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The Court Ruling that Could Kill ACA

Why not universal healthcare coexisting with health insurance companies?

» Posted By Mopshell On July 10, 2014 @ 2:54 am

Instead of reinventing the wheel, why not look at those countries with successful universal healthcare programs, take the best from each and meld it into the US program?

Keeping the VA, extending Medicare then fiddling about with Social Security to somehow fund it sounds more like a patchwork quilt made out of leftover materials.

If you start by taking threads from successful programs, you can weave it as whole cloth. You’ll have a much better and stronger program that way.

» Posted By Mopshell On July 10, 2014 @ 2:48 am

Republicans to Sue Obama For Not Being Republican

How do you embed a video? I’ve been trying for hours without any success whatsoever! Oh yeah, I’m a newbie… sigh.

» Posted By Mopshell On June 29, 2014 @ 1:58 am

McDaniel Lost…The Shot Heard Around The World

Thank you for the welcome – it’s lovely to meet you!

If Childers wins, it will be one of the most unexpected wins of the midterms and I really think he has a chance! There are also 2 or 3 races in Kansas (where they’re fed up with Republicans) that might also go our way.

The House Republicans aren’t doing themselves any favors either with this sue-the-President ploy. I don’t think they realize how close sue-the-President is to impeachment in people’s minds – and look what happened when they tried to impeach Bill Clinton! The crazies in the House will push this for all it’s worth and, joy of joys, the mainstream media are already coupling their move with the concept of impeachment – every little bit helps (even when they don’t mean to be helpful!)

» Posted By Mopshell On June 29, 2014 @ 5:00 am

Even Fox might well be concerned about keeping this one in line – especially since he’s now drawn a line in the sand between the tea party and the GOP. Fox may be worried about his treatment of their Republicans establishment darlings.

This is OT:

I recognize your avi from Huff Post! I’m so pleased to see you here!

» Posted By Mopshell On June 29, 2014 @ 3:33 am

Ironically, McDaniel’s defeat may well help the Democrats. Before the run-off – before the primary even – it was generally agreed that the Democratic candidate, Travis Childers, would have a better chance against the Tea Party neophyte than the long-time establishment candidate. But it’s turned out that the opposite is true. There’s so much anger and resentment directed at Cochran’s Republicans, including their anguish over the death of Mark Mayfield (they blame the establishment faction for that too), that they are actually talking about supporting Childers in the general – some have even already donated to his campaign.(Who’d a thunk it!)

Childers needs to get his act together and quickly (his website needs work – some info on policy positions would be a useful addition plus a more substantial bio) if he’s to take advantage of this situation.

There’s another winning aspect to this too. Cochran managed to get out the Democratic African American vote to boost his numbers just enough to beat McDaniel conclusively. Those votes will now revert back to Childers and away from Cochran who can no longer depend on the tea party vote to get him across the line in the general. McDaniel voters are vowing to either vote for Childers or stay home.

It’s unlikely that a Cochran loss would have proved to have been such a gift to the Democrats as this!

» Posted By Mopshell On June 29, 2014 @ 3:29 am