Update (Oct. 27, 3:30 p.m.): Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond’s spokeswoman said today that the senator is not on Medicare. The senator’s office has requested the report from Rep. Weiner’s office, but it has not been provided a copy of the…
This helps explain why we need health care reform in this country.
From the blog, womenstake.org:
“Nope, we won’t take her.” This is what insurance companies in Florida said when asked whether they would provide insurance coverage to a hypothetical applicant who had…
A report out today suggests that the intense anger about President Barack Obama from conservative Republicans is not race-based, it’s ideological. The report was based on focus groups conducted by Democracy Corps (run by James Carville and Stan Greenberg) and analyzed by…
Barack Obama awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Washington Post has a good story about it here.
The Washington Post reported that the Nobel committee bestowed the honor on Obama for changing the climate of international politics. From the story:
The committee — made up…
Former U.S. Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said he that if he were in the Senate, he would vote for health care reform, even though the bill is not perfect.
Seriously. He told a Time magazine writer that he would vote for…
Despite a lot of attention paid to sometimes raucous town hall meetings in August, a majority of Americans feel “shut out” from the health care debate, a new poll by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health shows. An NPR story reported that 71 percent of respondents…
At the very modest Hilton St. Louis Frontenac hotel this weekend, folks from this great country will converge for the How to Take Back America conference, sponsored by, among others, the Eagle Forum (Phyllis Schlafly’s baby) and WorldNetDaily. Tickets were still available Friday morning, and…
The Hill has an interesting blog post by National Community Pharmacists Association VP for Public Affairs Kevin Schweers that looks at problems with mail-order prescription services. Such problems include late and misdirected pharmacy shipments and exposure of sensitive pharmaceutical products to extreme heat…
Please watch this.
(HT: Fired Up.)
Today is Constitution Day. As the Constitution’s Center’s website says, the day is intended to celebrate the bravery and legacy of the Founding Fathers who signed the Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787. From the website:
The signing of the U.S. Constitution…
Sen. Tom Harkin
There was a lot of talk about the public health insurance option over the weekend. From a steak fry fundraiser in Iowa to the Sunday morning talk shows to a rally in Minnesota attended by the president, the…
According to the Chicago Tribune’s “The Swamp” blog, U.S. Rep. John Shimkus, a Republican from Collinsville, walked out on the president’s speech Wednesday night.
An aide to Shimkus told the Tribune that the congressman was frustrated that nothing new was offered. From the Swamp…
A CBS poll says about 67 percent of Americans are confused about health care reform. Perhaps that’s because of all the misleading information being spread by opponents. Such as rationing, death panels, taxpayer-funded abortions, covering illegal immigrants, etc.
Of course, the main…
In his blog, The Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic had a short post today that is a sort of call to action for the progressives who are sitting out the debate right now. (Health care? Cap and trade? Employee Free…
Ted Kennedy died last night.
Other stuff happened today.
Consider:
Dominick Dunne died.
Mark Sanford said heck no, he won’t go.
It seems an attack on a Democratic Party office in Colorado, initially and rashly attributed to GOP operatives, may have been the work of a leftist…
U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., held a town-hall meeting in his district over the weekend in which he revealed himself to be a birther (is that still going on?) and said (without apparent disbelief from the crowd) that Republicans have pending health care reform legislation.
Wait. What?…
Nancy Pelosi had strong comments about the public option today.
I hope she prevails.
Tom Daschle talks like a liberal but works like a lobbyist. He’s working behind the scenes to kill health care reform.
And The Wall Street Journal gets right to the point with…
Time magazine reports that Sen. Chuck Grassley was one of many, many Republicans who voted for end-of-life counseling in 2003. Missouri Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond voted for it, as did then-Sen. Jim Talent. Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin voted against it, and then-Sen. Peter…
The leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States in Guadalajara, Mexico. (AP photo)
At the so-called “Three Amigos Summit” yesterday in Guadalajara, Mexico, President Barack Obama declared that immigration reform legislation in the United States is getting a rain check.
Calling a…
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