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The Face of "Bipartisanship", The Sequel

Friday, October 2, 2009

Tony Romm of The Hill reports that the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee made it clear on Thursday that not only were Republicans not going to have a seat at the table as the Senate reconciles the two proposals in play, but that a strong  “public option” will be a [...]

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Illegal Immigration and Health Care Reform: The Immigrant as Political Pawn

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Probably the single defining moment for the health care debate was when Rep. Joe Wilson leaned forward during the president’s address to congress and uttered that one exclamation, “you lie!” in response to the president’s assertion that illegal aliens would not receive medical benefits under the administration’s nascent health care proposals.  Once the words cleared Rep. Wilson’s [...]

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Is the Baucus Proposal a Good Starting point?

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

President Obama failed to get the health care reform measure passed by the August recess as he hoped, and the full-throttle approach that the administration took in getting the legislation passed had some surprising and unintended consequences.  For one, it resulted in the emergence of an opposing grass-roots movement that the conservative movement has not [...]

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And “Bipolar” is Code for…?

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

I can forgive ignorance – I’m ignorant about any number of topics; it’s the human condition.  We’re born with our instincts, and we spend the rest of our lives filling our noodles up with information, some useful and profitable and some delightful and fun to know.   As the frail and limited beings that we are, [...]

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