Archive for January, 2010

The Future of Healthcare Reform

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Unless you’re living under a rock, you’ve surely heard that the GOP won Ted Kennedy’s old Senate seat putting the Democrats one vote shy of a filibuster-proof super-majority.
The big question is what will happen with the healthcare reform bill(s). So far the options seem to be:
1) The House can pass the Senate bill as-is.
2) The […]

Did Independents Perpetrate a Massacre in Massachusetts?

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Yesterday’s election of a Republican Senator in Massachusetts to the seat held for many years by the late Ted Kennedy has been referred to as “the shot heard round the country,” and as a “kick-mass” election. Was last night’s upset a massacre in Massachusetts? Hardly… but what happened last night should be an obvious warning […]

What is it about the good stuff?

Friday, January 15th, 2010

These are my thoughts for the 2nd Sunday after the Epiphany, 17 January 2010. The Scriptures for this Sunday are Isaiah 62: 1 – 5, 1 Corinthians 12: 1 – 11, and John 2: 1 – 11. This is also “Human Relations Sunday”.
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Cross-posted to Thoughts From The Heart On The Left – please post your […]

C-SPAN Calls Out the President and the Congress

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

I love C-SPAN! I have for years. I am one of those eggheads that love to watch interviews and listen to political round tables.
And now C-SPAN’s chief executive, Brian Lamb has written a letter to the leaders of Congress asking that the deliberations over health care reform be televised. During the presidential campaign, then Senator […]

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