VENUE: The Wall Street Journal OPINION: THE TILTING YARD DATELINE: SEPTEMBER 16, 2009 The Left Should Reclaim ‘Freedom’ The Right was wrong about FDR too. By THOMAS FRANK There are few things in politics more annoying than the right’s utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word “freedom” that when its leaders stand [...]
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation survey shows physicians support reform plan that includes both public and private options. Dateline: September 14, 2009 By: Keyhani S, Federman A and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation A RWJF survey summarized in the September 14, 2009 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine shows that 62.9 percent of physicians nationwide [...]
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090916_obamas_presidency_isnt_too_big_to_fail/ Truthdig September 15, 2009 Obama’s Presidency Isn’t Too Big to Fail What is nerve-racking about Obama is [...]
Dateline: September 14, 2009 It is the War in Afghanistan Obama Declared a “Necessity,” Not Health Care By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS The current health care “debate” shows how far gone representative government is in the United States. Members of Congress represent the powerful interest groups that fill their campaign coffers, not the people who vote [...]
The racist card is being cynically used to hide Obama’s betrayals and present him as an unfairly attacked “liberal” reformer. If Joe Wilson Didn’t Exist, The White House Would Have Needed To Invent Him By Bruce A. Dixon // Wed, 09/16/2009 – LIKE DICK NIXON AFTER HIS VACATIONS, Obama returns to the White House “tanned, rested [...]
This Isn’t Reform, It’s Robbery By Anonymous Created 08/26/2009 – 02:29 no reform hereby Chris Hedges The debate over health care “reform” has devolved to a frenzied assault on the U.S. Treasury, abetted by corporate enablers in both parties. “The proposed plans rattling around Congress all ensure that the profits for these corporations will increase [...]
Dateline: Le Monde Diplomatique September 2009 | http://mondediplo.com/2009/09/ushealthcare By Serge Halimi A REPUBLICAN CONGRESS AND PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON abolished a welfare programme in 1996 under the (largely fallacious) pretext that it bred fraud, waste and abuse. Thirteen years on, the reforms that Barack Obama is proposing will not fundamentally change the United States’ abysmal healthcare [...]
President Obama will give his big health-care speech tomorrow. Let’s hope he does it right. What does that mean? It means not playing professor; it means not having the speech read as if it were written by a committee (like that woefully weak op-ed in the Times a couple of weeks back); it means showing [...]