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  • The Biggest Loser This Week Isn’t Obama — It’s the Health Insurance Industry

    November 16, 2013
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    Obamacare has been called a giveaway to the health insurers, but I don’t think the industry is particularly grateful this week.

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  • White House Can’t Solve a Small Website Problem — How Will They Do With the Big Ones?

    November 13, 2013
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    The time to say “if you like your health plan, you can keep it” has passed. Or has it?

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  • Did the President “Lie” About Obamacare, or Did He Believe What He Wanted to Believe?

    October 31, 2013
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    It’s not just conservative pundits throwing around the L word.

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  • Jon Stewart Savages the Obamacare Rollout — And Why It Matters

    October 23, 2013
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    Stewart’s 18-to-29 viewers have to be persuaded to purchase a product they don’t think they need at a price that will subsidize their elders.

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  • Yes Mr. President, Raising the Debt Ceiling DOES Raise Our Debt

    October 8, 2013
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    Except maybe in a Clintonian “what the meaning of is, is” kind of way.

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  • Ted Cruz Casts Himself as Shaw’s Unreasonable Man

    September 29, 2013
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    Part of me wants to admire Ted Cruz. But he doesn’t make himself easy to like.

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  • Congratulations, Mr. President: Chapter 2 of My Quadrennial Search for Silver Linings

    November 7, 2012
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    If you had to win, I’m deeply relieved that Florida doesn’t matter this time. But once again, you’ve inherited a mess from your predecessor.

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  • Who Wins? Q&A on the Obamacare Ruling

    July 1, 2012
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    On balance, I think Obama gains a slight advantage. Obamacare may still be unpopular, but it has momentum on its side — hey, it’s constitutional!

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  • When the Supreme Court Strikes Down Obamacare, Will it Help Obama or Romney?

    March 28, 2012
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    At first glance, the answer seems obvious. If the Supreme Court overturns Obama’s signature legislative “achievement,” surely that hurts Obama and helps his opponent. But what about the fact that most Americans — 56% to…

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  • Who First Asked “Is Mitt Romney the Republican John Kerry?”

    January 31, 2012
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    When I was in high school, one of my favorite gag lines was, “I’m a reformed Druid — we worship bushes.”  I thought this was hilarious.  More than that, after saying it enough times, I…

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All That Is Necessary

. . . for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing

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