The latest tracking poll from Kaiser reveals that 42 % of Americans don’t realize that the Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare, as it’s often called, is actually the law of the land. From the summary of the Kaiser report: The April poll finds much of the public remains confused about the status of the law. [...]
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Congressional Progressive Caucus Unveil “Back to Work” Budget *Updated*
WHILE EVERYONE is listening to the squealing talking heads on morning cable, none of whom know much about what a real budget looks like that doesn’t channel the disastrous notion of austerity, House progressives showed the Democratic party, the White House, and everyone else in Washington, how it’s done. You can read the Progressive Congressional [...]
Five State Bills About Gays, Guns, Girls, and Government
Steven Hsieh, writing at AlterNet, has a collection of legislative actions he entitles 5 Utterly Horrifying Right-Wing State Bills. (emphasis added throughout) 1. Tennessee bill would prohibit discussion of ‘non-heterosexual’ sexuality in schools and force teachers to warn parents if their kids identify as LGBT. This is the return of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, [...]
Support for Major Medicaid Cuts Dropped by Obama
The Hill is reporting that today Obama … backed away … from roughly $100 billion in Medicaid savings it had proposed during deficit-reduction talks earlier this year. The move comes as liberals have pressed the White House to take Medicaid off the table in negotiations surrounding the ‘fiscal cliff’ — and it will make any [...]
Republicans Jump on Abortion Platform Language
REPUBLICANS ARE CLAIMING that “‘rare’ is now too much for the Democrats’ platform committee.” They forget that Pres. Obama made free contraception available for all women, which actually legislates and codifies “rare” in public policy. This is the seminal misunderstanding Republicans have about government power. They want to use state and federal power to force [...]
Top Story: What’s the Matter with Todd Akin?
But for all of that the overall numbers in the race have moved very little. When we polled in May McCaskill was getting only 8% of the Republican vote, and even with the controversy around Akin she’s only pushed up to 10% of it. GOP voters dislike McCaskill so much they’re not going to vote [...]
Liberally Independent: Affordable Care Act, Supreme Court, 2012 and people who need health care now
Joyce L. Arnold: Liberal, lesbian, Independent, equality activist, writer. An interesting piece from Scott Lemieux, at American Prospect: Will the Supreme Court rule on the Affordable Care Act during the height of the 2012 election campaign?: Earlier this week, the Obama administration decided not to ask the whole 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to hear [...]
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