Maureen Miller
AC360° Writer
Tonight on 360°, we'll look at the GOP vow to repeal the health care reform bill. Republicans will be in control of the House starting tomorrow and they're taking aim at President Obama's landmark legislation approved last year.
"We'll start first by cutting our own budget, it will be one of our first votes. And then we'll turn our attention to the rest of the federal budget and the job killing policies that are denying economic growth and opportunity for the American people, including the job-killing health care law," said incoming House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.
Their goal: to cut the deficit. But, Keeping Them Honest, the new House leadership wants to change rules that are supposed to save taxpayer money.
We'll talk it over with our political panel.
Also tonight, the literary decision that has shocked a lot of people. A publisher plans to sell a new version of Mark Twain's classics "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" that replaces the "N" word with the word "slave."
One writer at the Washington Post says the move would be like renaming "War and Peace" to just "Peace", because war is so unpleasant.
What do you think of the decision? We'll have more on the controversy with Boyce Watkins, a professor at Syracuse University, Dr. Andre Perry, an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of New Orleans and cultural critic Michaela Angela Davis, who is the former Fashion Editor at Essence Magazine.
On the medical front, we'll look at the hope and hype tied to the new blood test for cancer that's under development. Dr. Sanjay Gupta will have the facts you need to know.
And, tonight's hottest ticket across America gets added to our 'Ridiculist.'
Join us for these stories and much more at 10 p.m. ET. See you then.
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National Healthcare is outside the scope of the Constitution, especially requiring everyone to purchase it. Insurance started off to cover catastrophic events not cover a trip to the emergency room for a cold. Legislators in Washington need to read the constitution and pay special attention to the the Bill of Rights, especially the tenth one.
It's not about the so called 'health bill'. It's about control and power. Compromise doesn't seem to exist on the Republican side.
When John Boerhner was talking about the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy he only mentioned the good it would do for the wealthy. Extorting what he wanted while people needed extension on their unemployment benefits to be able to afford the basic needs of surviving. Basics. While the wealthy can keep most of their money.
Hmm, he didn't mention how those benefits were going to come from. He never mentioned job creation, or how to help those who have lost homes, businesses (small, family), jobs. He seemed focused and concerned about extending the tax breaks for the wealthy.
There was no words or sincerity of empathy from him for those unemployed.
This year isn't looking good for anyone who is without a job, health insurance, a home, or money.
I'm scared. I only have health insurance and I'm grateful for that. Who knows if I'll have that by the end of summer.
The Republicans compromising only means that they won't bash anyone who disagrees with them.
When Lindsay Graham said on 'Meet the Press' sunday:, 'He'll find a partner if he'll come our way when it comes to creating jobs and controlling spending'. That doesn't sound like compromise on the side of Republicans. It sounds more like it their way or they will not budge on anything.
It's really sad and troubling that the only ones who suffer are those who don't have money and power. Or a voice. In a country of plenty no one should be struggling for food or jobs or safe and nice place to live. Power play and giving lobbyists a pass when everyone else (poor and middle class) have no choice but to play by the rules or lose big.
Politicians and government workers (federal, state, city, town and county) in this country can over spend on things that are frivolous, yet suffer no consequences and keep on spending. When budget cuts are needed (what a shock!) low income PUBLIC schools suffer, as well as medical/hospitals/clinics, after school programs, etc. . Then everyone wonders why the crime rate is so high and literacy is so low. Hmmm? Greed and no accountability?
Huck Finn,Tom Sawyer are works of art,set in a time in history, to edit this work would be wrong, we have to be able to accept this work on it's face to be honest from which it came, history teaches us where we've come from so we can see where we are going!
On the N word and Huck Finn. Children do not need the N word to understand history and where the word came from or how it evolved.
They just need to know that the N word is wrong to use and that's it.
Anyone who says keeping this word in any book is necessary has not taught school long.I have taught ofr 20 years and as a black man I know Huck Finn and the inclusion of the n word 219 times is not necesary for teaching anything valuable.
We need to vanquish this word forever.
