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… is that the world keeps justifying your prejudices. Tom Ridge confirms that the terror-threat-alert system was manipulated for partisan gain.
Archive for August, 2009
August 20th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Joe Klein unloads on the GOP. “Why are these men so reluctant to be rational in public?”
August 20th, 2009
Category: Constitutional politics
The use of reconciliation to pass health insurance reform would not be cheating, as the threatened “nuclear option” was. But it’s time to get rid of the filibuster altogether, and that could be done by a simple majority at the beginning of the next Congress.
August 19th, 2009
Category: Health Care
A woman loses her job due to carpal tunnel syndrome. Her small-business-owner husband is uninsurable because the had cancer. When she gets the flu, she can’t afford to see a doctor. By the time she’s sick enough to come in for care, she’s too sick to save. She dies, leaving her family with crushing medical bills.
August 19th, 2009
Category: Health Care
The Democrats hold the high cards on health care, because they have procedural control.
August 19th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Should Lee Harvey Oswald have been interfered with in the exercise of his Second Amendment rights?
August 18th, 2009
Category: Democrats in Congress, Good news, Health Care, Permanent campaign, Struggle Between Good and Evil
From the NYT, posted 7 minutes ago: Democrats Seem Set to Go Alone on a Health Bill Now all we need to do is get rid of the “seem,” and we’re set.
August 18th, 2009
Category: Health Care
How can you talk about the public option while being simultaneously strong yet flexible? Here’s how.
August 18th, 2009
Is it too much to ask that when commentators make confident statements about the reconciliation process and health care that they provide evidence for their position? Apparently. No one has yet shown why this cannot be done.
August 18th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Is there a Second Amendment right to bring a loaded firearm to a place where the President of the United States is in your line of fire?