With every month that goes by without health care reform, another 3,600 Americans die due to a lack of insurance. And Joe Lieberman, like Elaine in that classic Seinfeld episode, is stopping off for Jujyfruits.
Will our representatives lead by example in the fight against harmful pollution or cover their tracks with vague promises on the campaign trail next year?
"Much has been given" to those Americans at the pinnacle of wealth. So it is only fair that "much will be required" when it comes to helping pay for health insurance for those who can't otherwise afford it.
After pretending for months to cooperate with the Obama administration and Democrats to secure a reasonable health reform bill, the industry's CEOs and lobbyists on Sunday double-crossed their one-time political allies.
In the wake of the China tire-import decision, we have heard a lot of rhetoric falsely labeling it as the beginning of a trade war. It is not. Workers around the world are engaged in an effort to protect themselves.
Citizens will pay a visit today to WellPoint's Indianapolis headquarters to protest the giant insurance company's abusive practices and its opposition to real health care reform.
Having a president who inspires people to act collectively on their own behalf can make a difference. It gives people hope and courage to defy obstacles.
It does seem like the August doldrums are renewing the progressive appetite for pushing Obama -- even the House Progressive Caucus is starting to channel its inner Evan Bayh and actually threaten to withhold votes.
A few hundred people serve on the boards of the nation's largest health insurance companies. They, the industry they serve, and the politicians who do their bidding, need to be held accountable.
What we've been witnessing during this health care reform process can easily be defined as "bipartisanship porn." It's a display of bipartisanship so obscene and excessive that it borders on perverse.
We can't allow Wall Street to go on cheating people out of the most important possession of their lives -- their home.
Republicans would have you believe that all the debate about making health insurance more affordable is merely subterfuge in the White House's scheme to impose a final solution to the nation's elderly problem.
Our elected officials have decided to put national health care and cap and trade legislation on hold to diminish the 45 words of the First Amendment via a flag desecration amendment.
If the Democrats twist up this bill to make insurance companies and their Republican allies happy, it is end of story for this generation of Dems -- our party will not recover from screwing up health care.
Sadly, the main figures who will likely end up blocking the health care plan are not Republicans, but a small handful of Blue Dog conservative Democrats in the Senate.
Bayh and Davis have to contend with DC political realities, which work against fathers and make rational legislation to help them politically difficult.
In the world of framing issues (or "political spin," if you prefer), there are a few cardinal rules. One of them is when you are trying to scare peop...
The new coalition of "conservadems" have decided that they have had enough. Clearly their leader Evan Bayh took the shock that he was not going to be VP a lot harder than we knew.
Senator Bayh announced today the formation of a "Moderate Dems Working Group", or to put it in layman's terms, a group of 15 or so Bush Dog... I'm sorry... Blue Dog conservative Democratic Senators.
Am I the only one frustrated that now that we finally have a President who looks out for the greater good of average Americans, his own party won't jo...
We must not allow the Blue Dogs to slow down President Obama's momentum or water down the sweeping reforms the nation needs in these trying economic times.
