This week the SCOTUS will decide on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act of 2009 (AKA - Obamacare). This may be President Obama's primary legislative achievement. Conventional wisdom says that if the … [Read more...]
On Holding Down The Conversational Fort, Or, Jobs, Republicans, And Hooey
As the next Congressional fight over payroll tax extensions and unemployment benefits and pipelines gets set up in the next few weeks for either its final chapter or to be kicked down the road a bit farther, one or the other, you’re going … [Read more...]
Obama’s Power (and Yours) To Fight Global Warming
Although things have been a bit dismal as the pro-pollution forces like the Koch brothers & Sen. Scott Brown have blocked real conservation laws & regulations, there's encouragement out there: Cape Wind has scored a victory! This … [Read more...]
Massachusetts Health Reform Outcomes Paint Troubling Picture for National Reform
Mass-Care and Massachusetts Physicians for a National Health Program today released a comprehensive new report on the outcomes of the Massachusetts Health Reform law, as well as analysis of 5 years of media coverage of the law. The results … [Read more...]
“Obamacare” and “Romneycare”
Is "Obamacare" the son of "Romneycare"? The newest installment of CommonWealth magazine’s “Face to Face” video conversations features two of the people best qualified to discuss that topic, which continues to be one of the most … [Read more...]
From Quirky, to Movement…
(Cross posted from my blog Left in Lowell. I've been thinking a lot about where we are and where we are headed lately in light of the Occupy[America] protest movement. Are we seeing a sea change, or just another blip like the anti-Iraq-war … [Read more...]
They were singing, “bye, bye Miss American Pie”
When the Watergate scandal broke, I was just old enough to grasp that something really bad, shocking in fact had happened. That was before "shocking" became just another mot du jour and scandals were not reality shows. I was raised by … [Read more...]
On Doing Better Than 50%, Or, Could More “Made In USA” Mean More Jobs?
We gotta grow some jobs, and that’s a fact, and we probably aren’t going to be able to do it with big ol’ jobs programs funded by the Federal Government, what with today’s politics and all, and that means if this Administration wants to … [Read more...]
The myth of Obama’s weakness
Glenn Greenwald isn't buying the idea that Obama showed himself a weak negotiator who fumbled the debt-ceiling situation. It appears to be true that the President wanted tax revenues to be part of this deal. But it is absolutely false … [Read more...]
On Organizing Anger, Or, Could Olbermann Primary Obama?
It was just a couple of nights ago that Keith Olbermann was challenging us, in one of his “Special Comments”, to rise up in the streets and take back this country. He pointed out that the only way those on the left were going to be able … [Read more...]
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