Category Archives: Economics and the like

Can't Shake the Devil's Hand and Say You're Only Kidding

As all denizens of the internets know, Jumping the Shark is a phrase that has come to represent that moment in which a good something becomes permanently broken. It originally referred to the moment on Happy Days when Fonzie, for … Continue reading

Posted in Elections and politics, Health Care and Related Issues | 23 Comments

Hoisted By Their Own Prayertard

So do you remember when Sen. Tom Coburn, R-ExxonMobil, was telling teabaggers the other day to pray that “something” would happen to prevent a Democrat from making it to the Senate to cast their vote for cloture on health care … Continue reading

Posted in Elections and politics, Health Care and Related Issues | 11 Comments

No Stupak or No Public Option: That's the Question

I think Karoli’s right, that’s going to be the big trade in conference. The language out of the Senate on choice is bad, but not nearly so bad as Stupak. It doesn’t expressly prohibit women from buying plans with abortion … Continue reading

Posted in Abortion & reproductive rights, Health Care and Related Issues | 22 Comments

Shut Up, Ralph Nader

You know, if I was someone who was instrumental in ensuring the election of George W. Bush to the White House, I’d hide my head in shame. But not Ralph Nader. No, he’s back, happily using racist epithets to refer … Continue reading

Posted in Elections and politics, Health Care and Related Issues, Race, racism and related issues | 39 Comments

How Things Should Be Done

As we all know at this time, the junior Senator from Minnesota refused to agree to granting Sen. Joe Lieberman, JoeForJoe-Conn., an additional minute or two beyond the ten he’d been recognized: Now, it’s a minor moment, one that those … Continue reading

Posted in Elections and politics, Health Care and Related Issues | 6 Comments

No. We Wouldn't.

I was never a Deaniac. I supported him for DNC chair precisely because I thought his reckless rhetoric would work well for the leader of an opposition party, and that his fifty-state strategy had merit. But I most certainly did … Continue reading

Posted in Health Care and Related Issues, Social Security | 12 Comments

Proposal to pay for the Afghan War

Some leading Democrats have been proposing that the Afghanistan war, like Health Care, should be deficit-neutral. The tax applies to all Americans earning $30,000 or more (although there are exemptions for “anyone who has served in Iraq or Afghanistan since … Continue reading

Posted in Afghanistan, Economics and the like, In the news | 25 Comments

"In Contempt" on The Stupak Amendment

Posted with the kind permission of Kevin Moore. Click on the cartoon to see it bigger, and to see Kevin’s commentary and links. In addition to Kevin’s comments, I’d point out this post by Ezra, pointing out that (by the … Continue reading

Posted in Abortion & reproductive rights, Cartooning & comics, Health Care and Related Issues | 31 Comments

Could the GOP Stop the Stupak Amendment?

At least one Republican, Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., says he’ll vote present on the amendment, and has four or five other members of the GOP who will join him. That may not be enough to scuttle the amendment, but it … Continue reading

Posted in Abortion & reproductive rights, Health Care and Related Issues | 5 Comments

Stupak Amendment Makes a Good Day Bad

Today should be a good day. It should be a day when Democrats and decent people celebrate the passage of health care reform out of the House of Representatives. But unfortunately, the usual suspects have decided that health care can’t … Continue reading

Posted in Abortion & reproductive rights, Health Care and Related Issues | 8 Comments