++Mark Halperin really did raise the issue of rationing care at the end of life and believes this will be a big issue about Obamacare.
++Paul Krugman thinks Obamacare will soon become another Benghazi as enrollments soar. Krugman and Ezra Klein both report smooth sailing on healthcare.gov. Klein now says the Administration will conduct their outreach.
++Politico reports that Obama has asked his team not to seek better national news coverage about Obamacare but focus on local stories that are positive.
++The Amazon Post actually wrote a positive story about the Kentucky exchanges after it had been covered for weeks by television stations.
++The Post now raises the question about how the IRS will be able to handle the deluge now that the website can handle 800,000 a day.
++Paul Krugman in another article wrote about how Californiacovered is doing quite well and that if Obamacare works in the largest state it can work anywhere.
++Republican governors are now faced with a dilemma of how to avoid expanding Medicaid. Apparently,Florida is in secret negotiations with the Administration to expand Medicaid.
++The Supreme Court is actually entertaining the Hobbyland Case, where the owner pretends his business is a religious organization and should not offer birth control in his insurance plans.
++NPR did a weirdly positive story about California's efforts on Obamacare. Weird because they had that nasty interview with Jerry Brown last week.
++The corporate television still repeats the strange meme that Obamacare is like Katrina, which left thousands dead.
++Ed Schultz to his credit is the only one on television who keeps pounding away on the positive news from Obamacare.
++Polls suggest that Obama and the Democrats have taken a pasting on this news coverage and the GOP now leads the generic congressional polls. This is incredible after the Democrats were posting "wave election" numbers during the shutdown.
++Patty Murray (D.-Wash) says that the budget conference will have a small budget deal, where the Democrats and GOP split the difference. It is still dubious whether the House GOP will go along.
++Bibi Netanyahu threatened President Obama in the phone call on Sunday after the Iranian deal saying that Obama should be concerned whether he will remain the most powerful person in the world after this.
++Think Progress wrote a piece showing how the world now looks according to Bibi's Bomb Cartoon, namely a helluva safer and Iran further away from a nuclear weapon.
++The GOP howling over the Iran deal continues, likening it to Munich, which is a reference always used on negotiated settlements.
++Rachel Maddow last night showed how deft the diplomacy was. Not only did the Iran deal get done but also it was agreed that the Syrian peace conference will be convened. The Syrian opposition has accepted.
++The one agreement that looks strangely in doubt is the Afghan security arrangement. Susan Rice met with President Karzai and he made more demands after having agreed to the last agreement negotiated with John Kerry. The United States now threatens to leave without one.
++President Obama has established parole boards for the remaining 167 prisoners in Gitmo. Today,the Amazon Post published a story that the CIA has operation "Penny Lane", which turned Gitmo prisoners into double agents and then released them. The sooner we close the base the better.
++China declared an air defense zone over the contested islands with Japan. Naturally, the US military flew through it without notifying the Chinese. There will be more bluffing as we pivot toward the Pacific.
++President Obama lobbied again in California on the immigration bill and challenged John Boehner to pass it even in a piecemeal fashion.
++Andrew Sullivan at The Dish had a fascinating article after the Iran deal on President Obama as the Liberal Reagan. I don't know about the liberal since the President said in California he doesn't have a strong ideology.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Friday, November 15, 2013
Republicans Back Junk Insurance
++The Upton bill passed the House with 39 votes from Democrats. The bill basically was another attempt to repeal Obamacare. That's what Boehner says "It's the first step in repealing Obamacare". Basically, the political problem with the GOP is that they have utterly no position on healthcare.
++Last night Ed Shultz came back from his afternoon rant about President Obama and listened to President Obama's Ohio speech. Ed was right that the President should have delivered it in Washington, instead of his mea culpa at the press conference.
++Rachel Maddow went into her wonky mode and explained how Romneycare was rolled out in Massachusetts and concluded the current Obamacare roll out actually has gotten five times the enrollment Massachusetts had. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney himself claims Romneycare was deliberately slow in its roll-out.
++The Hill printed today an article how the healthcare website is down to 1% errors and will probably make the end of the month deadline.
++Talkingpointsmemo and Washington Monthly spends the day analyzing whether Obama's fix is really such a thing and how it will impact on getting the right mix of young and older people into the exchanges.
++Dana Millbank speculates that the Obama presidency is done and that he only has a year to salvage his Presidency.
++The GOP is energized for 2014,saying that it will be Obamacare 24/7 and they will campaign on this as if it is his Hurricane Katrina. What happens if by March Obamacare hits the necessary figures? Would you like to start campaigning on taking away healthcare from millions of people? It's not the same thing as taking foodstamps away from poorer Americans because they have no representation.
++Rinse Penis of the RNC says the GOP will pick up more seats in the House because of the fiasco with Obamacare. But then again, would that mean anything since the House hasn't passed anything in two years?
++Kaiser Health estimates that GOP sabotage of ACA will cost about 13 million the chance at health insurance.
++Meanwhile the Dow is heading to 16,000 . Totally ignored throughout Obama's presidency, now analysts are saying it is the Obamacare boom because of the botched roll-out. Where were they while under Obama's watch, the Dow rose by over 9,000 its?
++The President is meeting with the health insurance companies today because they aren't too happy with the one year fix. Also,the insurance commissioners of various states are resisting the change.
++Meanwhile California keeps plugging along and thinks they will have 500,000 in the exchanges by the deadline.
++Last night Ed Shultz came back from his afternoon rant about President Obama and listened to President Obama's Ohio speech. Ed was right that the President should have delivered it in Washington, instead of his mea culpa at the press conference.
++Rachel Maddow went into her wonky mode and explained how Romneycare was rolled out in Massachusetts and concluded the current Obamacare roll out actually has gotten five times the enrollment Massachusetts had. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney himself claims Romneycare was deliberately slow in its roll-out.
