Now that health care reform is becoming a reality the Republicans are moving from all of the lies (“death panels,” “government takeover” etc) they told trying to stop it from happening in the first place to new lies about how they are going to be able to repeal health care reform if they win back [...]

President Obama had fallen to as low as 46% approval this week but today Gallup shows a big jump from 47% approval (and 47% disapproval) to 50% approval with just 43% disapproval. This jump seems to coincide with the news that health care reform is getting closer and closer to being a reality. It will [...]

For the past year health care reform has been a fuzzy image in a darkened room and the Republicans/Tea Party/Fox News/Health Insurance Industry have the made most of the dark by spreading fear about what that fuzzy image might actually be (it may even be a “socialist” “death panel” !?) It’s easy to get people [...]

Yes. The Coffee Party is now bigger than The Tea Party. Well, at least it is on Facebook where the Coffee Party Movement currently has 109,606 fans while the Tea Party Patriots have 108,658 fans. Considering the Tea Party Patriots page has been up for almost a year longer, that seems quite meaningful. What it [...]

According to the latest Gallup poll released today 52% of Americans approve of President Obama’s job as President while 41% disapprove. If you compare these numbers to the 2008 election results (Obama won 53% of the vote while John McCain won 46%) it’s clear Obama has not lost support as President. The same majority of [...]

There’s a new grassroots movement brewing: The Coffee Party. This movement is an adult alternative to the childish tea parties ( “tea parties are for little girls with imaginary friends.” ) How the Coffee Party differs from the Tea Party: + Solution oriented, not blame oriented. + A true grassroots movement rather than an “astroturf” [...]

Go to MoveOn.org to get contact information for your Senators so that you can ask them to support the public option through reconciliation. We live in a democracy and that means we should only need 51 votes out of 101 (Vice President Joe Biden is the tie breaking vote) in order to pass legislation. The [...]

Next Wednesday (February 24th) there will be a “Virtual March on Washington” for Health Care Reform. Blue Cross recently increased premiums by 39% in California despite the fact that Blue Cross made $4.7 billion in profit last year. If that doesn’t make it obvious why we need health care reform then I guess you have [...]

It’s sad to see so many people buying into the lies of the Republican party (and at this point it’s become clear to anyone following what’s going on that everything the Republicans say is a lie – they only care about hurting Obama politically, not about helping the country.) But within that sadness there is [...]

If you haven’t seen this yet, you need to. It’s President Obama’s question and answer session with the Republican obstructionists in congress at a GOP retreat: Obama refuted every single Republican talking point with reason & facts. All of the Republican talking points are either outright lies or distortions of fact. This becomes obvious when [...]