Terrance Heath

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  • Published Easy Choices (Blog entry)
    November 20, 2009 - 12:23pm
    Whether the Stupak amendment ends up in the final health care reform bill or is replaced by the more moderate compromises in the Senate bill, both the passage of the amendment and the almost immediate response that women and pro-choice progressives should "take one for the team" hold a lesson and a warning for both progressives and Democrats.
  • Shared Will Health Care Be Saved at the 11th Hour? (Progressive Opinion)
    November 20, 2009 - 10:45am

    Ahead of the Senate's first major test vote on health care reform, the Democrats who refuse to show their cards face a political paradox.

  • Shared The GOP's No-Exit Strategy (Progressive Opinion)
    November 19, 2009 - 10:41am

    Democrats in the Senate — the House is not the problem — need to have a long chat with themselves and decide whether they want to engage in an act of collective suicide. But it's also time to start paying attention to how Republicans, with Machiavellian brilliance, have hit upon what might be called the Beltway-at-Rush-Hour Strategy, aimed at snarling legislative traffic to a standstill so Democrats have no hope of reaching the next exit.

  • November 13, 2009 - 3:52pm

    Michelle Bachman's "Superbowl of Freedom" (or "Bachmannalia") was not the first protest with such attention grabbing signage, but merely the latest. September saw Glenn Beck's 9/12 marchers descend upon Washington. Again, they brought their message-bearing signs and posters.

    Your pictures and fotos in a slideshow on MySpace, eBay, Facebook or your website!view all pictures of this slideshow

    And their signs made their message and motivation clear.

  • November 12, 2009 - 3:31pm

    I've used this quote (attributed to Maya Angelou) before: "When people show you who they really are, believe them." I guess in periods of tremendous change people really reveal who they really are. I'll return to this in more detail post, but the news and debate leading up to and following the passage of health care reform in the House is at least worth a quick roundup, if only because it all comes together in a clear context.

    First, let me reiterate that I'll be the first to say that the anger directed at the president, Congress, and the policy changes they're trying to make are not entirely rooted in racism, but have deep roots in the economic consequences of the last few decades for the people in some of the reddest states. That said, it's becoming impossible to ignore that a significant amount is also rooted in the racism and ethnocentrism conservatives have used to divert their constituents' attention — and rage — towards more convevient targets.

  • November 9, 2009 - 10:04am

    (The sixth in of a series of seven.)

    Nothing in Common

    If the cliché that a picture is worth a thousand words is true, then a couple of images might sum up the debate of over health care reform, and prove representative of the opposing sides.


    [Via Preemptive Karma.]


    [Via Wikimedia Commons.]

    President Obama also defined it during his speech to the joint houses of Congress: that debate over health care reform is really a debate — and a struggle, even — over the moral character of the nation. In other words, it's another part of the process of choosing what kind of country we want to be.

  • Published Don't Know or Don't Care? (Blog entry)
    November 5, 2009 - 12:07pm

    House Republicans have presented a health care reform "plan" that doesn't fix our broken health care system (but might make it worse), and (according to the CBO) doesn't do much to fix the deficit conservatives say t

  • Published What Do They Want? (Blog entry)
    November 4, 2009 - 1:58pm

    First, it was Sen. Landerieu's nonsense. Now we get this from Sen. Joe Lieberman.

    Enough is enough. When Democrats start parroting Republican talking points, they are showing us who they are. We need to treat accordingly. Especially when their take on health care reform is pretty much the same as the GOP's, in terms of outcome.

  • Published Failure is Their Only Option (Blog entry)
    October 30, 2009 - 11:40am

    Steve Benen asks a question about the Republican health care reform plan — or lack thereof — that I'm certain I've seen answered already.

  • October 30, 2009 - 10:14am

    Elected officials and leaders from labor, business and academia are at our Washington conference outlining the industrial and trade policies we need to ensure a broad prosperity based on good American jobs.

