Conservatives defensive over the multilingual version of “America The Beautiful” that aired as part of a Coca-Cola ad during the Super Bowl last weekend might be surprised to discover the words were written by a radical lesbian. Isn’t America great?
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey eliminates a position that had been created for David Wildstein.
Conor P. Williams on the state of today’s debate over whether charter schools are “good” or “bad”: “Absent strong evidence that charters are generally better — or generally worse — than their traditional counterparts when it comes to academic outcomes, we settle for intransigent arguments.”
During his time hosting the “Tonight Show,” Jay Leno told 4,607 jokes about Bill Clinton.
We’re now four months into the Obamacare rollout? And quite a lot has happened. What do you see as the policy fate of Obamacare as well as the near and medium term political impact? We’re discussing that now in this thread in The Hive (sub req).
TPM Reader JH has a personal story about Obamacare and distortions in the labor market. This didn’t come up explicitly in our stories today in the derptastically reported CBO report. But in addition to modestly strengthening the bargaining power of workers it is a big deal if more middle aged workers, who are near retirement, can retire without fear of losing health care coverage since that opens up slots for younger workers.
The CBO report suggesting that hours will be reduced now that people have another option for health insurance is certainly true in my situation. When my husband and I were raising our family I had to work in order to provide the family with health insurance as my husbands job did not provide insurance. I would have preferred to be a stay at home mother, but I did not have that option.
New CBO report shows Obamacare will likely drive up workers’ wages.
In their own words …
There’s a lot more fine print about what those numbers really mean, and whether the jobs were “lost.” But what matters politically is how they’ll look in attack ads. And in this election year, “2 million lost jobs” is a Republican ad maker’s dream.
Legendary GOP political operative, Nixon devotee and self-proclaimed practitioner of dark political arts, Roger Stone, is coming to the defense of David Wildstein who he says he’s known for more than 30 years. Stone says Wildstein is exactly “the kind of man you’d send to close down a bridge”, in contrast to Team Christie’s claim that Wildstein acted alone.
Yet another example of the shortcomings of most political reporters not knowing much about public policy. Republicans are hyping a CBO report claiming it says Obamacare will cost over 2 million jobs. Not what it says. It says that a lot of people who are in jobs partly or solely to hold on to health insurance will decide to drop out of the labor force.