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What Needs To Happen In The SOTU
So, tonight, Obama doesn't need to hit a homerun. Well, he can, but he doesn't have to, at least not a walk-off homerun. A walk-off homerun isn't even possible, since he can't win the game all in one night. What he needs to do is get on base. He's got to get a rally going and get everyone else in dugout on their feet feeling some "hope", as cheesy as that sounds.
HOUSE – Pass The Senate Bill
Alright, so the title is actually a play on an inside joke I have about a former employer (quite a quirky guy) showing off his home in a local news segment. Particularly when he says “HOUSE – lower the attic stairs” at around the 1:45 mark: Guess you had to be there. But seriously. It’ll [...]
The New Campaign
Without a doubt, the Massachusetts Special Election was a setback. But as big of a blow as losing a 60 vote super-majority may have been, there's something much bigger at stake. Unless the president does something to rekindle the enthusiasm of 2008, the Democratic party is in danger of having a generation of young voters simply saying, "fuck it".
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The Strategy For 2010
Despite what anyone says, the result from the Massachusetts special election is not a repudiation on health care reform, President Obama, or Liberalism. Instead this was a perfect storm of 10% unemployment, opposition enthusiasm that always occurs in off-year elections, and a really shitty candidate in Martha Coakley. Regardless, the Democratic Party got caught napping, [...]
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America, Fuck Yeah!
A depressing day: I can tell you when this country will get real health care reform. It will come when insurance premiums are so high, and when so many people die from lack of health care, and when so many people go bankrupt from paying medical bills, and when the rest of the system is [...]
My Sister Is A Teabagger: Ideology
The brand of conservatism embodied by the teabaggers is nothing but an adherence to a defined ideology. Andrew Sullivan has written many blog posts discussing conservatism’s movement from a pragmatic resistance to ideology to nothing but demagogic propaganda. His best definition of this new, strict ideology comes after reviewing Sarah Palin’s new book: “In this, [...]
CNN FAIL!
It’s hard enough passing Health Care Reform legislation with the corporate ties that exist between the Health Insurance Industry and Congress. But it appears that the Health Insurance Industry now has a business partner and spokesman working inside major media outlet, CNN. Apparently, CNN Republican pundit Alex Castellanos is “the media buyer for one of [...]
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Something Doesn't Quite Sit Right with This Event
A friend of mine just forwarded me an email he received from his alma mater with the following text: Don’t miss this opportunity to network with Fairfield alumni and parents at the… Fairfield University Manhattan Briefcase Breakfast Michael Ferrante ’90 Executive Vice President and Chief of Operations, MultiPlan, Inc. will speak on “Health Care Reform [...]
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