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LetMyPeopleVote's JournalWashington Post-Joe Biden's message to Donald Trump: I'm no socialist.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1123643384336351238He 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.
Luckovich-Lady Justice: Get Off of Me!!
https://twitter.com/mluckovichajc/status/1123722567888658438Washington 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
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
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
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
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
Luckovich-Take us to your liar
https://twitter.com/mluckovichajc/status/1123362337694593025Why Vermont's single-payer effort failed and what Democrats can learn from it
Good article on why Vermont's effort to adopt single payer failed
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1122874506920570885
If they kept going, the governor asked his exhausted team on Monday, could they arrive at a tax plan that would be politically palatable? No, they told him. They could not.
Two days later, on Dec. 17, 2014, Shumlin, who had swept into office promising a health care system that left no one uninsured, announced he was giving up, lamenting the decision as the greatest disappointment of my political life so far.
The trajectory of Green Mountain Care, as Vermonts health system was to be known from the euphoric spring of 2011 to its crash landing in late 2014 offers sobering lessons for the current crop of Democrats running for president, including Vermonts own Sen. Bernie Sanders (I), most of whom embrace Medicare-for-all or other aspirations for universal insurance coverage.
Texas reaches settlement in voter purge lawsuit
Chad Dunn is the outside counsel for the Texas Democratic Party. Che sent me a copy of the settlement agreement. Yeah forChad
https://twitter.com/TPM/status/1121869980495155200
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