The Reign of Error (and how weak and pathetic are we)
The NY Times has a depressing article about the continued resurgence of conservative economic thought inside the beltway. As Krugman, and no doubt others will point out, having been wrong about...
View ArticleRepublican Congressmen "endorse" Public Option!
Via the indispensible Don McCanne, from the cat food commission report-out and discussion on CSPAN yesterday:Sen Dick Durbin (D-IL): We are hastening the day when the only option left will be a public...
View ArticleDerek Jeter with a poll (a diary I am embarrassed to write)
I really should not care (I don' really). I really really should not be publicly doing a diary on this. The whole screwed up salary structure and misplaced priorities of it all is ridiculous. Even to...
View ArticleNet Neutrality vs. Bandwidth: Mainstream Media Gets It Wrong
Repeating a false meme that has clearly has become a talking point for the seemingly moderate wing of opposition to real net neutrality, Bradford Plummer writing in The New Republic conflates the...
View ArticleNo Labels: the latest centrist/third-way crock (updated)
The latest version of so-called moderate, centrist, Third Way to organize is calling itself "No Labels". If you look at who makes it up, it is the usual Third Way (Jonathan Cowan) crowd with the...
View ArticleRepubs for & Dems against DREAM & DADT (& why Military service is important)
It is interesting, and possibly useful to parse the votes on both the DREAM Act and DADT cloture votes. Below is the listing of Democrats who voted against each, and the Republicans who voted for...
View ArticleAgainst War & U.S. Imperialism, & Pro-Gays in Military
Simply put: Open military service today... full equal rights including same-sex marriage tomorrow.I consider myself a lefty/progressive populist in good standing who is both anti-War and anti-American...
View ArticleJudges, Mandates, Health Reform & Single Payer (oh my)
As a single payer supporter, who also supports manyothercomplementaryreforms that we also need, let me offer some comments on where we are and where we are going:
View ArticleObama: "It's hard to change the narrative after 30 years" (updatex4)
President Obama, you are no Ronald Reagan. And I mean that in a bad way.From the National Journal (h/t Irmaly) here is a report on Obama thinking around the tax cut deal with McConnell:He said it was...
View ArticleI Was a 9/11 Responder & What Is Important to Republicans
I am in the 9/11 World Trade Center health registry that you may have heard about; fortunately I am completely healthy. Below are several true stories, followed by some more or less related current...
View ArticleMeet Wendell Potter: Health Insurance Whistle Blower
Wendell Potter is the former head of corporate communications for CIGNA. Since leaving in 2008 he has become the most prominent whistleblower of the private health insurance industry, speaking out...
View ArticleWhich 28 Health Reforms in 2010-11 Do They Want to Kill?
While the Republicans in Congress call for repeal, below is the timeline of implementation from the official Administration healthcare.gov website which lists the health reform bill items that are...
View ArticleYour Favorite (& Least Favorite) Part of the Constitution?
The Republicans are going to read the Constitution today. Progressives should embrace this, insofar as the WHOLE consitution, good, bad, ugly and amended are read.What are your favorite, and least...
View ArticleLink Corporate Tax Rate to Employment & Income
Even as job growth remains mediocre, with new jobs lower than expected and with more people not even trying to find work and dropping out of the labor market, both Wall Street and Big Business have...
View ArticlePhony "Job Killing" talk is standard Corporate PR Playbook (Wendell Potter,...
The nonsensical false "Job Killing" meme that is part of the attack on the limited health reform we got, is nothing more than the predictable, prescripted, routine PR "playbook" that the nastiest...
View ArticleWendell Potter pt 2: The Real Next Attack on Health Reform
Yesterday, I posted part of a talk given by health insurance company whistle blower Wendell Potter, explaining how the corporate PR playbook works. Today's diary covers the second half of his talk...
View Article"Shocked, Shocked" Wall Street & AHIP Love Health Reform
This is one way to summarize of the health care reform we got: At the J.P. Morgan Health Care Conference in San Francisco this week, major health insurers outlined the major expansion opportunities...
View ArticleThe 1930s origins of today's Republican Party
It is common, and true in part, to trace the origins of today's Republican Party to the early 1960s, the failure of the intitial Goldwater conservative movement, and the linkage of traditional...
View ArticleVermont Single Payer: What It Is and What You Can Do
Throughout 2009 and into early 2010, while the health reform we got nationally was being watered down by the corporate conservadems in the Senate, the Vermont legislature was moving forward. An...
View ArticleIt is the Total Health Care Costs, Stupid
By happy happenstance, today's "quote of the day" from PNHP's always must read Don McCanne listserv and feed discussing the subtle Federal push for the high out-of-pocket cost Bronze Plans under PPACA,...
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