Robert Reich does a great job of explaining concisely what the public option is, and why we need it. The opposition knows that their only chance is to confuse everyone by throwing out all kinds of disinformation, so if someone you know is confused about health care reform, have them watch this video.
Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) will probably now be known forever as the man who shouted “You Lie!” during Obama’s speech to Congress. But it appears that his emotional outburst is backfiring. The Democratic fund raising site ActBlue is showing a huge amount of money is being donated to Wilson’s opponent in the upcoming election. And […]
“Next Tuesday — a lot of people talking about this — President Obama plans to make a televised speech to the nation’s students during school hours. Many Republicans are planning to keep their kids home from school in protest. As a result, those kids have voted Obama ‘Best President Ever.’” – Conan O’Brien “It’s a […]
Over at Zero Hedge there is a brilliant article about the National Debt. I’m not going to quote from it, or summarize it. Just go read it. Read the whole thing. Doesn’t matter if you agree with it — it is the funniest thing I’ve read in months.
Glenn Beck may not have murdered and raped a young girl in 1990, but he sure is trying to murder the website that discusses evidence of it. Lawyers representing Beck have filed a domain name dispute, claiming that the domain name glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com violates his trademark. And according to the website in question, they also contacted […]
“The swine flu just is bad. And everybody’s worried about it. As a matter of fact, former Vice President Dick Cheney is so concerned about swine flu that today he fried his bacon in Purell.” – David Letterman “A new study from the University of Maryland finds that swine flu easily overtakes other strains of […]
One of the strategies used by opponents of health care reform is to throw out so many confusing things that people don’t know what to think. At the very least, this works to slow things down. But it appears that some people actually believe some of the crazier things being thrown out there. A poll […]
I was listening to a radio program today, and the commentator was talking about how most people in this country are for health care reform (most are even for single payer), but that it is the noisy few who are against reform who get all the attention from the media. He even compared the people […]
The takeover of mainstream media by large corporations has had two devastating effects. Most obvious is the editorial control that the corporations have exercised over their properties, but I think a bigger problem is the resulting fiscal control. The need to control costs and increase profits has led to a media that can afford to […]
The media has been concentrating on the more lurid and confrontational aspects of the debate over health care reform; for example, the protestors at town halls, including the recent case of a man who had his finger bitten off during a fight (which was itself ironic, since he was against health care reform, but having […]
CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo starts ranting about public health care in England. Congressman Anthony Weiner tries to explain to her that we don’t need to look at other countries, that we already have public health insurance in this country — namely Medicare — and that people who use it are very satisfied. This is when […]
Sarah Palin has accepted an invitation to be the keynote speaker at a high profile Asian investment conference later this month. CLSA, the brokerage research firm that invited Palin, is well known for playing elaborate jokes. One year, they polled Asian fortune tellers to help determine financial index targets. Another time, they invited anime cartoonists […]
Robert McDonnell, who is running to be governor of Virginia, seems to have stepped into a huge pile of poo of his own making. During a recent interview with the Washington Post, McDonnell brought up the master’s thesis he wrote in 1989 for Regent University, an evangelical school founded by Pat Robertson, claiming “I wrote […]
I have this theory that those people who protest loudly about some (usually social) issue are the people most guilty of it. Like staunch family-values politicians who turn out to be closeted homosexuals or are having wild affairs in Argentina. Likewise, Jacob Weisberg has a fascinating editorial in Newsweek magazine that points that that it […]
UPDATE: It turns out that Schaffer’s remarks were misinterpreted, and he was actually defending Social Security and Medicare. Sorry for the mixup. Which also makes my final comment backwards — Schaffer’s remark was met with boos because he was defending “socialized medicine”. Thus spake LeRoy Schaffer, who is an elected city council member from the […]
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