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...requires almost every Massachusetts resident to have health insurance, provides free or subsidized coverage for some low-income individuals, and is the first of its kind to be enacted in the country. National policymakers have closely analyzed the act, which was signed into law by former Republican Gov. Mitt Romney, as a potential model for national health care reform...
...that neither of the current challengers for the democratic nomination adequately represented Kennedy’s liberal values, both Capuano and Frank criticized early frontrunner Martha Coakley for dodging controversial issues such as the Iraq War and drawing attention to Steven Pagliuca’s friendship with Republican Mitt Romney...
...Senator Johnny Isakson of Georgia, who has authored end-of-life counseling provisions and told the Washington Post that comparing such counseling to euthanasia was nuts - but then quickly retreated when he realized that he had sided with the reality-based community against his Rush Limbaugh-led party. Mitt Romney, the Republican front-runner for President according to most polls, actually created a universal-health-care plan in Massachusetts that looks very much like the proposed Obamacare, but he spends much of his time trying to fudge the similarities and was AWOL on the "death panels." Why are these...
Since JFK, who has a lot to answer for when it comes to the overvaluation of charisma, Americans have liked their leaders to be handsome or heroic, preferably with a thatch of dark hair and a trim waistline. It doesn't always work (otherwise Mitt Romney would be in the White House) but it does mean that it's not surprising that two of the foreign leaders who have most made an impression in the U.S. are the young Tony Blair and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. (And Sarkozy--to add to the JFK meme--has the extra advantage...
...crucial factor in making sure that the government works in the people’s best interests. Still mired in the failures of the Bush administration, however, the Republican party has been unable to offer anything like an appealing alternative to the Democratic vision. Hopefully, knowledgeable politicians of the Romney and Giuliani variety will fill this void soon. Republicans, we may not always understand you, but—for the sake of our democracy—we wish you a speedy recovery...