The Baucus bill would give a government-subsidized monopoly to the private [Read More]
