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First Iraq, Now Health Care. AP's McCain Bias Continues.
Over the weekend, Talking Points Memo called out the Associated Press for "demonstrably false reporting" in support of McCain campaign talking points about Iraq. Now the bias appears to extend to health care. Yesterday, the AP's analysis of McCain's health care plan...
What's Missing from the Nuclear Power Debate?
Ah, you optimistic soul. Did you really think the nuclear power debate died after Three Mile Island brought the reality of its dangers home to insurers, investors and utility companies? Think again. As both the rhetoric and the reality of global warming heat up in the...
McCain's Croc of Hooey
Marc Ambinder at theatlantic.com notes that Crocs (which are probably what your children are wearing right this minute) seem to be a perennial favorite when GOP presidential candidates come to Colorado and need to call out a Great American Company: President Bush, on...
Where McCain's Change Is Bigger Than Obama's
As Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama both plan to engage each other on the economy this week, this presents an opportunity for reporters and voters to focus on one of the biggest contrasts between them: health care. As Paul Krugman observes today, "[health insurnace]...
Health Care For America Now!
On Tuesday, July 8, a new campaign will be launched – for Health Care for America Now! – at press conferences in Washington and 55 other cities and towns. We at the Campaign for America’s Future are proud to play a leadership role in launching this much-needed...
All In The Same Sinking Boat
A disturbing but sadly predictable jobs report was released today by the Department of Labor: 62,000 jobs lost in June, 438,000 jobs lost during the past 6 months. This is no limited recession. The New York Times observed that: "June’s job losses affected a range of...
Hundreds Tell Fox: "Stop The Attacks"
"Dear FOX News, Here's a Fourth of July gift for you, from an Obama supporter and patriotic American," begins a note from Anthony in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. "This year my son and I plan to use window paints to fill our big picture window with the American flag. Please...
McCain's Flea-Market Economy
George W. Bush's solution to our nation's economic mess—that his failed policies helped create—is to applaud people who must work three jobs to make ends meet. Sen. John McCain colors his solution to working families' financial struggles with similar crayons: He...
To Win, Presidential Candidates Move ... Left
The punditocracy won't tell you, but Barack Obama and John McCain are moving to the Left. Take Iraq. Sensing that voters did not react kindly to McCain's December remarks expressing comfort with U.S. troops remaining in Iraq for 100 years, he predicted in May that if...
McCain Pledges Allegiance to NAFTA
Arizona Sen. John McCain continues his rousing campaign tour of the swing states of NAFTA this week. He will celebrate July 3 in Mexico City after a jaunt through Colombia to pledge support for the pending free trade accord with that center of cocaine trade. He surely...
