Democrats Slowly Learning to Love Obamacare
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 26th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Democrats Slowly Learning to Love Obamacare
Sam Baker, Natl Journal
Democrats won’t be mounting a big political offensive around the Affordable Care Act any time soon, but they’re beginning to test the pro-Obamacare waters.Heading into the 2014 midterms, Republicans continue to hold a clear advantage in the politics of Obamacare. And even if the tide does ultimately shift for the law, it almost certainly won’t happen by November. Still, there are signs that Democrats are slowly becoming more confident talking about the health care law, or at least parts of it.
Send Your Own Sons and Daughters to War
Dan Rather, CNN
My first question to anyone who is on television saying, we have to get tough, we need to put boots on the ground and we need to go to war in one of these places is, I will hear you out if you tell me you are prepared to send your son, your daughter, your grandson, your granddaughter to that war of which you are beating the drums. If you aren’t, I have no patience with you, and don’t even talk to me.
Lost in America
Frank Bruni, New York Times
More and more I’m convinced that America right now isn’t a country dealing with a mere dip in its mood and might. It’s a country surrendering to a new identity and era, in which optimism is quaint and the frontier anything but endless.There’s a feeling of helplessness that makes the political horizon, including the coming midterm elections, especially unpredictable. Conventional wisdom has seldom been so useless, because pessimism in this country isn’t usually this durable or profound.
Return Of The ‘Chickenhawk’ Smear
David Harsanyi, The Federalist
On CNN’s Reliable Sources this weekend, former CBS anchor Dan Rather weighed in on the escalating ISIS situation by reflecting on the 2003 military build-up prior to Iraq (a mistake of “historic proportions”) and reviving one of its most popular and cheap smears: Hawks, he said, should be prepared to send their own kids to battle or shut up.
