Archive for the 'Health Care Reform' Category

Timing And Point Of Contraception Politics Interesting

I’m having a difficult time trying to fashion a coherent point regarding the new Catholic-Contraception uproar with the White House. I was raised in the Catholic faith and attended Catholic school until the fifth grade. I also have no issue with contraception availability as a way to stem the growth of unwanted children. The timing [...]

On Mitt Romney Debating Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney, and Mitt Romney

Today former Utah governor John Huntsman withdrew from the race for the Republican nomination for president. Now, what looked like a crowded race could be over before Florida holds its presidential primary at the end of January. The city of Jacksonville was slated to host a nationally televised presidential debate on January 26th, and the [...]

The GOP Looks Through A Fatally Flawed Field To Find A Champion Against Obama

We are just beyond one year from the 2012 United States presidential election, and at this point the cast of characters are essentially set. The combination of time and contenders who have bowed out, have us set with the incumbent Democrat and his main Republican challengers. The Republican field has some returning faces from 2008, [...]

TSE Chat Room: What We Learned From Last Night’s Debate

Jolemite: HAHAHA Jolemite: on the what did we learn last night tweet Senator Sunshine: Thank you Senator Sunshine: I have CNN on my Sirius App Senator Sunshine: so I listened to about five minutes Senator Sunshine: that was all it took Jolemite: I scrolled through the tweets at the end of the night Jolemite: made [...]

Political Types Are Always Reading The Wrong Side Of The Tea Leaves

Like fanatics for horse racing or fantasy football, political watchers are in a constant search for any scraps of information or insignificant insight that can portend the results of future elections. Special congressional elections in far flung backwaters and percentage point changes in approval years from election day are often used to predict the mood [...]

Conservatives Were For Their Deeply Held Beliefs, Before They Were Against Them

As soon as Barack H. Obama was elected by an over ten million vote margin as the 44th president of The United States, conservatives and republicans endeavored to counter the new president’s agenda. They endeavored to counter the new president’s agenda even if parts of it were previously part of their agenda. Republicans and conservatives [...]

Reality Inconvenient For New Republican Majority

In an interview last week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch man-turtle McConnell said that republicans’ number one legislative priority would be to make President Obama a one term president. Now I’m personally sick of liberals getting their panties in a bunch every time a republican expresses their desire to see Obama out of office. That fact [...]

Republican Silence On TARP And Iraq Withdrawal Telling

It’s well documented that conservative expectations for the performance of the Obama administration are uniformly negative. Mr. Obama could propose tomorrow that the federal capital be renamed “Reagantown” and conservatives would find some element of fascism within the proposal. But an accurate way to gauge the successes of the Obama administration is what conservatives and [...]

Jeff Greene, Rick Scott, And The Death Of The Founders Meritocracy In Florida

There is no better example of the ridiculous state of American politics than my dear home state of Florida. This is the state mind you, that gave us the presidential recount drama of 2000. But the meritocracy that the founders imagined has died in America, and Florida is its tombstone. In both the race for [...]

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