What frustrates single payer advocates the most is how they have been sidelined from the national health finance reform debate. People who support single payer, or enhanced and improved Medicare for All, have long waited for the chance to present their case to the American people for real health care reform via a single payer method. With the ever increasing cost of care, and the growing number of uninsured and under insured Americans, single payer advocates view inclusion of proposals that support a one payer system for financing health care an essential part of the debate.

“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”

V.I. Lenin

Are there any limits to what can be said about political opponents? Should there be any limits? Does anything go, no matter who is the target? Are we all no better now than Karl Rove?

In what is being heralded as one of the most momentous and politically astute moves of this extended primary campaign, Hillary Clinton's Communication Director, Howard Wolfson, has signaled that the Clinton Campaign will be withdrawing from the North Carolina contest and focusing all of their efforts on the other May 6th primary in the state of Indiana.

The last post I wrote on this site took us through the backdoor sliders that Rove and Atwater plunked on Democrats in the Republicans’ last successful bids. At first, I was going to examine how some of the previous backdoor sliders were being used today(The Dean Scream morphing into The Hillary Cackle, for example), but recent events have pushed that one to the far burner.

While it looks like the Rezko situation, which I first believed was going to be the Backdoor Slider that makes Obama freeze at the plate for Strike Three, and would give McCain the White House at that point, I’ve come to realize that Rezko will be the frontal assault – or the High-Inside Fastball that Rove and company will throw at him. McCain, thanks to the   Read more…

(MSNBC) Facebook chooses Huckabee, so far

Giuliani 5%

Thompson 4%

Huckabee 22%

McCain 15%

Romney 11%

Paul 43%

About 5,500 responded.






Note: The candidate ordering isn't alphabetical and seeing how Paul is at the bottom it is almost in order of corporate preference.


Just for reference, they don't have a post about Dems polling only "Most Presidential", which I'm not sure what that means. Facebook: Obama most presidential

Blame it on Paul Krugman—he started it! (explanation below)

FWIW, by Buffalo Springfield

Last week, a songwriter here in Nashville asked our DFA group, "Where are OUR war protest songs? They're being written and recorded--but the radio still won't play them!"   Read more…