by Dave Johnson | Dec 2, 2013 | Conservatism, Health
OK HealthCare.gov works now. The people in states that didn't set up their own websites can get insurance. The great panic of October/November 2013 is over. What will we be whipped into a lather over this week? What will the media sensationalize next? What about our...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 27, 2013 | Conservatism, Health
A new poll shows that, despite a flawed rollout, most Americans are willing to give health care reform time to succeed. That’s good news for Obamacare, because it’s already succeeding in states that have fully adopted it. And the success stories are starting to...
by Thom Hartmann | Nov 25, 2013 | Conservatism, Progressive Vision
On Sunday, major world powers reached an agreement to scale back the Iranian nuclear program. In exchange, our nation and others will slightly lift some of the sanctions against Iran, but embargoes against Iranian banks and oil will remain in place. The interim deal...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 22, 2013 | Budget Talks, Conservatism, Health, This Is The GOP
The GOP is targeting Medicaid in its next attack on health care reform. House Republicans want to take away $20 billion budgeted for the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion and use it to cover defense cuts. This is who they are. Politico reported yesterday that a...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 21, 2013 | Conservatism, Progressive Vision
Listen to the breath, the unbroken message that creates itself from the silence, it rushes towards you now, from those youthfully dead. – Rainer Maria Rilke, “Duino Elegies” Fifty years. That’s how long it’s been since John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Half a century...
by Digby | Nov 21, 2013 | Conservatism, Democracy, This Is The GOP
Kids, don't say Harry Reid never did anything for you. He and the Senate Democrats just ended the use of the filibuster for executive branch appointments and lower court judges. What this means is that the dominance of our judicial system by batshit insane right wing...
