My Prediction: Health Care Reform Will Pass Through Reconciliation
…and the reason? Because Congress is full of public “servants” all too ready to prostitute their votes for a little bacon. We’ve already seen what kind of cowardly horse-trading went down to get the...
View ArticleThe Slow March To Ruin
Who will historians blame when they look back on the series of financial catastrophes that led to the inevitable default of America on its obligations and the resulting global depression of the...
View ArticleThe Cowardice Of The House
Even loyal Democrats must surely be getting quesy about the prospect of passing major legislation that will have enormous consequences not only for health care, but for the deficit and the U.S. economy...
View ArticleThe Aftermath
Well, let’s not kid ourselves. Health care reform is passing the House today, and it’s very unlikely it can be procedurally derailed in the Senate. The game is, for all intents and purposes, over....
View ArticleGreat News, Plus the Quote of the Day
Those who are feeling abandoned by the fates after the heinous vote on Sunday can take solace in one bit of cheerful news – the most notorious national organization to somehow find itself in the midst...
View ArticleAbout That Deficit Reduction
I based my opposition to health care reform on a simple premise I repeated over and over – we can’t afford it. I never believed the bill would reduce the deficit and I still don’t. And I’m not alone...
View ArticleListen Carefully, Folks: One Poll Does Not A Trend Make
The liberal blogosphere and even commenters who lean left here were trumpeting a new poll released earlier this week that showed the public in favor of the health care reforms passed Sunday after...
View ArticleThe CBO and Partisan Hypocrisy – A Response
As long as there has been a Congressional Budget Office, there has been a lot of crying from one side or the other of the partisan divide about their latest estimates. So when a conservative such as...
View ArticleFineman’s Revelation, And The Coming Entitlement Depression
Meant to blog on this yesterday, when the whole world was, but got busy…in case you missed it, Howard Fineman dropped quite a bombshell: A Democratic senator I can’t name, who reluctantly voted for the...
View ArticleA New Trend Emerges
Remember when the whole lefthand side of the blogosphere was all aflutter over a spot poll passed in the immediate wake of the passage of health care reform that showed that the public actually...
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