Seema Verma is the projected next head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). She is a perfectly plausible nominee with views that I will seldom agree with. She is the consultant that led to Indiana to develop the HIP V.1 health savings account based Medicaid build-out that was tweaked to become HIP …
Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Two Americas
54% of us voted against Donald Trump. https://t.co/4fDbNV1DVG — Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) December 4, 2016 Nixon 1960: 49.55%Gore 2000: 48.38%Kerry 2004: 48.26%Ford 1976: 48.01%Romney 2012: 47.15%Trump 2016: 46.17% — David Frum (@davidfrum) December 2, 2016 Another way of visualizing the difference, by the Brookings Institution, as reported in the Washington Post: … According to the …
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Reminder: The unpopular stuff was needed
Via TPM, Senator Corker (R-TN) is stating an impossibility: “You really do have to have 60 votes to replace and you know reconciliation can create some hangover effects as we’ve seen with the health care bill itself and with the Bush tax cuts and all of that so are you better off going ahead and …
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Early Morning Open Thread: Red(state) Princess Ivanka
(Drew Sheneman via GoComics.com) . So she can be in the room where it happens to be closing a deal for her business. https://t.co/zvHzTJ1DyV — Schooley (@Rschooley) December 5, 2016 A concept imported from China, like Trump’s campaign hats: the “Princelings” eliding the line between political machine and business empire. Neither of her adult brothers …
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Late Night Open Thread: An Inconvenient Trump
Al Gore says meeting with Ivanka, Donald Trump was an "extremely interesting conversation" https://t.co/IReutjhpQD pic.twitter.com/UlSzWiCSoD — Talking Points Memo (@TPM) December 5, 2016 Of course “extremely interesting” is frequently a diplomatic euphemism for “completely bonkers”, but let’s look on the brighter side, shall we? … Mr. Gore, who starred in the Academy Award-winning documentary “An …
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Federal agents mad ’cause I’m flagrant
The FBI is now harassing liberal journalists: This is a story about how the FBI came to investigate a joke I tweeted about fake news. [….] One Twitter user warned that she had reported me to the FBI and to Project Veritas — a right-wing organization led by James O’Keefe that stages elaborate stings of …
President Obama’s Address at MacDill Air Force Base Earlier Today
Anybody still here? This blog on? Anyhow, I’ve been both busy on a project and still dragging tuchas from whatever bug I caught, so instead of something thoughtful as I just don’t have it in me, here’s President Obama’s address at MacDill Air Force Base* from earlier today. * Technically MacDill Air Force Base is …
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