Archive for December 14th, 2009
Public Option And Medicare Buy-In Dropped
Reports are just coming in that there’s a new “deal” on health care reform. President Lieberman wants only to give U.S. taxpayer money to big insurance companies but doesn’t care anything about lowering costs. Do you know the origin of the Medicare buy-in? Joe Lieberman. Joe Lieberman proposed a Medicare buy-in compromise as late as […]
Food Bank Donations Down
We are having our War on Christmas party on this Friday at CW Harborside at 7PM. We will be collecting donations for the Food Bank of Delaware to help them out. I just saw a tweet from the Food Bank. They are currently down over 12 tons from last year at the same time. I […]
Monday Open Thread
It’s Monday so let’s get started on our open thread. How’s your holiday shopping going? Despite my doubts about the new fitness shoe craze, I bought some. I’ve been wearing them and they’re pretty comfortable but my thighs are killing me. Is this a sign they’re working? I find this interesting, especially since Joe Lieberman […]
Jacob Hacker Endorses Medicare Buy-in
Even though apparently Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson are now bad-mouthing a deal they helped to make, Jacob Hacker was in the news last week endorsing the Medicare Buy-In. Hacker being pretty much the Godfather of the Public Option. The complete interview on this (including others) is here on the PBS website, but this piece from Hacker is important:
The Blame Obama Brigade
This weekend seemed to be filled with lots of discussion all over the internet re: Matt Taibbi’s piece giving President Obama’s economic team a not undeserved beat down. I like Taibbi’s writing a lot and the fact that he doesn’t do conventional “objective” reporting doesn’t bother me (but the repetition of bad data does bother me, like the so-called “cost” of all of the bailouts being 23.7 trillion), but I still find it hugely remarkable that there are plenty of people on the left who are very comfortable blaming Obama for not being liberal or progressive enough – as if that is all it would take to get major legislation through Congress.
The GOP Abandons Rhode Island
Rhode Island is gearing up for a governor’s race in 2010. And this is one election result I can predict with certainty, the Republicans will not win this race . . . you can take that to the bank. Political Wire reports that the sole GOP candidate for governor has dropped out of the race. […]
Holiday Gifts That Give Back
I’m sure many of you have had the experience of trying to shop for the person who has everything (I know I do). Before you buy them yet another gadget that they can’t use, think about giving gifts of charity. My family tried this last year, and it was a big hit. Below is a […]
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