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Health Care: A Discussion

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Blog Related
Posted on Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 08:39:40 PM EST
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Corrente hosted a representative of Health Care NOW to discuss, shockingly, health care reform. Not knowing anything about the subject, I merely point you to the discussion.

This is an Open Thread.

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    Not knowing anything about the subject... (5.00 / 2) (#1)
    by Plutonium Page on Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 08:41:31 PM EST
    ... my first comment in many months will be on an open thread.

    Well (5.00 / 2) (#2)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 08:43:29 PM EST
    We can talk about life. As in how is yours going? We missed you around here. Frank would visit us form time to time but you dropped us like a hot potato.

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    Hey, I didn't drop you! (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by Plutonium Page on Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 08:47:49 PM EST
    My brain shorted out.  And I had to write lots of stuff for a couple of environmental blogs, which didn't help my brain.  I got very stressed out about the election, and just flat-out tired.

    Not much of an excuse, I know :-(

    I'm still very, very tired.

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    Well (none / 0) (#4)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 08:49:43 PM EST
    Who's good for EPA? Inquiring minds would like to know.

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    Well (5.00 / 2) (#5)
    by Plutonium Page on Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 08:54:39 PM EST
    Jeebus help us if it's RFK Jr., like some of the rumors were saying a few months back.

    I honestly don't know. I loved mcjoan's essay on the Dept. of the Interior today, and agree with her on Grijvalva, but for EPA?  I just have no idea.

    According to this article, there are several possibilities under consideration:

    EPA ADMINISTRATOR

    Lisa P. Jackson, commissioner of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

    Mary Nichols, head of California Air Resources Board.

    Kathleen McGinty, former secretary of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

    A friend who knows more than I do about these things says he likes McGinty.  I don't know any of the names, myself, so I should look them up.

    I'm currently very worried about who might be the next Secretary of Defense.

    God help the blogosphere if it's Gates, because I will go nuclear.

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    It's Gates (5.00 / 1) (#9)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 09:07:13 PM EST
    Bank it.

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    Yeah, I have a bad feeling that it will be. (5.00 / 1) (#16)
    by Plutonium Page on Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 09:23:59 PM EST
    He's way more hawkish than people realize.  WAY WAY more hawkish.

    I've already resigned myself to Obama going forward with missile defense shield research.  I don't know if he'll want full deployment or not, because he keeps saying "not until it works", for which he'll have to wait a very long time.

    Gates loves the missile defense shield.  He loves "new nukes" (a.k.a. the Reliable Replacement Warhead).  Obama has consistently said "no way" to the RRW.  But he also talks about "stockpile maintenance", which is a very general way of saying "keep 'em operational".  Gates' solution?

    New nukes.  He really, really wants them.

    Finally, we are up for some very big things next year.  START I is going to expire, so Obama has to deal with that (plus some p.o.'d Russians if he deploys the missile defense shield).  The next Nuclear Posture Review takes place, too.  There are a number of other things, but those are two really big ones.

    Gates... ugh.  Oh, how badly that will stink.

    ----- > RRW pdf, for the geeks out there. < ----

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    Stockpile maintenance sounds like (none / 0) (#20)
    by oculus on Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 09:30:01 PM EST
    a good idea after that unattended missile silo fire caused by a battery or something.

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    Oh yeah, it's a good idea, for certain (5.00 / 1) (#23)
    by Plutonium Page on Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 10:00:57 PM EST
    But what they mean by it is making sure the warheads will deliver what they're supposed to deliver.

    The claim that the warheads are "aging", and, say, a 10MT warhead might only deliver 5MT (for example) has been debated strenuously.

    The plutonium pits aren't aging the way Gates and friends may think they are.

    Anyway, I agree with you that something has to be done regarding warhead security. One of Obama's arguments - and McCain's, and many other lawmakers' - is that we don't need so many bombs, just a minimal number for deterrence.

    We don't need 9,000.  The Russians don't need 15,000.

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    What's wrong with RFK Jr? (none / 0) (#14)
    by Dr Molly on Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 09:18:16 PM EST