Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 14th, 2010 4:37 am by HL
Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup
Like Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th, the public option rose from the grave this week (instead of slashing teenage victims, it would slash health care costs). With zero input from the White House, 41 Senators have agreed to support a public option via reconciliation. Ryan Grim lays out how that can easily become 50 — and Dick Durbin has promised to “aggressively whip” a health care bill that includes a public option. But Nancy Pelosi won’t include it in the reconciliation package. Why? She claims it’s because the Senate doesn’t “have the votes” — which could also be said about the House passing the Senate bill (Stupak, anyone?). So the Senate blames the House, the House blames the Senate, the White House acts as if it doesn’t have a say in the matter, and the insurance companies — lacking real competition — keep laughing all the way to the bank.
Al Franken Mines ‘SNL’ Past In Bid For Google Fiber (VIDEO)
Drawing on footage from his decades in comedy, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) has joined the politicians bidding for their constituencies to test Google’s high-speed broadband…
Scott Brown Bashes Obama’s ‘Bitter’ Push For Health Care Reform (VIDEO)
WASHINGTON (AP)– Newly arrived Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts accused President Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a “bitter, destructive and endless” drive…
Taylor Marsh: Poll: Democrats Slipping on National Security
Here we go again. Democrats are once again losing the narrative to Republicans on national security, according to a poll released by the Democracy Corps….
Kate Clinton: In The Stuppak Pits
The Oscars pay homage to violence against women, big Pharma knocks the legs out from under women, and legislators make abortion funding an annoying deal-breaker.
