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Dead Man Walking- Democrats Still Pursuing Health Reform…

Posted in Current Events, Domestic Affairs, Economy, Health Care Reform, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , on February 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »

  ATLANTA— Johnathan Cohn, writing in the The New Republic, gleefully informs us how Democrats can plausibly manage to pass the hugely unpopular, enormously costly and ultimately disastrous “health reform” bill.  He says they can do it by the following means: the House of Representatives can pass the Senate bill by a narrow margin (probably 218 [...]

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Come on Barack Obama: I TRIPLE-DOG DARE YOU!

Posted in Current Events, Economy, Foreign Affairs, Health Care Reform, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 25, 2010 | 10 Comments »

ATLANTA— In the wake of the Massachusetts’s massacre, Barack Obama is reconstituting his 2008 election campaign team, centralizing control of the mid-term Democratic election campaign arm, and vowing to “fight” for his agenda. Mr. Obama and his team are declaring they will not back off big goals like health care reform and cap-and-trade. And they actually [...]

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The Day After: Is Obama on His Way Down?

Posted in Domestic Affairs, Economy, Foreign Affairs, Health Care Reform, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , on January 20, 2010 | 4 Comments »

ATLANTA— It is now the day after Scott Brown’s victory.  And much work is left to be done in the campaign against Barack Obama’s agenda.  Mr. Brown’s win doesn’t really guarantee anything will change.  But the likelihood of change has increased significantly.   Barack Obama and the Democrats may try to paper over their loss, but [...]

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Massachusetts Senate Vote SHOCK: A Chance to End the Democrats’ Super Majority!? Time to Vote 3rd Party!

Posted in Current Events, Health Care Reform, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 13, 2010 | 64 Comments »

ATLANTA— The Massachusetts Senatorial race for Ted Kennedy’s open seat has suddenly turned into a nail biter.  Against all odds, moderate Republican Scott Brown has pulled almost even with front-runner Martha Coakley in some polls.  The odds of Mr. Brown winning in a state where registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans three-to-one and where liberals dominate virtually [...]

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HEALTH CARE DISASTER: Senate Vote Results Are In!? Scary Harry Pulled a Fast One!

Posted in Economy, Health Care Reform, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on December 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »

ATLANTA – All indicators are that a compromise has been reached within the ranks of the Democratic Party and passage of the bill in the Senate is inevitable.   As an institution, this one party, with the full backing of 38% of this country, may have just rewritten our entire health care system.  My only consolations [...]

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CONSERVATIVES WIN: The Public Option? R.I.P.

Posted in Current Events, Domestic Affairs, Economy, Health Care Reform, Politics, tagged , , , , , on December 15, 2009 | 5 Comments »

ATLANTA— The fiscally reckless public option is finally dead.  It’s seems liberals in the Senate are finally letting go of the miserable idea in the name of passing the health care bill.  The public option and the MediCare buy-in have completely failed.  That’s the good news for conservatives.  The bad news is that if the Senate [...]

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Reflecting on Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat

Posted in Current Events, Economy, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on November 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »

ATLANTA— I have picked up a new read, Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat.  It will be my second political-economic read of the year, following Amity Shlae’s fantastic history of the Great Depression, The Forgotten Man.  For a while now, I have thought it would be fun to blog about books I am reading as I read [...]

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