SB 840

Schwarzenegger Recall? Great Healthcare Reform Opportunity??

by: California Nurses Shum

Mon Sep 08, 2008 at 18:52

In a season of wild stories, here's the next one: Governor Arnold is facing a recall, just as his state is falling apart and some crucial healthcare bills are waiting to be signed. This new threat to his term opens a window of opportunity to push some of those bills through.

He's got no one to blame but himself. There's a ridiculous case of budget gridlock hitting California right now...the budget is historically late, key bills are stalled, the most vulnerable among us are threatened, and there is not a single Republican willing to support the budget proposed by either Republican Governor Schwarzenegger or the legislative Dems.

Into this tinderbox, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) has just thrown a match. They've started the process to recall Arnold Schwarzenegger, an accidental governor who assumed office when his processor was recalled.

There's More... :: (1 Comments, 457 words in story)

Hillary Gets Progressive on Universal Health Care

by: Elliott Petty

Mon Sep 17, 2007 at 02:44

For those living without medical insurance, it's been a long 13-year since Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigned for universal health care. During the remainder of her husband's tumultuous tenure in office, she never fashioned another plan nor has she done so as a U.S. Senator. But now the # 1 contender for President of the United States has a new universal health plan.

There's More... :: (12 Comments, 365 words in story)

USER MENU

New here?
Make a New Account

Have an account? Log in!

Forget your username or password?

Open Left Campaigns

QUICK HITS

Where are you going? What links have you got? Whats next? What's left? (HousesofProgress) 48 comment(s)
Nicholas Kristof: Mr. Mubarak's goons carrying wooden clubs with nails embedded in them (HousesofProgress) 6 comment(s)
Forget "Red" or "Blue" Virginia, How About "Brown" Virginia? (lowkell) 3 comment(s)
Amy Goodman interviews Noam Chomsky: Egypt now. (HousesofProgress) 1 comment(s)
An old man in tears of pride, chanting "Egyptians finally have worth & dignity."" #Tahrir (HousesofProgress) 0 comment(s)
Mubarek's net worth estimated at $40–70 billion (jeffweinberg) 7 comment(s)
How the Senate resolution on Egyptian democracy died. (Emocrat) 10 comment(s)
Kristoff tweets about the round-up of journalists Human rights workers (HousesofProgress) 1 comment(s)
tSenator Patrick Leahy: We Will Cut Off Aid If Mubarak Does Not Step Down (HousesofProgress) 9 comment(s)
The Daily Show with Kristen Schaal skewers the GOP's exclusion of only "rapish.". (LibWingofLibWing) 3 comment(s)
Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jefferson? (Paul Rosenberg) 6 comment(s)
Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprisings (david mizner) 2 comment(s)
Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue on gas prices] (HousesofProgress) 5 comment(s)
Food costs at record levels, likely to go higher (doubledown) 3 comment(s)
More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology (jeffbinnc) 9 comment(s)
Speek to Tweet (Mark Matson) 0 comment(s)
Virginia Moves to Extend Autism Benefits to Families (lowkell) 1 comment(s)
Howard Dean shellacks Newt Gingerich on immigration (Jonathan Smucker) 1 comment(s)
Aljazeera English has NOT been taken offline... (Paul Rosenberg) 6 comment(s)
Israeli Politics In Lockstep with McCarthyism (shergald) 3 comment(s)
(view all recent)

STATE BLOGS