The short memory of America and the GOP

I adore Thomas Franks, both as a historian and truth teller about the America of today. Franks is the author of “The Wrecking Crew”, and “What’s the Matter With Kansas:.

Here he discusses the internal flaws in our national thinking that could ultimately put the very scoundrels - the Republicans - who caused our current failures and meltdown back into power…via the short memory of the American people.

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Bill Moyers Journal: Conservatism examined

Author, Sam Tanenhaus, makes a compelling argument for the death of real conservatism in America today, having been replaced by a revanchist ilk of conservatives who feel not only marginalized, but that the country has been taken away from them.

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'Critical Condition': The human toll of America's health disaster

We just got done watching, with dismay and anger, Bill Moyers Journal. This weeks show followed several American’s through an unbelievably heart wrenching journey through illness without benefit of health insurance.

At the end of the shows online content, there are a lot of personal stories by others who were as moved as we were.

This isn’t rocket science, and it isn’t really news that this health care system is fatally flawed. A few years back, I was contacted by the then CEO of a local hospital to serve on their cancer committee, since I’d been an outspoken critic of the lack of up to date care for breast cancer patients in my community.

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Dr. Sydney Wolfe on Single Payer Health Insurance

Washington’s abuzz about health care, but why isn’t a single-payer plan an option on the table? Public Citizen’s Dr. Sidney Wolfe and Physicians for a National Health Program’s Dr. David Himmelstein on the political and logistical feasibility of health care reform.

When, oh when will America get honest and serious about healthcare?

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Baseline: The Financial Crisis for Beginners

Local blogger, AnnOnn, tipped me off to this one today. She’s a good, solid blogger, but needs to quit putting me in the same paragraph as Bill O’Reilly. This also goes for you, Arden. Quit putting me in the same paragraph -or planet - as Ann Coulter. Bwa!

Anyhow, AnnOnn managed to watch Bill Moyers’ Journal last night (where the heck was I? Oh, yeah - sick in bed):

Last night Bill Moyers interviewed Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. Simon has a very informative website, The Baseline Scenario, and Moyers referred to Simon’s blog entry “High Noon: Tim Geithner v. the American Oligarchs.”  from AnnOnn Everything

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