David Broder inveighs against Harry Reid with a tone normally reserved for politicians who have had sexual relations with interns: There is an air of desperate improvisation to Sen. Harry Reid’s scheme to pass a “public option” as part of health-care reform but at the same time provide an easy exemption for any state that …
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Open Thread
Apparently bloggers disagree with each other. Please discuss it here. FWIW, I side more with Andrew because Sullivan is not playing the credible commenter here. He’s being an activist. This is presently a smart move because (a) Obama instinctively avoids fights, especially on the culture side, and (b) he responds to pressure from the left. …
Classy
Erick the Red rides again. ————————– Dear XXXX: After RedState readers sent Senator Olympia Snowe 1600 lbs. of rock salt, she got back in line with the Republicans and has again signaled her opposition to Obamacare. We have a new target whose life we need to make very painful over the next week. Rep. Earl …
Let The Sun Shine In
This sounds like good news, even if it means that Democrats once again lost control of some important confidential data. House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report …
Papal Judean Front
Chunky David Brooks has a piece about Joe Ratzinger’s plan to cherry-pick disaffected wingers from the Anglican church as reinforcements for the coming holy war against Islam: There are an awful lot of Anglicans, in England and Africa alike, who would prefer a leader who takes Benedict’s approach to the Islamic challenge. Now they can …
Open Thread
Seven hours is too long to hold it. ***Update*** It seems like a while since my last photo blog, so meet the new lens. A manual-focus Sigma 50mm f2.8 1:1 macro arrived yesterday from KEH. The compact lens fits nicely on a little E-P1, even attached with a Hong Kong Nikon-m4/3 adapter from kp_store on …
Dumping Will Kill Us All
The last time I wrote about the health care bill my post took for granted that any Public Option measure would include provisions to block private insurers from dumping sick and old clients. The reason is simple. If insurers can drop expensive clients for essentially any reason then the existence of a public option will …