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  • Published Easy Choices (Blog entry)
    November 20, 2009 - 12:23pm
    Whether the Stupak amendment ends up in the final health care reform bill or is replaced by the more moderate compromises in the Senate bill, both the passage of the amendment and the almost immediate response that women and pro-choice progressives should "take one for the team" hold a lesson and a warning for both progressives and Democrats.
  • Shared Will Health Care Be Saved at the 11th Hour? (Progressive Opinion)
    November 20, 2009 - 10:45am

    Ahead of the Senate's first major test vote on health care reform, the Democrats who refuse to show their cards face a political paradox.

  • Shared The GOP's No-Exit Strategy (Progressive Opinion)
    November 19, 2009 - 10:41am

    Democrats in the Senate — the House is not the problem — need to have a long chat with themselves and decide whether they want to engage in an act of collective suicide. But it's also time to start paying attention to how Republicans, with Machiavellian brilliance, have hit upon what might be called the Beltway-at-Rush-Hour Strategy, aimed at snarling legislative traffic to a standstill so Democrats have no hope of reaching the next exit.

  • November 13, 2009 - 3:52pm

    Michelle Bachman's "Superbowl of Freedom" (or "Bachmannalia") was not the first protest with such attention grabbing signage, but merely the latest. September saw Glenn Beck's 9/12 marchers descend upon Washington. Again, they brought their message-bearing signs and posters.

    Your pictures and fotos in a slideshow on MySpace, eBay, Facebook or your website!view all pictures of this slideshow

    And their signs made their message and motivation clear.

  • November 12, 2009 - 3:31pm

    I've used this quote (attributed to Maya Angelou) before: "When people show you who they really are, believe them." I guess in periods of tremendous change people really reveal who they really are. I'll return to this in more detail post, but the news and debate leading up to and following the passage of health care reform in the House is at least worth a quick roundup, if only because it all comes together in a clear context.

    First, let me reiterate that I'll be the first to say that the anger directed at the president, Congress, and the policy changes they're trying to make are not entirely rooted in racism, but have deep roots in the economic consequences of the last few decades for the people in some of the reddest states. That said, it's becoming impossible to ignore that a significant amount is also rooted in the racism and ethnocentrism conservatives have used to divert their constituents' attention — and rage — towards more convevient targets.

  • November 9, 2009 - 10:04am

    (The sixth in of a series of seven.)

    Nothing in Common

    If the cliché that a picture is worth a thousand words is true, then a couple of images might sum up the debate of over health care reform, and prove representative of the opposing sides.


    [Via Preemptive Karma.]


    [Via Wikimedia Commons.]

    President Obama also defined it during his speech to the joint houses of Congress: that debate over health care reform is really a debate — and a struggle, even — over the moral character of the nation. In other words, it's another part of the process of choosing what kind of country we want to be.

  • Published Don't Know or Don't Care? (Blog entry)
    November 5, 2009 - 12:07pm

    House Republicans have presented a health care reform "plan" that doesn't fix our broken health care system (but might make it worse), and (according to the CBO) doesn't do much to fix the deficit conservatives say t

  • Published What Do They Want? (Blog entry)
    November 4, 2009 - 1:58pm

    First, it was Sen. Landerieu's nonsense. Now we get this from Sen. Joe Lieberman.

    Enough is enough. When Democrats start parroting Republican talking points, they are showing us who they are. We need to treat accordingly. Especially when their take on health care reform is pretty much the same as the GOP's, in terms of outcome.

  • Published Failure is Their Only Option (Blog entry)
    October 30, 2009 - 11:40am

    Steve Benen asks a question about the Republican health care reform plan — or lack thereof — that I'm certain I've seen answered already.

  • October 30, 2009 - 10:14am

    Elected officials and leaders from labor, business and academia are at our Washington conference outlining the industrial and trade policies we need to ensure a broad prosperity based on good American jobs.

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