If you are a Republican, you usually or almost always vote Republican. If you are a Democrat, you usually or almost always vote Democrat. No matter what. If the GOP candidate has repeatedly lied about his position on issues, yet you are a Republican, you will vote for the lying Republican; so onerous is voting for a Democrat to you. Same goes for Democrats. Decades have gone by with these two parties at the helm, and what America has devolved into is a country with politics left up to the least common denominator; Is he Democratic or Republican?

What ever happened to the question, “Is he or she the best candidate for the seat?”

Is Goldman Sachs responsible for the Iceland volcanic activity?

What does passage of the health care bill say about the powerlessness of the left and progressives?

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has laid out a strategy to pass health care reform in the next couple of days by allowing the House to vote on the details of the reconciliation package instead of the Senate bill itself. As usual, progressives are fretting that winning will make them look bad. On the other hand, conservatives are baying for blood and calling for revolution.

Obama and Republicans discuss Tort Reform at the Health Insurance Reform Summit

Well, SOME news sources are worth checking out for political news. Others, not so much.

Interview with Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue at a press conference in front of the White House, where he is unable to explain how the health care bill will fund abortion.

Since the bank bailout, Congress and the Obama administration have been working tirelessly to reward their campaign contributors with corporate welfare. Their latest effort is a health care bill that could force us all to buy into the for-profit insurance industry.

While the nation debates who should pay for rising health-care costs, it’s important to understand that there’s a single cause of the obesity, diet-related diseases, food poisoning, antibiotic-resistant infections, and animal flu outbreaks that are driving up health care costs: the global industrial food system, our #1 killer.

The current for-profit health care system isn’t much better. Preventable mistakes in hospitals kill as many as 98,000 people in hospitals every year. Pharmaceuticals kill 230,000.

If the President signs a health care bill that forces us to buy into the for-profit insurance industry without a public option or reforms of the food and health care systems that are making us all sick, the Organic Consumers Association will launch a boycott!

Obama’s cynical Saturday Address

Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-California) responded to an op-ed by Drs. Alexander Tsai and Nicholas Rosenlicht on the evergreening loophole in her biologics bill. Here the two physicians provide a detailed, point-by-point rebuttal to her comments.