So it comes down to this: this is the week that the Supreme Court is hearing the oral arguments about the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signature health care reform law. The Justices are specifically focusing on the question of that pesky individual mandate, which as the name might indicate will eventually require that each…
As I mentioned in the announcement right before this post, there’ll be many changes coming in the next several days. I hope to make the process as seamless as possible, but I also like getting down and dirty with the code and also somehow doing things the hard way. Anyway, this is most likely the…
Well here we go: as Congress goes to its month-long August recess, we have a full slate of primaries and other developments in the midterm election races to keep us engaged in politics. This Tuesday, the August primaries began in earnest with three states choosing their general election matches. Now, I could just give you…
[picapp align="none" wrap="false" link="term=News&iid=8312835" src="b/8/c/f/House_Votes_On_2059.jpg?adImageId=11539481&imageId=8312835" width="500" height="333" /] [tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] Well here we are folks, the moment we have all been waiting for (or dreading) has happened. The House of Representatives passed the Senate health care bill by a vote of 219-212 tonight following a full day of debate, the last six hours of…
[tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] If there were ever an unfortunate name to have in politics, it would be the situation that Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY) currently faces. As head of the House Rules Committee, she is being given the dubious honor of having a dubious idea to pass health care reform in the House of Representatives…
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[picapp align="center" wrap="false" link="term=Obama&iid=8092353" src="7/7/1/0/Activists_Protest_Outside_d96b.jpg?adImageId=10738625&imageId=8092353" width="500" height="324" /] [tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] You have to hand it to them: these protesters can be pretty clever at times. Obviously, this refers to the attempt to inject some bipartisanship into the nasty healthcare debate Congress has been having for the better part of a year now in today’s…
[tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] Lately, it seems like healthcare reform is like a zombie: it just keeps coming back to life when everyone thinks it is dead. Today Yesterday (dang clocks and my workload!) President Obama finally put his own two cents into the debate. The President had to come up with something to revive his…
[tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] I apologize for both the lateness of this post and the lack of posts in recent days; for some reason I can’t seem to have enough work for the gods of college assignments to be satisfied. Fortunately, Washington has been pretty much snowed in for the last couple of days anyway. 30…
[picapp align="center" wrap="false" link="term=News&iid=7428267" src="5/5/4/f/President_Obama_speaks_0b13.JPG?adImageId=8623544&imageId=7428267" width="380" height="304" /] [tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] Whether referring to the Senate’s vote this morning as a Christmas present to the American people is taken with an ounce of sarcasm or not is up to you. The fact is, we are at the point that only one step remains in the…
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