‘Left, Right & Center’: Sequester Madness, Republicans Love Obamacare?
Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other "Left, Right & Center" panelists ask: Will sequester madness lead to across the board budget cuts? If you're not pro-universal health care, then are you pro-euthanasia? And at the Oscars, should it be "Zero Dark Thirty," "Silver Linings Playbook" or "Argo"?
Will sequester madness lead to across the board budget cuts? Matt Miller says there is nothing dumber. What can the president and the Republicans do to make it stop? Republican governors have changed their tune about Obamacare. Robert Scheer says if you aren’t pro-universal health care then you are pro-euthanasia. In rethinking the message of the Republicans, Rich Lowry (National Review, columnist for Politico.com) is behind an effort to move beyond the policies of Reaganomics. And Scheer remembers wearing an “I Like Ike” button in the Bronx. At the Oscars, should it be “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Silver Linings Playbook” or “Argo”? And then, there’s always politicians behaving badly.
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What was Michelle Obama thinking? What if the card for "Zero Dark Thirty" had been lurking in that best picture envelope Sunday?
Sunday night's Academy Awards had a very special guest on hand: Michelle Obama. The first lady, dressed in a silvery, shimmery evening gown by designer Naeem Khan, made a surprise live appearance from the Diplomatic Room of the White House at the end of the Oscars to help Jack Nicholson hand out the evening's final and biggest award, best picture.
If an extraterrestrial landed on Earth, "Argo," "Beasts of the Southern Wild," "Django Unchained," "Lincoln," "Silver Linings Playbook" and "Zero Dark Thirty" each would be an excellent introduction to the American character. In the aggregate, they make up a composite portrait of the country. "Argo," "Beasts of the Southern Wild," "Django Unchained," "Lincoln," "Silver Linings Playbook" and "Zero Dark Thirty" all struggle with social or political issues, making up a composite portrait of the country.
The film year is, alas, a "disappointment." The very idea of making a 10 Best list seems either laughable or a task comparable in difficulty to translating the Rosetta Stone.
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