Good to know, guys.
Anybody want to play “Guess the poll question?”
Elizabeth Warren: America Without a Middle Class
What’s this middle class you speak of? Oh - you mean that thing that was around before cell phones and what not?
“It might have been a necessary thing from an activism point of view, but convincing liberals that this bill was worthless in the absence of the public option was a terrible decision, wrong on the merits and unfair to the base. The achievement of this bill is $900 billion to help people purchase health-care coverage, a new market that begins to equalize the conditions of the unemployed and the employed, and a regulatory structure in which this country can build, for the first time, a universal health-care system. Thousands and thousands of lives will be saved by this bill. Bankruptcies will be averted. Rescission letters won’t be sent. Parents won’t have to fret because they can’t take their child, or themselves, to the emergency room. This bill will, without doubt, do more good than any single piece of legislation passed during my (admittedly brief) lifetime. If it passes, the party that fought for it for decades deserves to feel a sense of accomplishment.” —
Ezra Klein - My theory of the public option fight, and of health care
Read Ezra today.
“Called “cash for caulkers,” it would enlist contractors and home-improvement companies like Home Depot — whose chief executive was on the panel — to advertise the benefits, much as car dealers did for the clunkers trade-ins this year.” —
Wait. This is real?
Are the White House’s stimulative proposals based primarily on alliteration?
I mean, whatever… but they aren’t doing a great job of convincing me they’re willing to spend some political capital on the sorts of jobs programs that conservatives might tee them up for proposing. Cutesy names for “limited programs” are what we get.
“Democrats defeated today, 58 to 42, an amendment by Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican, to strip from the bill more than $400 billion in Medicare spending cuts.” —
Imagine early 2008 you traveled in a time machine to late 2009 and read this sentence. It’s pretty bizarre, isn’t it?
Poll Finds Widespread Apathy Among Black Voters
File under: Why ACORN is important.
“Sen. Ben Nelson told reporters today he will filibuster the health care bill if it doesn’t contain an abortion amendment similar to Rep. Bart Stupak’s amendment that passed attached to the House health care bill last month. “I will not vote to take it off the floor,” said Nelson (D-NE).” —
Nelson: I’ll Filibuster Without Stupak-Like Amendment | TPMDC
DIAF.
(via sexartandpolitics)
(via katoleary)
Nebraska people: PLEASE, call and write letters to Senator Nelson. One thing that we heard over and over at lobby visits yesterday was that representatives and senators are hearing from the antis a lot more than from pro-choice people, and we really need to make our voice louder.
(and duh, call your senators and representatives even if you’re not in Nebraska.)
(via bthny)
a) Fuck You Ben Nelson
b) One of the things I noticed from Tuesday’s testimony in MD was that there were probably ten pro-lifers for every pro-choicer at the hearing. We are so fucked in ten years.
(via catbus)
So much for ‘The Pottery Barn Rule’ eh?
Now it’s like the ‘DMCA Rule’: You try to fix it, you bought it.
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