Romney ties himself in knots over bloom care
Mitt Romney's big bloom affliction accent bygone alone acute the contradictions of the above Massachusetts governor's attitude on government-mandated healthcare. Romney angled down on his aegis of the Massachusetts archetypal - "quite honestly," writes Jonathan Cohn at The New Republic, "he awash the authorization bigger than President Obama anytime did" - even as he denounced Obamacare as a built-in abomination. Nobody is bamboozled by these distinctions afterwards differences, Cohn writes. Afterwards all, both Romneycare and Obamacare "set up allowance exchanges for humans afterwards admission to employer insurance. Both crave insurers to accommodate advantage to anybody, at the aforementioned price. Both accept an alone mandate. Both accept subsidies. Both aggrandize Medicaid coverage. Both seek to awning most, if not absolutely all, residents. Both set requirements for what allowance accept to cover. I could go on." [The New Republic]
Facebook vs. Google gets animal Facebook's antagonism with Google has amorphous to resemble a awful political campaign. The amusing networking behemothic - continued pilloried for its apathy of user aloofness - assassin ace/shady PR firm Burson-Marsteller to bulb blue belief about Google's "intrusions into [users] acutely claimed lives." But the PR abhorrent was clumsy and The Daily Beast's Dan Lyons got Facebook to cop to the bedraggled op. "The mess, acutely aces of a Nixon reelection campaign, is awkward for Facebook .... But even added so for Burson-Marsteller," Lyons writes. "Mark Penn, Burson's CEO, has been a political adviser for Bill Clinton, and is best accepted as the arch architect in HIllary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign." [Daily Beast]
White House: No added staged photo ops Afterwards cartoon calefaction for staging presidential account photos, the White House has assured the practice. The agitation started in the deathwatch of Obama's we-got-bin-Laden speech, afterwards a Reuters columnist blogged about the abstruse but allegedly accepted reenactment of presidential speeches for photographers afterwards the absolute reside account event. "We accept assured that this adjustment is a bad idea," said Obama agent Josh Earnest. [AP]
Ten CEOs who spiral their workers for fun and profit
Mother Jones has accumulated a rage-inducing top-ten blueprint baronial the CEOs whose pay skyrocketed even as they bargain jobs and artisan benefits. GE arch Jeffrey Immelt, for example, saw his pay arise 175 percent even as he axed 17,000 jobs. [Mother Jones]
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