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The Note: Moving Days: Can delicate coalition survive thousand cuts?
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Fine. If that is the only choice before me, then I choose no universal coverage, and for Obama to fail. http://bit.ly/4Ddoeu 17 days ago |
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The Defining Moment http://bit.ly/36Ik1Y 19 days ago |
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The Defining Moment - summary of "history about to be made" http://bit.ly/36Ik1Y found by @JasonPHopson 20 days ago |
Moving Days: Can delicate coalition survive thousand cuts?
The Note —
... "So should progressives get behind this plan? Yes. And they probably will," Paul Krugman writes in his New York Times column. "The people who really have to make up their minds, then, are those in between, the self-proclaimed centrists. . . . History is about to be made — and everyone has to decide which side they're on." ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
Friday, again, and not a day too soon! And the Yanks even up the Series with the Phillies. Paul Krugman: O.K., folks, this is it. It’s the defining moment for health care reform... For conservatives, of course, it’s an easy decision: They don’t want Americans to have universal coverage, and they don’t want President Obama to succeed. For progressives, it’s a slightly more difficult decision: They want universal care, and they want the president to succeed — but the proposed legislation falls far short of their ideal. David Brooks: ...
The Public Option: It's Up To The Congress
TalkLeft —
... from the House. Senate Leader Reid is wokring hard and has signalled that an opt out public option will be in the Senate bill. It looks like that bill can not defeat a filibuster at this time. So in the end, Reid and Pelosi will have to either threaten to or actually, pass HCR with a public option through reconciliation. I want to be clear where I stand at least - health care reform without a public option is NOT worth passing. I do not believe in "reform" absent a public option. Paul Krugman writes: ...
Swallowing the leviathan: the House health care reform bill
neo-neocon —
... the House health care reform bill released yesterday. Since it consists of 1990 dense and legalistic pages, I’m not about to read it soon. Others will, however, and in days to come I hope to bring you their analyses and my own reflections. For now, I thought I’d just start a thread so that you could talk about it to your hearts’ delight in the comments section.
To get started, you might want to look at this, this, and these.
And here, Paul Krugman rallies the troops. He thinks he’s got the key to conservative ...
Krugman: Health care bills aren't perfect, but progressives should support them
Open Left - Quick Hits's RSS Feed —
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Evening Read
Delaware Liberal —
... . Paul Krugman: Time to decide which side of history you are on . Post a Response Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website ...
Late Night: Choosing Sides While Looking in the Mirror
Firedoglake —
... Paul Krugman, columnizing (yes, I felt like inventing a new word) in today’s New York Times, calls this a “defining moment” in the health care reform debate: ...
Wait, wasn't this a good week?
Political Animal —
... -- arguably a bigger one than has ever taken to achieve comprehensive health care reform in this country. Agreed. For the first time ever, major health care reform bills are on the move in the House and Senate. There's broad agreement within the majority in both chambers, and there's a growing sense that a major breakthrough on this issue -- after more than a half-century of attempts -- is all but inevitable. This week wasn't a "mess"; it was a milestone . Paul Krugman called this " the defining moment for health care reform ." Past efforts to give Americans what ...
Matt Osborne: Reid Doesn't Need Lieberman
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... buzz and never seem to die, while the benefits of a public option escape scrutiny. But the longer this fight lasts, the more likely that someone will ask Joe Lieberman: you believe this is the sole sticking-point of reform, that everything else in the bill is okay and it just needs to be more expensive? Because that is basically the only argument Lieberman is making.
Indeed, this inconvenient fact is just now beginning to penetrate the MSM. Paul Krugman led off on Thursday:
The odd thing about this group is that while its members ...
Heretical Thoughts on Health Care Reform
RealClearPolitics - Homepage —
... October 30, 2009 Defining Moment for Health Care Reform Paul Krugman, New York Times O.K., folks, this is it. It’s the defining moment for health care reform. Paul Krugman A blog from The New York Times that tracks the health care debate as it unfolds. Share your thoughts about the health care debate. Top... ...
