www.ourfuture.org After Summit, Reconciliation? By Bill Scher February 19, 2010 – 8:47am ET Dems Ready Reconciliation Bill President will post online “comprehensive” legislative proposal 72 hours before bipartisan health care summit. NYT: “‘“It will be a reconciliation bill,’ one Democratic aide said. ‘If Republicans don’t come with any substantial offers, this is what we would [...]
Archive for February 19th, 2010
19 Feb
IS AMERICA in decline?
Finally, an honest look at what’s crippling America By Scot Lehigh Boston Globe Columnist / February 19, 2010 As James Fallows recounts in the January/February Atlantic, that question has been asked for most of our history, and those concerns have always proved ill-founded. And yet, we’re now on a fiscal trajectory that has rendered us [...]
19 Feb
Conservatives’ Real Agenda Revealed at CPAC Conference: Love of Torture and Hatred of Obama
AlterNet / By Adele M. Stan Day One of this year’s conservafest included a surprise visit by torture advocate #1 Dick Cheney, and the crowd went wild for him. February 19, 2010 | At first, the opening roster of speakers at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference sounded a common theme: How many ways can [...]
19 Feb
Health Care Reform Back from the Dead? Obama’s Team Signals Support for Public Option; 18 Senators Sign on
Pressure is building in the Senate among Dems, and Obama’s Health Secretary backed government-run insurance plan if Majority Leader Harry Reid signs on to it. February 19, 2010 | Editor’s Note: AlterNet’s Daniela Perdomo writes: “Adding to the building pressure this week from his Senate colleagues who have openly demanded a public option in [...]
