Health insurance co-ops were the last vaguely plausible door prize for progressives and others who wanted a robust public option tied to either Medicare rates or at least open negoatiation by CMS with providers. Co-ops were sacrificed at the alter of austerity in the budget showdowns as the federal start up funds and loan guarantees …
When Everything Changed
There are worse things than forgetting.
Via Gawker, here’s a candidate for the most crass corporate co-opting of 9/11 ever. With the exception of the event’s hostile takeover by Bush, Inc., of course. As I was dropping my teenager off at school this morning, the radio announcer spoke the date, September 11th. The kiddo groaned, “Oh god, is it 9/11 today? …
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Why do you keep passing the open windows?
Scoff if you must (and some of you will), but this blog is a community of sorts, and many of us have had a tough time lately. One thing that continues to amaze me, not just at Balloon Juice but in life generally, is the range and diversity of how people deal with anger, sorrow …
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Happy Emancipation Day
One hundred and fifty years ago today, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Here’s the money quote: Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to …
If You’re Looking for Signs of the Apocalypse
Franklin Graham must not read Rolling Stone, because this is worse than four horsemen, or even a black President. Also, too: nice pearls. Are they cultured?
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Post Debate Punditing Without A License
I’m going to do something I very rarely wish to inflict on y’all. Usually, I like to invoke at least a schmear of empirical evidence to drive an argument, but just this once I’m going to go all pundity… ….which means, I guess, that I gotta start with a Penetrating Glimpse of the Obvious: Last …
I like a series of skirmishes better than a war, turns out
We made some Obama organizing calls last Tuesday night, before pundit-gate, so I’ll go ahead and give you my take on the war on women because I haven’t seen it anywhere. Maybe I’m alone in this, who knows. We had five callers Tuesday. Four were women. All of the women mentioned the war on women. …
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