Ben Nelson is Deserving of Darts for two important reasons: 1) Health Care Law: Providing the 60th vote for cloture on the health care law and the attendant “Cornhusker Kickback” 2) Hypocrisy: Saying he voted “No” on the debt debacle because he was concerned about cuts to the Medicare program In November 2012 – Ben [...]
Author’s Note: This article was originally drafted in mid-June, before the debt ceiling debacle even began to unfold. I have revised parts of the article to reflect events which have occurred in the interim, but I want to point out that the deal Congress just passed with respect to the debt ceiling is yet [...]
Considering that most of the wheeling and dealing involved in government goes on behind closed doors, more likely than not most of what we Americans hear and see playing out in the media is maneuvering. These P.R. battles seem to provide politicians the ability to “throw some red meat” to their respective bases of support. [...]
“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.” G. K. Chesterton English author & mystery novelist (1874 – 1936) “(T)he foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality; …the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules …
Kaye Beach April 6, 2011 I have read hundreds of pages of documents regarding Oklahoma’s health information systems. I have studied the various exchanges, our state policies, looked at the grants offered and accepted, read meeting minutes, whit...
Kaye Beach April 3, 2011 I have set about reading of hundreds of pages of Oklahoma documents that reveal the depth of duplicity that many of our elected officials have engaged in by creating the Oklahoma Health Information Exchange. I … Continu...
Kaye Beach March 31, 2011 Transformation! It’s going to get ugly….. As eported March 31, 2011; The Senate won’t hear a bill championed by Gov. Mary Fallin that would help create an online state health insurance exchange, Senate Pro Te...
Kaye Beach March 27, 2011 As Reported by the Tulsa World; “Tulsa GOP moves further right at convention Saturday” They say it like this is a bad thing… The Tulsa County Republican Party moved further to the right at its … Continu...
Recent protest outside of the Tulsa Country Club, while Insurance Commissioner Doak and Governor Mary Fallin spoke inside on the benefits of implementing Obamacare through health exchanges in Oklahoma. Some did not agree and greeted the people coming to be wined and dined inside.
Source article Tulsa World March 24, 2011 (to read complete article and comments) OKLAHOMA By WAYNE GREENE World Senior Writer Published: 3/24/2011 2:28 AM Last Modified: 3/24/2011 8:01 AM Gov. Mary Fallin: “Without an Oklahoma exchange, the state is virtually guaranteed to be subject to a federally run, Washington D.C. substitute.” Gov. Mary Fallin is being criticized [...]