I live in Baltimore. Last year on Election Day, while I was out working to GOTV we received a robo-call at our house around 6pm telling us: Hello I’m calling to let everybody know that Governor O’Malley and President Obama have been successful. Our goals have been met. The polls were correct, and we took …
Election 2010
30 million people have gone missing, again
The actual, as opposed to imaginary, health care plan that Paul Ryan put forth and the entire Republican Party signed onto (pdf) has many, many pieces but I’d like to point to the provisions for covering the uninsured. There aren’t any. The GOP health care plan repeals the parts of the PPACA that cover the …
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We’ll survive this. Maybe.
When I was 19 or so, I worked for a time in a completely disreputable health food store located in a dying strip mall in what is now probably suburban Atlanta but was then a small town in Georgia that had aspirations of becoming a suburb of Atlanta. I know there are reputable health food …
Conservatives who bet heavy against the auto industry, and lost, take another unearned victory lap
Now that the work is done, conservatives decide to show up: General Motors Co., state, and local officials are to visit the company’s Toledo Powertrain Plant on Tuesday where they are expected to announce plans to invest an additional $260 million and hire up to 400 additional employees to produce new fuel-efficient eight-speed transmissions for …
Two Ways
Donald Berwick lays out the difference between the Obama approach to cutting health care costs in Medicare and the GOP approach to cutting health care costs in Medicare: “There are two ways to save money,” Berwick told the journalists meeting. “One is to cut and the other is to improve.” He cited hospitals that have …
Incredibly, This Really Happened
Just a quick review of what Republicans ran on in 2010: In Florida, the conservative 60-Plus Association took aim at Democratic members of Congress Allen Boyd, Alan Grayson and Suzanne Kosmas. The ad said the new health care law “will cut $500 billion from Medicare. That will hurt the quality of our care.” In Pennsylvania, …
Seeing An Acorn But Missing The Oak Tree
When I read last week that the top election official in Indiana was indicted for voter fraud, I thought it would be big news. Indiana has the most restrictive voter access law in the country, and there must be majority interest in voter fraud, judging by the massive media promotion of the (later discredited) ACORN …
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