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Public Option Will Complement, Not Compete

Jun 19th, 2009 | By Mark | Category: Health Care

 If you like this post, please subscribe to read more content on this topic.Do we want insurance or medical treatment for what ails us?  Insurance is only a means to an end.  Health care is what we want.
As the debacle of AIG, the world’s largest insurance company (until last fall), so graphically illustrated — insurance [...]



The Eyes Roll Back And The Sea Goes Red

Jun 12th, 2009 | By Mark | Category: Republicans

Shark reference brought to you by the cloistered Ladies of Perpetual Outrage and Publicity Hounds.



Ya Know What Reagan Did Not Do

Jun 6th, 2009 | By Mark | Category: Republicans

Wax delusional about some Reaganite of the past.  [Or plagiarize, updated below.]
Ronald Reagan did not look back at some successful conservative politician of a by-gone generation as somehow bestowed with a kind of divinely inspired wisdom whose every platitude was gospel and approach to every policy to be followed to the letter.
I don’t recommend reading [...]



Roeder-Muhammad: The Difference

Jun 5th, 2009 | By Mark | Category: Media

The SOURCE of Roeder and Muhammad’s radicalization are as far removed as possible.



GOP: Cornered, Dangerous

Jun 5th, 2009 | By Mark | Category: Republicans

It’s one thing to be outmaneuvered and lose power and influence, even daily. Quite another to face ruin and irrelevance.
The last time an American political party disintegrated so dramatically, falling from the pinnacle of holding the presidency and a congressional majority to near obscurity was when the Whigs disintegrated in the wake of the [...]



Shorter Yglesias

May 26th, 2009 | By Mark | Category: Health + Wellness

Don’t really care what complicated schemes you come up with to pass health care, as long as you Git ‘er Done.



Death Rattle Of The Cult Of Intelligence?

May 23rd, 2009 | By Mark | Category: Dick Cheney

We’re better than that paranoid old man shouting at clouds we witnessed speaking at his wife’s think tank.



Scarborough Loses Argument With Himself

May 20th, 2009 | By Mark | Category: Media

Astonishing what it must be like to live inside Joe’s head.



Kwick Hits

May 15th, 2009 | By Mark | Category: Odds & Sods

Another difference between Obama & Bush: When Barack tries to be funny, he is.



Enhanced Pelosi Interrogation

May 15th, 2009 | By Mark | Category: Republicans

Color me confused. Nancy’s going down for being complicit in things Republicans insist are not criminal?