Friday, September 11, 2009
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.
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
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 […]
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Sunday, September 6, 2009
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 […]
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Sunday, September 6, 2009
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 […]
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Saturday, September 5, 2009
The Republicans keep repeating the lie that health care reform will institute “death panels” where government bureaucrats will decide who can have treatment and who will die. So it is interesting to do a reality check and realize that the truth is that we already have death panels, but that they are run by the […]
Thursday, September 3, 2009
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 […]
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© David Horsey This is even funnier because it actually happened. And speaking of Cognitive Dissonance, Daily Kos noticed the recent upswing of people who are claiming to be Libertarians while acting otherwise, so they published a handy-dandy guide to the “Top 10 Signs You Might Not Be A Libertarian“. My favorite is: 6. You […]
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