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I was reading about Ron Wyden's health care plan at Slate (I know, Weisberg's a self important douche, but it was the first place I came across the plan). Weisberg praised the plan, which immediately sent up red flags. Basically he outlined it as: severing employer based insurance; paying employees more which would have to be spent on insurance; which would create a pool of money to cover many of the uninsured. But there seems to be a flaw with this thinking.
I realize that reading about Lieberman is about as appetizing as sharing a remote log cabin with Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell, but he said something yesterday during Petraeus's confirmation hearing that struck me. Lieberman suggested that Petraeus's appointment was a momentous event in the history of blah blah blah. And then he compared it to Matthew Ridgway's appointment to take over the crumbling situation in Korea in 1951.
Ooops.
Great. I guess the 20,000 extra troops can help patch up the rift we just created with our raid in Erbil. Turns out we disarmed and humiliated Kurdish peshmerga at the Iranian consulate. Of all the actors that exist in Iraq, why are we insulting the only people who like us?
Poll 37 votes Show Results Is Bush trying to make enemies of the entire world? Yes, he loves him some war No, it's just a side-effect of massive incompetence No, he's just the Decider and he decides what happens No, he's not trying, he's succeeded 37 votes Vote Now! Is Bush trying to make enemies of the entire world? Yes, he loves him some war 7 votes No, it's just a side-effect of massive incompetence 15 votes No, he's just the Decider and he decides what happens 0% 0 votes No, he's not trying, he's succeeded 15 votes
Atrios reports that Silvester Reyes will chair the House Intelligence Committee. There are ten reasons why Nancy Pelosi selected him:
If you haven't read Peter Galbraith's book "The End of Iraq", you should. At least you should if you care about what is to happen in that benighted country. As many of you probably know, he lays out roughly three decades of monumental incompetence by US policy makers with regards to Iraq. It began with the Iran-Iraq war, carried through Desert Storm and continues to this very day.
Galbraith's solution is simple and very "Wilsonian" in its way: Let the Iraqis decide their fate. And they have been doing just that.
And he's right. It's ridiculous. Read More
http://www.courant.com/...
Here's where we need to start recruiting and laying the groundwork: Read More
Turnout was unbelievably heavy. The pollworkers said it was heavier than 2004.
I stood with a nice guy for Murphy and a nice lady with a Lieberdouche sandwich board.
A few observations below. Read More
They have a "blog" about immigrants living in Gwinett county. The comments are revealing. Read More
OK, as an election strategy, I can see the merits. It allows you to paint your local congressional race as an opportunity to hold a referendum on an unpopular war, while at the same time inoculate you against charges of "undermining the troops" (though of course, the GOP will hurl that at you anyway).
There are two problems with this line of argument. Read More
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