Takoma Park Sunday in the early spring turns out to be a big event for a change in the DC area for two reasons. The final votes are being wrangled into the corral for health care reform, and it looks like what Majority Leader Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) calls the “final yard” will be handled …
Category: Health Care
Dennis and the Nuns
Takoma Park The health care “war of the knife” continues down to the last votes. Yesterday saw Dennis Kucinich, the great progressive voice from Ohio and the stalwart proponent of single-payer, come over and a bunch of 50 nuns stand up for passage despite the recalcitrant opposition of the National Catholic Conference of Bishops. Richard …
Shooting Straight as Pressure Increases
Washington It’s not spring here, but finally there is a briskness in peoples’ step. Tomorrow there is a major rally for heath care reform called by Health Care for America Now (HCAN), and on Sunday, March 21st, the forces in favor of comprehensive immigration reform are rallying, praying, and marching on the Mall, hopefully with …