Yesterday Dylan Scott published this exclusive on how the White House is asking the big outside pro-reform groups not to start flooding HealthCare.gov with new visitors next week. They’re looking for a gradual return of potential purchasers.
Pope denounces “trickle down” economics. This is part of the new ‘apostolic exhortation’ Francis issued today Evangelii Gaudium, which confirms and expands on his calls over recent months for a more missionary church focused on the poor and suffering.
The Obama administration tells TPM that the previously delayed Spanish-language version of HealthCare.gov — CuidadoDeSalud.gov — will launch in early December.
As you know if you’re a core TPM Reader, the Golden Dukes are coming. And momentum and excitement are already starting to build.
But this year we’re considering something new. The famed Golden Dukes statuette has existed going back to 2007. But it’s always just been an image, a mere concept in our quest for the ultimate scandal. Well, this year we are considering actually commissioning the actual statuette and bestowing it in person to the winner of the Best Scandal – General Interest.
Jeremy Gordon Grinnell, a professor of systematic theology at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary, has resigned as a pastor and been placed on leave from his professorship after being arrested on November 8th for being a ‘peeping tom’, or as they call it under Michigan law, “surveilling an unclothed person.”
We get it. Republicans don’t like the Affordable Care Act, aka ‘Obamacare’. But over the last few days I’ve noticed a new trend, or at least the frequency of it seems to be increasing. Let’s call it Obamacare McCarthyism, a new intra-Republican political cudgel cued up for the 2014 political season, in which different anti-Obamacare Republicans attack each other for either being crypto-supporters of Obamacare, being Obamacare-curious or even just having earlier periods of Obamacare confusion.
Like every other poll, the new Reuters-Ipsos poll shows President Obama is at the lowest popularity point of his presidency. But the public supports his Iran deal by a 2-1 margin. The American public simply has zero appetite for more military adventurism or even well-thought-out entanglements in Middle East. None.
If there’s one article you want to read today about Obamacare, it’s this one. It’s basic polling information about the public’s current thinking on the law, which shows once again that the general public is seriously out of touch with the DC consensus. 54% of voters are confident the problems with the law will be worked out. And while 58% currently disapprove of the law, 14% of those disapprove because it’s not liberal enough. So it’s not at all the case that a sizable majority want to go back to the bad old system. Those folks are clearly in the minority.
It’s fair to say that you can’t just credit single-payer and public option advocates as de facto Obamacare supporters. Indeed, a subset of this group is among the most vitriolic opponents because they see Obamacare as a cop-out compared to the real solution which is Single Payer. But to resurrect some archaic terminology it’s probably fair to say they are objectively pro-Obamacare (yes, I’m being a little cheeky) when you look through the prism of support for going back to the old system. These folks are never going to support going back.
See the numbers here.
I told you intra-Republican Obamacare McCarthyism was the IT-thing of 2014. Now Mitch McConnell’s primary-bot Matt Bevin is accusing McConnell of secretly working to save Obamacare.
You don’t have to be fully out as an Obamacare supporter any more. Some youthful confusion about Obamacare, just being Obamacare-curious, it’s all under close, pressing scrutiny.