Will Your Health Plan Be “Acceptable”?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 18th, 2009 5:30 am by HL
Will Your Health Plan Be “Acceptable”?
Paul Hsieh, Washington Examiner
Suppose the mafia came to your town and forced everyone to purchase all their meals at mob-approved restaurants. The mafia would also select the menu items.If you liked broccoli but their vegetable choice was spinach, then tough luck. Everyone would also have to purchase dessert, whether they wanted it or not. And if some customers couldn't afford the high-priced meals, the mafia would force you to “contribute” to cover their bills.Most Americans would be outraged at such violations of their basic rights. But this is precisely what the president and Congress want to do with…
Tough Days on the Diplomatic Front
Jake Tapper, ABC News
Filibuster is Threat to Dems’ Agenda
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly
FILIBUSTER FOLLY…. The to-do list itself is almost overwhelming. After eight years of Republican failure, incompetence, mismanagement, and corruption, Democratic leaders on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue were tasked by the electorate to rescue the economy, resolve two costly wars, improve the struggling job market, address a crushing debt, and fix health care, energy policy, immigration, a housing crisis, a collapsing U.S. auto industry, and the Gitmo mess.And just to make things really interesting, those same Democratic leaders were told they had to meet a new procedural standard that no…
