February 26, 2010 Greetings! Yesterday, President Obama held a bi-partisan summit on healthcare and presented a plan for honest reform to members of both parties. His plan will supply 31 million uninsured Americans with healthcare and provide tax credits for millions of Americans who need assistance in acquiring insurance. No longer will insurance companies [...]
Archive for February, 2010
26 Feb
Today’s Broad Brush Issues
Campaign for America’s Future By Bill Scher February 26, 2010 – 8:36am ET After Summit, Dems Move To Pass Bill Without GOP Summit ends with presidential call for action, despite continued GOP obstruction. W. Post: “President Obama declared Thursday that the time for debate over health-care reform has come to an end, closing an unusual [...]
26 Feb
Kyl Does The Despicable: Holds Unemployment Benefits Hostage For Estate Tax Cut
Campaign for America’s Future www.ourfuture.org By Isaiah J. Poole February 25, 2010 – 2:45pm ET McJoan at DailyKos says it best: “How despicable can these guys get?” This is how despicable: Starting Monday, 1.1 million people will lose their unemployment benefits because right-wing Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., thinks its more important to give tax breaks [...]
26 Feb
At summit, Republicans prove they aren’t putting America’s health first
Republicans say the country can’t afford President Obama’s health-care proposals. (Marvin Joseph/the Washington Post) By Steven Pearlstein Friday, February 26, 2010 I’m not sure what else was accomplished at Thursday’s Blair House summit, but surely one result is that we learned what Republican “leaders” really think about health care and health insurance. The most important [...]
24 Feb
Senate Dems warm to reconciliation
POLITICO By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN | 2/23/10 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), accompanied by Senate Democrats, speaks during a health care news conference on Capitol Hill. Photo: AP An idea that seemed toxic only weeks ago — using a parliamentary tactic to ram health reform through the Senate — is gaining acceptance among moderate [...]
23 Feb
What’s In The President’s Health Care Plan?
By Jason Rosenbaum February 23, 2010 – 11:17am ET Over the past few weeks, House and Senate Democratic leaders have been working to craft a compromise between their two health care bills that were passed over the last few months. Today, President Obama has released what Dan Pfeiffer, Communications Director at the White House, is [...]
23 Feb
Democrats: Find your spines and pass health reform
By Eugene Robinson Tuesday, February 23, 2010 Better late than never. Now that President Obama has finally put a health-care proposal on the table, the Democratic leadership in Congress has only one rational course of action: Pass the thing, and quickly, or risk becoming the loyal minority. Should the president have done this a year [...]
23 Feb
Obama offers new health-care reform proposal
VIDEO Obama unveils details of health-care proposal Just days before his bipartisan health-care summit, President Barack Obama unveiled the details of his own proposal. AP correspondent Julie Pace reports. (Feb. 22) By Alec MacGillis and Amy Goldstein Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, February 23, 2010 President Obama signaled his determination to forge ahead with a [...]
22 Feb
Doing What Works
thinkprogress.org BUDGET February 22, 2010 by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Corley, Ian Milhiser, Benjamin Armbruster, Zaid Jilani, and Alex Seitz-Wald Doing What Works — At his inauguration, President Obama offered a simple response to the ideologues who would drown government in a bathtub. “The question we ask today is not whether our government is [...]
22 Feb
Today’s Broad Brush Issues
Campagne for America’s Future By Bill Scher February 22, 2010 – 8:30am ET WH To Post Health Care Proposal Online Today, Setting Table For Summit Before announcement of health care proposal, WH signals plan to limit rate hikes. NYT: “The legislation would call on the secretary of health and human services to work with state [...]
22 Feb
Why Iran’s dictators can be deterred
washingtonpost.com By Fareed Zakaria Monday, February 22, 2010 Sarah Palin has a suggestion for how Barack Obama can save his presidency. “Say he decided to declare war on Iran,” she said on Fox News this month. “I think people would perhaps shift their thinking a little bit and decide, well, maybe he’s tougher than we [...]
