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Fiscal Discipline for the American Dream
Congressman Jason Chaffetz (UT-03) has proposed a Congressional Action Plan (CAP) called the Contract for the American Dream which he is inviting members of Congress and candidates for Congress to sign. While I agree with his CAP generally I thought … Continue reading
Reid Has a Moment of Sanity
I was very surprised when reading about the results of the Senate vote on health care. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., initially cast a “no” vote. The explanation we are given is that he was exhausted – which makes … Continue reading
It’s Not Too Late to Change Your Mind
Conservatives, for right reasons and wrong reasons, are united in opposition to the current health care reform legislation. Unfortunately many liberals are falling into the trap of “stand by our guys” that already landed us in NCLB, Medicare Part D, … Continue reading
Harry Reid the Insomniac
“Senator” Reid must suffer from insomnia to schedule a vote at 1:00 AM on a Monday to torture his fellow members of the Senate as they vote on a bill to torture their constituents throughout America. That is how Harry … Continue reading
GOP Sheep with No Shepherd
Yet Another Fire Dog Lake post led me to this Progressive Change Campaign Committee poll. My interest in the poll focused on the results of two questions: Would you favor or oppose a health care bill that does NOT include … Continue reading
Missing the Boat
In a comment over at KVNU’s For The People blog Craig concluded that if I was right in my position about health care it would mean that basically everyone had been missing the boat on this issue. My response to … Continue reading
No Public Option, No Mandate
Over at Fire Dog Lake, Jon Walker challenges those with the “we can fix it later” mentality (which may or may not include enough senators to pass this bill) to hold the individual mandate out of the bill as a … Continue reading
Howard Dean is Right
Few people would predict that I would agree with Howard Dean as often as I do, fewer still should be at all surprised that I agree with him when he says of the Health Care Bill: This is essentially the … Continue reading
Medical Cultures
[quote]I have called David Goldhill’s How American Health Care Killed My Father a must-read for anyone who wants to speak up in the health care debate. The New Yorker also has a must-read article on the issue called The Cost … Continue reading
A New Federal Role in Economic Recovery
My post on fundamental assumptions generated some good discussion which began waxing economic in flavor. As part of that discussion I had a new idea about a more reasonable approach the federal government could take to soften economic hard times … Continue reading