Al Gore will be going to Copenhagen next month for the climate talks, TPMDC has learned.
Dana Perino tells Sean Hannity: No terrorists attacked America on Bush’s watch.
But Hasan attacked on Obama’s watch.
The White House hosts a weekly “communications message meeting” with Democratic talking heads who make the rounds on the cable nets.
Limbaugh jokes about wanting a military coup when Obama visits West Point next week.
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Here’s the most thought-provoking and perhaps most important piece I’ve seen written on the Public Option. And it was written back in June. (Here’s a follow-up debate on the argument advanced in the linked article.)
When I first focused on the public plan proposals back in the spring what was never clear to me was why, far from gobbling up the whole private insurance market, it wouldn’t become a dumping ground for all the sick people the insurance companies can’t make a profit insuring. That is especially the case if you restrict its availability to people who aren’t currently insured. (Remember: the private health insurance business model is covering as many healthy people and as few sick people as possible.) That’s exactly what Paul Starr thinks would happen in a poorly structured Public Option. And what he calls a poorly structured public option sounds uncomfortably like what we have on the table right now.
(ed.note: In this post I was speaking in broad terms and referencing earlier discussions of Public Option access. I should have said that current versions of the public option restrict access largely to those who are current not insured.)
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Like the Summer of Love (1967) forty-two years ago, we’ll be remembering and no doubt historians will be writing about the Summer of Crazy (2009) for years to come. Whether aging Tea Partiers will be having reunions to get nostalgic in 2050 is another question. But we’ve assembled our Top Ten Right-Wing Crazy Protest moments for your Thanksgiving viewing pleasure.