Wannabe Prez Tommy's record: Medicaid

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Tuesday April 10, 2007 · 7:43 AM PDT

2007/04/10 · 07:43

I'm no expert on either Medicaid or all the details of Tommy Thompson's record, but here's what I know that others may not, but might want to. It ain't pretty.

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Sunday April 08, 2007 · 7:13 PM PDT

2007/04/08 · 19:13

When Tommy Thompson ran for president back in 1996, I wrote an op-ed piece for the Wisconsin State Journal detailing why he could never be elected president. At the GOP convention in San Diego, he was referred to by the Republican delegates as "Governor Whiner" and his spotlight never shone beyond the borders of his own skull. Now, he's back and running again.

In later posts, I'll recount why Thompson cannot be elected president and why his record is one of someone who shouldn't be trusted to clean your garage, much less run the country. In this post, I'll examine a factor even more fatal to his overblown hopes: The collective yawn from conservative opinion leaders and faithful.

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Sunday February 11, 2007 · 7:58 PM PST

2007/02/11 · 19:58

Shortly after President Kennedy was killed, a list of coincidences between him and President Lincoln began circulating, and has been since. Things like: both were shot on a Friday; both were shot in the head; both were assassinated by Southerners; both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

Silly? Meaningless? Sure.

But just for grins, here's one for our current president:

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Tuesday January 09, 2007 · 7:26 AM PST

2007/01/09 · 07:26

I've received yet another chain e-mail telling me how superior things were in the 1950s. Actually, this one contends that our superior '50s world produced superior people with superior brains. The contention of the e-mail is that "the lawyers and the government regulated our lives" so now there are things we used to do, that were good for us, but our kids can no longer do. These things we used to do were so good for us that they turned us into courageous inventors and thinkers. (Sigh.)

Below, I've taken apart the contention, point by point, and given it a score. It ain't pretty.

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Friday January 05, 2007 · 7:42 PM PST

2007/01/05 · 19:42

About once a month, I get some e-mail chain letter that carries on about how great Americans and America was in the 1950, and how, in comparison, we're all crap now. Mostly, they're the whining of conservatives about how the world isn't the way they imagined it was when they were kids. I delight in replying and proving the lie to the e-mail, point by point. Today, I turned the fun up another notch and made a preemptive strike. What follows is a fictional conversation with my grandparents that tries to set the record straight. The Good Old Days never were....

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Wednesday December 06, 2006 · 12:50 PM PST

2006/12/06 · 12:50

Transparency in Health Care Insurance
(cross posted from Z Magazine Online)

By Kip Sullivan

Comedian Jon Lovitz used to do a skit for "Saturday Night Live" in which he played Tommy Flanagan, the pathological liar. Lovitz’s character was always telling tall tales that made him look good. When a tale would become so outrageous even he suspected he was about to be exposed, Flanagan would stop for a moment, then, with a huge grin, he would blurt out a new fib and proclaim, "Yeah, that’s the ticket."

The health insurance industry is proving to be a master at the Jon Lovitz routine. For a quarter-century the industry and its apologists in business, politics, and academia told the public managed care would solve the health care crisis. When even diehard defenders of the industry realized in the late 1990s that managed care had flopped, the industry came up with a new excuse to justify its existence and to distract public attention from real health care reform. Of the several names bestowed on the new excuse, the most faddish is transparency in health care. "Yeah, transparency, that’s the ticket."

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Monday November 20, 2006 · 5:44 PM PST

2006/11/20 · 17:44

The governor who gave us this wants to be president. A federal appeals court has likened conditions in Wisconsin's Supermax prison -- the love child of Tommy Thompson's passions -- to the most punitive "gulags" of the former Soviet Union.

In a stinging 14-page decision, the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals questioned whether the treatment of inmates at the Boscobel prison violated constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment. Read this from the three-judge panel:

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Thursday November 16, 2006 · 6:03 AM PST

2006/11/16 · 06:03

Tommy Thompson -- former HHS secretary under Bush and former governor of Wisconsin -- has formed an exploratory committee for a run for the White House in 08. Oh Please. This is making me laugh out loud. When he tried this a few years ago, the Repugs at the convention in San Diego derided him as "Governor Whiner." His own party thinks he's a joke. Below the fold is a roundup of Tommy's record I wrote for TPMCafe a few months ago. For your enjoyment, I've posted it below. Let me know if you think of additions, corrections or updates. Read More

Liberal Madison loses liberal talk radio

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Wednesday November 15, 2006 · 12:39 PM PST

2006/11/15 · 12:39

Those lovely people over at Clear Channel have announced that the Mic.92 FM in Madison, Wisconsin, is about to go silent. Instead, they're going to run .... wait for it ... Read More

Finally! Honor in politics.

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Wednesday November 01, 2006 · 10:26 AM PST

2006/11/01 · 10:26

You don't see this every day. The treasurer of a state assembly campaign resigned because she couldn't stomach what she considered vile and untruthful attacks against her candidate's opponent. Full story here: http://www.thenorthwestern.com/...

Excerpt below: Read More

Don't let your governor get fooled again!

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Wednesday August 09, 2006 · 10:20 AM PDT

2006/08/09 · 10:20

This past week a mysterious thing happened: Former secretary of Health and Human Services - and former governor of Wisconsin - Tommy Thompson released a white paper giving his opinion on how to reform Medicaid. Beyond the mystery of its lack of originality and lack of useful data is a far greater mystery: Why would he think anyone would take him seriously? His performance as governor and secretary should have stripped him as every last shred of credibility. Word is that he's going to shop his ideas around at the governors' convention. If you care about Medicaid and the people it serves, don't let your governor get sucked in. Here http://www.tpmcafe.com/... I've posted a hefty diary detailing why....

On dat English hooey: Start wit me last, hey

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Thursday June 01, 2006 · 5:31 AM PDT

2006/06/01 · 05:31

Cripes sake, the U.S. Senate voted to make English America's national language. It puts me in mind of the English-only and English-as-official-language talk of 10 years ago and it's got me askert. English gits at least half of its common words from non-Anglo-Saxon stock, and I don't want to give up half my vocabulary (it's jes fair-ta-middlin anywho). 'Sides, I don't know which half I have to drop down the ol' Wisconsin two-holer. Read More

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