December 2009

This is us

by Karoli on December 19, 2009 · 2 comments

There’s a point where disagreement shifts from being strong argument to ugly. In some cases, I think we’re there with regard to whether the Senate health reform bill is good, bad, ugly, a sellout or anything else. It’s 6 days before Christmas. Some people are uninsured. Many are unemployed. There’s enough negative in their lives [...]

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First of all, major props to Harry Reid for pulling over Ben Nelson and getting the 60 votes to bring health care reform to a vote. Today is the second benchmark in an historic effort to get some real changes in our health care insurance, payment and delivery systems…we’re three cloture votes and one up [...]

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The Collins Gesture

by Karoli on December 17, 2009 · 4 comments

This is a video of the presser with Susan Collins and Joe Lieberman on the 15th, after Lieberman forces Democrats into giving in to dumping the public option and Medicare buy-in. The scene is important. GOP leaders have just done their own press conference. Snowe and Collins are not there. Immediately after the GOP leaders [...]

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