But we also need to transform what is covered. If we want to make affordable health care available to the 48 million Americans who do not have health insurance, then the fundamental causes of many chronic diseases need to be addressed — which are primarily the lifestyle choices we make each day — rather than [...]
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Newt Allies Himself with Sarah’s ‘Death Panels’
Watching Newt Gingrich this morning on “This Week” was like watching someone out of an alternate universe from a previous century, especially when compared to Howard Dean. But Newt’s apparent seduction by Sarah Palin after she made her my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel”, statement lunacy [...]
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The Ongoing Olbermann-O’Reilly Feud.. er.. ‘Truce’
–updated below– On Fridays, I often go back over some items I haven’t had time to fully analyze, with this a particularly good day to do so on this one, especially as RECESS! and summer vacation call for the political class in D.C., though in cities across this country the health care war will just [...]
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Republicans Can’t Afford for Democrats to Succeed
Michelle Malkin is pouting (incoherently) again. The impassioned thrashing in public of the wingnut fringe is having the impact of rallying Democrats, which isn’t exactly what Malkin maniacs had in mind. DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse issued a statement about “the Republican Party and Allied Groups’ Mob Rule,” saying that the “Republicans and their allied [...]
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Labeling the Angry Mob Won’t Be Enough
via FDL This can be boiled down into a very short analysis. The other side has emotion on their side, while Democrats sound clinically professorial. You cannot win any political campaign without connecting to people’s emotions. In the video, Kathleen Sebelius clearly gets out messaged by the organized mob. Question is, why was she so [...]
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Open Season
“We’ve addressed these rumors before. They are nothing more than typical Washington parlor games. It’s disappointing that while we are focused on reviving the economy and fighting two wars, others spend their time pointing fingers in an attempt to promote their own status.” – White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina, via Wall Street [...]
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Digging Down and Looking Around
“Americans are asking what’s in it for them, and I don’t think the Democrats have responded as directly as we should on that,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio). With so much attention focused on the legislative brawls and missed deadlines, he said, “it looks like we’re drifting.” – Washington Post One of my favorite stops [...]
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Bill Clinton, Can’t Get No Respect
Can anything be more obvious? Obama in trouble on health care for weeks, can’t explain his way out of it while stepping into “stupidly,” yet won’t reach out to, perhaps, the one man who could put it over the top. If only to get down into with the Blue Dogs. Of course, I’m talking about [...]
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Obama Finds His Inner Partisan
“No one in America should go broke because of an illness. … .. … [...] …Because the truth is we have a system today that works well for the insurance industry, but it doesn’t always work well for you.” [applause] – Pres. Obama After Obama’s abysmal health care press conference last week, which left his [...]
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Tax the Stuff Making Us Sick
–updated– How do we pay for health care? Some call it a “sin” tax. I won’t. It’s too 20th century, religious punishment for me. It’s a “healthy tax.” Taxing beverages and foods, but also pleasure vices, that are making us sick, sometimes killing us, but also adding to the cost of national health care hopes. [...]
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TM-DC Podcast: Health Care, Dean on Dems (and more)
The latest podcast is up. You can get it through RSS, as well as ITunes. Enjoy. The topics are Gates – Crowley – Obama, health care, as well as Sarah Palin. Couldn’t forget her after she officially quit on Sunday. As for some background for the podcast, it’s Howard Dean who nails it. You know, [...]
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Obesity is Deadly and Expensive
We’re fat and getting fatter quicker. Look around. Now that we’re talking about national health care, will it become everybody’s business? In the eight years leading up to 2006, the proportion of Americans weighing in as obese shot up 37%, fueling a $40-billion-a-year rise in healthcare costs, according to a new analysis of the nation’s [...]
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Beyond Dr. Tiller
–updated– Not only did she fear the protesters, she also worried about whether Dr. Tiller would be gruff and cold, “only in it for the money,” as his critics alleged. It was almost a shock, she said, to instead meet a slightly nerdy doctor who gently explained every step and kept asking, “Are you doing [...]
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Defying Expectations
Gordon Liddy’s performance on “Hardball” today, which I taped (because I don’t watch this show much anymore), was stunning. You simply have to watch Liddy to believe it. According to him, Obama’s step-grandmother gave a deposition under oath that she actually saw, that’s right, saw Barack Obama born in Mombasa, Kenya. What it symbolizes is [...]
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Obama’s Cambridge Police Quote Ricochets
–updated– As predicted, the topic exploding today is Pres. Obama’s statement about his friend Skip Gates and that the Cambridge police acted “stupidly.” It’s the last thing Obama wanted. From Ben Smith: After spending most of an hour patiently reiterating his arguments for changing the health insurance system, President Barack Obama turned his press conference [...]
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