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Harry Reid 
Thu Jul 01, 2010 at 07:22:23 AM MDT
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Since the Republicans have managed to stand tall on their instance that up to 2 million unemployed Americans should lose their meager benefits, perhaps it is time to start introducing them to some of the unemployed. We have heard the Dickensian pronouncements on the Senate floor that the unemployed are lazy, that the benefits they receive are keeping them from looking for work, that it is more important in a financial crisis to cut spending (and thus cut the over all recovery off at the knees) than it is to help our fellow Americans who, through no fault of their own, are now paying the price for financial deregulation.
As long as this debate is kept in abstract terms it is easy for those Republicans who have a conscience (all three of them) to talk about how we should be burdening our children and grandchildren with debt. It is time to use the very effective method of hearings to bring the real face of the long term unemployed right into the face of the heartless and petty Republican majority.
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Thu Apr 22, 2010 at 07:32:38 AM MDT
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One of the things that Campaign Managers dread is that that moment when their candidate opens his or her mouth and says something that will divert the entire arc of the campaign. We are witnessing such a moment with Sue Lowden in Nevada. By now you have seen the video of her insisting that she did not misspeak when she said that patients should barter with their doctors instead of just paying or providing their insurance.
This insane proposition has been dissected and derided all over the Web and some on cable news shows. One point I haven't seen is that while Ms. Lowden is right that farmers and ranchers used to trade live-stock for care, the level of care they were trading for was far less sophisticated than it is today. When you could bring a chicken to a doctor, there were no antibiotics, no MRI, anesthetic was Ether for the Flying Spaghetti Monsters sake!
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Wed Apr 14, 2010 at 07:49:06 AM MDT
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Immigration reform is an important issue. Changing systems that are not producing the desired result is one of the reasons to have a Congress in the first place. The current system of immigration controls is a complete failure and needs to be addressed. The good news here is that it is will be taken up this summer, if we can believe what Majority Leader Reid has said.
There are several bills in House which really do cover the waterfront in terms of immigration. In general they are looking to do several things, shore up the enforcement of our boarder, specifically in the South; change the number of visas available to family members of documented immigrants; and provide a method to bring the estimated 12 million undocumented workers who are currently in the United States out of the shadows.
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