This is important. Even if Democrats pass some health care reforms, without the competition for commercial insurers a public option will provide, the measure will be less than half a job.
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Bill to fight Citizens United fallout
advanced by Ohio Sen. Brown
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, has submitted a bill to possibly curb corporate political spending and ensure transparency for the outlays corporations do make.
Brown’s bill is one of several put forth in both houses of Congress by Democrats in reaction to the recent Supreme Court decision in Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission, which essentially removed [...]
Possible way to zap Citizens United decision
W e had hoped to be able to recommend MovetoAmend.org to you wholeheartedly as a means for fighting back against a mortal threat to our democracy, the Supreme Court’s execrable Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission decision.
Unfortunately, because of MovetoAmend.org’s own tentativeness about fighting this menace, we can only offer it as a potential [...]
Our eight-point health care reform plan
President Obama and many congressional Democrats seem to feel their only chance to reform health care lies in passing the lousy Senate bill or a few a la carte measures — lame, face-saving expedients they hope would allow them to move on to other issues without being accused of giving up.
We’ve got a better way [...]
Haiti response a Katrina-style fiasco
No, Gates, the purpose of this exercise is not to prevent desperate people from rioting around aid distribution sites. The purpose is to get enough food, water and medical help to them quickly enough that they won’t be driven to rioting. What’s more, fully armed U.S. troops should be well capable of seeing to it half-starved Haitian civilians simmer down, especially if the aid those civilians are after is right there and being handed out.
Wages of informing on rich tax cheats
is a 40-month term in federal prison
Unless the public intervenes to somehow get Birkenfeld’s sentence commuted, or better, pardoned, we who pay our taxes honestly can be sure future potential whistleblowers will decide they’re better off talking only to their attorneys.
Glad tidings about killing cancer,
reducing din of TV commercials
This being the winter of our discontent about health care reform that’s really corporate welfare for health insurers and about job-creation measures that at best keep the unemployment rate from being any worse, we dedicate this post to some badly needed good news.
First, imagine being able to have cancer diagnosed very early, very easily [...]
Twenty-two million uh-oh’s for Bush & Co.
Ex-President George W. Bush, his vice president, Dick Cheney, attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, and top political hack, Karl Rove, have 22 million reasons to be nervous, thanks to the tenacity of two watchdog groups that went to court seeking “lost” e-mails.
The two private groups — Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the National [...]
With Dems like these, who needs Republicans?
Evidence mounts that a good many “centrist,” “moderate” and “blue dog” politicians only ran and won seats as Democrats because in some corner of their pro-corporate, conservative minds they realized 2006 and 2008 wouldn’t be good years to run as Republicans.
The latest involves House so-called Democrats tipping the balance in favor of easing — [...]
Who we don’t need as Fed chairman
— and who could do a better job
What’s wrong with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is the same thing that makes Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and top Obama economic advisor Larry Summers poor choices for their high posts at this time: they’re devoted to an outdated notion that what’s good for big business and the financial industry is good for America.
That notion [...]
