by Bill Scher | Aug 23, 2007 | Blog
Stateline reports that the National Association of State Medicaid Directors will be calling on the Bush administration to "back off its proposal" blocking states from extending health coverage to more uninsured kids. And "If the administration refuses," (or more...
by Bill Scher | Aug 22, 2007 | Blog
Part of the conservative misinformation campaign on the State Children's Health Insurance Program is to stoke division between the states, and play on resentment towards New York. As Sen. Saxby Chambliss says, "I don’t think Georgia taxpayers ought to be subsidizing a...
by Bill Scher | Aug 22, 2007 | Blog
Yesterday, Campaign for America's Future joined Americans United for Change and Americans Against Escalation in Iraq to release a new report on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and his record of obstruction. McConnell's staff responded not by proudly...
by Bill Scher | Aug 21, 2007 | Blog
The capacity for conservatives to practice their cruel brand of compassion has ceased to surprise. But President Bush's attempt to punish states trying to provide health coverage to uninsured kids is surprising for its political idiocy. States are trying to cover as...
by Bill Scher | Aug 21, 2007 | Blog
The dead and trapped Crandall Canyon miners are putting renewed attention on the massive number of safety violations by Big Coal, and the gallingly lax enforcement by the Bush Administration. But I also suspect that Robert Murray’s blustery, and ultimately...
