online.wsj.com - 12/3/2008
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Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. Ask a Democrat of the respectable Beltway variety and he will twist himself into a pretzel denying it. For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in ...
change.gov - 12/6/2008
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change.gov —
Sign up to host a health care community
discussion over the holidays Health care is a top
priority for President-elect Obama, and he wants your help in reforming the system to provide quality, affordable health care for all Americans. That's why this ...
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change.gov - 12/5/2008
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As the Transition's Health Policy team puts together
its recommendations for the incoming Obama-Biden Administration, we want
your thoughts and suggestions. That's why we're asking Americans all across the country to host health care community ...
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Daschle asks Americans to help reform health care
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Daily Kos —
... face this daunting agenda, but he must answer serious questions before the Senate votes on his confirmation. Stuart Rothenberg: I don't like bloggers, partisans or Keith Olbermann. In fact, things have been going to hell in a hand basket since the Eisenhower era. And Obama's modest win won't change The Great American Cultural Divide, which I'm betting matters way more than those namby-pamby 18-29 year olds realize. Things will never change. Thomas Frank: Health-Care Reform Could Kill the GOP. Bill Kristol was ...
Progressive Breakfast: Blizzard of Bad Econ News
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... WSJ's Thomas Frank on the politics: "'Blocking Obama's Health Plan Is Key to the GOP's Survival,' proclaims the headline of a November blog post by Michael F. Cannon, the libertarian Cato Institute's director of Health Policy Studies. His argument[:] Any kind of national medical program would be so powerfully attractive to working-class voters that it would shift the tectonic plates of the nation's politics. Therefore, such a program must be stopped." ...
Defund Thomas Franks
Fraters Libertas —
... to the original: 1b. Demagogue your opponents by casting aspersions on their methods and motivation. 2b. Include a quote that supports your view from an "expert" source while downplaying or not acknowledging their bias. 3b. Throw out assertion after assertion not backed up by any evidence, but presented in a manner that assumes their veracity and validity. The latest and greatest example of the zest and best of Franks came in last Wednesday's WSJ. Franks wrote a column called Health-Care Reform Could Kill the GOP and in it he spun a tale of noble liberals whose only ...
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