Tonight's guests:
- Dr. Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont and former DNC chairman
- Dahlia Lithwick, legal correspondent and senior editor for Slate
- Melissa Harris-Perry, host of “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC and political science professor at Tulane University
Here's senior producer Cory Gnazzo with a look at the story we'll be covering:
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Be nice to see you cover this - "Army admits to investigating Bradley Manning Support Network" - http://rt.com/usa/news/army-bradley-manning-accused-227/
Not exactly kosher for the Obama Administration to be caught allowing this kind of thing, it pisses liberals off.
Although I have no reason to doubt the truth of this particular story, please note that RT is essentially the FOX news of the Russian government, and is prone to giving extensive coverage to conspiracy theories, such as that 9/11 was an inside Job, the Obama was not born in the US and there has been a coverup in order to keep him President (heard of that one?) and the New World order conspiracy.
Not that they aren't worth bothering with. After all, occasionally Fox actually does manage to do real journalism.
If it's too geeky for you, Cory....
"Ezra Klein is here tonight" ... I think that's a euphemism for "Rachel Maddow is not here tonight".
Well, okay.
Why is Rachel drinking again? It's not like her.
This Republic of Democracy is turned on its head. Congress and the Senate clearly do not value the American Human Being. All levels of Government are/were designed to perform what the Private Sector cannot produce, perform and follow through. Private Business now owns the majority of Government including our Hospital System. There are very few Community Owned Hospitals and Health Care Centers left in the United States. Corporatizing Health Care and the Profit driven Insurance Industry have stripped nearly every American Citizen of access to comprehensive care and treatment. Human Beings are discharged (treat and street) literally to the streets without advocacy. Human beings are being treated without dignity and true caring because Hospitals are no longer the "Care Centers" they once were when individuals owned and managed Hospitals with Mercy as its core value. The NEOCONS opposed to the ACA and its legislation are opposed to caring about the People they are supposed to be representing. Bottom line that's what this is about. Representatives apparently have no connection with a payroll check (rapidly declining as those we rely upon to be employers) and the amount of non-refundable income tax witheld for those of us have been donating to their individual agendas. Until you work in the system on a daily basis and witness first hand where Health Insurance money goes, our current system is enabling the Insurance Companies and Corporately owned Hospitals & Clinics to continue to profit from the suffering of America's People who ARE THE GOVERNMENT! Its nauseating. Rick Santorum should "Throw Up" at that. Those who are protesting against the ACA don't care about those who go broke or die because Insurance Companies stop care because it affects their profitability. They do not go bankrupt. Their CEO's just don't get paid their millions/year. Insurance Companies have been gatekeepers far too long. The NIH Stastistics prove that we are a sick Nation as Insurance Companies become wealthier and Hospital CEO's are no longer Professionals who look at Delivery of Medical and Health Care, they are there to look at profitability partnered with Insurance Companies. Think about the last visit you had with your Physician or experience in a Hospital. You were probably discharged too early, did not receive compassionate Nursing Care (There is no more time to establish a short term relationship with Patients because time is money), were asked to follow up with your Physician, etc. Twenty years ago Hospitals were never allowed to discharge a patient from any unit in any Hospital in the United States if you did not have a home to go to, did not have family (Home Health was created or Visiting Nurse Associations) to care for you or assist/observe your recovery should complications occur so you had help. Does it matter any more? Apparently not. Nurses are educated without incorporating Compassion into their curriculum. National Standards are being ignored. Your Nurse is now a Robotic technician collecting a paycheck for the responsibility of not making a Medication error in your Physician's order for your care.
I don't know why you guys keep calling the Affordable Care Act a "bill." It's a law! You only further undermine its legitimacy by doing this, regardless of how unintentional it is.
Fox calls it a bill constantly, for this precise purpose; making sure that the fact that it is settled law is still nebulous in people's minds is a right-wing tactic, and when you do it, even accidentally, it furthers this misconception.
Now, it is OK to refer to it as a bill when you are talking about the past, but it is presently a LAW. That's not to say the 'debate' over health care policy is not still going on, but this law has been debated, voted on, signed, and reaffirmed by the highest Constitutional authority in the land. Call it a law proudly!
Not really mad about it, nor do I think that it is part of a conspiracy. I'm just sayin'...