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What Today’s Vote on the Public Option in the Senate Finance Committee Means

Leave a Comment / health care / By max cyril

Today, the Senate Finance Committee voted on two amendments from Senators Schumer and Rockefeller to add a public health insurance option to the Baucus Bill. Both of those amendments were defeated, 8-15 and 10-13 respectively. In a long debate on the amendments, Senators spoke out vigorously in favor of the idea. Rockefeller exhorted his colleagues …

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Teabaggers Are To Congresspeople What Union-Busters Are To Workers

Leave a Comment / health care, unionbusting / By max cyril

After reading an article by Chris Townsend the other day, I noticed the the strong similarities between union busting and the tactics of teabaggers — namely, how they suppress, intimidate, and delay action at all costs. They both rely on intimidating people to the point where there is no longer any space left to make …

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The REAL Bipartisan Consensus on Health Care

Leave a Comment / health care / By max cyril

As noted by glacierpeaks in Quick Hits, there’s solid GOP support for a public option–among the Republican public, not the Republican elite. From the NYT poll: It could not be clearer. In America, as in Iran, the deepest cleavage is between the public and the political elites. The difference between Iran and America is the …

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What Today’s Vote on the Public Option in the Senate Finance Committee Means

Teabaggers Are To Congresspeople What Union-Busters Are To Workers

The REAL Bipartisan Consensus on Health Care

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