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Monday, July 6th, 2009

Who Doesn’t Want a Public Health Care Option?

Insurers,  large hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies.
Surprise!
Witness how much these interests have amped up lobbying to prevent any kind of real health care reform.
Health care lobbying is now at a record breaking $1.4 million a day.
Now why would they do such a thing?
Could it be to help the people of America? Or could it be to […]

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

They Can’t Deport Us All

T-shirt seen at the U.S. vs. Mexico soccer game in Columbus.
Mexico actually lost the soccer game, but I’m scoring the public relations battle 1-0 in their favor.

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Pardon the Shoe Thrower

As we get ready to close 2008 and step into 2009, I think we all have a list of “to dos” for soon-to-be-President Obama. However, my last request for 2008 goes out to George W. Bush.
As a gesture of strength and goodwill, I believe our current President should ask the Iraqi government to pardon the shoe […]

Monday, December 29th, 2008

‘Barack the Magic Negro’ Continues to Hurt GOP Brand

Chip Saltsman, former Tennessee GOP leader, in a bid to become chairman of the Republican National Committee, sent a CD of parodies to committee members that included the song “Barack the Magic Negro.”
Many have labeled the effort as racist and the current chairman of the RNC has stated that he is appalled.
Saltsman himself has said that the song […]

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

If Republicans Had Written Our Best Movies: Take I

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
In the original version of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Jimmie Stewart plays Rance Stoddard, an attorney who believes in law and order. John Wayne plays Tom Doniphon, a rancher who believes that there is no law and that “out here a man settles his own problems.” Lee […]

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

When Republican Terror Marketing Collapses

President Bush and the neo-conservatives have argued for some time for waterboarding and intelligence techniques to elicit information from detainees.
The argument Bush uses is very similar to the following: we’ve got to give intelligence experts the tools they need in order to extract information to prevent terrorist attacks.
“The bill Congress sent me would take away […]

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Quality Health Care

I happened across an interview with Victoria Wulsin in CityBeat this week and was struck by her concise framing of the health care issue.
“What we all want is quality,” Wulsin said.
Wulsin believes what has gotten lost in the health care debate is the patient.
The current administration has focused the discussion on the concerns of the […]

Friday, December 28th, 2007

A Call for Patient-Centered Healthcare

As Americans, we spend more on health care than any other nation and get less. Why is this the case?
Just for a second, I’d like to ask you to tune out all that you’ve heard about health care and to think like an insurance company. I used to work for an insurance company and here’s […]

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Trust Us, We Know What We’re Doing

President Bush issued a press release this past week about our economy. In addition to talking about the great shape the economy is in, he took a jab at critics of his heavy-handed interrogation strategy.His message? If you want to be safe, trust us. This is basically the message that Bush and the Republicans have […]

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

Craig Thrown Under Bus

Republicans moved quickly to stem the tide of bad publicity from the Larry Craig story. After Republicans called for his resignation, this weekend Craig stepped down.
But what about David Vitter? Remember David Vitter? Vitter admitted to indiscretions in his past involving a Washington, D.C. prostitution ring. Have Republicans asked Vitter to step down?
Quite the opposite. […]

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