Health Care and Public Outcry….
Congress has passed, and President Obama has signed, the most monumental health care package in the history of America. The year-long debate over this legislation has been one of the most contentious and acrimonious in recent political history. The legislation is gargantuan, in both scope and content, and most of us will never fully understand [...]
Partisanship and Legislative Chicanery
The House of Representatives is expected to vote this week on the Senate’s health care reform bill. The problem, however, is that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is afraid that she can’t get the 216 votes she needs from the 253 Democrats in the House. Pelosi’s proposed solution to the problem, according to CNN, [...]
On Political Will
On these pages I’ve made a number of posts about political decisions and the politicians who have made them. I’ve declared my own naivete in believing that President Obama would actually bring change to Washington, the way he did with his campaign, and I’ve spent a great deal of time explaining my own disappointment in [...]
More Fuel For The Fire
Just about an hour ago I received another automated email, this one from Mitch Stewart, part of barackobama.com. This site, of course, is “Paid for by Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee…this communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.” In this apparently unauthorized communication, Mitch asks me to [...]
How Do You Spell “Democrat” – P.U.S.S.Y.
President Obama is “thrilled” with the compromise reached between the House and Senate regarding the health insurance reform legislation. Really. Thrilled. So much for yesterday’s promise of “We will not turn back. We will not back down.” The watered-down compromise agreement, designed to appease obstructionists like Joe Lieberman, strips the public option completely out of [...]
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