The Affordable Care Act will expand eligibility for Medicaid, beginning January 1, 2014, to cover all Americans with family incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty guidelines ($29,326.50 for a family of four in 2010). This expansion is one of the three primary mechanisms for covering additional uninsured Americans, along with reliance on [...]
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Judge Strikes Down Walker’s Anti-Union Law (while Vermont goes single-payer)
Along with the news that Gov. Peter Shumlin of Vermont has signed into law a single-payer health system in Vermont, comes this news from Huffington Post: Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi ruled Thursday that Republican legislators violated Wisconsin’s open meetings law during the run up to passage. She says that renders the law void. [...]
The Ugly, The Bad, & The Good Can Oust the Worst
Donald Trump is upping the ante against President Barack Obama’s legitimacy, raising questions on Monday night about how the president was admitted to two Ivy League schools. Trump openly questioned how Obama, who he said had been a “terrible student,” got accepted into Columbia University for undergraduate studies and then Harvard Law School. – Donald [...]
Trump: What Does Privacy have to do with ‘Pro-life’?
**UPDATED** Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Nice, soft ball question. But as we found out with Sarah Palin there aren’t any. –updated– Speaking of Sarah, it really does look as if Donald Trump’s media blitz and poll explosion has team Sarah concerned. David Weigel did screen captures of [...]
Barack Obama’s ‘Mean Streak’
This Washington Examiner editorial made me laugh out loud. The headline is: Mean streak: Obama is not as nice as he looks. This is news? Evidently the Republicans never heard of Alice Palmer. Taking on the very obvious first, Republicans are whining because Pres. Obama supposedly gave a “mean-spirited partisanship, gross misrepresentations of fact, and [...]
Progressive Infusion Amidst ‘Disgust’
Because it’s Friday and a little sanity is called for amidst the Democratic Party’s cratering to Republican economic models. It should make people understand why many progressive and Democratic activists and lawmakers have had it with Pres. Obama. Rank and file Democrats still support him, but then they don’t have the job of trying to [...]
Fool Me Once… Fool Me Twice
Howard Fineman, a political veteran, in his most seriously impressed voice, said on MSNBC yesterday that when he was at the White House everyone was in a “feisty, almost angry mood.” Last night on her show, Rachel Maddow said that Pres. Obama’s speech was “perhaps an unexpectedly satisfying speech.” That it was “less Rotary and [...]
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Disembowels Jon Kyl
#NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement If you’re confused about the hash tag above, I refer you to Stephen Colbert. Also see Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Senator from the great state of New York. Compliments of the New York Observer: “For my friends and colleagues, this is a factual statement — current law already prevents federal money from paying for abortions,” [...]
Working Class Whites Remain Cold on Obama
Details on the appropriations deal are still hard to come by, but you don’t need the details to know that substantial short-term cuts in domestic discretionary spending will hurt the poor while harming macroeconomic performance. The problem with not agreeing to the deal, of course, is that a government shutdown would also hurt the poor [...]
Start Your Shutdown Clock. Seriously?
There’s a spending agreement, $38 billion, according to Reid, with the Democratic talking point being it’s all about defunding Planned Parenthood. Huh, $38 billion? That’s new. Anyway, Boehner is still contending the number’s too small and there’s no agreement and it’s not about funding Planned Parenthood. Either way it comes down to an ideological battle [...]
Obama’s ‘Are You In?’ Question
The biggest issue facing Obama’s reelection team is whether Obama’s base will show up and if they do in what numbers and with what level of enthusiasm. This is the story and why Obama embarrassingly asked “Are you in?” when he launched his reelection campaign. Not even the President and his team are quite sure [...]
2012: ‘Ultra-paranoid’ Jim Messina and Obama’s Re-elect
Says one Democratic operative of Messina: “I hope he’s better at political campaigns than at managing big, important pieces of legislation.” – Jim Messina, Obama’s Enforcer, by Ari Berman Absolutely nothing frosted me more than watching the White House bungle the health care messaging. Jim Messina is the guy who got beat by Sarah Palin’s [...]
FAIRNESS: Investigate AARP, Then Investigate the NRA
Waaaaaaah—waaaaaaaaah–wah. The big bad AARP is beating us senseless with their huge numbers, so the Republican We’ll Show Them Report is out. And Republican allies have come up with a scary title for AARP to rev up the Right: “AARP is the Death Star of American entitlements.” Through AARP the Right hopes to do a [...]
Geraldine Ferraro, First Woman on Major Ticket Passes
Geraldine Ferraro was a first for the United States. First woman to break the presidential ticket glass ceiling; first Italian-American to do so as well. The next time a woman would grace a national ticket would be in 2008, when John McCain chose Sarah Palin. In the late ’90s Ms. Ferraro was given 3 years [...]
One Year Later, People Still Hate the Affordability Care Act
Today begins with a declaration from the man who wants to be president, Mitt Romney. If I were president, on Day One I would issue an executive order paving the way for Obamacare waivers to all 50 states. The executive order would direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services and all relevant federal officials [...]
TM Must Reads
The interview with Obama by George Stephanopoulos wasn’t nearly as contentious as the interview with the Edwardses. No Republican talking points from Stephanopoulos yesterday, like when he accused Edwards of abandoning the troops with this beauty: “Do you think the Democrats should be saddled with the idea of completely cutting off funding for the troops?” Or this one: “You know, a lot of Democrats still in the Senate think that your position here is cynical political theater.
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