Good morning, America! Funny, I don’t feel like a communist today…  But it does feel strange.  Maybe that’s because Democrats have done something.  They sort of acted a little smidgen like liberals.   Here’s one of my favorite passages about liberals. Republicans have tried to turn “liberal” into a bad word. Well, liberals ended slavery in [...]

Well, it appears as though we will have a healthcare reform bill by Christmas no thanks to Republicans. Healthcare reform entered the inevitability stage in the Senate during the wee hours of Monday morning as Democrats came together on a party-line vote to all but lock in passage of the legislation on Christmas Eve. Though [...]

I’ve been listening a lot to Howard Dean, Bernie Sanders, Ed Schultz and Thom Hartmann about the health care bill in the Senate. After we all took a mental breather from health care discussion, the time has come to focus attention back on this pressing issue. The following is by Thom Hartmann posted here in [...]

Republican lawmakers are whining up a storm about the length of the proposed health care bill. You’ll recall that Senator Orrin Hatch from Utah bloviated that HR3962 was “longer than War & Peace.” Not so. War and Peace has about 560,000 words and the Senate Health Care Bill has a mere 314,900, so there. Granted [...]

Here’s where I start with the first half of a post I had written earlier in the day, and then change the ending all around to include new information that makes things even more confusing than before. Well, there was plenty of drama last night on the floor of the House, where congress voted at [...]