in fighting to end racism. someone over there apparently realizing claiming the end of racism is probably a bit too much for a tweet. but the first tweet already had spawned a hashtag with. racism ended when? that yielded some awesome sarcasm. when bill clinton played the saxophone on the arsenio hall show. it ended when the jeffesons moved on up. racism ended when willis was adopted by richard drummond and racism ended when the iphone was available in black and white. the slip was more than fodder for jokes. it points to the way which the modern gop and right create the santa clausification of rosa parks and martin luther king jr. and other civil rights leaders. they are cast as figures with no history or context, just celebrated as the good guys who fought the forces of evil. consider the 2005 eulogy for parks from bill frist, flagged today. frisk said it was not an intentional attempt to change a
0 obama care is really here to stay. the repeal strategy is dead and obama care is out of the icu. according to the administration, the error message rate for the front end of the website is less than 1%. that s down from about 6% last month. the site can now handle 50,000 users at a time, 800,000 per day. keep in mind, at one point, the site could handle only about 1,000 users at a time. this website is and will function effectively for the vast majority of users. not only is the website functioning better, enrollment is up, too. over 100,000 people have successfully selected plans in the federal exchange in november alone, up from the nearly 27,000 who did so in october. during the first few weeks of november, california s same exchange enrolled more people in private plans than they did for the entire month of october. and in new york, over 33,000 people enrolled through the state s exchange in november, double the just over 16,000 people enrolled last month. on this cyber monda
shipping has preoccupied the masses, another big web event happened today, the relaunch of healthcare.gov day two. it marks the official restart of the obama care era and the day the window finally closed for good for republicans trying to kill the thing. from the day obama was elected president, republicans have been determined to block health care reform. they got scott brown elected. they took the law all the way to the supreme court, voted dozens of times to defund or repeal it, shut down the government for 16 days, and obama care survived all of it. irony is that while republicans couldn t kill obama care, the administration almost could. good evening. president obama now finds himself compared to president george w. bush, as in the problems with the health care plan have become president obama s katrina. but today, the website is now fixed enough that it looks like obama care is really here to stay. the repeal strategy is dead and obama care is out of the icu. accor
in case you missed it, it s cyber monday, a hallowed american tradition in which millions flock online to hastily purchase discounted goods for their nearest and dearest. and while the lure of free shipping has preoccupied the masses, another big web event happened today, the relaunch of healthcare.gov day two. it marks the official restart of the obama care era and the day the window finally closed for good for republicans trying to kill the thing. from the day obama was elected president, republicans have been determined to block health care reform. they got scott brown elected. they took the law all the way to the supreme court, voted dozens of times to defund or repeal it, shut down the government for 16 days, and obama care survived all of it. irony is that while republicans couldn t kill obama care, the administration almost could. good evening. president obama now finds himself compared to president george w. bush, as in the problems with the health care plan have