Senator Doug Berger’s Blooper

By Carter Wrenn | June 8, 2009 |

For the past month, State Senator Doug Berger has been telling just about anyone who’ll listen that 45% of the patients who get home care services through Medicaid are ineligible.   He’s gotten so worked up over the whole thing he wrote one lady, who disagreed with him, and told her the ‘ineligible’ patients’ children…

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Are Taxes Political Death?

By Gary Pearce | June 1, 2009 |

Joe Sinsheimer came down last week on Mark Mellman, the House Democrats’ pollster, for counseling against raising taxes.   (I read this, by the way, on Facebook. Going on it is paying off for me.)   Like a lot of Democrats, Joe is enraged about budget cuts proposed in the House. It looks like the…

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