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Newspaper Roundup for Apr. 21, 2009
CNSNews.com Headlines — ... Washington Times: Tolerance waning for zero-tolerance rules States revisit weapons bans 10 years later Fox News: U.N. advising U.S. climate-change group Politico: Congress launching the mother of all climate weeks on Tuesday Fox News: Cheney Calls for Release of Memos Showing Results of Interrogation Efforts Politico: Can GOP paint Obama as apologist? Politico: Senators promise health care bill by June Washington Post: Health-Care Dialogue Alarms Obama's Allies Don t cave on us Fox News: Sen. Feinstein's ...

ThinkFast: April 21, 2009
Think Progress — ... The debate over health care reform is intensifying as liberals are warning their Democratic allies to resist caving. Recently, more than 70 House Democrats "warned party leaders that they will not support a broad health reform bill that does not offer consumers a government-sponsored policy, and two unions withdrew from a high-profile health coalition because it would not endorse ...

TPMDC Morning Roundup
TPM Election Central — ... The Washington Post reports that some liberals are worried that the Obama administration may be already giving away too much in the health care debate. Said SEIU President Andy Stern, explaining why his union pulled out of the Health Reform Dialogue: "You don't make compromises with your allies." ...

Democrats Demonstrate Signs of Spinal Growth
Suburban Guerrilla — Who would have believed it? As Congress returns to begin an intense debate over reshaping the nation’s $2.2 trillion health-care system, prominent left-leaning organizations and liberal House members are issuing a warning to their Democratic allies: Don’t cave on us. The early skirmishing — essentially amounting to friendly fire — is perhaps the clearest indication yet of the uphill battle President Obama faces in delivering on his promise to make affordable, high-quality care available to every American. Disputes over ...

Health Care Tuesday
Daily Kos — ... Your Great Recession health report: Twenty percent of Americans say they have delayed or postponed medical care, mostly doctor visits, and many said cost was the main reason, according to a survey released on Monday. The Thomson Reuters survey found 21 percent of U.S. adults expected to have difficulty paying for health insurance or healthcare services in the next three months. On reform from WaPo: As Congress returns to begin an intense debate over reshaping the nation's ...

Message to Dems. on health care reform: "Don't cave on us"
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — The biggest concern I have about health care reform isn't the Republicans or even the insurance companies. It's the Democrats. Today, the front page of the Washington Post (which everyone in D.C. still reads) has an article on this very issue: ...

Healthcare - The Next Shafting For The Left?
Newshoggers.com — ... Could healthcare be the next issue that sees Obama and the Democratic Party turning away from their left? We've been ignored - probably because their's a view that we don't have a choice except to support the Democratic Party - on torture prosecutions, on FISA and warrantless surveillance, on escalating Bush's failed occupation in Afghanistan and on bailouts for Fat Cats. Now the Washington Post's Ceci Connolly says healthcare could be the next Dem cave-in. ...

Allies Nervous About White House On Health Care
The Atlantic Politics Channel — On the day Sen. Max Baucus begins health care hearings, the Washington Post runs what amounts to a shot across the bow from key Democratic client groups: don't punt on a public plan. What's the story behind the story? Read on. Without dismantling the system, there are two ways to extend health insurance coverage in the near-term. One way is to create a government-sponsored plan that would be able to compete with those offered by private insurers. The government would give the plan away for free to those who can't afford any insurance, and would heavily subsidize it for those who can afford to pay something. Administratively, the government could simply expand and add money to ...

Links for 2009-04-21 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — Shocker: Senator Dianne Feinstein's husband cashes in on crisis #catcot On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband's real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms. Mrs. Feinstein's intervention on behalf of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was unusual: the California Democrat isn't a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs with jurisdiction over FDIC; and the agency is supposed to operate from money ...

links for 2009-04-22
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — Shocker: New York Times Co. 1Q losses worsen as ad sales plunge 27 pct new The New York Times Co. fell into a deeper financial hole during the first quarter as the newspaper publisher's advertising revenue plunged 27 percent in an industrywide slump that is reshaping the print media. Its shares dived after the results were released Tuesday. ...

Democrats Feel the Heat, Tell Obama Healthcare Reform Must Include Private Plan
Crooks and Liars — ... As Howard Dean has said, any reform effort that doesn't include a public plan is not really reform. So it's nice to know we're having an impact: ...

Big Money Democrat Tom Daschle: "The sacred cow on the left and the right is the public plan."
Corrente — Thanks for sharing, Tom. Read more…

Obama’s campaign to takeover healthcare is on
Patterico's Pontifications — [Posted by Karl] This week’s rollout of op-eds by Democratic heavies like Tom Daschle and Ted Kennedy were the dead giveaway.  The Republicans are trying to get their own talking points together, too.  But the campaign rhetoric obscures the real obstacle to the Left’s ambitions. The Senate’s newest Democrat, Arlen Specter, said on Meet The Press last Sunday that he opposed establishing a public insurance plan to compete with private insurers (and drive them out of business), which is a key demand of the Left; over 70 House Democrats recently warned that they will not support a bill without the public plan.  ...