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Mitt Romney foams at the mouth in helpless rage.
Archive for March, 2010
March 22nd, 2010
Category: Blogging, Leadership
Without “pass the damn bill,” the damn bill wouldn’t have passed. Homage to Steve Benen.
March 22nd, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
David Frum tosses some cold water in the faces of the conservative lemmings.
March 21st, 2010
After the health care bill’s passage, the forces of plutocracy will not be complacent. Will we?
March 21st, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
The election of Barack Obama marked the ultimate success of the Voting Rights Act. By - at last! – moving health care reform into law, Obama has put the capstone on the Great Society. The self-satisfied chuckle I’m hearing in the background sounds a lot like Lyndon Johnson’s.
March 21st, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
As Bart Stupak got up to defend the health care bill from a Republican motion to recommit based on abortion concerns, some cowardly thug on the Republican side shouted “Baby-killer!” at him. I was hoping that the passage of health care reform would cause the Republicans to decompensate. Looks as if I might get my [...]
March 21st, 2010
Category: Affordable Care Act
The Democrats will win the vote tonight, but the Republicans won the debate. Their speeches were uniformly mendacious, but they were logical in form (though not in substance) and conveyed apparently sincere fears about the consequences of passing the bill. The Democrats rarely challenged the untruths, and their speeches were about as exciting as laundry [...]