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thomas c Commented on How Pharma and Insurance Intend to Kill the Public Option, And What Obama and the Rest of Us Must Do by Robert Reich

2009-06-06T13:57:47Z

I had my comment halfway typed when I read Ramona's comment. She said it all. The sight of Baucus and the rest blocking the public option while taking big bucks from Big Pharma and Big Healthcare is a disgrace. And the prospect that our society may not be able to muster the outrage and indignation appropriate to such brazen whoring by our political elites is depressing, to say the least.

The Iraq war fraud was obviously symptomatic of a society that was very ill. If we fail to implement the only sensible, decent and equitable solution to this healthcare crisis, it just further confirms my suspicion that we've become a society untethered from even the most degraded notions of community and empathy for our fellow man.

thomas c recommended Why Are We Still At This? by Josh Marshall

2009-03-22T17:37:28Z

thomas c Commented on Two House Dems: If Gaza Devastation Happened in America, 'There Would Be National Outrage' by Elana Schor

2009-02-20T15:51:55Z

It may not have happened here, but this country did the same thing in Fallujah. There was no outrage.

thomas c Commented on Supreme Court Sides With Dems On Ohio Voting Case ]]> by Zachary Roth

2008-10-17T16:39:05Z

Davis completely misrepresents the Supreme Court holding. The court did not rule that the republican party lacked standing, as Davis claimed. The SC ruled that the question of whether the republican party (or any other private litigant) had standing was sufficiently in question that the likelihood that the republican party would prevail on the merits was not great enough to meet the high standard for entrance of a temporary restraining order ("TRO"). So the SC ruled that the lower court was in error in issuing the TRO.