by Dave Johnson | Aug 19, 2009 | Blog, Making it in America
Last week Harold Meyerson wrote a great column in the Washington Post, Just One Word: Factories, promoting American manufacturing. Meyerson wrote, “Since 1987, manufacturing as a share of our gross domestic product has declined 30 percent. Once the world's leading net...
by Brian Dockstader | Aug 19, 2009 | Blog
Almost as telling as the fact that a whopping 62% of Republicans think the federal government should stay out of Medicare is the following vignette. First, let's make sure everyone is up to speed on the so-called "PhRMA Deal", which was essentially a detente agreement...
by Brian Dockstader | Aug 19, 2009 | Blog
Wow. I just saw new national survey from Public Policy Polling (h/t TPM) that seriously has me floored (and by "floored" I mean on the floor laughing). It highlights, in a very stark manner, how unbelievably ignorant conservatives are when it comes to health care. Are...
by Bill Scher | Aug 19, 2009 | Blog
The new NBC/WSJ poll is being interpreted by some as evidence that opposition is growing against the President's health care plan, but reading the whole poll tells a different story. And unlike other news outlets in recent weeks, kudos to NBC for actually telling the...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 19, 2009 | Blog
The editors of the Wall Street Journal say that the public option in health care reform has been "sent to the death panel." Obama "concedes" the public option, reports the Financial Times. Even liberals seem to agree. The public option is "all but gone," writes Bob...
by Bill Scher | Aug 18, 2009 | Blog
Let's recap the day's health care developments. The #2 Republican in the Senate called the attempted co-op compromise a "Trojan Horse" and "a step towards government-run health care in this country." The head of the House Republican Study Committee called co-ops...
