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May 3, 2019
Luckovich-Building a Wall with souls
https://twitter.com/mluckovichajc/status/1124340402927149056
May 3, 2019
There had been dramatic reduction in number of caucuses
https://twitter.com/rubycramer/status/1124299269018726401
May 2, 2019
Luckovich-Live at a mass NRA foot-shooting
https://twitter.com/mluckovichajc/status/1124082945638137856
May 1, 2019
Washington Post-Joe Biden's message to Donald Trump: I'm no socialist.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1123643384336351238Bidens implicit argument to Democrats, meantime, is he has embraced enough of the policies animating the partys ascendant left to make him acceptable as the standard-bearer but not enough to alienate the working class voters the party desperately wants to win back in 2020.
He has embraced raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, a posture that advances on Hillary Clintons stutter-step approach to raising wages in 2016, and he has touted a plan to allow anyone to go to community college free.
But he has spurned others, calling for improvements to Obamacare but declining to back a Medicare-for-all plan backed by many of his partys 2020 candidates. Rather than railing on the wealthy, he takes pains to point out they, too, are good people. While he has talked about the need to address climate change, he has yet to embrace anything approaching the Green New Deal.....
Her sentiment was echoed at Bidens first public campaign event in Pittsburgh during his introduction by the head of the international firefighters union.
Let me shoot straight with you, and this might not be popular in parts of the Democratic Party, said union president, Harold Schaitberger. We cant have a nominee thats too far left. Its just that simple. A candidate that has high-minded ideals, maybe honorable ideas, but little chance of winning.
He has embraced raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, a posture that advances on Hillary Clintons stutter-step approach to raising wages in 2016, and he has touted a plan to allow anyone to go to community college free.
But he has spurned others, calling for improvements to Obamacare but declining to back a Medicare-for-all plan backed by many of his partys 2020 candidates. Rather than railing on the wealthy, he takes pains to point out they, too, are good people. While he has talked about the need to address climate change, he has yet to embrace anything approaching the Green New Deal.....
Her sentiment was echoed at Bidens first public campaign event in Pittsburgh during his introduction by the head of the international firefighters union.
Let me shoot straight with you, and this might not be popular in parts of the Democratic Party, said union president, Harold Schaitberger. We cant have a nominee thats too far left. Its just that simple. A candidate that has high-minded ideals, maybe honorable ideas, but little chance of winning.
May 1, 2019
Luckovich-Lady Justice: Get Off of Me!!
https://twitter.com/mluckovichajc/status/1123722567888658438
May 1, 2019
This analysis will come up in the future discussions of proposed plans
Washington Post-New CBO analysis could torpedo Medicare-for-all proposals
A new CBO analysis of single payer plans is due out today.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1123582893115281409
Here is a link to this CBO analysis
https://twitter.com/charles_gaba/status/1123695503613603840
From the CBO
Costs.
Government spending on health care would increase substantially under a single-payer system because the government (federal or state) would pay a large share of all national health care costs directly. Currently, national health care spendingwhich totaled $3.5 trillion in 2017is financed through a mix of public and private sources, with private sources such as businesses and households contributing just under half that amount and public sources contributing the rest (in direct spending as well as through forgone revenues from tax subsidies). Shifting such a large amount of expenditures from private to public sources would significantly increase government spending and require substantial additional government resources. The amount of those additional resources would depend on the systems design and on the choice of whether or not to increase budget deficits. Total national health care spending under a single-payer system might be higher or lower than under the current system depending on the key features of the new system, such as the services covered, the provider payment rates, and patient cost-sharing requirements.
Government spending on health care would increase substantially under a single-payer system because the government (federal or state) would pay a large share of all national health care costs directly. Currently, national health care spendingwhich totaled $3.5 trillion in 2017is financed through a mix of public and private sources, with private sources such as businesses and households contributing just under half that amount and public sources contributing the rest (in direct spending as well as through forgone revenues from tax subsidies). Shifting such a large amount of expenditures from private to public sources would significantly increase government spending and require substantial additional government resources. The amount of those additional resources would depend on the systems design and on the choice of whether or not to increase budget deficits. Total national health care spending under a single-payer system might be higher or lower than under the current system depending on the key features of the new system, such as the services covered, the provider payment rates, and patient cost-sharing requirements.
This analysis will come up in the future discussions of proposed plans
May 1, 2019
Joaquin Castro is passing on a run for the Senate again
I was part of the effort that tried to get Joaquin to run for governor in 2017 and talked to him at a town hall. The way that Joaquin announced this decision pisses me off
https://twitter.com/ZachMontellaro/status/1123684091579260929
May 1, 2019
This article is great but pisses me off
Washington Post-Mueller complained that Barr's letter did not capture 'context' of Trump probe
I have a subscription to the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/mueller-complained-that-barrs-letter-did-not-capture-context-of-trump-probe/2019/04/30/d3c8fdb6-6b7b-11e9-a66d-a82d3f3d96d5_story.html?utm_term=.fea3790cfc14
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III wrote a letter in late March complaining to Attorney General William P. Barr that a four-page memo to Congress describing the principal conclusions of the investigation into President Trump did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of Muellers work, according to a copy of the letter reviewed Tuesday by The Washington Post.
The letter and a subsequent phone call between the two men reveal the degree to which the two longtime colleagues and friends disagreed as they handled the legally and politically fraught task of investigating the president.
At the time Muellers letter was sent to Barr on March 27, Barr had days prior announced that Mueller did not find a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian officials seeking to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. In his memo to Congress, Barr also said Mueller had not reached a conclusion about whether Trump had tried to obstruct justice, but that Barr reviewed the evidence and found it insufficient to support such a charge.
Justice Department officials said Tuesday that they were taken aback by the tone of Muellers letter, and that it came as a surprise to them that he had such concerns. Until they received the letter, they believed Mueller was in agreement with them on the process of reviewing the report and redacting certain types of information, a process that took several weeks. Barr has testified to Congress previously that Mueller declined the opportunity to review his four-page memo to lawmakers that distilled the essence of the special counsels findings.
The letter and a subsequent phone call between the two men reveal the degree to which the two longtime colleagues and friends disagreed as they handled the legally and politically fraught task of investigating the president.
At the time Muellers letter was sent to Barr on March 27, Barr had days prior announced that Mueller did not find a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian officials seeking to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. In his memo to Congress, Barr also said Mueller had not reached a conclusion about whether Trump had tried to obstruct justice, but that Barr reviewed the evidence and found it insufficient to support such a charge.
Justice Department officials said Tuesday that they were taken aback by the tone of Muellers letter, and that it came as a surprise to them that he had such concerns. Until they received the letter, they believed Mueller was in agreement with them on the process of reviewing the report and redacting certain types of information, a process that took several weeks. Barr has testified to Congress previously that Mueller declined the opportunity to review his four-page memo to lawmakers that distilled the essence of the special counsels findings.
This article is great but pisses me off
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