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Posted at June 26, 2009 at 1:35 pm
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Here’s a quote from Sen. Jay Rockerfeller (D-WV) about bipartisanship and health care reform…
“But do you want to be non-partisan and get nothing? Or do you want to be partisan and end up with a good health care plan? That is the choice.”
– Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), quoted in the Charleston Gazette, expecting little Republican support in passing health care reform.
Sen. Grassley, however, thinks the bill must be bipartisan and Republicans need to make sure there is no public option. Related Posts:
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Posted at June 25, 2009 at 9:52 am
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Here’s a screenshot from Fox News’s coverage yesterday of South Carolina Governor, Republican Mark Sanford’s press conference.
Sanford admitted to having an affair after going missing for 6 days when he was seeing his mistress in Argentina.
Notice anything wrong with the with the ticker Fox News showed in this picture?
Read more at Century of the Common Iowan.
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Posted at June 24, 2009 at 8:57 am
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Posted at June 23, 2009 at 12:15 pm
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From Matthew Yglesias…
There’s a lot of political concern in Washington about public anxiety about budget deficits. Substantively, the public’s concerns don’t really make sense, as deficit-reduction amidst a severe recession will only make the recession more severe. But Stan Collender, whose deficit hawk credentials should not be in question, observes that the political problem is largely a mirage as well:
If you look beyond the very short-term, the deficit situation will begin to turnaround next year, that is, before the election. Under current forecasts, the deficit will fall by a record amount from 2009 to 2010. It will still be high by virtually anyone’s standards — probably around $1 trillion or so. But the big change in the right direction will give the White House the breathing room it needs and alter the politics substantially. Anyone want to bet that there will be a cover story somewhere next year calling Obama the deficit killer?
This will, of course, not be a substantive fix for anything. But the nominal deficit reduction will, indeed, be huge. As the economy recovers, tax revenues will rise, social safety net outlays will fall, and stimulus measures will begin to tamp down. If we can assume further growth in 2011, the complete expiry of Recovery Act provisions, and the winding down of the Iraq War, that’ll be further deficit reduction.
Read more at Century of the Common Iowan.
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Posted at June 22, 2009 at 6:59 am
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Posted at June 21, 2009 at 4:27 pm
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The Des Moines Register wrote this editorial this morning about the merits of a public option.
So how do you decide whether a public option for health insurance is a good idea?
Ask people who already have it.
And you won’t have any trouble finding them. About one-third of Americans - nearly 100 million people - already use Medicare and Medicaid, which together cover seniors, the disabled and the poor. The programs are administered by the government and heavily funded by taxpayers.
They’re optional. No one has to sign up. But millions do.
Ask them why they opted to join a government program instead of just going out to purchase health insurance in the private sector, as every American is free to try to do. Ask people with Medicaid whether the government has denied enrolling them (if they met income requirements) or charged them more because of a pre-existing medical condition. Ask seniors with Medicare whether they’re worried about losing health insurance if they change jobs or get too sick or can no longer afford to pay the premiums.
If you have time for only one question, ask this: Did a government employee accompany you to your last doctor’s appointment?
Read more at Century of the Common Iowan.
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Posted at June 21, 2009 at 9:22 am
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Matthew Yglesisas explanes the paradox of health care reform that left must overcome…
The big problem, politically speaking, with health care is that you basically have people on the left arguing both sides of the question. On the one hand, insofar as your plan is “big government” that’s left-wing. But insofar as your plan is expensive, that’s also left-wing. Which is because people normally think of big government programs as expensive. But when it comes to health care, heavy-handed government intervention is actually way cheaper than private sector alternatives. Consequently, every time you try to make the plan more “moderate” by, for example, curbing the influence of a public option you actually wind up making the plan more “left wing” by needing to raise more taxes. And if you want to make the plan cheaper, while still actually achieving its goals, then you need to make it more left-wing not more moderate. But in the United States,ideological correctness and special interest politics prevents us from admitting this.
Read more at Century of the Common Iowan.
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Posted at June 20, 2009 at 10:21 am
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Yesterday, State Rep. Christopher Rants (R-Sioux City) posted on Twitter that he plans to file exploratory committee papers so he can being raising money and officially campaign for the 2010 race for governor.
Here’s more from the Des Moines Register…
Rants, who has been meeting with GOP activists for months about a possible campaign, said he had met his early target for fundraising pledges. He also estimated it would take $2 million to mount a successful primary campaign.
Rants, 41, is among the party’s younger prospects. His announcement via Twitter, the popular social networking Web site, signaled his response to Democrats’ advantages in reaching voters through new media.
But Rants added during the program that the Iowa GOP, beset by consecutive statewide election losses and a voter registration gap of 110,000 with Democrats, would need a winning message as well as media.
“If we talk to those Republicans who believe the party has lost its way on things like fiscal discipline and accountability, if we become the party that’s about transparency and reforming government - and that’s who we are as Republicans - if we’re successful in doing that, I believe we’ll bring those independents back, we’ll bring the majority back,” he said.
Rants also appeared on Iowa Press which aired Friday and will be shown again on Sunday morning at 11:30. You can watch the appearance here.
From the Democratic viewpoint, I believe this means 3 things…
- Steve King isn’t going to run for Governor. I don’t think Rants would have run against King and instead would have run for King’s seat in Congress if King ran for governor.
- Rants is a more viable candidate than Bob Vander Plaats. Mainly because Rants has more fundraising connection through his leadership positions in the Iowa House.
- Rants, Vander Plaats, or any of the other rumored candidates will not be able to beat Gov. Culver in the general election. Republican Doug Gross, the party’s nominee for governor in 2002, said it himself…
“I think they are all fine people and I don’t think any of them will be the nominee,” Gross said. ”I think we want to win and our nominee is going to have to have that statewide reach.”
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Posted at June 19, 2009 at 6:43 am
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Sen. Grassley appeared on MSNBC today to discuss economic regulation where he said greed is human nature.
And when asked if the banks are in any position to protest if they’re not going to make as much money, Grassley comes back with this:
Greed is human nature. We shouldn’t blame greed any more than you’d blame gravity when a plane has an accident and goes down.
I’m sorry Senator, but I think we can blame greed for the mess we’re in. Greed and the unwillingness of the government to put a check on it.
You can watch the comment here at about the 3:05 mark.
Sen. Grassley says greed isn’t the problem. Yet, in 1980 on average CEOs earned 42 times the salary of the average workes and now they earn about 476 times that salary.
Later in the video Grassley says that the problem is that banks didn’t have enough money. He probably has a point. The banks were giving all of their money to their greedy CEOs.
Read more at Century of the Common Iowan.
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Posted at June 18, 2009 at 9:58 pm
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