Sorry professors, you are dad wrong.
how is it that we hear about all these breakthru medicin discoveries and then ,you don't hear from them anymore.I think it is not right to give people false hope.unless big drug componies need more donations.I am a smoker.when do you think I can have a brand new liver???(just kidding)
If I thought for one minute that the Republicans were repealing Obamacare for the good of the country and not to derail the president and continue their fight to sweep the president out of power in 2012 I may want to listen to them.
If they had a better health care program I would want to listen as well.They don't.
Clearly this is a political ploy as the republicans have said many times it gotta be about jobs. Spending hours and days on this proves that the Rs are still the party of NO!
Very sad.
I just cannot understand how these elected officials keep saying this is going to hurt jobs. If Im correct healthcare hasnt been reformed in 70 years yet we have seen jobs come and go. From 1990 to 2000 this country added 14 million jobs, yet from 2000 to 2008 we lost more than 8 million jobs. Healthcare has more to do with savings people's lives than jobs, period.
You guys should stop complaining because, one the health care we have now isnt as good as it was supposed to be. also the law has just been signed so give it some time. so if u want to say u have the right to choose tell that to ur congress men or state official. If you do not have insurance and need one You can find full medical coverage at the lowest price search online for "Wise Health Insurance" If you have health insurance and do not care about cost just be happy about it and trust me you are not going to loose anything!
These books are fine as written and best sellers. Changing them would be an insult to us all you cannot change the historical reality.This is almost as bad as the Japanese kids history books that the deny the Nanking massacre.
Health care. A full repeal would not have even full Republican party members support as there are too many things now in effect that are really strong vote winners across the voting public.
Why cant they propose amending legislation instead of the nonsense repeal approach, which is doomed to fail anyway.
Regards,
Hodgson.
Why would we try to rewrite history?
Rather than learn from it.
So here we go again! The Republicans criticize the White House for not paying enough attention to jobs and the economy. Then, along they come with the chance to address the issues of jobs and the economy and what do they do???? They waste precious time and taxpayer money trying to repeal health care...its unbelievable! I know! Why don't they just repeal their own healthcare and see how that works out for them!
Well the civil rights act of 1965 was not popular among all Americans at the time. Now we look at it now and say that's ridiculous so in a few years we will say the same thing. If it was up to Republicans and majority of Americans at that time we would still live in a segregated society. So we have to let time past before we make a quick repeal. Same thing can be said about woman's rights that was past in 1910.
I don't understand why part of the republican/tea party agenda is to repeal the law that requires insurance to cover children with pre-existing conditions? Especially if most of their aim is to help the middle class, create jobs etc. Wouldn't repealing that law hurt the middle class families the most?
The Republicans are between a rock and a hard place. They're suggesting that making people buy health insurance is wrong (and maybe it is), but it's good for the health insurance companies, hence good for "business" - and that's what Republicans are all about. The health insurance industry will fight repeal just as they fought reform. My guess is that the Republicans will back down when the health insurance companies move to protect their profits. It'll be fun to watch.
The Republicans can't have it both ways. . .They can't eschew the non-partisan Budget Office when it gives them results they don't like, and then jump on the bandwagon to praise it when it gives them results they do like. The Tea Party organizer on tonight's program was combative, narrow-minded and unwilling to listen to reason and logic. . .I am afraid that she is an excellent representative of the Tea Party! The Tea Party: giving tea, which I love, a bad name!
I disagree with changing the N-word to "slave"; it lessens the impact of the message of the book. This work is among the first in major American literature to be written in the vernacular, characterized by local color regionalism. Written about a time in the mid 1800s, the work takes a scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. To remove the politically incorrect language is to blunt the force of the narrative and turn it into milk toast. While many, including myself, do not like the usage of the n-word, it is wrong to whitewash history by changing those parts that offend us today. If we forget the mistakes of the past future generations may be prone to repeat those mistakes – they certainly will not understand the intrinsic ideals that were found so immoral and hateful that existed before the Civil War and the Jim Crow days. Additionally, if we change this book, what book will we clean up next and where will it end – the line of not changing a book once compromised will be eventually compromised for all.
How about congress just cut their own health care and save all that money!