With the success of the Blue Dogs allied with the Rethugs to delay a vote on health care reform before Congress’ summer recess, the ad wars have begun. No surprise there. But now a new escalation is afoot. From Randi Rhodes’ blog today: So right wing organizers are targeting the town halls of Democrats with angry mobs. It’s a good …
The Goldman Borg to Obama: You will be assimilated Two Goldman Sachs related items. The first involves Goldman’s continuing takeover of the financial levers of power of the executive branch of the US government, a subject I’ve covered here and here. This week President Obama appointed Goldman’s Vice-Chairman Robert Hormats to the State Department as its undersecretary for economic, energy and …
“Horsefeathers” to become new Rethuglican campaign ad Any doubt that the Rethuglicans are bereft of ideas and have instead adopted a strategy of just say no to everything President Obama has been put to rest over the last week. As Greg Sargent at his Plumline blog puts it: On Friday, GOP Senator Jim DeMint told a special-interest attack group that …
The Medical Mafia‘s first salvo in the present health care reform war came in the form of an ad run by CRC Public Relations, the group that ran the Swift Boat ads, for a group that calls itself Conservatives for Patients’ Rights. CPR is led by Medicare fruadster Rick Scott, the founder of the Columbia/HCA hospital chain, who got nailed …
Glenn Beck tapping his lizard brain on health care reform This week belongs almost exclusively to the Bekasaurus, for sheer histrionic, over the top, bat shit losing it, as the audio below reveals. The context is the battle over health care reform, per a caller to his radio show. At about 1:25, the caller asks: What the hell is wrong …
Part of the full-court press that President Obama is mounting for health care reform involves ads aimed at conservative Dems in various districts. (Whoda thunk that “bipartisanship” with the Just Say No Rethuglicans was a fool’s errand to begin with?) Harry Reid might not like it, but WGAF. UPDATE: The labor union AFSCME and one of the nation’s largest health …
