GOP Plan Is More Repeal Than Replace
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 20th, 2011 5:31 am by HL
GOP Plan Is More Repeal Than Replace
David Corn, Politics Daily
The Hubris of Government Expansion
George Will, Washington Post
Debate Over ‘Rights’ Has Become Distorted
Mark Hendrickson, CS Monitor
Americans have always been passionate about their rights. Whether conservative or liberal, we vigorously assert and defend them when we debate national policies like health-care reform or extending unemployment benefits.Unfortunately, the concept of “rights” is often poorly understood across the ideological spectrum. Some conflate rights with responsibilities. Others label any benefit they think people should have – from food stamps to mortgage relief – as a right. Both are dangerous tendencies, because they reverse the American understanding of the…
Joe Lieberman: Democratic Hero?
Ezra Klein, Washington Post
If you look back over the past two years, perhaps the most consequential decision made by President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was to give Joe Lieberman his chairmanship, even though Lieberman had endorsed John McCain in the 2008 campaign. That kept Lieberman in the fold, and after Arlen Specter switched parties and Al Franken won his election, gave Democrats the 60 votes they needed to break a Republican filibuster against health-care reform. Lieberman's behavior during the debate was often erratic and seemingly unprincipled. Among other things, he skipped the meetings…