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Jim Moran’s failure of leadership

Jim Moran: “The Votes Are Not There” For Public Option

Moran’s office called back, and says Moran is opposed to a public plan until someone can tell him how we’re going to pay for it.  Moran voted for TARP I, TARP II, the $108 billion bailout of European banks and supplemental war funding and never asked how we were going to pay for it.  Sounds like a guy who sucked down $187 grand from lobbyists & lawyers last election cycle is looking for an excuse to book.

No deal is better than a bad deal.

Call for distributed research

The Kennedy HELP bill (draft text)
We need people to read this proposed health care reform for analysis.

What Avedon Carol said

The Sideshow

Tim Foley asks, “Who Will Get Locked Out of the Health Exchange? Another question from emails I’ve received: Everyone knows the mantra of those proposing these health care reform bills is, ‘If you have insurance and you like it, you can keep it.’ But there’s a flip-side question – what happens if you don’t like the insurance you have through an employer? Can you ditch it for the friendly ground of the National Health Exchange (House version) or the Health Gateways at the state level (Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee version) and maybe even get yourself a piece of that ultra-competitive public plan everyone keeps talking about? Unfortunately, the answer is ‘it depends.’ Depending on what makes it into the final bill, many of us could get locked out.” And that seems to be the direction the leadership wants to move in – apparently believing that giving all our money to Goldman Sachs has cured solved all our problems and therefore full employment is just around the corner so we’ll all have great health insurance through our employers. Which would, of course, force most people who have commercial “insurance” to keep it, and therefore remain effectively uninsured. Remember, about three quarters of the people who ended up in bankruptcy because of medical problems had “health insurance”. Damn, I really thought Michael Moore had already driven this point home.

Insomnia?

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An allegation of SERIOUS misconduct by Friendship Edison staffer

Comment on an earlier post

You take about community and how to improve there educational and life so, why did one of your staff member’s follow a female student of Anacostia to the rest room and flim her going in and comming out. Is this what your staff is going to educate the students of Anacostia on.

Mayor Fenty and Vincent Gray both need to investigate this allegation. They both have a sacred obligation to protect the physical safety and personal dignity of the children of the District of Columbia. And Donald Hense owes us an explanation of how such a thing could happen and how we may trust him to prevent further abuses of this nature.

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Donald Hense owes Anacostia parents an apology

Update, in the comments Hense specifically denies making the comment attributed to him. Do I have a reader who was there and can confirm or deny?

Dear Chancellor Rhee:

“Today is a sad day in the lives of students and parents of Anacostia High School, when you Mrs. Rhee want to turn over our school to people like Mr. Donald Hense of Friendship Edison. When the founder of Friendship Edison says that the reason the students of Anacostia can’t learn is because their mother’s are on crack cocaine this is a sad day. He made this statement at the Anacostia construction meeting. Again as a parent why would someone say this about our children’s parents this way? Is this the way you Mr. Lew, The Mayor, The Gates Foundation and members of your staff think about our students at Anacostia who belong to us ?

My question to Mayor Fenty and the entire City Council is why are my tax dollars going to someone who openly insults my fellow citizens?

Arne Duncan snubs DC parents

No education listening and learning from little DC by big DC

It appears now Secretary Duncan is having second thoughts about “listening and learning” from parents, teachers, and community leaders in the District of Columbia. During a recent education stakeholders’ forum representing national education interests general based in the District, Mr. Massie Ritsch, Deputy Assistant Secretary for External Affairs and Outreach for the Department of Education, announced a planned listening and learning tour has been scheduled this September in the District.

However, this “listening and learning tour” stop will be held only for national education associations located in the Washington metropolitan region to discuss national issues such as reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act and congressional appropriations, not to listen and learn from District parents, students, teachers, and community members as has been the case for all previous listening and learning tour stops by Secretary Duncan.

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