Lt. Governor Peter Kinder posted a letter to Sen. McCaskill today on his campaign blog demanding an "explanation" for her support of health care legislation to expand access to affordable health care for Missourians. Predictably, Kinder's letter is light on the facts:
The plan being proposed by [...]
Among the elements of the health bill being considered by Congress is a requirement that every adult would either have to purchase a health insurance policy or face punitive fines to be collected by the Internal Revenue Service. There has been widespread debate in legal circles about whether the courts [...]
I don't disagree with the thrust of this editorial in the Post-Dispatch about Republican fearmongering in the health care debate.
What campfires are to spooky ghost stories, Congressional Republicans have become to frightening, fabricated urban legends about health care reform. Death panels! Rationing! Medicare cuts!
But at the same time, I don't understand [...]
The House passed a sweeping financial regulatory bill today that, apart from anything else it might do – the Senate still has to pass its own version – will likely become another weapon in the Republican arsenal next year.
Like the economic stimulus package and health care reform legislation, not [...]
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) spoke earlier this week at a Center for American Progress Action Fund event about the obstruction tactics employed by Congressional Republicans, and their lack of interest in real proposals or governing. "Republicans have chosen slogans and symbolism over substantive proposals," Hoyer said.
The economic cost of day care licensing
Delayed payments don't bode well for future of Kansas schools
Abortion and health care reform are intertwined
Liberty on the Rocks KC holds its first meeting, U.S. Sens. Kit Bond and Claire McCaskill have joined a nonpartisan coalition formed to address the federal [...]
Here’s what Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill said Wednesday about the health care reform debate:
“Chicken Little is saying the sky is going to fall. We’re going to pass health care and the sky is not going to fall.”
The occasion was a call with reporters to talk about her video-conferences [...]
Missouri Republican Party Communications Director Jon Prouty and Rep. Scott Diekhaus (R-Washington) have both tweeted their outrage today with comments from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who said opponents of health care reform are on the wrong side of history, like opponents of women's suffrage, civil rights [...]
Speaking this morning on CBS’ “The Early Show,” Sen. Claire McCaskill called out Republican senators for their work to slow down and kill health care reform efforts. The Senate GOP has steadfastly refused to produce a real plan for reducing health care costs and expanding access, but has produced [...]
Taking a moment to remember Pearl Harbor
Has the U.S. become a warmonger?
Health care reform is the next big issue for Nixon
A documentary on the national Tea Party movement is in the works, the debate over the judicial selection process is expected to be back on [...]
For your Monday morning amusement/confusion, here's one of the least persuasive anti-reform commercials imaginable, starring Rep. Rob Schaaf (R-St. Joseph):
The goal of the ad seems pretty straightforward, though bizarre: to convince opponents of health care reform that they’re somehow oppressed by the 12% of people who told Rasmussen right after [...]
Sen. Pat Roberts, Republican of Kansas, has written a column explaining his opposition to Medicare reductions planned in the Senate version of health care reform legislation.
"Seniors are particularly at risk," Roberts writes. "This bill slashes half a trillion dollars from Medicare, and uses it to establish a huge [...]
Thomson Reuters has conducted a huge survey of Americans attitudes towards health care reform and found that an eye-popping 57 percent of independents favor a public option -- with 60 percent of all those polled saying they favored the controversial provision...
From the office of Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts:
Today, Sen. Roberts said the huge cuts to Medicare in the partisan health care reform bill would be devastating to seniors.
On the Senate floor today, Senator Roberts spoke in favor of an effort by Senator John McCain (R-AZ) to eliminate the devastating Medicare [...]
