By Chad on 12/21/2009
Yes, it’s a shit sandwich compared to the filet mignon we might have had in a perfect world, but it is much better than the status quo. It will give coverage to millions of currently-uninsured people, get a handle on out-of-control Medicare cost growth, stop the most egregious abuses of the insurance companies (by eliminating [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged 538, Harry Reid, health care, Lieberman, Medicare, Nate Silver, Obama, Paul Krugman, U.S. Senate |
By Chad on 11/5/2008
I’m giddy with excitement over our new President-Elect, but some of my friends on Facebook are really bumming me out. I’m sure some of them actually think we’re in the End Times now that Obama was won. I truly do sympathize – I am Pro-Life, and I do care about ending abortion. But a political [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Bush, education, global warming, lunatic fringe, McCain, Obama, Politics, republicans, Science, talk radio, William F. Buckley |
By Chad on 10/28/2008
I’m sick and tired of being accused by every knee-jerk “conservative” that we Obama supporters are only voting for him because he’s black, or because we like socialism, or because we just want “change,” but we don’t care what that change entails. Get this straight: we know exactly what kind of change we are voting [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Bush, change, diplomacy, economy, health care, Iran, McCain, Obama, Russia |
By Chad on 10/12/2008
You know, I don’t care if the President is the smartest guy in the room. I don’t even care if he (or she) is in the top 5. But he damn sure needs to be smart enough to hire smart people, and he sure as hell needs to be smart enough to understand what they [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged elitism, McCain, Obama, Palin, Politics |
By Chad on 8/29/2008
I don’t know if you watched Barack Obama’s speech accepting the Democratic nomination for President last night. I watched every minute of it, and it made me prouder than ever to be one of his supporters. It was a very unique combination of inspiring rhetoric, stinging rebukes, witty one-liners, and specific, concrete policy. I think [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged David Brooks, Democrats, ideology, McCain, mental recession, Obama, Paul Krugman, Phil Gramm, republicans |
By Chad on 2/16/2008
With the events of the last 3 weeks, we’re really looking at an interesting scenario for November. Hillary Clinton’s campaign continues to insist that it will court superdelegates to win the nomination, no matter the damage to the party, if she hasn’t won a plurality of committed delegates. It certainly doesn’t look at this point [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Clinton, Democrats, Huckabee, McCain, Obama, Politics, religious right, republicans, teddy roosevelt, third parties |
