If You Vote for Health Care, Sen. Tom Coburn Will Not Forget, Will Make You Pay
Raising the bar on Republican opposition maneuvers in the Senate, Mr. Coburn on Thursday threatened to put future holds on any Democratic House members who switch their vote in favor of the health care...
View Article“Tea-Bagger” as bad as the n-word. I guess.
Debbie Gunnoe, a tea party organizer from Navarre, Fla., who was in the House gallery for Ryan’s comments called on him to apologize for “making the generalization that a few rogue people are an...
View ArticleSome poll somewhere says something
A USA Today/Gallup poll finds Americans 49% to 40% in favor of health care reform. Should we blow this out of proportion? I think yes. Via Wonkette Related posts: If You Vote for Health Care, Sen. Tom...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform is ‘a big fucking deal’
Vice President Joe Biden, perhaps overcome with excitement during his speech congratulating President Obama on the passage of health care reform, dropped an F-bomb on live television when he turned to...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform game theory
Jonathan Chait: Democrats ought to learn the correct lesson, which is that reciprocity is generally the majority party's best approach. A strategy of partisan cohesion is best met with a...
View ArticleTom Coburn is okay sometimes
At a recent town hall meeting, Tom Coburn actually stood up for Nancy Pelosi, the truth about health care reform, and the virtue of listening to news sources other than Fox. When a woman in the...
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Support for Health Care Reform rising
Ratings for Obama and the Democrats have been ticking downward for the past month (After remaining stable for several months before that). But their biggest achievement, the maligned Health Care...
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If the chart looks bad, blame the author, not the data
Nathan Yau at Flowing Data is annoyed by this unnecessarily complicated chart made to ridicule Health Care Reform. It was created by Republicans Sam Brownback and Kevin Brady, and it’s been passed...
View ArticleAwesome bill names continued
Last year, I was amused by John Boehner’s Regulations from the Executive In Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act. But now that the Republicans are in the majority, they’re really giving up the subtlety with...
View ArticleBill Frist on Health Care Reform
Former Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist: [Health Care Reform] has many strong elements. And those elements, whatever happens, need to be preserved, need to be cuddled, need to be snuggled,...
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