Howard Dean

Obama Critics Win at Moran's Health Care Town Hall Meeting

Moran/Dean photoAs a pro football fan, I always welcome the late summer, which brings pre-season games. They are great to watch, for about ten minutes, and then they disappoint. The starters play a couple of series and then they are gone. Then you get that sinking realization that it doesn’t matter that much, either to you or the teams, who wins. So you go to bed craving the authenticity of the regular season.

Tonight, I found a replacement in the form of Rep. Jim Moran’s Town Hall meeting on health care. I took my two kids and we had an authentic Town Hall experience. It was everything it was cracked up to be.

Who Paid for Union-Boss Politicking in Iowa?

Analysis of the role of Big Labor in the Iowa caucuses has focused on the split between the government and service union bosses, who endorsed Howard Dean, and the industrial union bosses who got behind Richard Gephardt.  What deserves more attention is how little the bosses' opinions mattered to the workers they claim to represent, but who still had to pay for the bosses' political machine.

 

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