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As you know, Cliven Bundy ended his role in the mainstream of American politics with his running disquisitions on “the Negro.” But the greater folly of Bundy-ism and its more mainstream penumbra is that these avatars of anti-government self-sufficiency are living in the part of America that lives in what can best be called a bubble of big-government socialism. Bundy’s ranch and, truth be told, huge swaths of the American far-west could never have been settled or kept running without massive on-going federal subsidy since the mid-19th century until today. Who do you think cleared the Indians? Built the dams and roads? Who do we think ran the phone lines for handfulls of people whose business could never merit the investment in true market terms? It’s almost funny when you look at the big picture. Jonathan Earle explains in this must read piece.
Since late last year there’s been a precipitous drop in the nation’s number of uninsured citizens, now the last since before the financial crisis of 2008. The number now stands at 13.4%. And that national number masks huge disparities between states which either embraced or tried to sabotage the ACA in their states. See the chart.
GOP plan for 2016: Vince Foster, Travel-Gate, Monica. Should work wonders.
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After their bogus numbers debacle Thursday, House Republicans have gone back to insurance companies for more complete Obamacare enrollment data in order to, as they put it, “accurately capture” the number of enrollees who have paid their premiums. Dylan Scott reports.
State lawmaker says he’s “a little sore” over the negative backlash to his oped denouncing anal sex.
The Bundy bunch has vowed to head to the local sheriff’s office in Nevada this weekend to file a “criminal report” against the Bureau of Land Management.
Yesterday Dylan Scott was all over that bogus “survey” that the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent to insurance companies and the incomplete data it produced. Check out Dylan’s pieces here, here, and here and my elaboration here.
When Michael Tomasky approached committee staff, basically asking what gives?, here’s what they said: