Campaign for America’s Future TERRANCE HEATH Deja Vu All Over Again … Again The problem with the latest health care reform “compromise” seems so obvious that it’s almost painful to have to point it out. Albert Einstein once defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” It shouldn’t [...]
Archive for September 4th, 2009
4 Sep
Republicans’ shameless senior moment
By Ellen Goodman September 4, 2009 WHEN EXACTLY did the Republicans start operating one of those marketing scams that target the elderly? It was bad enough when Sarah Palin told a bald Facebook lie that there were “death panels’’ in the plans to reform health care. It was worse to see Iowa Senator Charles Grassley [...]
4 Sep
Blue Dogs Have More to Lose Than Progressives
Posted by Chris Bowers, Open Left at 1:27 PM on September 3, 2009. If no health care legislation passes, and Democrats lose seats as a result, Blue Dogs are the people who will lose the seats, not Progressives. Responding to the Progressive Block strategy, which was designed to put the Progressive Caucus on equal footing [...]
4 Sep
Don’t Laugh at Crazy Cheney — He Represents the Dangerous Thinking of Many Powerful Conservatives
By Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. Posted September 4, 2009. It’s tempting to think of Dick Cheney as a cranky old men stirring up controversy to sell books. But Cheney must not be underestimated. WASHINGTON — In politics as in physics, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Thus, former Vice [...]
4 Sep
The Unwitting Birthplace of the ‘Death Panel’ Myth
Health-Care Reform 2009 By Alec MacGillis Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 4, 2009 LA CROSSE, Wis. — This city often shows up on “best places to live” lists, but residents say it is also a good place to die — which is how it landed in the center of a controversy that almost derailed [...]
