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Peter out or get crazier?
It’s the question on the minds of those of us who’ve been alarmed watching the teabaggers give up all pretense of civility (not that they had much) in the run-up to the health care reform vote in the House. Now that it looks likely that we’ll actually get health care…
History’s Newest Greatest Monster: Some Guy
Quick! Name the Senate Parliamentarian! Well, everyone knows who Alan Frumin is. Or will, once the Republican Party gets done making him out to be a democracy-murdering terrorist-humper. Senate Republicans are waging a pre-emptive strike against the Senate’s parliamentarian — a hitherto little-known official who could determine the fate of…
Limbaugh calls health care reform “reparations” and “civil rights”
This is really hard to listen to, since Rush Limbaugh is being even angrier and nastier and egotistical than usual, but it’s nonetheless important if you want to understand the opposition to health care reform: In it, Limbaugh uses high racialized language to denounce health care reform, calling it “civil…
Michelle Obama’s contribution to the health care debate
Anna at Jezebel has a post up praising Michelle Obama’s campaign against childhood obesity, now that the plan has been released. Anna’s happy with it, as she should be, since the plan—to no one’s great surprise, I hope—focuses on the causes of childhood obesity and not on shaming as some…
Lessons from the health care reform debate
This health care debate, when it’s really grinding me down (and right now, with Republicans drawing out in a blatant play to weaken Robert Byrd’s health so that he can’t make the vote, I’m really pissed) has so far managed to at least cheer me up at moments like this:…
That’s why we don’t call them “pro-life”
Matt makes a useful point about how anyone who threatens to block health care reform over abortion is a lot of things, but “pro-life” ain’t one of them: That said, it really is worth lingering on the extent to which his threat to hold health reform hostage to an abortion…
Using sex to stop health care reform, part deux
Ben Nelson, who has been hostile to health care reform throughout this whole process, has decided that he wants to jump on the train of using sex-phobia and misogyny in order to derail the momentum of health care reform. He’s going to offer an amendment he calls “Stupak Lite”—which probably…
Well, okay, but it’s still so tone deaf
Kate Harding has an excellent analysis of the outcry by organizations like NOW and feminists like Gloria Steinem against the proposed 5% tax on elective cosmetic surgery that would be used to finance health care reform. What seems like a good idea on its face—tax a luxury to pay for…
Number 11: Boil A Fatted Calf In Its Mother’s Milk
A group within the RNC, based off of an old Ronald Reagan quote that someone who agrees with you 8 out of 10 times is your friend, has, of course, created a list of ten things, eight of which candidates must agree with to get endorsed: (1) Smaller government, smaller…
Misogyny hijacks health care reform vote
Sorry for being out all day yesterday; my mother is in town, and so it was hard to obsessively follow the health care reform vote. I did try to tweet some stuff from RH Reality Check about the Stupak amendment, and frankly, prior to the amendment, that’s the best angle.…
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