Profiles in Cowardice: Lee Fisher
By: Kevin Holtsberry (Diary) | March 17th at 04:30 PM |
So what exactly is going on with Lee Fisher and Jennifer Brunner in the Democratic primary for the US Senate seat in Ohio? The two candidates seem intent on ignoring each other and the party and its interest groups seem to have sworn an oath to avoid talking about the primary (the biggest in this important state in a critical year). First, there was some | Read More »
Kucinich – Then and Now
By: Kevin Holtsberry (Diary) | March 17th at 11:14 AM |
Remember Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) in 2009 who opposed the House version of ObamaCare containing a public option, because the House bill “put the government in the role of accelerating the privatization of health care.” He argued that ObamaCare solution is ”within the current structure of a predatory, for-profit insurance system which makes money not providing health care.” Well, that same Congressman Kucinich has changed and now supports a bill without | Read More »
Mary Jo Kilroy thinks you are stupid
By: Kevin Holtsberry (Diary) | August 20th at 10:23 AM |
The Dispatch offers this short report on Mary Jo Kilroy’s health care tele-townhall: U.S. Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy last night insisted that congressional Democrats are not considering “socialized medicine’” in their efforts to approve a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health-care system. In a town-hall meeting she conducted last night by telephone, Kilroy said any reform of the health system will result in private insurance | Read More »
Zach Space’s bait and switch on health care reform
By: Kevin Holtsberry (Diary) | August 10th at 10:40 AM |
Zach Space talks a good game. He knows how to say what he thinks voters want to hear. The problem is that his votes don’t line up and his rhetoric is slippery. A perfect example is health care reform legislation. Here is Space on why he supports the Democrat proposals: And the Ohio Democrat now supports the health care reform bill passed out of the | Read More »