In a multi-party democratic republic, when one party is clearly out-of-power, obstruction — though not a winning strategy — remains a primary course of action. Consider the effort a tug-of-war, where the goal is to slow the inevitable march of the controlling political party. Yet playing the same hand and expecting a different result is […]
Some think there is not a dime’s worth of difference between the two dominant political parties in the US. The sentiment is heard all the time, whether the talk is of civil defense, military spending, education, equal rights or big business — and let’s not even begin with negative connotations (they’re all doing it). Right. […]
Analysis by Barbara Ehrenreich of W’s speech in Cleveland on 10 July 2007, where among other things, George spoke up vs. socialized medicine — or in Bush-babel, “Federalized medicine”. GWB: “I strongly object to the government providing incentives for people to leave private medicine, private health care to the public sector. And I think it’s […]
— Updated below — While 90% of Americans wish the Federal Government to negotiate group discount rates for prescription medication, a minority of Senators blocked this legislation (S. 3, The Medicare Fair Prescription Drug Price Act of 2007) from coming to a vote on the Senate floor. Here in Arizona, our senior Senator, John McCain […]
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The other day a co-worker asked about another of those peevish emails forwarded from an anonymous source. This time the subject concerned Social Security payouts and whom rightly or wrongly should received benefits. She wished to know whether there was any truth to the claims in the email. The gist of the message could be […]