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Nothing is Going to Change Until We’re in the Room

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

White guy, white guy, white guy, white guy, President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Kathleen Sebelius, white guy, white guy, white guy who looks like he just ate a sour pickle. That’s my one line description of the health…

If On-Air Posturing Gets Us a Step Closer to Health Care Reform, I’ll Take It

Thursday, February 25, 2010

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I could sit here and write a long post about all the reasons we need real reform (I’m starting to hate that word, but I don’t have a better one) — but our individual stories are the things that may…

Political Quote of the Week

Friday, January 29, 2010

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on health care reform: “As I said to some friends … in the press, we will go through the gate. If the gate is closed, we will go over the fence. If the fence…

“Send the Men Home” — Is it Sexist if It’s True?

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

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How can we get health care done? Easy, if you believe some women in Congress: I heard about Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter’s (D-N.H.) comments before they hit the mainstream media yesterday, thanks to XM Radio channel POTUS (Politics of the…

If We Take Health Care for Granted, We’ll Get Thrown Under the Bus

Saturday, December 26, 2009

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As someone who came of age in the 1970s, I assumed things would continue to progress for women’s rights. I felt lucky to be living in an age where I knew I had access to birth control as I headed…

Snowpocalypse 2009 (With Health Care Crisis Thrown in for Good Measure)

Saturday, December 19, 2009

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One good thing about this “snow event” on the I-95 corridor this weekend — legislators are stuck here and have to keep working away on the ever evolving health care bill (not that that’s going to do us a lot…

Mothers of Intention — Thinking Edition

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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Not that I don’t try to make all the Mothers of Intention features thinking posts — be they guest essays or a round-up of great posts I’ve found on my blogosphere journeys — but there’s some really…

Three Reasons I Think My Head Will Explode

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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I usually do a good job of sticking to one topic in any given post. But there is so much going on at the moment, I feel like my head will explode: 1. My very new friend Anissa, whom…

Am I Angrier at Bart Stupak or Barack Obama?

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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For years, we’ve had our eye on the Supreme Court, wondering with each new judicial appointment how that person would add to the mix on the longevity of reproductive rights, including the right to an abortion. Who knew that some…

Are 1,990 Pages Too Much Health Care Bill for You?

Saturday, November 7, 2009

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Even us wonks can’t really get through all of the health care bill — heck, I only made it to about page 400 in War and Peace. As the House of Representatives votes on the health care package today, if…

All Politics are Personal

Friday, November 6, 2009

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While the PunditFamily is recovering from the swine flu, here’s a lighthearted reminder about the personal nature of politics! Which makes me wonder as I sit here among my tissue boxes, meds and cups of tea — are the…

I am Not a Pre-Existing Condition

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

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The National Women’s Law Center has made today a national day of action to call on our lawmakers to demand that they get rid of the ridiculous inequities in the health care system that impact women, calling their…