TalkLeft (Free subscription) | yesterday
... could lead to other good provisions being stripped. Jon at Firedoglake disagrees. And FDL 's Jane Hamsher explains the progressive reasoning behind choosing the public option as a fighting point. [More...] The Amendment process will see Republican attempts to weaken the good in the health care bill on a lot of issues-- the public option is just one. As I've said all along, I'm going...
Progressive Alaska (Free subscription) | yesterday
--- by Jane Hamsher Yesterday [November 19th] shocked everyone . In an unprecedented move, the House Financial Services Committee voted to approve an amendment by Ron Paul and Alan Grayson to audit the Federal Reserve — the first time anything like this has happened in the Fed’s history. A push is already under way to remove the amendment on the House floor. Scott Lanman of...
MyDD (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Jane Hamsher mentions her name. Blanche Lincoln: Shake down taxpayers for "abstinence only" funding to buy off Arkansas fundamentalist industrial complex, extracts promises from Obama and Biden they'll support her in a primary challenge if she delivers for Blue Cross, continues to run to the right because the thing she fears are Republicans in the general. I ran across an Arkansas...
Free Advice (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... behind it (labor groups), and a shrewd and driven organizer putting it all together (FDL's Jane Hamsher), even the most powerful forces and opinion-enforcers can be defeated, as they were here. Those progressive advocates' refusal to be distracted by trite partisan considerations, and their reliance on substantial GOP support to pass the bill (as hypocritical as the GOP's position...
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Health insurance companies don't vote, Senators. Voters do, and they want a public option.
MN Progressive Project (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Wednesday, November 18. 1. Jane Hamsher reports that voting is now open for the Public Option Please (POP) art contest . There are six finalists, vote now! 2. Jon Walker writes that "it seems [Senator Thomas] Carper [D-DE] has completely reinvented (cribbed? copied') Snowe's trigger proposal, and must be hoping no one notices."...
Show Me Progress - Front Page (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Thursday, November 19. 1. Jon Walker lays out "eight things wrong with the Senate health care bill," beginning with "Delays Start Until 2014" and including "Nationwide Plans Gutting State Regulation." Definitely a few things that need to be fixed here. 2. Jane Hamsher has a statement from FDL on the...
The Hotline on Call (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... bloggers, too, expressed disappointment. In a statement posted on the popular FireDogLake blog, Jane Hamsher called it "encouraging" that Reid included the public option but criticized an opt-out provision that would let states drop the public plan.
MN Progressive Project (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Thursday, November 19. 1. Jon Walker lays out "eight things wrong with the Senate health care bill," beginning with "Delays Start Until 2014" and including "Nationwide Plans Gutting State Regulation." Definitely a few things that need to be fixed here. 2. Jane Hamsher has a statement from FDL on the...
An American Lion (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
From Hero to Goat in a year… Since the Republican Party is, essentially, bankrupt of ideas and unable to properly oppose bad legislation because, frankly, there are no knowledgeable leaders running things in the U.S. Congress, I’ll have to resort to, once again, quoting Jane Hamsher at something or other called Fire Dog Lake: It is encouraging that Senator Reid respected...
They gave us a republic (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Remember how Jane Hamsher dared Blanche Lincoln to oppose healthcare reform when she was on Maddow a couple of weeks ago? Those were her exact words..."Oh I dare Blanche Lincoln...She'll draw a primary challenger so fast..." I think Blanche is gonna have that primary challenger no matter what, and I think it's going to be Arkansas Lt. Governor Bill Halter. He was on Countdown...
Show Me Progress - Front Page (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Wednesday, November 18. 1. Jane Hamsher reports that voting is now open for the Public Option Please (POP) art contest. There are six finalists, vote now! 2. Jon Walker writes that "it seems [Senator Thomas] Carper [D-DE] has completely reinvented (cribbed? copied') Snowe's trigger proposal, and must be hoping no one notices."...
MN Progressive Project (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... reform bill is extremely modest reform that leaves statue quo mostly unchanged." 2. Jane Hamsher requests that we "[a]sk Sherrod Brown to save us from PhRMA and the Eshoo/Hagan/ lobbyist-written biologics legislation HERE." 3. I blog about a story on My Left Nutmeg , which has a rabbi telling Joe Lieberman with regard to health care reform and the public option, "Do...
MN Progressive Project (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... mandate." Isn't it interesting how the most progressive parts are the most popular? Hmmmm. 2. Jane Hamsher comments on an email from Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) that says, "The question is no longer if we will have some sort of public option in the final health care reform bill, but instead what form it will take." To put it mildly, Hamsher is suspicious of what...
Show Me Progress - Front Page (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... mandate." Isn't it interesting how the most progressive parts are the most popular? Hmmmm. 2. Jane Hamsher... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
