I was an uninspired Massachusetts Democrat

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Tuesday January 19, 2010 · 9:39 PM PST

2010/01/19 · 21:39

I voted today shortly before the polls closed and then went to a movie so I wouldn't waste two hours of my life wringing my hands in front of MSNBC. Saw "An Education" instead. Good flick. A bit hard to understand what a "man of the world" would see in a 17 y.o. schoolgirl, besides the obvious (I've been there!), but I'm pleased to suspend disbelief in the name of entertainment.

It was no surprise to turn on the radio afterwards to Brown's victory speech - the soppy end where he made an extended joke about he and his daughter taking on Obama and a player of his choosing in a friendly game of basketball. I hope Obama takes his offer and selects Lebron James as his teammate.

Now I will share a few thoughts about my impressions of this election, and to an extent, this first year of the Obama Administration, as tonight's election will widely be claimed to be a repudiation of the Obama agenda (whatever that is).

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Tuesday January 12, 2010 · 5:42 PM PST

2010/01/12 · 17:42

There has been a lot of discussion about Jonathan Gruber's HHS contract for technical analysis and modeling, and whether that contract compromises his objectivity in promoting the excise tax, which the Obama Administration has decided is politically necessary to include in order to pass health care reform.

I have not found a lot of analysis of what Mr. Gruber has said in support of the excise tax, however, and so I thought I'd diary my thoughts about his December 28, 2009 editorial in the Washington Post entitled, 'Cadillac' tax isn't a tax -- it's a plan to finance real health reform

I read this editorial carefully several times over, and I have to say, I can't believe this is the product of a leading health care economist. It's pretty lame, and I will now explain why I think so.

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I was an uninspired Massachusetts Democrat

Gruber's confounding defense of the Excise Tax: Is MIT only good at hard sciences?