tnr.com - 9/9/2009
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“I think that often where I am is just in the middle. The middle is often the commonsensical place to be. The notion that one side is right and one side is wrong is generally, as one finds in life, not the case.”
--political commentator Cokie Roberts
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Good Point, Jonathan Chait! -- By: Ramesh Ponnuru
The Corner on National Review Online —
He writes in The New Republic:
Joe Lieberman recently piped up that he prefers to take minor steps on health care--such as banning insurance company discrimination against those with preexisting conditions--and forego covering the uninsured.
But, if you forbid insurance companies from discriminating against the sick without bringing healthy people into the risk pool, then healthy people would have no reason to buy insurance. They could just wait until they get sick and take out a policy, and the insurance companies would have to sell them one. Rates ...
A Turning Point For Obama
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... As it happens, however, there is some great drama worth covering right in the policy arena. Will the more widely acceptable bill that appears likely to emerge from this newly refocused White House effort actually be the best one possible? Or will the cost of having more people in the tent -- particularly the industry titans -- be ruinously high? Does compromise in this case lead to splitting the baby? ...
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McCain, in the middle, says no
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When Work Doesn't Pay For The Middle Class
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First Thoughts: Stuck in the middle
firstread.msnbc.msn.com 9/4/2009 — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg*** Stuck in the middle with you: As President Obama prepares to deliver his primetime health-care speech on Wednesday, he’s finding himself boxed in from the left and right -- of his ...
Stuck in the Middle
truthdig.com 9/8/2009 —
By Eugene Robinson Politicians love to run to the center, but it would be a mistake for the president or the Democratic leadership in Congress to underestimate the passion for health care reform among their party’s activist ...
State's middle class getting less for its tax dollars
articles.latimes.com 21 days ago — Reporting from Sacramento Middle-class Californians have long griped about paying more taxes than they might pay elsewhere, but for decades this state could boast that it gave them quite a bit in return. Now that contract is in doubt. A modern ...
People in the Middle for Obama (video)
youtube.com 10/29/2008 — Between the far right and extreme left are people in the 'middle' common-sense Americans, of all political affiliations, who are more concerned with the issu...
The political wisdom of Cokie Roberts
balloon-juice.com 8/27/2009 — While I was googling the word “Joementum” to try to figure out if New Republic coined it, I stumbled across this classic piece of prognostication from Cokie Roberts in 2006 (excuse the Newsbusters link) about the perils of defeating Joe ...
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