That’s the word from conservative health care policy maven/guru/wise man Avik Roy, writing in Forbes, urging Senate Republicans to stop waiting for House Speaker Paulie Ryan to get his ObamaCare replacement bill through the House before taking action. Avik has already repeatedly trashed Ryan’s bill, but he’s too polite, or too cautious, to repeat himself,…
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Trumplosion or Trompe-l’œil?
The past several months have been a Trump-loather’s1 dream. Watching the big guy’s world go sideways in so many ways—well, it’s so satisfying that one can’t help but wonder, “When did I ever get everything I wanted all the time?” It’s as though “science” had perfected a peppermint ice cream that causes you to lose…
Maybe it’s because they’re REPUBLICANS, Avik?
Avik Roy, a conservative health care expert who’s finding it harder and harder to be “conservative”, struggles with Lyin’ Paulie Ryan’s latest wrinkle to the Health Care bill that he and Donald Trump are trying to “ram” through the House of Representatives. The original bill had sort of a problem, noted by ethical gal around…
Obamacare: The Democrats won by losing, lost by winning, and now may have won by losing. Will the Republicans duplicate their “success”?
Donald Trump was right. Health care is complicated. How complicated, even I didn’t know until, by some coincidence, I started reading Steven Brill’s extensively titled though well worth reading America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System just as House Speaker Paul “Lyin’ Paulie Ryan” Ryan began…
Bojack Horseman—It’s like an “Archer” for horses!
https://youtu.be/VESKjoxAmZg Comedy, said Aristotle, shows us as worse than we are. Well, let it never be said that Hollywood neglects the Stagirite. A case in point is that cynic’s delight, Bojack Horseman, co-created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Lisa Hanawalt, now in its third season on Netflix, filling us in on all those glamourous folks in…
MONK’estra plays Monk
“Little Rootie Tootie,” to be precise SAX: Bob Sheppard, Jeff Driskill, Justo Almario, Tom Luer, Tommy Peterson TRUMPET: Bijon Watson, Willie Murillo, Ray Monterio, Brian Swartz, Gabe Johnson TROMBONE: Francisco Torres, Wendell Kelly, Steve Hughes, Ryan Dragon BASS: Rickey Minor DRUMS: Gary Novak KEYBOARDS/MELODICA: John Beasley Additional musicians: Dwight Trible, Nayanna Holley, Andy Martin, Tony…
Line o’ the Day
“Though it may fade with time as he re-establishes his identity and Romney disappears, Ryan still has the stink of 2012 on him.”—Politico’s Jonathan Martin, explaining why Paulie doesn’t seem to be generating a lot of 2016 chatter.
Republican Reform, Douthat Style
It’s no secret that the Republican Party is going through an agonizing reappraisal of its policies. Well, the Elephant can stop worrying now, because Ross Douthat has it all figured out. Let’s start with domestic reform. What needs to be done? Ramesh Ponnuru, echoing though not quoting President Obama, says we have a healthcare spending…
How many Jews are there at the Bureau of Labor Statistics?
Okay, that was Richard Nixon’s line, but if the modern-day right isn’t there yet, they’re on the way. How lucky can Obama get? His C-, do I really have to be here performance at the debate looked lame enough in comparison to Romney’s scintillating A, but in the week-long rehash, stand-ups and cable news hacks…
Biden’ his time
Hey, it’s an election year, maybe Joe’s last. Big Joe is going to be talking a lot. And if his latest “gaffe”— “Romney wants to let the — he said in the first hundred days, he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, unchain Wall Street. They’re going to put…