Weekly Pulse: What Would Jesus Insure?
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium bloggerChristian groups are trying to create a run around health care reform by setting up alternative, unregulated religious health care bill collectives-and...
View ArticleMedicare and Social Security cuts inch closer
In a surprising, and ominous, move, tonight the House of Representatives, by a 215-210 vote, passed a rule guaranteeing a vote on the deficit commission recommendations in December, if--and this is a...
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Obama's "mandate" to slash Medicare, Medicaid & Social Security
During Netroots Nation, we are running Golden Oldies plus a few surprises. Regularly Scheduled programming will resume on July 26.A Paul Rosenberg Golden OldieFrom Sat Jan 17, 2009. Original here.Did...
View ArticleAn Impending and Inevitable Train Wreck
In the event of a Republican takeover of one or both houses of Congress on November 2nd, it won't be long before the Tea Party Movement and the G.O.P. will be involved in one or more train wrecks, some...
View Article4 Tea Party leaders tell Lawrence O'Donnell: Social Security, Medicare AREN'T...
[What's This Election About, Anyway. Special Last Minute Edition.]In a special Sunday edition of The Last Word Lawrence O'Donnell had leading members of four Tea Party-related organizations on his...
View ArticleThe Coming War on Health Reform, Government Cheese, and how CPCs Incubate...
by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium bloggerRepublicans don't have the votes to repeal health care reform, but they are determined to use their newly-won control of the House to fight it every step...
View ArticleWeekly Audit: A Progressive Deficit Fix?
by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium bloggerThe co-chairs of the 18-member deficit commission issued a preliminary presentation two weeks ago that favored tax breaks for the wealthy and left open...
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Obama's mythical great Social Security compromise, by the numbers (Medicare,...
Obama babbled, Reagan-like at his Dec. 6 press conferece:Most Americans, they're just trying to figure out how to go about their lives and how can we make sure that our elected officials are looking...
View ArticleWeekly Pulse: Judge Rules Against Health Reform, Takes Cash from Opponents
by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium bloggerThe Virginia federal judge who ruled against a key component of health care reform on Monday has ties to a Republican consulting firm. Judge Henry Hudson...
View ArticleFacts vs. Fiction: The Big Lie About the Government "Takeover" of Health Care
Back on December 9th, in a post entitled "Fox Fair and Balanced" on Health Care Debate.....NOT!" I pointed out how the Fox News Network had deliberately tried to skew the national discussion on health...
View ArticleWeekly Pulse: Egg Salad Surprise! Congress Votes to Clean Up Food Supply
by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium bloggerIt's a Christmas-week miracle! The Senate, in a vote that astonished everyone, brought the Food Safety and Modernization Act back from the dead on Monday,...
View ArticleWeekly Pulse: End-of-Life Counseling Returns, But Death Panels Still Nonsense
by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium bloggerA proposed program to cover counseling sessions for seniors on end-of-life care has risen from the ashes of health care reform and found a new life in...
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Poll Shows American's Deficit-Cutting Priorities Direct OPPOSITE of Political...
In Quick Hits, The Big Hurt calls attention to a question in a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll.First, from CBS comes a graph of the topline results:Then, from vanityfair.com comes the breakdown by...
View ArticleWeekly Pulse: White House Takes Offensive Against Health Care Repeal
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium bloggerThis week, House Republicans will hold a vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The bill is expected to pass the House, where the GOP holds a majority,...
View ArticleWeekly Pulse: #DearJohn, Does Banning Abortion Trump Job Growth?
by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium bloggerWith millions of Americans out of work, House Republicans are focusing in on real priorities: decimating private abortion coverage and crippling public...
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