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–President Obama is on the road again Wednesday, trying to carry health reform over the finish line. The consensus on Monday’s outing: “fiery.” Expect more of the same today in St. Louis, plus plenty of knocks on health insurers, the administration’s favorite foil.
–Speaking of which, HHS Secretary …
I’m not sure what’s more surprising here, that’s the guys pushing for financial reform have resorted to this or that Ron Howard directed the video. But it is pretty funny…
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Interesting post, Joe.
Is it possible that Rush Limbaugh’s objection–after his recent positive experience in Hawaii, the only state with an employer mandate–is that Obama’s health care plan isn’t socialist enough?
Consider this statement from Rushbo:
I don’t know. I’ll just tell you this, if this passes and it’s five years
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–We’re at an interesting point where both parties are trumpeting their intentions to run on health reform if/when it goes through, pro and con respectively. But I’m very skeptical of Senator McConnell’s assertion that every election in November will be a referendum on the issue. The notion that health care will totally overshadow …
When I go to political events, I generally like to talk to people who attend them. You learn a lot that way.
Not today. I arrived at the President’s health care speech at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pa., about 45 minutes early, hoping I might chat with some of the Pennsylvanians who were here. No such luck. The press was stuck …
On his last day in office Rep. Eric Massa seems to have snapped awake from the shellshock of the Ethics Committee investigation into his alleged inappropriate language around a young male staffer which Politico is reporting was sexual harassment. Gone is the contrite politician who said in an open letter Friday on his website, “I own …
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–President Obama heads to Arcadia University just outside Philly today to continue his closing argument on health reform. There’s not much in the way of new material, but I expect him to focus on one thing: urgency. He’s looking to keep the momentum going for the final push and …
At the risk of wading in above my head here, I’m going to try to play out this thing a bit more. Thinking of the health care vote in game-theoretical terms is an interesting thought exercise, and while the lighthouse story is a good way of conceptualizing the predicament in the House in the simplest way possible, I would note some …
This photo, of President Obama meeting with health insurance executives, comes from the White House Flickrfeed:
Rep. Eric Massa, the embattled New York freshman who just this week announced he wouldn’t be running for reelection, will announce his retirement this coming Monday at 5pm. Massa said in announcing his retirement that it was due to the return of his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which has been in remission.
The House Ethics Committee has …
Okay, geeks, this one’s for you.
I hereby concede that I am out of my depth with regard to the complex processes that could determine the outcome of the upcoming health care vote. Particularly when it comes to my grad-school understanding of game theory.
At his blog IPBiz, Lawrence B. Ebert looks at my Prisoner’s Dilemma post …
As always, Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles nails it brilliantly:
Normally, I don’t pay much attention to staff hires by gubernatorial hopefuls, but Independent Tim Cahill, the Massachusetts State Treasurer who is challenging Governor Deval Patrick for his seat, sent out an interesting press advisory this morning. A recent poll showed Cahill in a statistical tie with the Republican candidate, Charles …
