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Republicans Plan to Stop Health Care Reform In the Senate

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That grinding sound you hear may be the sound of the conventional wisdom shifting: as of today, many news, broadcast and blog reports are starting to (gingerly) suggest that bet health care reform could squeek through the House. But the Senate? Reports now suggest that could still be very much up in the air there -- since reports suggest the GOP is now working on ways to try … [Read more...] about Republicans Plan to Stop Health Care Reform In the Senate

Banks And Regulators = Dumb And Dumber

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Confessions of a banker in this scuttlebutt of the blame game for the financial meltdown. It goes like this: Banks were pressured by bank regulators to loan, loan, loan despite the credit worthiness of the borrower. After the 2008 market collapse, these same regulators employed by three governmental agencies, told banks no, no, no to even low-risk borrowers. Today a … [Read more...] about Banks And Regulators = Dumb And Dumber

Ugliest Political Week in Memory

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As health care fever spikes up, the body politic in woozy Washington is showing symptoms of a breakdown. Democrats are struggling with parliamentary paralysis, Republicans are having apoplectic fits and Barack Obama is laying hands on everyone in sight with pleas to help a presidency on life support. His agitation brought him to Fox News last night for a Tourette's … [Read more...] about Ugliest Political Week in Memory

Google TV to Bring the Web to Your Living Room

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Google, Intel and Sony plan to bring the Web into your living room through a set-top box called Google TV. Logitech will build the remote and peripherals. The NYTimes: Google intends to open its TV platform, which is based on its Android operating system for smartphones, to software developers. The company hopes the move will spur the same outpouring of creativity that … [Read more...] about Google TV to Bring the Web to Your Living Room

Deep Confusion About Republican Logic

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I've been following the debate about process when it comes to passing health care legislation. And the Republican logic on view in this debate has got me totally confused. Perhaps someone can explain it to me. Here's my confusion. In one part of our national legislature, the House, the Democrats can't seem to pass a health care measure they want, so they are likely to use a … [Read more...] about Deep Confusion About Republican Logic

Video: Bret Baier’s Fox News Interview With Barack Obama

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The politicial, media and blogosphere worlds are abuzz over Fox News' Bret Baier's interview with President Barack Obama. Did Baier show himself to be a caricature of Fox News -- a biased partisan masking as a newsman? Or was he asking tough follow up questions and trying to do what good journalists are trained to do: extract information from interview subjects that their … [Read more...] about Video: Bret Baier’s Fox News Interview With Barack Obama

First Set of CBO Numbers In (UPDATED)

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Politico has just announced that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) has released the first set of Congressional Budget Office numbers to reporters this morning. According to Politico: The bill would cost $940 billion, and reduce the deficit by $130 billion over the first 10 years and $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years. The deficit numbers Democrats have been … [Read more...] about First Set of CBO Numbers In (UPDATED)

Actual Health Care Takes Back Seat to Procedure

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I suppose you have to get pretty jaded before you can find the current health care debate in Congress to be amusing. OK... call me jaded. I have long since given up hope that the assembled clowns, crooners, swindlers and shouters on the hill would strip down and re-tool the proposed health care legislation into anything useful, but there's no reason that we can't at least sit … [Read more...] about Actual Health Care Takes Back Seat to Procedure

Health Care Reform High Noon: It Picks Up Key Democrat Factional Support

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It's High Noon now for President Barack Obama and the Democratic party's dream of health care reform. Many analysists say it is now and if not necessarily "or never," then now or for many years -- or a generation. But the past 24 hours brought some good news for those who seek to enact the controversial program: the measure picked up key support yesterday from balking parts … [Read more...] about Health Care Reform High Noon: It Picks Up Key Democrat Factional Support

A Reasoned Look At Roe v. Wade

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Hello there, Dr. E. here. Today I am pleased to introduce you to our newest coblogger at The Moderate Voice, Elijah Sweete. You may remember articles of his I ran as Guest Voices under my bi-line, particularly his articles on the Death Penalty panel in Texas and the Governor's seeming meddling in its outcomes, and another which was a strong interview with a vegan with fierce … [Read more...] about A Reasoned Look At Roe v. Wade

A Moderate’s View Of Health Care Reform

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One of the fun things about being a political moderate is that you can be sure no matter what you say the odds are you'll tick off people on both sides of the political fence. I am quite sure that this will be true as I offer some of my own thoughts on what sort of proposal should be adopted when it comes to Health Care Reform. I am long on record as a supporter of reform … [Read more...] about A Moderate’s View Of Health Care Reform

A Hypocrite on Drugs, Obama Must ‘Clean His Own House’: El Universal, Mexico

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Is the United States hypocritical when it comes to the war on drugs? A day after the murders of three Americans, all employees of the local U.S. Consulate and casualties of Mexico's drug conflict, Ricardo Aleman of Mexico's El Universal tells President Obama to focus his rage where it belongs: on U.S. corruption and drug abuse. For El Universal, Ricardo Aleman writes in … [Read more...] about A Hypocrite on Drugs, Obama Must ‘Clean His Own House’: El Universal, Mexico