Archive for the 'Bipartisan' Category

A Chance For All Bloggers To Come Together To Help Our Troops

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Bipartisan, Blogging

I found this over at Power Line and I’m reprinting it in full…
I’m delighted to be collaborating with Joe Trippi, one of my favorite liberals, on a bipartisan project to support America’s veterans. The project is called the Eleven Eleven campaign; the objective is to get 11 million Americans to contribute $11 apiece to support [...]

November 9th, 2009 | Permalink| No Comments »

After All That…No Bipartisan Support?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Bipartisan, Democrats, Health Care, Legislation, Republicans

The bill that Baucus passed today didn’t have a public option in it. Let me repeat that…Baucus’ bill had NO PUBLIC OPTION in it.
Yes, there are decentralized not-for-profit co-ops, but that’s definitely not a public option as had been proposed.
Here’s more about what’s in the bill, from Politico:
The bill requires individuals to buy insurance, or [...]

September 16th, 2009 | Permalink| 22 Comments »

Quote Of The Day – When Timidity Passes For Wisdom

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Bipartisan, Obama, Quotes

And [our predecessors] knew that when any government measure, no matter how carefully crafted or beneficial, is subject to scorn; when any efforts to help people in need are attacked as un-American; when facts and reason are thrown overboard and only timidity passes for wisdom, and we can no longer even engage in a civil [...]

September 10th, 2009 | Permalink| No Comments »

Republican Bob Corker Floats Wyden-Bennett Health Care Idea?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Bipartisan, Health Care, Obama, Republicans

As many of you already know, Obama is set to give a speech next week that will either save or scuttle health care. I think we can all agree on that much.
The question is: what will he propose?
Well, at least one unlikely Republican health care reform advocate is already floating his trial balloon and it [...]

September 4th, 2009 | Permalink| 3 Comments »

Olympia Snowe Discusses Bi-Partisan Reform

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Bipartisan, Democrats, Health Care, Republicans, Video

The Finance Committee keeps plugging away and the Maine senator talks to Andrea Mitchell about it…

Yes folks, it’s all about co-ops. That will allow the moderate Republicans and the Blue Dog Democrats enough cover to vote for this thing.
The only question now is will the left wing of the Democratic party accept this bill and [...]

August 23rd, 2009 | Permalink| 6 Comments »

SEIU Blues Puts Power in Moderates’ Shoes

By Solomon Kleinsmith | Related entries in Bad Decisions, Bipartisan, Democrats, Independents, Left, Liberalism, News, Politics

Not a whole lot of good has come the way to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) these days. The only organization I can think of that gets more right wing scorn has been ACORN, who I think mostly get picked on because they don’t fight back. Another ally, Health Care for America Now (HCAN), [...]

July 29th, 2009 | Permalink| 5 Comments »

How TO Pay for Health Care Reform

By Solomon Kleinsmith | Related entries in Bad Decisions, Bipartisan, Congress, Economy, Fiscal Responsibility, In The News, Independents, Legislation, News, Politics, Polls, Spending

In my last post I detailed some of the roadblocks that have kept the Democratic leadership in Washington from finding a way to pass a major health care reform bill with a public option. They’ve whittled the cost of the bill down a few hundred billion dollars by negotiating concessions from drug companies and hospitals, [...]

July 14th, 2009 | Permalink| 66 Comments »

How NOT to pay for Health Care Reform

By Solomon Kleinsmith | Related entries in Barack, Bipartisan, Legislation, News, Obama, Politics, Spending, Unions

The Obama administration has managed to collect some concessions from hospital groups and drug companies, to the tune of over $200 billion in savings over ten years. This is nothing to sneeze at, but it still leaves the lion’s share of the proposed legislation searching for funding. Setting a requirement for employers to pay a [...]

July 14th, 2009 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Dole and Daschle Release Health Care Plan

By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in Bipartisan, Health Care, Legislation

Does anyone care about the opinions of former Senate majority leaders? What if one was once his party’s presidential nominee and another one nearly became President Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services?
Today, former Senate majority leaders Bob Dole, Tom Daschle and Howard Baker released a health care plan they claim includes the kind of [...]

June 17th, 2009 | Permalink| 1 Comment »