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Health care reform? It’s just a matter of timing

By RICK HOROWITZ - Monday, Nov. 23, 2009

Because Mitch McConnell is the leader of the Senate’s Republican minority, he’s got the rest of his flock saying pretty much the same things he’s been saying: You don’t do health-care reform during a recession. The Republicans are also going to oppose health-care reform if there’s a so-so economy. Or if the economy is starting to come around, but hasn’t quite gotten there yet.

 

There’s news, and then there’s Palin news

By RICK HOROWITZ - Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

“Even though we’re a serious news show, deep down inside you needed to talk about her, and that book of hers.”

 

Take two studies and call them in the morning

By RICK HOROWITZ - Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009

That thing that was always on your mind because we told you it should always be on your mind? Well, we’ve thought about it some more, and now we don’t think it should always be on your mind. Now and then, maybe, but not always. Certainly not always.

 

Health-care strategies: Whatever it takes

By RICK HOROWITZ - Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009

House approves health-care reform, but with new abortion restrictions.

 

Fallout of Tuesday’s vote? Why it’s perfectly obvious

By RICK HOROWITZ - Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009

“So what you’re saying, basically, is that the big takeaway from Election Day is that you can take away whatever you want to take away.”

 

They’re withering about his dithering

By RICK HOROWITZ - Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009

If you bring the experts in
To see if there’s some way to win,
And think about the next of kin,
You’re “dithering.”

 

Isn't that Minneapolis down there?

By RICK HOROWITZ - Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009

Missing your runway by 100-plus miles will get you talked about, no question about it. Flying on past the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport when Minneapolis-St. Paul is, technically speaking, your “destination” is definitely a conversation starter.

 

Here’s some money; now go away

By RICK HOROWITZ - Monday, Oct. 26, 2009

They certainly felt like checks. But why would the government be sending them checks?

 

The importance of being pivotal

By RICK HOROWITZ - Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009

Olympia Snowe’s vote on health care reform might not have been a tie-breaker, but it was a mood-shifter. A perception-alterer. Which means the senator from Maine was sitting mighty pretty.

 

Just what he’s always…wanted

By RICK HOROWITZ - Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009

When the UPS truck pulled up at the South Portico the other day and they said there was a package for me, I knew it had to be something special. And then when they said the package came all the way from Norway, I was sure it would be something special.

 

What’s a little oversight between friends?

By RICK HOROWITZ - Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009

I’ve got a statement from Chairman Rangel here regarding the recent allegations. Now, the chairman wants to make clear that he genuinely regrets any confusion his actions may have created—or his failure to act—may have created in the mind of the public, or with his colleagues here in the House.

 

The Rio Games—and those GOP games

By RICK HOROWITZ - Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009

MILWAUKEE -- I’m happy for Rio. But it never would have occurred to me to gloat over Chicago’s loss. As a fellow American, I mean.
Being a gracious competitor is one thing. Being a Republican apparatchik is something else again.

 

Ensign shows there’s no blushing in politics

- Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009

It’s so heartwarming to see a public servant willing to go the extra mile, willing to take on the sort of mission that would cause a lesser person to hesitate. So raise a toast to John Ensign, U.S. senator from Nevada and upholder of rules.

 

Inventing the latest health-care scares

By RICK HOROWITZ - Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009

The chance of our actually having a good, honest, fact-based and data-driven debate about reforming the nation’s health-care system is roughly equivalent to the chance of Sarah Palin being chosen the next poet laureate of the United States.

 

They're banking on the status quo

By RICK HOROWITZ - Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009

These have been turbulent times for the American economy. On Main Street and on Wall Street, the past year has tested the resilience of the greatest wealth-creation engine the world has ever known. Now, as America continues its journey on the path to recovery, we in the financial-services sector want to take this opportunity to speak directly to you the consumer about what we've all been through, and what it means going forward.

 
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