GOP Wins Have Nothing to Do With Obama
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 8th, 2009 5:30 am by HL
GOP Wins Have Nothing to Do With Obama
Gail Collins, New York Times
Here we are at the big Health Care Bill Weekend! The House of Representatives is actually getting ready to vote on legislation. How long has this been in the works, anyway? Was "Mad Men" on TV when the debate started? Had TV been invented? Gail Collins Gail Collins and David Brooks talk between columns. On the eve of the big vote, leaders admitted that things could stretch into next week. But no later than Tuesday. Unless something else happens. Rome wasn't built in a day. Anyhow, we concerned citizens need to decide exactly what we're rooting for. Public…
The Cost of Not Enacting Health Care Reform
Bilmes & Day, Boston Globe
MUCH OF the health care debate is focused on whether the country can afford the $850 billion the Congressional Budget Office estimates it will cost. The debate centers on whether the bundle of new taxes, credits, efficiencies, and Medicare spending cuts will be sufficient to offset the new spending so as to deliver health care reform without, in President Obama’s words, “adding a dime to the federal deficit.’’This debate misses the point. It assumes that doing nothing will cost nothing. It turns out that not expanding health insurance is a pretty…
Dems Need to Focus on the Economy
Eleanor Clift, Newsweek
Democrats need to focus on the economy.Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link.Separate multiple addresses with commasSometimes I think the Democrats have a death wish. For Harry Reid to ruminate about putting off health-care reform until next year is to give the Teabaggers even more time to stir up populist outrage about an out-of-touch Congress. With every poll showing that the No. 1 concern among voters is the weak job picture, the White House seems unresponsive. The news, first reported by BusinessWeek, that Goldman Sachs received a supply of H1N1 vaccine…
