Monthly Archive: December 2019
Medical Doctors and the NYT Agree, it’s a Thing, it Really Exists — the Diagnosis: “Trump Anxiety Disorder”
“For the last three years, therapists have reported an increase in patients who say that almost anything having to do with politics is making them uneasy, angry and hopeless, a condition that Jennifer C....
What is it? The Collective Dem Psyche? Trump Anxiety Disorder? Their Identity Politics? The Nomination Rules? What’s Making the Dem Primary Look Like a Coming Train Wreck?
Just search, nervous Democrats. Some of the more illuminating headlines over the last six weeks, this one from MSN, yesterday, first published the day before in the daily spiritual reader for Democrats, the New...
Turf war derails bipartisan push on surprise medical bills
“But aides say the legislation is slated to be left out of the must-pass year-end package, causing deep frustration for backers of the effort, which had been seen as a rare area of possible...
Biden: The VP I Pick I’d Turn Over the WH to After One Term
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Top Biden adviser: “He’s going into this thinking, ‘I want to find a running mate I can turn things over to after four years but if that’s not possible or doesn’t...
Impeachment Ends the Need to Pass Legislation, Gives Trump the Edge
The House impeachment effort, followed by a Senate trial that will last as long as President Clinton’s, has taken the pressure off President Trump’s need to produce any legislative achievements. To expect any legislation...
Grim News for Middle Ground in the Endless Health Care Wars — Political Death for Harris and Warren Who Squished-Out on Sanders’ Medicare for All
The Morning Consult is reputable and considered by the media to have reliable polling. This is why their conclusion from polling that: “the Massachusetts senator’s proposal to create a public option as a transition...
Medicare For All is a Progressive Campaign Killer Column: Harris and Warren fell for the fool’s gold of socialized medicine
“The proposal is liberals’ fool’s gold. It appears valuable but is actually worthless. It gets the progressive politician coming and going: Not only do voters recoil at the notion of having their insurance canceled,...
America the Hot Mess
“We’re a hot mess, this bad-tempered country of ours. More than 40 percent of Republicans are slouching toward full-blown autocracy, favorably disposed, in one poll, toward a presidency unfettered by constitutional checks and balances. An even...