By Steven D., Booman Tribune. Posted August 26, 2009. And what is the conservative solution to our health care mess? The right is very stupid, or very greedy, or very gullible on the issue of health care. Clearly, for executives of insurance companies, greed is the predominant factor. Small-business owners (and many large ones) who [...]
Archive for August, 2009
29 Aug
5 Ways to Build a Fascist-Proof America
By Sara Robinson, Campaign for America’s Future. Posted August 27, 2009. If we want to build a fascist-proof America for the long haul, we must stand up now for everything we believe and everything we are. August, die she must. The town hall freak show is winding down, the media circus is packing the cameras [...]
29 Aug
Living history in Mission Hill
boston.com August 29, 2009 THE PROCESSION of Ted Kennedy’s body through Boston was a history lesson for millions of Americans watching at home. From the North End to Faneuil Hall to Dorchester, the sites of the Revolutionary era co-mingled with the sites of special importance to the Kennedy family — including Ted’s grandfather, John ‘‘Honey [...]
29 Aug
What Would Kennedy Want? Government-Run Health Care Key To Both Of His Final Efforts
The Plum LineGreg Sargent’s blog Now that some pundits have already started to suggest that Ted Kennedy would have ditched a public option in order to secure a compromise on health care reform, perhaps this is worth keeping in mind: Public, government-run health care was key to not one, but both of Kennedy’s final health [...]
29 Aug
NEW REPORT SHOWS SENIORS TO BENEFIT FROM HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM
A new report, “America’s Seniors and Health Insurance Reform: Protecting Coverage and Strengthening Medicare,” was issued Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services. The report, available at http://healthreform.gov/reports/seniors/index.html, shines a light on what retirees have to gain from health reform, as well as the wholly unacceptable medical and financial consequences of inaction. According [...]
27 Aug
The Passing Of A Progressive Champion
CONGRESS The Progress Report has produced a video tribute to Sen. Kennedy. Watch it here. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, a “stalwart” of the Senate and a “liberal lion” who spent nearly half a century advancing progressive causes, died in his Massachusetts home late Tuesday night. While his death leaves a “leadership gap” in the Senate, [...]
26 Aug
What a Pair–Fox News and RNC chairman Michael Steele
The Truth-O-Meter Says: The Department of Veterans Affairs has “a manual out there telling our veterans stuff like, ‘Are you really of value to your community?’ You know, encouraging them to commit suicide.” Michael Steele on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 in a Fox News interview RNC chairman Michael Steele says VA has a manual that [...]
26 Aug
Some Thoughts on SEN. EDWARD KENNEDY
TERRANCE HEATH Remembering a Fighter and a Friend “If there is anyone whose career distills what being a progressive means to me – caring about and standing up for people and issues you don’t have to care about, that your circumstances don’t require you to care about – Ted Kennedy is such a person. His [...]
26 Aug
The Lion Sleeps
Progressive Breakfast: The Lion Sleeps By Bill Scher August 26, 2009 Sen. Ted Kennedy, The Liberal Lion, Dies At 77 NYT obituary: “Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, a son of one of the most storied families in American politics, a man who knew triumph and tragedy in near-equal measure and who will be remembered [...]
26 Aug
Conservatives Try To Pare Down Reform
thinkprogress.org HEALTH CARE Statement from Center for American Progress President and CEO John Podesta on the passing of Sen. Ted Kennedy: “The progressive movement lost a hero today, and the Center for American Progress lost a dear friend. Senator Ted Kennedy served tirelessly in the Senate for the state of Massachusetts and the nation for [...]
25 Aug
SARBANES STANDARD: HEALTH CARE REFORM
Following is correspondence from my representative in congress pertaining to the health-care bill currently being prepared. It addresses and negates many of the issues the anti-reformers are presenting in a ‘chicken little’ scenario to scare the general populous. Jim O’ —————— SARBANES STANDARD: HEALTH CARE REFORM – 8/12/2009 As a member of the Health Subcommittee, [...]
24 Aug
Why We Didn’t Crash
washingtonpost.com By E.J. Dionne Jr. Monday, August 24, 2009 SYDNEY — The hardest slogan to sell in politics is: “Things could have been a whole lot worse.” No wonder President Obama is having trouble defending his stimulus plan. If governments around the world, including our own, had not acted aggressively — and had not spent [...]
