The Plum Line 8/17/09 10:16 AM Greg Sargent House Republicans health care political media GOP Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri has promised to stop spreading a health care falsehood that’s been widely bandied about on the right after his local paper fact-checked his claim and called him out for fibbing. Blunt claimed to the St. [...]
Archive for August 18th, 2009
18 Aug
Grassley Retracts Claim That Government Could “Pull The Plug On Grandma”
The Plum Line 8/17/09 7:34 AM Greg Sargent Senate Republicans health care political media This passed unnoticed, but it’s a big deal: Over the weekend, and very quietly, Senator Chuck Grassley completely retracted his widely-reported claim last week that people have “every reason to fear” that the House health care proposal would create a “government [...]
18 Aug
Was Grassley’s “Death Panel” Talk Obama’s Wake Up Call?
Campaign for America’s Future By Jonathan Walker August 16, 2009 – 10:17pm ET by Jonathan Walker | August 17, 2009 Obama has long tried, and so far failed, to reach a bipartisan agreement on health care reform. He has given incredible leeway to Max Baucus to come to some kind of agreement with Chuck Grassley. [...]
18 Aug
Health Care Decision: Who Does Government Help?
Campaign for America’s Future By Dave Johnson August 17, 2009 – 11:56am ET The health care debate is bringing America’s division out into the open: Is America going to work for the benefit of its people or for the few who benefit from concentrated ownership of large corporations? Who is our economy FOR, anyway? The [...]
18 Aug
It’s Now or Never for a Public Option: Why We Need to Take a Stand Against the Insurance Industry’s Greed
Alternet.org By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted August 18, 2009. We are at a crucial moment in the health care debate — Obama needs pressure from all of us to keep the public option as part of his agenda. Editor’s note: It’s now or never for the public option. Campaign for America’s Future has put together [...]
18 Aug
More Voices
CORBIN HIAR The Political Calculus of Health Care Reform motherjones.com – Former Clinton advisor William Galston has suggested President Obama’s best bet is to get whatever health care bill he can out of Congress. But the real political danger is that Obama will be too eager to sign a weak bill and call it “health [...]
18 Aug
Triumph of the Willfully Ignorant
By TERRANCE HEATH Sarah Palin, and the Sarah Palins of American politics, have won a significant victory. If you want to know who has the last word on policy, look no further than her and what she represents Unless some significant shift occurs, the Senate Finance Committee’s decision to drop the end-of-life counseling provision from [...]
18 Aug
Progressive Breakfast: Co-Ops. Can’t Cut Costs. Can’t Attract Republicans.
Campaign for America’s Future By Bill Scher August 18, 2009 – 9:40am ET The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. No One Can Say How Co-Ops Would Actually Work NYT explores the difficulties co-ops would have, including current insurer monopolies BECOMING co-ops: “The history of [...]
18 Aug
Rage the Left Should Use
By Robert Kuttner Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Where are the liberal protesters? Wall Street and the abuses of corporate America crashed the economy, leaving regular people anxious and financially insecure. Yet the far right, not the reformist left, is getting the political windfall. Something is severely off when economically stressed Americans confront members of Congress [...]
18 Aug
Palin’s Red Menace
By Richard Cohen Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Try this on for size: Palinism. What is it? It is an updated version of McCarthyism, which takes its name from the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin liar, demagogue and drunk, and means, according to Wikipedia, “reckless, unsubstantiated accusations, as well as demagogic attacks on the character [...]
