- Eurofail – NYTimes.com – Paul Krugman
- For some reason events in European bonds markets aren’t making big headlines. But they should be: even as the GOP does its best to destroy America’s credit, things are falling apart, with a vengeance, on the other side of the Atlantic.
- Conservative Origins of Obamacare – NYTimes.com
- Here’s a useful resource for tracking the history of the ideas embodied in the Affordable Care Act. …
- These days, Heritage strives mightily to deny the obvious; it picks at essentially minor differences between what it used to advocate and the plan Democrats actually passed, and tries to make them seem like a big deal. But this is disinformation. The essential features of the ACA — above all, the mandate — are ideas Republicans used to support.
- Running Away | Anaea Lay
- Phone banking to Get Out the Vote for Dave Hanson last Tuesday, I wound up talking to an older lady who said something along the lines of, “I’ve always liked Dave, and I don’t like those other guys, but I just can’t support him running away from his job.”
- Here’s the thing – the Fab didn’t run away from their jobs. They did their jobs, rather surprisingly and spectacularly. I don’t elect my representatives so they can go get steamrolled while other people ignore correct processes, break the rules, and twist the system in order to do irresponsible things. I elect them to protect my interests and ensure the government fulfills its part of the social contract. Sometimes, that means mucking up the gears and bringing the machine to a halt, so it can’t continue to lumber forward and wreaking havoc.
- One more reason the term is “anti-choice” | Pandagon – Amanda Marcotte
- Anti-choicers assume that criminalizing abortion will flood the adoption market with healthy white infants again, but I’m skeptical.
- …I bring this up because the Catholic Church has apologized to the 150,000 women who were forced to give up their babies under this extralegal system of punishment for sexually active single women. Some of the statements from the victims are heart-breaking:…
- The whole apology was prompted by an ABC investigation and a Senate inquiry, where statements were taken from women [who were pressured or coerced into giving up their babies, sometimes while they were] drugged and stifled with pillows so they couldn’t fight back.
- Gripers and groaners | Hullabaloo – digby
- The President’s public irritation with the left…gives the impression that he believes only his face is set Zionward and the rest of us are simpletons who don’t understand the way the world works. But gripers and groaners are part of the system. Without them, progress doesn’t get made and the other side’s radicals completely overwhelm the system. We’re getting an inkling of how that works out.
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