Paul Ryan Blasts Obamacare, Calls for Government Takeover of Health Insurance

By: Friday March 26, 2010 9:54 am

Today’s New York Times hands over a portion of its op-ed page to Representative Paul Ryan (R. Wisc) to explain what Republicans would do to replace Obamacare, a.k.a., Armageddon and the end of American democracy as we know it. Answer: a government takeover of health insurance.

Deconstructing Realworld and Jason

By: Monday January 18, 2010 6:35 pm

Over the past four days two mega-threads appeared at Firedog Lake’s (FDL’s) Seminal web site. The first was created in response to a diary by “realworld” called “Why I won’t be voting for Martha Coakley on Tuesday” received 604 comments, a very large number for that site. And the second responding to a diary by Jason Rosenbaum entitled “To the Pissed Off Progressives, Don’t Be Naderites,” which at this writing has received 851 comments.

The arguments of the two diaries are as follows

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