Basically every other industrialized nation on earth has dramatically lower prescription drug prices because their governments negotiate on behalf of their citizens for lower drug prices. Even for Democrats this common sense solution to our insanely high drug prices is a step too far, so Democrats have been promoting the idea of drug re-importation. Now [...]

This is news that sends a very cold chill up my spine. The White House’s reaction to Joe Lieberman’s repeated betrayals is to grant him completely and total power. Lieberman threw health care reform into doubt Sunday when he told Reid that he would filibuster the bill if it allowed Americans ages 55 to 64 [...]

We just launched a Twitter petition on act.ly asking Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) to call on Susan G. Komen for the Cure (@KomenfortheCURE) to dump Hadassah Lieberman as a compensated “Global Ambassador.”

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that health insurance stocks are up dramatically today after Joe Lieberman’s threat to filibuster health care reform. Lieberman has a new-found strong opposition to the Medicare buy-in proposal–a massive flip-flop from his earlier support. Wells Fargo Securities analyst Matthew Perry said Lieberman’s comments are good news for managed-care stocks [...]

There is no longer a Democratic party in the United States Senate. All the senators who were formally members of the Democratic party have switched to the Liebocratic Party. The Democratic party is dedicated to the passing of Democratic legislation. They would not have tolerated, supported, and empowered one man who is completely dedicated to [...]

These are sophisticated marketing techniques. And they’re being cynically run by sophisticated people (who know they’re peddling bullshit) on the not-so-sophisticated (who believe what they want to believe). The question with regard to those peddling the TANG defense is always going to be: are they they playing the role of bullshit artist, or the dupe?

Lois Herr has a message for all of you helping to defend reproductive choice by phone banking and spreading the word through One Voice For Choice,

“Don’t forget it’s Stupak/PITTS – I’m the one running against him in PA-16 and I want everyone to know that there’s a radical Republican co-sponsor who should lose his seat over this.”

She’s right. Most of us forget that the Stupak/Pitts amendment’s true author was Joe Pitts, who has one of the most radical, anti-choice records in congress.

It did not take long for the newest “deal” on the public option to fall apart. On Face The Nation, Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson have both shot down the Medicare buy in proposal which was the key component to the newest “deal” Harry Reid claimed to reach. Of course some Democrats are trying to [...]

No, Olympia Snowe didn’t come up with the idea for triggers. Why are people who write online so challenged in a Google world?

Greetings from Mar Vista, in not-so-sunny Southern California! This afternoon we’re phone banking from the home of Kate Anderson, who’s a candidate for my assembly district in California, We need to do everything we can to get the Stupak amendment out of the health care bill.  I’m hosting a phone bank because it is one [...]