++The Hill printed today an article how the healthcare website is down to 1% errors and will probably make the end of the month deadline.
++Talkingpointsmemo and Washington Monthly spends the day analyzing whether Obama's fix is really such a thing and how it will impact on getting the right mix of young and older people into the exchanges.
++Dana Millbank speculates that the Obama presidency is done and that he only has a year to salvage his Presidency.
++The GOP is energized for 2014,saying that it will be Obamacare 24/7 and they will campaign on this as if it is his Hurricane Katrina. What happens if by March Obamacare hits the necessary figures? Would you like to start campaigning on taking away healthcare from millions of people? It's not the same thing as taking foodstamps away from poorer Americans because they have no representation.
++Rinse Penis of the RNC says the GOP will pick up more seats in the House because of the fiasco with Obamacare. But then again, would that mean anything since the House hasn't passed anything in two years?
++Kaiser Health estimates that GOP sabotage of ACA will cost about 13 million the chance at health insurance.
++Meanwhile the Dow is heading to 16,000 . Totally ignored throughout Obama's presidency, now analysts are saying it is the Obamacare boom because of the botched roll-out. Where were they while under Obama's watch, the Dow rose by over 9,000 its?
++The President is meeting with the health insurance companies today because they aren't too happy with the one year fix. Also,the insurance commissioners of various states are resisting the change.
++Meanwhile California keeps plugging along and thinks they will have 500,000 in the exchanges by the deadline.
Monday, August 2, 2010
How Many Jobs Can The Republicans Kill This Week
Ed Schultz on his television show urged Harry Reid to keep the Senate in session until the situation with the 99ers was taken care of. Agree. But Schultz wrongfully told 99ers to vote against Democrats if the situation isn't rectified. That's ass backwards in my opinion. The 99ers and other unemployed Americans' situation will worsen if Republicans even get close to power until they have purged themselves of their thinking.
This morning the Senate Democrats sent out an e-mail on four job-killing efforts of the Republicans just this week. The White House and the Senate have been trying to pass state aid that would save thousands of police officers and firefighters from getting laid off. Already Drudge is touting criminals going wild in St Louis because of police layoffs. Another part of the bill is a teachers jobs measure which would help states retain 130,000 K-12 teachers. Another bill is the scaled down energy bill, which would still create 700,000 jobs. And, most astonishingly, a small business bill, which would help small businesses create 500,000 jobs.
The memo points out that Sen. George LeMieux from Florida, a co-sponsor of the small business bill and whom I quoted in an earlier post as saying he couldn't understand why Republicans would oppose it, now claims " the bill should have 70,80 or more votes in the chamber". Democrats rightfully point out that they have accomodated Republicans by making many changes in the bill to accomodate them. You might remember Senator Grassley on Healthcare saying he wanted 85 votes in the Senate. It should be noted that this bill allows for $30 billion to be loaned (not given) to small banks to assist small businesses. As one Republican noted, 93% of all new jobs created since the 1990s came from small businesses. This particular bill has been passed by huge bipartisan majorities throughout the last two decades.
I don't think it's the Republicans pathological hatred of President Obama which is at work here. Nor do I believe they will win back power and then pass all these bills to become the "saviors of the economy." Ideologically, they are now wedded to a second economy, which bypasses the American people altogether. This afternoon, it was announced that the Chamber of Commerce has now upped their campaign contributions this year to $75 million and another set of conservative non-profits funded by corporations will pony up $300 million for the election. And still later, the new Karl Rove talking points have been handed down saying that the tax breaks for the rich generated government revenues (we've already seen that is a lie) and created jobs (and we have seen that is a lie).
It would be interesting for some journalist to penetrate the veil and get the Republicans to actually reveal their ultimate agenda. I can guarantee you it's not something that American can afford.
This morning the Senate Democrats sent out an e-mail on four job-killing efforts of the Republicans just this week. The White House and the Senate have been trying to pass state aid that would save thousands of police officers and firefighters from getting laid off. Already Drudge is touting criminals going wild in St Louis because of police layoffs. Another part of the bill is a teachers jobs measure which would help states retain 130,000 K-12 teachers. Another bill is the scaled down energy bill, which would still create 700,000 jobs. And, most astonishingly, a small business bill, which would help small businesses create 500,000 jobs.
The memo points out that Sen. George LeMieux from Florida, a co-sponsor of the small business bill and whom I quoted in an earlier post as saying he couldn't understand why Republicans would oppose it, now claims " the bill should have 70,80 or more votes in the chamber". Democrats rightfully point out that they have accomodated Republicans by making many changes in the bill to accomodate them. You might remember Senator Grassley on Healthcare saying he wanted 85 votes in the Senate. It should be noted that this bill allows for $30 billion to be loaned (not given) to small banks to assist small businesses. As one Republican noted, 93% of all new jobs created since the 1990s came from small businesses. This particular bill has been passed by huge bipartisan majorities throughout the last two decades.
I don't think it's the Republicans pathological hatred of President Obama which is at work here. Nor do I believe they will win back power and then pass all these bills to become the "saviors of the economy." Ideologically, they are now wedded to a second economy, which bypasses the American people altogether. This afternoon, it was announced that the Chamber of Commerce has now upped their campaign contributions this year to $75 million and another set of conservative non-profits funded by corporations will pony up $300 million for the election. And still later, the new Karl Rove talking points have been handed down saying that the tax breaks for the rich generated government revenues (we've already seen that is a lie) and created jobs (and we have seen that is a lie).
It would be interesting for some journalist to penetrate the veil and get the Republicans to actually reveal their ultimate agenda. I can guarantee you it's not something that American can afford.
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