A senator who represents a state of 967,440 people is absolutely screwing up healthcare reform for everyone else. Max Baucus has to go. He is spineless, ineffectual, corrupt and corrupt. Corrupt...
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Author - Bob Cesca
The Nuclear Option
Here's a shocker. Wingnuts are misusing the phrase "the nuclear option." As ThinkProgress describes, contrary to this misguided nonsense from far-right doofs like Hannity, a reconciliation vote isn't...
Pollgasm
Americans continue to overwhelmingly support the public option: A new study by SurveyUSA puts support for a public option at a robust 77 percent, one percentage point higher than where it stood in...
Morning Awesome
Foo Fighters - "Summer's End" I'm driving to Virginia this afternoon for a much needed R&R weekend. Blogging might get sporadic, but I'll try to stay in the loop.
Re-framing Healthcare Language
I absolutely love this primer from George Lakoff about reshaping the language and frames we use when discussing healthcare reform. This was particularly smart: Doctor-Patient Care. This is what the...
Support the Billionaires
This is a really great idea. Tricking town hall wingnuts into supporting billionaires: The scary thing is that the whole C Street crowd really believes this. "The Family" is all about a Calvinist...
Why the Finance Committee?
If you heard the Blog Talk Radio show last night with me and Stranahan, you heard me screaming into my phone trying to explain exactly why the Finance Committee and its leaders, Baucus and Grassley...
Crazy Quote(s) of the Day
It's a tie so far. “It’s not about getting a lot of Republicans. It’s about getting a lot of Democrats and Republicans. We ought to be focusing on getting 80 votes.” —Chuck Grassley “We need to get a...
Real Life 'Death Panels' – Again
The Republicans must really believe they've won the healthcare debate because they can't stop tipping their hand and telling the nation what they really think: Asked by ABC News about a package of...
America’s Affordable Health Choices Act
I was re-reading the House bill today and it's really pretty awesome, all things considered (it's not single-payer, but okay). One thing I forgot about is that in addition to a robust public option...
The Nexus of Politics and Terror
In his new book, Tom Ridge admits to inciting fear at the request of the Bush 2004 campaign. Ridge was never invited to sit in on National Security Council meetings; was "blindsided" by the FBI in...
The Option of Conscience – Part 2
As I wrote yesterday, the public option is mandatory for more than just cost-control and competition purposes. If there are individual mandates and no public option, we would be required by law to...
Ted Kennedy's Successor
Senator Kennedy is petitioning Governor Patrick to change the law regarding succession should the senator step down or pass away. The special election could take upwards of five months, but Kennedy...
Walletpop Roundtable
I almost forgot to post this. I participated in a healthcare roundtable discussion on AOL's Walletpop podcast last week. You can watch the whole thing here.
Morning Joe
Maria Bartiromo isn't a very smart person. She just tried to tell Matt Taibbi on Morning Joe that America has the best healthcare system in the world because people from other nations come here for...
Division Bills
Now that I've been able to access the full article at the WSJ, here's how the bills could potentially be split: Healthcare Reform Bill #1 Expensive budget-related provisions and potentially the...
Morning Awesome
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I Called It!
Today on The Ed Show, Jonathan Alter predicted that the president will deliver a rousing address to a joint session of Congress about healthcare reform sometime in the next six weeks or so. Here's...
The Option of Conscience
Many of the writers and experts who are softening on the importance of the public option have totally failed to recognize one very important -- mandatory -- aspect of the concept of a government...
Bite Sized Healthcare Reform
Tonight on the Blog Talk Radio show, Stranahan explained that the president should've approached each section of healthcare reform as its own bill. A bill to ban rescission. A bill to ban preexisting...