Hillary's Commitment to Women's Rights
Today Hillary proposed her women's reproductive rights agenda, timed with the anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade. The agenda includes prevention measures, ensuring health...
View ArticleAmsterdam News for Hillary
Hillary has received the endorsement of New York's Amsterdam News. This endorsement stands out for me. This is a local endorsement. Amsterdam News is part of the BlackPressUSA Network. This...
View ArticleHillary picks the Constitution, and other news.
This week Bill Moyers reports what books the presidential candidates say they would bring with them to the White House. I love Hillary's answer, the Constitution. Not only is it a thoughtful...
View ArticleShuster's Baseless Attack on Chelsea
Is David Shuster on drugs? What on earth would cause him to go after, of all people, Chelsea Clinton? Tonight he pondered whether or not the young woman was being "pimped" by her mother. How...
View ArticleSHAME to All So-Called Progessives Who Let Medicare for All Slip Off the Table
Medicare for All needs to be on the table. Medicare For All should have always been on the table. When so-called progressives saw Medicare for All being barred from the table they should have raised...
View ArticleAFL-CIO Members: Pro-Public option or Pro-Single Payer? UPDATE
BarbMD declares "This is what is sounds like when someone representing the Democratic wing of the Party speaks" in reference to AFL-CIO president Trumka laying down markers for what health reform must...
View ArticleThe Public Option Was Not A Compromise For Single Payer...
unless you were compromising with yourself. I'm sick of hearing the "public option was the compromise". No, it wasn't. You can't compromise on something when it's the only policy for which you have...
View ArticleRep. Weiner Pushing Single Payer Until the Last Dog Dies
If you followed the health care debate closely, you know Representative Anthony Weiner has procured a floor vote to replace HR 3200 with Medicare for All. People will say it is a symbolic vote, and...
View ArticleHow The Democrats Keep Blowing It On Health Care
The Democrats may pass a bill, and it may contain a watered down public option, but the Democrats have mostly blown it on health care reform. Were it not for the massive numbers of the uninsured, the...
View ArticleCirca1999: Bill Clinton Again Proposes "Radical", "Disruptive" Health Reform
In Obama's recent speech, he equated the movement to extend Medicare to all Americans with the Canadian single-payer.There are those on the left who believe that the only way to fix the system is...
View ArticleInvestors Betting On Democrats To Screw Us
I pray the progressives wake up soon and come out of their collective slumber before we help the Democrats pass a health insurance bail out.The reforms championed two years ago, that rested largely on...
View ArticlePublic Option Advocacy Strategy Needs Rethinking
From advocacy groups like HCAN and MoveOn.org to prominent blog sites like Daily Kos and Fire Dog Lake, single payer is the policy which must not be named. There seems to have been a strategic...
View ArticleCutting The Middle Man Out Of Health Care...For The Rich
As the Democrats busily work on plans to make us all captive consumers of the private health insurers, the rich are cutting loose from the system. While we'll be stuck in costly Exchanges, the rich...
View ArticleObama Needs To Make It Clear
Now that the Republican plan B has imploded, Obama needs to make it clear: No cuts to social security, including chained CPI. No cuts to Medicaid. No cuts to Medicare. Tax cuts for income over 250k...
View ArticleBenghazi Comm.: 489 Days
In case it wasn't clear, the eigth Benghazi committee, lead by Republican Rep. Gowdy, has been at it 489 days at a cost of over $4 million taxpayer dollars. If the committee works after Jan. 2016, the...
View ArticleGender Bias and the Hillary Campaign
In today's Newyorker, Allyson Hobbs asks, why aren't we inspired by Hillary Clinton? She takes aim at the main culprit, gender bias: But another obvious explanation is the persistent problem of gender...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren Also Had Trust Issues
It's a girl thing. The phenomena is likely related to the gender bias. Scott Brown hammered Elizabeth Warren over a ridiculous claim that she lied about her heritage and used that lie to get ahead....
View ArticleHillary Stands Alone As Presidential
The title of this article is a bit misleading, Americans View Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, as Presidential Material. In a new Bloomberg poll by the Selzer group, Hillary actually earns a full 7 points...
View ArticleMy Long, Negative Diary About Why I Don't Support Sanders
Not really. Everyday there is a new diary about how awful Hillary Clinton is. We get it. She's either Dick Cheney or Dan Quayle in a pants suit, depending on the diarist. She's a total a**hole....
View ArticleHillary's Executive Power Agenda Unprecedented
Hillary Clinton is laying out dual agendas, one for working with Congress, and one to go it alone, if necessary. Democratic office holders and policy makers are heartened by her plans. Via Vox.com...
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