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Sometimes I feel like one of the few remaining leftist progressives in Philadelphia. The consensus for Democrats in the city regarding political candidates, be they local, state or federal, is to just accept whatever political candidate is proffered, regardless of how anti-progressive they might be. Each time I have criticized President Obama for his right-wing [...]
My father died May 22 after a brief illness. “Brief” is one of those end-of-life euphemisms that implies quick, painless and uneventful. But dying is almost never like that. Dying is long, painful and beset with one set-back after another. It also costs a fortune. Health care costs are the major reason for bankruptcies in [...]
According to the near-daily emails i receive from the DNC, DSCC and Obama’s Organizing for America, the crowning achievement of the Obama Administration has been health care reform. According to the Republicans, their raison d’etre and the alleged mandate from the electorate after the November 2010 election is overturning health care reform. Only problem: There is no [...]
Rachel Maddow has a Ph.d. She’s smart. She’s politically motivated. She has reason to be left of center. But she has a fatal flaw: She’s an unrepentant Obama apologist. Tonight she proclaimed that President Obama had delivered a “smackdown” to GOP governors by moving up the date of the health care reform opt-out to 2014. [...]
Prom night at the Capitol with everyone wearing ribbons in support of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and Republicans and Democrats sitting side-by-side in a show of the most faux bipartisanship in recent memory was more enchanting for the punditry than it was for most Americans who actually listened to what President Obama said in his 61 [...]
After two feet of snow in yesterday’s blizzard, my head is spinning from the concomitant stresses of the weather–I hate being snowed in—and the endless health care reform debacle. It’s hard to know what to say at this point about health care reform. As a progressive I want it and as a person with serious [...]
I spent the morning answering a plethora of emails from people about political issues ranging from health care reform to the wars to Bishop Tobin’s refusing Sen. Patrick Kennedy communion. It was unbelievably depressing. Much like every day during the Bush Administration. Only worse, because there is now no prospective Democratic president to hope for. I [...]
Every American has her or his own response to the health care reform debate based on their (often gut-wrenching) personal experience. I’ve written about my own experience–which epitomizes in many respects what’s wrong with health care in America–both here and elsewhere. I am among the millions being gouged by a health care industry pretending to [...]
it’s another rainy saturday on the east coast and i was answering email and watching a vegan cooking show on PBS simultaneously.(christina cooks. her food looks delicious and is so healthy, you can feel positively pious about eating it.) in among this morning’s email was a request to sign an emergency petition to president obama about the [...]
